Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

- Allen, James

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Emerson, 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

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

Horton, Doug

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

Horton, Doug

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

Huxley, Aldous

Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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.

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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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

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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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Thinking and Thought: Thoughts are funny little things, They can make paupers or make kings.

Madwed, Sidney

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

Rushdie, Salman

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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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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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Buddha

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Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.

Allen, James

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

Robbins, Anthony

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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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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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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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

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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

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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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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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

Confucius

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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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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.

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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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Thoughts of themselves have no substance; let them arise and pass away unheeded. Thoughts will not take form of themselves, unless they are grasped by the attention; if they are ignored, there will be no appearing and no disappearing.

Ashvaghosha

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Fredrich

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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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One thought fills immensity.