Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

- Hugo, Victor

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world.

Buddha

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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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Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself thinking once or twice a week.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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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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Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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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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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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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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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

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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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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The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Bible

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THINK. Think about your appearance, associations, actions, ambitions, accomplishment.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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The thought pattern characteristic of the right brain lends itself to the formation of original ideas, insights, discoveries. We might describe it as the kind of thought prevalent in early childhood, when everything is new and everything has meaning. If you have ever walked along a beach and suddenly stopped to pick up a piece of driftwood because it looked to you like a leaping impala or a troll, you know the feeling of pleasure that comes from the sudden recognition of a form. Your Design mind (right brain) has perceived connections and had made a pattern of meaning. It takes logical, rational acts and facts of the world you know, the snippets of your experience, the bits and pieces of your language capabilities, and perceives connections, patterns, and relationships in them.

Rico, Gabriele Lusser

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Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature; but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapor, a drop of water is enough to kill him. But even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows nothing of this.

Pascal, Blaise

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Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Huxley, Aldous

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

Kant, Immanuel

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If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo