Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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.

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

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

Paine, Thomas

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

Martin, Steve

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Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.

Frost, Robert

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Secker, Thomas

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Some people study all their life, and at death they have learned everything except how to think.

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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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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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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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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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Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Paz, Octavio

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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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I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why thunder lasts longer than that which causes it, and why immediately on its creation the lightning becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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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A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.

Proverb, Italian

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The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.

Duranty, Walter

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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Hill, Napoleon

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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.