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

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

Horton, Doug

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.

Anderson, Hans Christian

When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which is no way correspond to our real thoughts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

Baruch, Bernard M.

Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

10.

As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

11.

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

Horton, Doug

12.

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

May, Louise

13.

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

Braden, Vic

14.

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

Maharshi, Ramana

15.

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

Voltaire

16.

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

17.

To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

18.

How can I know what I think till I see what I say?

Forster, Edward M.

19.

Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

Eliot, George

20.

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

21.

If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

22.

Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

23.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

24.

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

Paine, Thomas

25.

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

26.

Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

27.

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

Horton, Doug

28.

The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.

Duranty, Walter

29.

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

30.

We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.

Twain, Mark

31.

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

Dryden, John

32.

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

33.

One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

Bourget, Paul

34.

Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

35.

Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being. We are constantly reminded that the one superiority that man has over other animals is the ability to think. It is primarily our ability to think that sets us apart from other animals.

Lorayne, Harry

36.

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

37.

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.

38.

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

Martin, Steve

39.

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

Vivekananda, Swami

40.

Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities.

Winfrey, Oprah

41.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

42.

What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

43.

I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

44.

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

45.

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

46.

You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

47.

Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

48.

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