Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Horton, Doug

Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure. Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.

Adams, Bryan

Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.

Quarles, Francis

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

Stevens, Wallace

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.

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

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

Horton, Doug

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.

What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.

Buddha

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Horton, Doug

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

Bible

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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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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No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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 too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.

Young, Eva

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The reason there are so few good talkers in public is that there are so few thinkers in private.

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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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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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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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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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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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Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples don't count on harvesting golden Delicious .

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There is a big difference between thinking: I'm in a relationship and something's wrong. Therefore something must be wrong with the relationship. and thinking I'm in a relationship and we've got problems. This is evidence that you are different than me.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Patton, George S.

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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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Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.

Taylor, Susan

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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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It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed.

May, Louise

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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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Think then act safely.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature; but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapor, a drop of water is enough to kill him. But even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows nothing of this.

Pascal, Blaise