Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

- Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Quarles, Francis

In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.

Thales of Miletus

One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Stevens, Wallace

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Confucius

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

Montale, Eugenio

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Tell your boss what you think of him and the truth shall set you free.

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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

Po, Huang

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In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin with doubts, they will end in certainties.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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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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Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.

Robbins, Anthony

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Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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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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I have known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, but never had a thought.

Mizner, Wilson

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Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Forster, Edward M.

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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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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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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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

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When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

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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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The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Jefferson, Thomas