Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

- Paine, Thomas

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is perilous.

Confucius

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.

Baudrillard, Jean

How can I know what I think till I see what I say?

Forster, Edward M.

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

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

Horton, Doug

Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.

Paz, Octavio

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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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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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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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

Buddha

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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 is only a reed, the weakest in nature; but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapor, a drop of water is enough to kill him. But even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows nothing of this.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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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 like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.

Twain, Mark

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Think then act safely.

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A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Taylor, Isaac

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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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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

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It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Horton, Doug

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

Braden, Vic

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being. We are constantly reminded that the one superiority that man has over other animals is the ability to think. It is primarily our ability to think that sets us apart from other animals.

Lorayne, Harry

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

Bourget, Paul

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De