Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

- Goldwyn, Samuel

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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

They use thought only to justify their injustices, and speech only to disguise their thoughts.

Voltaire

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

We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world.

Buddha

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

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

May, Louise

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.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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The revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Stevens, Wallace

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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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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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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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

Arrington, Eva

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Confucius

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

Faber, Frederick W.

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

Barzan, George

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care aboutwhat you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

Vivekananda, Swami

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

Forster, Edward M.

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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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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

Rushdie, Salman

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

Horton, Doug

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Some people study all their life, and at death they have learned everything except how to think.

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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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When someone you greatly admire and respect appears to be thinking deep thoughts, they are probably thinking about lunch.

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It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.

Paine, Thomas

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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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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

Kettering, Charles F.