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

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

Horton, Doug

We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.

Cousins, Norman

Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.

Thales of Miletus

Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

Montale, Eugenio

Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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

Confucius

Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it. and never destroy it.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Stevens, Wallace

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples don't count on harvesting golden Delicious .

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

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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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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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The birth of thought in the depths of the spirit, the shaping and ordering of it into periods, the translation into signs, and above all the transference of it from one spirit to another, the communication that is, if only for an instant, the meeting of two beings, with the unforeseeable consequences that such a meeting always causes, is in fact a miracle; except that the moment one stops to think about it one can't even write a letter.

Satta, Salvatore

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

Buddha

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

Fredrich

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Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Arrington, Eva

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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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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Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Horton, Doug

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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 think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary of the talkers who talk.