Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.

- Buddha

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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.

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

Proverb, Italian

You live with your thoughts -- so be careful what they are.

Arrington, Eva

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Huxley, Aldous

How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.

Thoreau, Henry David

Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.

Frost, Robert

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The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment and financial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking. Thought rules the world.

Murphy, Joseph Edward

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Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves from our senses and experience the world even less directly. We can think about our life, rather than thinking in our life. We can think about what we think about our life, and we can think about what we think about that. We can shift perceptual positions many times over.

Emerick, John J.

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Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Young, Eva

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

Barzan, George

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Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.

Eliot, George

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Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.

Paz, Octavio

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

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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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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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

Madwed, Sidney

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

Braden, Vic

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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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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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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

Horton, Doug

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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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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which is no way correspond to our real thoughts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Po, Huang

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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When someone you greatly admire and respect appears to be thinking deep thoughts, they are probably thinking about lunch.

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Brookner, Anita

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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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Do not think that what your thoughts dwell upon is of no matter. Your thoughts are making you.

Steere, Bishop

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Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear may impede your progress. Remind yourself, as often as necessary, that you are a creature of God and have the power to achieve any dream by lifting up your thoughts. You can fly when you decide that you can. Never consider yourself defeated again. Let the vision in your heart be in your life's blueprint. Smile!

Mandino, Og

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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