Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.

- Horton, Doug

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

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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

Frost, Robert

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

Twain, Mark

One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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

Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.

Quarles, Francis

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Think then act safely.

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What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Patton, George S.

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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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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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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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In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought).

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.

Duranty, Walter

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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.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Young, Eva

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

Allen, James

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.

Cousins, Norman

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

Brookner, Anita

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Tell your boss what you think of him and the truth shall set you free.

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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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When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.

Po, Huang

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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 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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Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.

Horton, Doug

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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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Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

Montale, Eugenio

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

May, Louise

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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Think success, don't think failure. At work, in your home, substitute success thinking for failure thinking. When you face a difficult situation, think, I'll win, not I'll probably lose. When you compete with someone else, think, I'm equal to the best, not I'm out-classed. When opportunity appears, think I can do it, never I can't. Let the master thought I-will-succeed dominate your thinking process. Thinking success conditions your mind to create plans that produce success. Thinking failure does the exact opposite. Failure thinking conditions the mind to think other thoughts that produce failure.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Rushdie, Salman