Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

A man of meditation is happy, not for an hour or a day, but quite round the circle of all his years.

Taylor, Isaac

The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Horton, Doug

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.

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Confucius

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Rushdie, Salman

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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

Fredrich

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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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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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

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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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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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A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.

Proverb, Italian

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.

Fleischer, Lenore

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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

Martin, Steve

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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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When someone you greatly admire and respect appears to be thinking deep thoughts, they are probably thinking about lunch.

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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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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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

Dryden, John

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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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