Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Arrington, Eva

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.

Buddha

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In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.

Kettering, Charles F.

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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.

Cousins, Norman

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Hugo, Victor

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Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.

Russell, Bertrand

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Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature; but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapor, a drop of water is enough to kill him. But even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows nothing of this.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Young, Eva

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

Buddha

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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

21.

He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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Some people study all their life, and at death they have learned everything except how to think.

24.

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

Einstein, Albert

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples don't count on harvesting golden Delicious .

27.

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

Confucius

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Arrington, Eva

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

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