Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

- Faber, Frederick W.

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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

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

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

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.

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

Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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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 how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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Thinking and Thought: Thoughts are funny little things, They can make paupers or make kings.

Madwed, Sidney

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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When someone you greatly admire and respect appears to be thinking deep thoughts, they are probably thinking about lunch.

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Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

Fredrich

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Think then act safely.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Mizner, Wilson

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Every thought you entertain is a force that goes out, and every thought comes back laden with its kind.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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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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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

Eliot, George

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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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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