Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Every thought we think is creating our future.

- Hay, Louise L.

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Jefferson, Thomas

A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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 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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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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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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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

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Martin, Steve

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

Frost, Robert

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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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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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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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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.

Eliot, George

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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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Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.

Horton, Doug

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What stops people in their tracks is a small mental packet of energy. It is called a thought. They think I can't.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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