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

Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Buddha

To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Arrington, Eva

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Brookner, Anita

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A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.

Proverb, Italian

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.

Horton, Doug

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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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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever, is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things. [Philippians 4:8]

Bible

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Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure. Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.

Adams, Bryan

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Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is perilous.

Confucius

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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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Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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It was at a particular moment in the history of my own rages that I saw the Western world conditioned by the images of Marx, Darwin and Freud; and Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western world. The simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.

Golding, William

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Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and of the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.

Proverb, Chinese

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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 more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

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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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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

Patton, George S.

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Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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Think twice before you speak, then say it to yourself first.

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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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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world.

Buddha

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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When I'm getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.