Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Patton, George S.

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

Kant, Immanuel

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

Thoreau, Henry David

As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Aurelius, Marcus

Think then act safely.

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

Martin, Steve

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Allen, James

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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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The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentialities and capabilities?

Dinsah, H.Jay

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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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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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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

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If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.

Barzan, George

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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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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Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities.

Winfrey, Oprah

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Either you think -- or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

Bible

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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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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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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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What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Stevens, Wallace

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

Arrington, Eva

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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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If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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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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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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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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No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.