Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.

- Thales of Miletus

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Twain, Mark

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

May, Louise

Learn to think like a winner. Think positive and visualize your strengths.

Braden, Vic

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

Po, Huang

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

Martin, Steve

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

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

Einstein, Albert

Some people study all their life, and at death they have learned everything except how to think.

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

Barzan, George

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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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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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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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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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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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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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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 must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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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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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Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

Thoreau, Henry David

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There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.

Chapman, John Jay

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why thunder lasts longer than that which causes it, and why immediately on its creation the lightning becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Aurelius, Marcus

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.

Horton, Doug

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

Arrington, Eva

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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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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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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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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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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Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

Brookner, Anita

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We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how little we are able to convey! The phantom is through the mind and out of the window before we can lay salt on

Woolf, Virginia

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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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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny