Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Steere, Bishop

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Vivekananda, Swami

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

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

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

Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

Far more numerous are those as such; who think too little and talk too much.

Dryden, John

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

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

Bourget, Paul

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Thinking more than others about our own thoughts is not self-centeredness. It means that if asked what's on our mind, we are less likely to mention being aware of the world around us, and more likely to mention our inner reflections. But we are less likely to mention thinking about other people.

Aron, Elaine N.

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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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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Allen, James

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples don't count on harvesting golden Delicious .

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

Confucius

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Paine, Thomas

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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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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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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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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Forster, Edward M.

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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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It was at a particular moment in the history of my own rages that I saw the Western world conditioned by the images of Marx, Darwin and Freud; and Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western world. The simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.

Golding, William

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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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Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Nightingale, Earl

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To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.

Young, Eva

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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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I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

Martin, Steve

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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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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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

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo