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

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Steere, Bishop

Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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

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

Proverb, Italian

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear may impede your progress. Remind yourself, as often as necessary, that you are a creature of God and have the power to achieve any dream by lifting up your thoughts. You can fly when you decide that you can. Never consider yourself defeated again. Let the vision in your heart be in your life's blueprint. Smile!

Mandino, Og

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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

Stevens, Wallace

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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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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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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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Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.

Quarles, Francis

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Rushdie, Salman

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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 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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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Paine, Thomas

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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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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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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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

Confucius

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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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The revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The birth of thought in the depths of the spirit, the shaping and ordering of it into periods, the translation into signs, and above all the transference of it from one spirit to another, the communication that is, if only for an instant, the meeting of two beings, with the unforeseeable consequences that such a meeting always causes, is in fact a miracle; except that the moment one stops to think about it one can't even write a letter.

Satta, Salvatore

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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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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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To think is to practice brain chemistry.