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

It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.

Anderson, Hans Christian

If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.

Buddha

Thoughts of themselves have no substance; let them arise and pass away unheeded. Thoughts will not take form of themselves, unless they are grasped by the attention; if they are ignored, there will be no appearing and no disappearing.

Ashvaghosha

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

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth more than ruin more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Hugo, Victor

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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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The birthplace of success for each person is in his Inner-Consciousness. The Inner-Consciousness will use whatever it is given. If constructive thoughts are planted positive outcomes will be the result. Plant the seeds of failure and failure will follow.

Madwed, Sidney

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

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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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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Bible

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If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment and financial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking. Thought rules the world.

Murphy, Joseph Edward

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.

Cousins, Norman

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed.

May, Louise

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.

Proverb, Italian

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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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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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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David