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

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

Proverb, Italian

How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.

Thoreau, Henry David

You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

Byron, Lord

Think twice before you speak, then say it to yourself first.

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

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

Allen, James

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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When I'm getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say.

Lincoln, Abraham

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To know the true reality of yourself, you must be aware not only of your conscious thoughts, but also of your unconscious prejudices, bias and habits.

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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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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

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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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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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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

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We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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

Young, Eva

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

Po, Huang

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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

Horton, Doug

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THINK. Think about your appearance, associations, actions, ambitions, accomplishment.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Secker, Thomas

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Think success, don't think failure. At work, in your home, substitute success thinking for failure thinking. When you face a difficult situation, think, I'll win, not I'll probably lose. When you compete with someone else, think, I'm equal to the best, not I'm out-classed. When opportunity appears, think I can do it, never I can't. Let the master thought I-will-succeed dominate your thinking process. Thinking success conditions your mind to create plans that produce success. Thinking failure does the exact opposite. Failure thinking conditions the mind to think other thoughts that produce failure.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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