Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world.

- Buddha

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.

Horton, Doug

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

Frost, Robert

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

Chapman, John Jay

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]

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

Either you think -- or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Horton, Doug

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

Kant, Immanuel

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Steere, Bishop

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Huxley, Aldous

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A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

Bernanos, Georges

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

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

Dryden, John

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Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary of the talkers who talk.

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.

Paz, Octavio

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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

Confucius

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever.

Secker, Thomas

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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 your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Think then act safely.

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

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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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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What stops people in their tracks is a small mental packet of energy. It is called a thought. They think I can't.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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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