Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about 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

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

Frost, Robert

There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fredrich

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Dryden, John

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

Steere, Bishop

Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.

Chapman, John Jay

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 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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The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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 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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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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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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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

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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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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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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Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Confucius

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

Taylor, Susan

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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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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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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 great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Pascal, Blaise

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Tell your boss what you think of him and the truth shall set you free.

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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Think twice before you speak, then say it to yourself first.

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The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment and financial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking. Thought rules the world.

Murphy, Joseph Edward

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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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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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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Butler, Samuel

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin with doubts, they will end in certainties.

Bacon, Francis

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

Barzan, George

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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Thoughts is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking.

Patton, George S.

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When I'm getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Newton, Sir Isaac