Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.

- Baudrillard, Jean

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Steere, Bishop

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.

Taylor, Susan

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

The thought pattern characteristic of the right brain lends itself to the formation of original ideas, insights, discoveries. We might describe it as the kind of thought prevalent in early childhood, when everything is new and everything has meaning. If you have ever walked along a beach and suddenly stopped to pick up a piece of driftwood because it looked to you like a leaping impala or a troll, you know the feeling of pleasure that comes from the sudden recognition of a form. Your Design mind (right brain) has perceived connections and had made a pattern of meaning. It takes logical, rational acts and facts of the world you know, the snippets of your experience, the bits and pieces of your language capabilities, and perceives connections, patterns, and relationships in them.

Rico, Gabriele Lusser

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

Winfrey, Oprah

Thoughts is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Montale, Eugenio

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Horton, Doug

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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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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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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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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Buddha

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

Secker, Thomas

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking.

Patton, George S.

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

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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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Either you think -- or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.

Chapman, John Jay

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You live with your thoughts -- so be careful what they are.

Arrington, Eva

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Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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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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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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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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The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Hill, Napoleon

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To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.

Young, Eva