Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Maharshi, Ramana

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kettering, Charles F.

Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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.

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

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

May, Louise

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

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Horton, Doug

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

Horton, Doug

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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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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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You live with your thoughts -- so be careful what they are.

Arrington, Eva

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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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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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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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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He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.

Bentham, Jeremy

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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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Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Think then act safely.

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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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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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

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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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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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The birthplace of success for each person is in his Inner-Consciousness. The Inner-Consciousness will use whatever it is given. If constructive thoughts are planted positive outcomes will be the result. Plant the seeds of failure and failure will follow.

Madwed, Sidney

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We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.

Cousins, Norman

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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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How you look at a situation is very important, for how you think about a problem may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. When you get discouraged or depressed, try changing your attitude from negative to positive and see how life can change for you. Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it -- you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory.

Harris, Franco

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Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever, is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things. [Philippians 4:8]

Bible

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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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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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Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

Bourget, Paul

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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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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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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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Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth more than ruin more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand