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

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.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life [Matthew 6:27]

Bible

Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Byron, Lord

Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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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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Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.

Horton, Doug

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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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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Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.

Frost, Robert

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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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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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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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Some people study all their life, and at death they have learned everything except how to think.

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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

Rushdie, Salman

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Young, Eva

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.

Po, Huang

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I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why thunder lasts longer than that which causes it, and why immediately on its creation the lightning becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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

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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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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.

Paine, Thomas

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Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.

Eliot, George

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Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves from our senses and experience the world even less directly. We can think about our life, rather than thinking in our life. We can think about what we think about our life, and we can think about what we think about that. We can shift perceptual positions many times over.

Emerick, John J.