Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

- Rostand, Jean

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

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

Buddha

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

Chapman, John Jay

Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care aboutwhat you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

Vivekananda, Swami

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Confucius

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Thought is, perhaps, the forerunner and even the mother of ideas, and ideas are the most powerful and the most useful things in the world.

Gardner, George

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Braden, Vic

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I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why thunder lasts longer than that which causes it, and why immediately on its creation the lightning becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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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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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Paine, Thomas

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When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books, They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Secker, Thomas

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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The reason there are so few good talkers in public is that there are so few thinkers in private.

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.

Taylor, Susan

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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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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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

Steere, Bishop

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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 must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

Bourget, Paul