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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Young, Eva

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Martin, Steve

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

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Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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

Secker, Thomas

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.

Horton, Doug

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

Stevens, Wallace

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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.

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books, They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.

Quarles, Francis

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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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The birth of thought in the depths of the spirit, the shaping and ordering of it into periods, the translation into signs, and above all the transference of it from one spirit to another, the communication that is, if only for an instant, the meeting of two beings, with the unforeseeable consequences that such a meeting always causes, is in fact a miracle; except that the moment one stops to think about it one can't even write a letter.

Satta, Salvatore

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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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If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

Pascal, Blaise

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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

Patton, George S.

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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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Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.

Fleischer, Lenore

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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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