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

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

Po, Huang

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

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking.

Whitehead, Alfred North

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life [Matthew 6:27]

Bible

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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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A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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

Einstein, Albert

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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When someone you greatly admire and respect appears to be thinking deep thoughts, they are probably thinking about lunch.

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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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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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's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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

Rushdie, Salman

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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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Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.

Allen, James

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Confucius

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Think then act safely.

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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What is the hardest thing in the world? To think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Young, Eva

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