Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- May, Louise

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Maharshi, Ramana

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.

To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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

Arrington, Eva

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.

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.

Buddha

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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

Braden, Vic

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Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Do you suffer your thoughts to tamper with evil; and to dally with wrong-doing? If so; you are not sincere. God will regard your thoughts; for thoughts are heard in heaven. If you willingly sin in thought; if you are base and guilty there; because you think that no eye will see your thoughts; the guilt and baseness will sooner or later break into the outlets of word and deed -- from thought to wish -- from wish to purpose -- from purpose to word -- from word to act -- from act to habit -- from delight in the imagination to consent in the will -- from deed to repeated transgression; such is the genesis of sin.

Farrar, Frederick

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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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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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There is a big difference between thinking: I'm in a relationship and something's wrong. Therefore something must be wrong with the relationship. and thinking I'm in a relationship and we've got problems. This is evidence that you are different than me.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Stevens, Wallace

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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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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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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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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

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

Nightingale, Earl

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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Thinking more than others about our own thoughts is not self-centeredness. It means that if asked what's on our mind, we are less likely to mention being aware of the world around us, and more likely to mention our inner reflections. But we are less likely to mention thinking about other people.

Aron, Elaine N.

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They use thought only to justify their injustices, and speech only to disguise their thoughts.

Voltaire

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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

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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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Thought is, perhaps, the forerunner and even the mother of ideas, and ideas are the most powerful and the most useful things in the world.

Gardner, George

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All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Allen, James

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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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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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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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In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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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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In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought).

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Martin, Steve