Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Thought is the parent of the deed.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

Buddha

He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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

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

Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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

Paine, Thomas

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

May, Louise

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Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.

Fleischer, Lenore

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THINK. Think about your appearance, associations, actions, ambitions, accomplishment.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Steere, Bishop

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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Think then act safely.

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A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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

Duranty, Walter

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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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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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Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.

Horton, Doug

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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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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.

Nightingale, Earl

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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.

Paine, Thomas

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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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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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Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever.

Secker, Thomas

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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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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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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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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Russell, Bertrand

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