Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Think then act safely.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Montale, Eugenio

I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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

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.

Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment and financial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking. Thought rules the world.

Murphy, Joseph Edward

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

Eliot, George

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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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There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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 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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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bible

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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Butler, Samuel

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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A man of meditation is happy, not for an hour or a day, but quite round the circle of all his years.

Taylor, Isaac

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Barzan, George

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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When someone you greatly admire and respect appears to be thinking deep thoughts, they are probably thinking about lunch.

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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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It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Stevens, Wallace

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.