Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Baruch, Bernard M.

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Maharshi, Ramana

Every thought you entertain is a force that goes out, and every thought comes back laden with its kind.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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

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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, 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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Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.

Eliot, George

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentialities and capabilities?

Dinsah, H.Jay

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

Montale, Eugenio

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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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

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

Dryden, John

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

Stevens, Wallace

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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Bourget, Paul

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Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth more than ruin more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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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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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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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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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

Quarles, Francis

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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 revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.

Bentham, Jeremy

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace? If they have not, there is something wrong with them -- so keep seeking! If what you do has brought you inner peace, stay with what you believe is right.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.

Buddha