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

Thinking more than others about our own thoughts is not self-centeredness. It means that if asked what's on our mind, we are less likely to mention being aware of the world around us, and more likely to mention our inner reflections. But we are less likely to mention thinking about other people.

Aron, Elaine N.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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

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

Barzan, George

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

A man of meditation is happy, not for an hour or a day, but quite round the circle of all his years.

Taylor, Isaac

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Horton, Doug

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

Stevens, Wallace

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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Think twice before you speak, then say it to yourself first.

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If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Patton, George S.

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Rushdie, Salman

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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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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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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Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

May, Louise

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentialities and capabilities?

Dinsah, H.Jay

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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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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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Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.

Wilde, Oscar

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We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Byron, Lord

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Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.