Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

- Hume, David

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Buddha

I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

May, Louise

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

Barzan, George

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Hugo, Victor

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What is the hardest thing in the world? To think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Brookner, Anita

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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 takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

Martin, Steve

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

Faber, Frederick W.

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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Secker, Thomas

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

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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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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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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

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You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.

Maharshi, Ramana

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

Patton, George S.

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Every thought you entertain is a force that goes out, and every thought comes back laden with its kind.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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