Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Thoreau, Henry David

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

Buddha

The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Vivekananda, Swami

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Po, Huang

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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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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I have known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, but never had a thought.

Mizner, Wilson

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

Rushdie, Salman

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

Bible

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Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 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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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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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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Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

Fredrich

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Every thought you entertain is a force that goes out, and every thought comes back laden with its kind.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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

Paine, Thomas

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.

Kettering, Charles F.

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The reason there are so few good talkers in public is that there are so few thinkers in private.

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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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Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.

Quarles, Francis

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

Young, Eva

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For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

Byron, Lord

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.

Frost, Robert

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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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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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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Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking.

Patton, George S.

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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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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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

Aurelius, Marcus