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

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

Confucius

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

Steere, Bishop

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

When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

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

Thoreau, Henry David

We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Thoreau, Henry David

The revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Braden, Vic

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Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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

Montale, Eugenio

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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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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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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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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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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

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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, 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 makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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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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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Horton, Doug

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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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Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever.

Secker, Thomas

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Think success, don't think failure. At work, in your home, substitute success thinking for failure thinking. When you face a difficult situation, think, I'll win, not I'll probably lose. When you compete with someone else, think, I'm equal to the best, not I'm out-classed. When opportunity appears, think I can do it, never I can't. Let the master thought I-will-succeed dominate your thinking process. Thinking success conditions your mind to create plans that produce success. Thinking failure does the exact opposite. Failure thinking conditions the mind to think other thoughts that produce failure.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Martin, Steve

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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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Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Voltaire

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How you look at a situation is very important, for how you think about a problem may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. When you get discouraged or depressed, try changing your attitude from negative to positive and see how life can change for you. Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it -- you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory.

Harris, Franco

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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

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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.