Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Horton, Doug

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

Bourget, Paul

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how little we are able to convey! The phantom is through the mind and out of the window before we can lay salt on

Woolf, Virginia

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

Patton, George S.

Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples don't count on harvesting golden Delicious .

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Aurelius, Marcus

How can I know what I think till I see what I say?

Forster, Edward M.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Bible

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

Buddha

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Butterworth, Eric

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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

Confucius

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

Po, Huang

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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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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it. and never destroy it.

Kempis, Thomas

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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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The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Montale, Eugenio

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How you look at a situation is very important, for how you think about a problem may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. When you get discouraged or depressed, try changing your attitude from negative to positive and see how life can change for you. Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it -- you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory.

Harris, Franco

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Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being. We are constantly reminded that the one superiority that man has over other animals is the ability to think. It is primarily our ability to think that sets us apart from other animals.

Lorayne, Harry

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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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It was at a particular moment in the history of my own rages that I saw the Western world conditioned by the images of Marx, Darwin and Freud; and Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western world. The simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.

Golding, William

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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When I'm getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Russell, Bertrand

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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.

Paine, Thomas

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Steere, Bishop

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.