Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

It was at a particular moment in the history of my own rages that I saw the Western world conditioned by the images of Marx, Darwin and Freud; and Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western world. The simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.

- Golding, William

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Aurelius, Marcus

Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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

Stevens, Wallace

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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

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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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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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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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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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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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When I'm getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Martin, Steve

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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 ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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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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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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We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

Einstein, Albert

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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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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Butler, Samuel

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

Fredrich

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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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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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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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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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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The birthplace of success for each person is in his Inner-Consciousness. The Inner-Consciousness will use whatever it is given. If constructive thoughts are planted positive outcomes will be the result. Plant the seeds of failure and failure will follow.

Madwed, Sidney

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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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Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Braden, Vic

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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

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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.