Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Do you suffer your thoughts to tamper with evil; and to dally with wrong-doing? If so; you are not sincere. God will regard your thoughts; for thoughts are heard in heaven. If you willingly sin in thought; if you are base and guilty there; because you think that no eye will see your thoughts; the guilt and baseness will sooner or later break into the outlets of word and deed -- from thought to wish -- from wish to purpose -- from purpose to word -- from word to act -- from act to habit -- from delight in the imagination to consent in the will -- from deed to repeated transgression; such is the genesis of sin.

Farrar, Frederick

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

Thoughts is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

Russell, Bertrand

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.

Paine, Thomas

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

Horton, Doug

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

There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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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Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

Brookner, Anita

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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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Every thought you entertain is a force that goes out, and every thought comes back laden with its kind.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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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Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary of the talkers who talk.

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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.

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

Madwed, Sidney

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When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which is no way correspond to our real thoughts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking.

Patton, George S.

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