Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

- Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

1.

You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

2.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

3.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

4.

Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.

Robbins, Anthony

5.

A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.

Thoreau, Henry David

6.

You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.

Maharshi, Ramana

7.

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

Horton, Doug

8.

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

Bourget, Paul

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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

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It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.

Frye, Northrop

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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

12.

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 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

14.

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.

16.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

17.

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

Dryden, John

18.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

19.

One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

20.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

21.

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

Frost, Robert

22.

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

Braden, Vic

23.

Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

24.

A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

Halifax, Edward F.

25.

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

Brookner, Anita

26.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

27.

As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

28.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

29.

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

30.

The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.

Duranty, Walter

31.

Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

32.

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

33.

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.

34.

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

35.

Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

Faber, Frederick W.

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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

37.

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

Bible

38.

To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

39.

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