Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. One must fight one's way through before regaining one's original primal state. If one succeeds in the fight and reaches the goal, the enemy, namely the thoughts, will all subside in the Self and disappear entirely.

Maharshi, Ramana

In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin with doubts, they will end in certainties.

Bacon, Francis

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

No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

Eliot, George

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

Rushdie, Salman

Thoughts is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Proverb, Italian

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What stops people in their tracks is a small mental packet of energy. It is called a thought. They think I can't.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Arrington, Eva

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

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?

Forster, Edward M.

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To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.

Young, Eva

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

Po, Huang

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Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.

Horton, Doug

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I have known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, but never had a thought.

Mizner, Wilson

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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.

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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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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 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 expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Allen, James

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Far more numerous are those as such; who think too little and talk too much.

Dryden, John

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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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Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world.

Buddha

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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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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

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

Confucius