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

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Allen, James

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

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Bible

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Forster, Edward M.

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To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.

Young, Eva

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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

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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

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A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.

Proverb, Italian

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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

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The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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If you make people think they're thinking they'll love you: but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

Marquis, Don

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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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The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Do not think that what your thoughts dwell upon is of no matter. Your thoughts are making you.

Steere, Bishop

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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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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Buddha

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

Martin, Steve

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You live with your thoughts -- so be careful what they are.

Arrington, Eva

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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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Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth more than ruin more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo