Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

- Shaw, George Bernard

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Taylor, Susan

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

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

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Po, Huang

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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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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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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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The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

Horton, Doug

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Proverb, Italian

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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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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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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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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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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.

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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

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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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If you make people think they're thinking they'll love you: but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

Marquis, Don

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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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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 parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.

Twain, Mark

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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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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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You live with your thoughts -- so be careful what they are.

Arrington, Eva

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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

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and of the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.

Proverb, Chinese

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Steere, Bishop