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

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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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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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To know the true reality of yourself, you must be aware not only of your conscious thoughts, but also of your unconscious prejudices, bias and habits.

4.

You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

5.

As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Kempis, Thomas

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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Do not think that what your thoughts dwell upon is of no matter. Your thoughts are making you.

Steere, Bishop

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In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought).

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Butler, Samuel

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Allen, James

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.

Horton, Doug

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

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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You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.

Maharshi, Ramana

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever.

Secker, Thomas

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

37.

Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Buddha

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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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

Voltaire

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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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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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

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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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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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Thought is, perhaps, the forerunner and even the mother of ideas, and ideas are the most powerful and the most useful things in the world.

Gardner, George

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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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