Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

Rushdie, Salman

Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.

Thoreau, Henry David

As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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

Arrington, Eva

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Butler, Samuel

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

Think then act safely.

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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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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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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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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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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THINK. Think about your appearance, associations, actions, ambitions, accomplishment.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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.

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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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It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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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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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.

Fleischer, Lenore

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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 makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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

Frost, Robert

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever, is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things. [Philippians 4:8]

Bible

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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

Stevens, Wallace

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The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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

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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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Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

Brookner, Anita

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The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

Horton, Doug