Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Montale, Eugenio

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Taylor, Isaac

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

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

Stevens, Wallace

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

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.

Paine, Thomas

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

Bible

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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

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Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.

Horton, Doug

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

Arrington, Eva

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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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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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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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When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which is no way correspond to our real thoughts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Think then act safely.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure. Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.

Adams, Bryan

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.

Thales of Miletus

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I am not what I think. I am thinking what I think.

Butterworth, Eric

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