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

To know the true reality of yourself, you must be aware not only of your conscious thoughts, but also of your unconscious prejudices, bias and habits.

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

A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

Bernanos, Georges

Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.

Thales of Miletus

Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Po, Huang

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

Brookner, Anita

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

When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

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

Horton, Doug

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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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Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which is no way correspond to our real thoughts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Horton, Doug

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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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You live with your thoughts -- so be careful what they are.

Arrington, Eva

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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why thunder lasts longer than that which causes it, and why immediately on its creation the lightning becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Secker, Thomas

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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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