Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Madwed, Sidney

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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

Horton, Doug

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

Taylor, Isaac

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care aboutwhat you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

Vivekananda, Swami

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.

Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.

Horton, Doug

Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves from our senses and experience the world even less directly. We can think about our life, rather than thinking in our life. We can think about what we think about our life, and we can think about what we think about that. We can shift perceptual positions many times over.

Emerick, John J.

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

Einstein, Albert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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

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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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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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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.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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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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 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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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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

Patton, George S.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Thoughts is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

Russell, Bertrand

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Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Think then act safely.

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

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Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it. and never destroy it.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Young, Eva

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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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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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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.

Wilde, Oscar

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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

Rushdie, Salman

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Thoreau, Henry David