Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Buddha

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Learn to think like a winner. Think positive and visualize your strengths.

Braden, Vic

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

Aurelius, Marcus

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Paine, Thomas

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

Butler, Samuel

One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The birthplace of success for each person is in his Inner-Consciousness. The Inner-Consciousness will use whatever it is given. If constructive thoughts are planted positive outcomes will be the result. Plant the seeds of failure and failure will follow.

Madwed, Sidney

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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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There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

Byron, Lord

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life [Matthew 6:27]

Bible

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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

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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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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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In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Barzan, George

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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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Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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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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It was at a particular moment in the history of my own rages that I saw the Western world conditioned by the images of Marx, Darwin and Freud; and Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western world. The simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.

Golding, William

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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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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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

Stevens, Wallace

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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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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.

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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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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Proverb, Italian

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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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.