Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

- Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

Bristol, Claude M.

The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Buddha

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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Russell, Bertrand

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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George 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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If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentialities and capabilities?

Dinsah, H.Jay

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Po, Huang

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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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If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.

Barzan, George

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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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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Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear may impede your progress. Remind yourself, as often as necessary, that you are a creature of God and have the power to achieve any dream by lifting up your thoughts. You can fly when you decide that you can. Never consider yourself defeated again. Let the vision in your heart be in your life's blueprint. Smile!

Mandino, Og

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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Think twice before you speak, then say it to yourself first.

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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 revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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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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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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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