Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

- Halifax, Edward F.

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

Byron, Lord

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

Arrington, Eva

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

Patton, George S.

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.

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

Buddha

A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Robbins, Anthony

A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.

Maharshi, Ramana

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All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

Kant, Immanuel

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

Voltaire

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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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The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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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 thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

Rushdie, Salman

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature; but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapor, a drop of water is enough to kill him. But even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows nothing of this.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.

Frost, Robert

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There is a big difference between thinking: I'm in a relationship and something's wrong. Therefore something must be wrong with the relationship. and thinking I'm in a relationship and we've got problems. This is evidence that you are different than me.

Dyer, Wayne

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Either you think -- or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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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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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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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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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When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Paine, Thomas

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

Bible

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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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Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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