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

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

What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Duranty, Walter

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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.

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

Patton, George S.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Disraeli, Benjamin

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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

Secker, Thomas

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

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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

Bourget, Paul

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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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The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Arrington, Eva

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Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Young, Eva

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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

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Thoughts is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

Russell, Bertrand

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The revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs.