Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Bourget, Paul

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Arrington, Eva

Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.

Kettering, Charles F.

I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin with doubts, they will end in certainties.

Bacon, Francis

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The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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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

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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.

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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

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If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.

Barzan, George

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A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

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Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

Brookner, Anita

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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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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

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

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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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Thinking more than others about our own thoughts is not self-centeredness. It means that if asked what's on our mind, we are less likely to mention being aware of the world around us, and more likely to mention our inner reflections. But we are less likely to mention thinking about other people.

Aron, Elaine N.

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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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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Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it. and never destroy it.

Kempis, Thomas

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It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.

Frye, Northrop

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If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

Pascal, Blaise

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Forster, Edward M.

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