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 wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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

Po, Huang

Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

There is a big difference between thinking: I'm in a relationship and something's wrong. Therefore something must be wrong with the relationship. and thinking I'm in a relationship and we've got problems. This is evidence that you are different than me.

Dyer, Wayne

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.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Huxley, Aldous

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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

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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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He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.

Bentham, Jeremy

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

Vivekananda, Swami

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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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Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Bourget, Paul

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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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Every thought you entertain is a force that goes out, and every thought comes back laden with its kind.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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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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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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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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

Fredrich

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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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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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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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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