Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.

- Quarles, Francis

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about 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

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

Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

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

Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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

Stevens, Wallace

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

Fredrich

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

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Learn to think like a winner. Think positive and visualize your strengths.

Braden, Vic

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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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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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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He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.

Chapman, John Jay

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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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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Buddha

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

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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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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The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking.

Patton, George S.

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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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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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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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The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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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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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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They use thought only to justify their injustices, and speech only to disguise their thoughts.

Voltaire

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Do not think that what your thoughts dwell upon is of no matter. Your thoughts are making you.

Steere, Bishop

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

Rushdie, Salman

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thinking and Thought: Thoughts are funny little things, They can make paupers or make kings.

Madwed, Sidney

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To know the true reality of yourself, you must be aware not only of your conscious thoughts, but also of your unconscious prejudices, bias and habits.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Russell, Bertrand