Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

- Aurelius, Marcus

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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

They use thought only to justify their injustices, and speech only to disguise their thoughts.

Voltaire

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

Confucius

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

Fredrich

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

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

Allen, James

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care aboutwhat you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

Vivekananda, Swami

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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Learn to think like a winner. Think positive and visualize your strengths.

Braden, Vic

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

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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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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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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He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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]

Bible

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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

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A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

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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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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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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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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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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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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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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

Hugo, Victor

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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 the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment and financial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking. Thought rules the world.

Murphy, Joseph Edward

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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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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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.

Horton, Doug

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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed.

May, Louise

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Stevens, Wallace

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