Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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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

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Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

Secker, Thomas

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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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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

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.

Fleischer, Lenore

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

Barzan, George

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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

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

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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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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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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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

Rushdie, Salman

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Duranty, Walter

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

Mizner, Wilson

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought).

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

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

Steere, Bishop

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Arrington, Eva

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

Halifax, Edward F.