Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs.

Peale, Norman Vincent

Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.

Thoreau, Henry David

Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.

Robbins, Anthony

What is the hardest thing in the world? To think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Duranty, Walter

Thought is, perhaps, the forerunner and even the mother of ideas, and ideas are the most powerful and the most useful things in the world.

Gardner, George

There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace? If they have not, there is something wrong with them -- so keep seeking! If what you do has brought you inner peace, stay with what you believe is right.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it. and never destroy it.

Kempis, Thomas

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Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary of the talkers who talk.

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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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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?

Forster, Edward M.

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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Rushdie, Salman

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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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Some people study all their life, and at death they have learned everything except how to think.

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Thoughts of themselves have no substance; let them arise and pass away unheeded. Thoughts will not take form of themselves, unless they are grasped by the attention; if they are ignored, there will be no appearing and no disappearing.

Ashvaghosha

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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

Kant, Immanuel

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A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

Bernanos, Georges

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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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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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Either you think -- or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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I am not what I think. I am thinking what I think.

Butterworth, Eric

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If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.

Barzan, George

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I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

Martin, Steve

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I have known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, but never had a thought.

Mizner, Wilson

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Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.

Russell, Bertrand

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The revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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To know the true reality of yourself, you must be aware not only of your conscious thoughts, but also of your unconscious prejudices, bias and habits.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Confucius

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I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why thunder lasts longer than that which causes it, and why immediately on its creation the lightning becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.

Chapman, John Jay

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It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Hugo, Victor

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought).

Wittgenstein, Ludwig