Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.

- Po, Huang

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Proverb, Italian

Thoughts of themselves have no substance; let them arise and pass away unheeded. Thoughts will not take form of themselves, unless they are grasped by the attention; if they are ignored, there will be no appearing and no disappearing.

Ashvaghosha

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth more than ruin more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Confucius

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Horton, Doug

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.

Horton, Doug

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Thinking more than others about our own thoughts is not self-centeredness. It means that if asked what's on our mind, we are less likely to mention being aware of the world around us, and more likely to mention our inner reflections. But we are less likely to mention thinking about other people.

Aron, Elaine N.

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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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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment and financial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking. Thought rules the world.

Murphy, Joseph Edward

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

Einstein, Albert

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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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It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.

Frye, Northrop

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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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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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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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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When I'm getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Martin, Steve