Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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

I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Horton, Doug

Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Paine, Thomas

Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.

Frost, Robert

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

Stevens, Wallace

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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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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Hugo, Victor

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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The birth of thought in the depths of the spirit, the shaping and ordering of it into periods, the translation into signs, and above all the transference of it from one spirit to another, the communication that is, if only for an instant, the meeting of two beings, with the unforeseeable consequences that such a meeting always causes, is in fact a miracle; except that the moment one stops to think about it one can't even write a letter.

Satta, Salvatore

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Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.

Chapman, John Jay

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We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.

Twain, Mark

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

Patton, George S.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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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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Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.

Horton, Doug

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

Bernanos, Georges

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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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 I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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

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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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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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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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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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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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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, 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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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

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.

Fleischer, Lenore

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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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Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear may impede your progress. Remind yourself, as often as necessary, that you are a creature of God and have the power to achieve any dream by lifting up your thoughts. You can fly when you decide that you can. Never consider yourself defeated again. Let the vision in your heart be in your life's blueprint. Smile!

Mandino, Og

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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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

Voltaire

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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.