Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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.

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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

Duranty, Walter

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.

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

Arrington, Eva

If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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

Buddha

Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life [Matthew 6:27]

Bible

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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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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

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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?

Forster, Edward M.

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I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

Martin, Steve

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

Madwed, Sidney

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

Rushdie, Salman

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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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

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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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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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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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 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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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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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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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Aurelius, Marcus

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In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought).

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth more than ruin more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.

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

Young, Eva

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Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von