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

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.

Young, Eva

Think then act safely.

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

Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

Faber, Frederick W.

When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.

Po, Huang

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

Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.

Stevens, Wallace

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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We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.

Twain, Mark

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.

Cousins, Norman

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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Butler, Samuel

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No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature; but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapor, a drop of water is enough to kill him. But even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows nothing of this.

Pascal, Blaise

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

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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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If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. One must fight one's way through before regaining one's original primal state. If one succeeds in the fight and reaches the goal, the enemy, namely the thoughts, will all subside in the Self and disappear entirely.

Maharshi, Ramana

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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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If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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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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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world.

Buddha

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Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.

Taylor, Susan

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

Buddha

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Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

Brookner, Anita

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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure. Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.

Adams, Bryan

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

Barzan, George

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Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentialities and capabilities?

Dinsah, H.Jay

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If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking.

Patton, George S.

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Thinking and Thought: Thoughts are funny little things, They can make paupers or make kings.

Madwed, Sidney

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The reason there are so few good talkers in public is that there are so few thinkers in private.

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

May, Louise

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

Montale, Eugenio

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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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The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Do you suffer your thoughts to tamper with evil; and to dally with wrong-doing? If so; you are not sincere. God will regard your thoughts; for thoughts are heard in heaven. If you willingly sin in thought; if you are base and guilty there; because you think that no eye will see your thoughts; the guilt and baseness will sooner or later break into the outlets of word and deed -- from thought to wish -- from wish to purpose -- from purpose to word -- from word to act -- from act to habit -- from delight in the imagination to consent in the will -- from deed to repeated transgression; such is the genesis of sin.

Farrar, Frederick

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Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.

Allen, James