Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

- Buddha

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.

Paine, Thomas

The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.

Duranty, Walter

Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

Colton, Charles Caleb

We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.

Buddha

A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.

Aurelius, Marcus

If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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There is a big difference between thinking: I'm in a relationship and something's wrong. Therefore something must be wrong with the relationship. and thinking I'm in a relationship and we've got problems. This is evidence that you are different than me.

Dyer, Wayne

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Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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The thought pattern characteristic of the right brain lends itself to the formation of original ideas, insights, discoveries. We might describe it as the kind of thought prevalent in early childhood, when everything is new and everything has meaning. If you have ever walked along a beach and suddenly stopped to pick up a piece of driftwood because it looked to you like a leaping impala or a troll, you know the feeling of pleasure that comes from the sudden recognition of a form. Your Design mind (right brain) has perceived connections and had made a pattern of meaning. It takes logical, rational acts and facts of the world you know, the snippets of your experience, the bits and pieces of your language capabilities, and perceives connections, patterns, and relationships in them.

Rico, Gabriele Lusser

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Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth more than ruin more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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Far more numerous are those as such; who think too little and talk too much.

Dryden, John

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

Montale, Eugenio

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Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.

Wilde, Oscar

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Thinking more than others about our own thoughts is not self-centeredness. It means that if asked what's on our mind, we are less likely to mention being aware of the world around us, and more likely to mention our inner reflections. But we are less likely to mention thinking about other people.

Aron, Elaine N.

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One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

Bourget, Paul

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Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.

Quarles, Francis

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What stops people in their tracks is a small mental packet of energy. It is called a thought. They think I can't.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is perilous.

Confucius

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If you make people think they're thinking they'll love you: but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

Marquis, Don

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The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books, They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.

Nightingale, Earl

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He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.

Bentham, Jeremy

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Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself thinking once or twice a week.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

Bristol, Claude M.

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You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.

Maharshi, Ramana

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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

Rushdie, Salman

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The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever, is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things. [Philippians 4:8]

Bible

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.