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

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

Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples don't count on harvesting golden Delicious .

A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.

Proverb, Italian

You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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

A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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.

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

Forster, Edward M.

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We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care aboutwhat you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

Vivekananda, Swami

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The birth of thought in the depths of the spirit, the shaping and ordering of it into periods, the translation into signs, and above all the transference of it from one spirit to another, the communication that is, if only for an instant, the meeting of two beings, with the unforeseeable consequences that such a meeting always causes, is in fact a miracle; except that the moment one stops to think about it one can't even write a letter.

Satta, Salvatore

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It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.

Frye, Northrop

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A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Confucius

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

Barzan, George

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A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Allen, James

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Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

Eliot, George

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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Think then act safely.

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It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed.

May, Louise

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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

Hugo, Victor

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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

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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A man of meditation is happy, not for an hour or a day, but quite round the circle of all his years.

Taylor, Isaac

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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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

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How you look at a situation is very important, for how you think about a problem may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. When you get discouraged or depressed, try changing your attitude from negative to positive and see how life can change for you. Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it -- you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory.

Harris, Franco

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Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.

Thales of Miletus

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Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

Pascal, Blaise

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Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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.