Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Horton, Doug

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

Do not think that what your thoughts dwell upon is of no matter. Your thoughts are making you.

Steere, Bishop

Thoughts is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

Russell, Bertrand

The reason there are so few good talkers in public is that there are so few thinkers in private.

To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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

Young, Eva

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

Stevens, Wallace

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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

Confucius

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever.

Secker, Thomas

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It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

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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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I have known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, but never had a thought.

Mizner, Wilson

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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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Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear may impede your progress. Remind yourself, as often as necessary, that you are a creature of God and have the power to achieve any dream by lifting up your thoughts. You can fly when you decide that you can. Never consider yourself defeated again. Let the vision in your heart be in your life's blueprint. Smile!

Mandino, Og

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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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Thinking and Thought: Thoughts are funny little things, They can make paupers or make kings.

Madwed, Sidney

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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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The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.

Frye, Northrop

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves from our senses and experience the world even less directly. We can think about our life, rather than thinking in our life. We can think about what we think about our life, and we can think about what we think about that. We can shift perceptual positions many times over.

Emerick, John J.

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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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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Frost, Robert

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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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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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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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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.

Paz, Octavio

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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