Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Jefferson, Thomas

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

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

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

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

Taylor, Susan

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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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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.

Chapman, John Jay

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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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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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Learn to think like a winner. Think positive and visualize your strengths.

Braden, Vic

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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

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Thinking and Thought: Thoughts are funny little things, They can make paupers or make kings.

Madwed, Sidney

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

Stevens, Wallace

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The reason there are so few good talkers in public is that there are so few thinkers in private.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.

Young, Eva

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

Steere, Bishop

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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

Hugo, Victor

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It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.

Twain, Mark

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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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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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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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We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.

Buddha

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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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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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