Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

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

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

Winfrey, Oprah

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.

Paine, Thomas

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

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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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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The birth of thought in the depths of the spirit, the shaping and ordering of it into periods, the translation into signs, and above all the transference of it from one spirit to another, the communication that is, if only for an instant, the meeting of two beings, with the unforeseeable consequences that such a meeting always causes, is in fact a miracle; except that the moment one stops to think about it one can't even write a letter.

Satta, Salvatore

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Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves from our senses and experience the world even less directly. We can think about our life, rather than thinking in our life. We can think about what we think about our life, and we can think about what we think about that. We can shift perceptual positions many times over.

Emerick, John J.

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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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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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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Arrington, Eva

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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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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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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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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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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.

Stevens, Wallace

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Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it. and never destroy it.

Kempis, Thomas

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Barzan, George

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

Horton, Doug

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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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Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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

Fredrich

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

Bourget, Paul

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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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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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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

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

Young, Eva

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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Hugo, Victor

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Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.

Buddha

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Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear may impede your progress. Remind yourself, as often as necessary, that you are a creature of God and have the power to achieve any dream by lifting up your thoughts. You can fly when you decide that you can. Never consider yourself defeated again. Let the vision in your heart be in your life's blueprint. Smile!

Mandino, Og

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De