Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Po, Huang

Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.

Buddha

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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Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself thinking once or twice a week.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Stevens, Wallace

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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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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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

Braden, Vic

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It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Either you think -- or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.

Horton, Doug

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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If you make people think they're thinking they'll love you: but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

Marquis, Don

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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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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Allen, James

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I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why thunder lasts longer than that which causes it, and why immediately on its creation the lightning becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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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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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They use thought only to justify their injustices, and speech only to disguise their thoughts.

Voltaire

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Barzan, George

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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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Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.

Allen, James

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

Secker, Thomas

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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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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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