Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Cousins, Norman

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Jefferson, Thomas

What stops people in their tracks is a small mental packet of energy. It is called a thought. They think I can't.

Sikes, Rex Steven

Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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.

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

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

Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, 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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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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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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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 held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Allen, James

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There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Proverb, Italian

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin with doubts, they will end in certainties.

Bacon, Francis

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Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 a big difference between thinking: I'm in a relationship and something's wrong. Therefore something must be wrong with the relationship. and thinking I'm in a relationship and we've got problems. This is evidence that you are different than me.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Russell, Bertrand

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We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

Einstein, Albert

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Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being. We are constantly reminded that the one superiority that man has over other animals is the ability to think. It is primarily our ability to think that sets us apart from other animals.

Lorayne, Harry

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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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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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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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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

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He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.

Bentham, Jeremy

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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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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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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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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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

Twain, Mark

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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.