Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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

I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

Martin, Steve

Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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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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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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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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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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Learn to think like a winner. Think positive and visualize your strengths.

Braden, Vic

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Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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I am not what I think. I am thinking what I think.

Butterworth, Eric

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Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Huxley, Aldous

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If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.

Barzan, George

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

Hugo, Victor

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Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Forster, Edward M.

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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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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

May, Louise

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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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Far more numerous are those as such; who think too little and talk too much.

Dryden, John

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

Patton, George S.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Confucius

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

Bourget, Paul

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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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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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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As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

Buddha