Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Thinking and Thought: Thoughts are funny little things, They can make paupers or make kings.

Madwed, Sidney

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

I have known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, but never had a thought.

Mizner, Wilson

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

The reason there are so few good talkers in public is that there are so few thinkers in private.

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

May, Louise

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

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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We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

Einstein, Albert

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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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It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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

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We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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

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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 birthplace of success for each person is in his Inner-Consciousness. The Inner-Consciousness will use whatever it is given. If constructive thoughts are planted positive outcomes will be the result. Plant the seeds of failure and failure will follow.

Madwed, Sidney

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Montale, Eugenio

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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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Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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

Stevens, Wallace

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Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

Bristol, Claude M.

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

Fredrich

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Young, Eva

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A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Voltaire

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Buddha

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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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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Bentham, Jeremy

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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I am not what I think. I am thinking what I think.

Butterworth, Eric

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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