Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Buddha

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Bourget, Paul

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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

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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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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Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.

Quarles, Francis

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The revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Young, Eva

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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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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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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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Secker, Thomas

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

Arrington, Eva

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. One must fight one's way through before regaining one's original primal state. If one succeeds in the fight and reaches the goal, the enemy, namely the thoughts, will all subside in the Self and disappear entirely.

Maharshi, Ramana

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Brookner, Anita

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.

Buddha

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THINK. Think about your appearance, associations, actions, ambitions, accomplishment.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Learn to think like a winner. Think positive and visualize your strengths.

Braden, Vic

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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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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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We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how little we are able to convey! The phantom is through the mind and out of the window before we can lay salt on

Woolf, Virginia

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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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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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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Thoughts of themselves have no substance; let them arise and pass away unheeded. Thoughts will not take form of themselves, unless they are grasped by the attention; if they are ignored, there will be no appearing and no disappearing.

Ashvaghosha

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak