Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.

- Eliot, George

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

Pascal, Blaise

Thinking more than others about our own thoughts is not self-centeredness. It means that if asked what's on our mind, we are less likely to mention being aware of the world around us, and more likely to mention our inner reflections. But we are less likely to mention thinking about other people.

Aron, Elaine N.

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

Allen, James

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

Aurelius, Marcus

The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

Horton, Doug

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

Nightingale, Earl

Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and of the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Rushdie, Salman

We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how little we are able to convey! The phantom is through the mind and out of the window before we can lay salt on

Woolf, Virginia

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Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is perilous.

Confucius

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Bible

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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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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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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 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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Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Arrington, Eva

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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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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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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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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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world.

Buddha

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Buddha

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A man of meditation is happy, not for an hour or a day, but quite round the circle of all his years.

Taylor, Isaac

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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Voltaire

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

Kant, Immanuel

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The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment and financial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking. Thought rules the world.

Murphy, Joseph Edward

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

Chapman, John Jay