Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

- Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.

Maharshi, Ramana

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

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

Kettering, Charles F.

If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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The reason there are so few good talkers in public is that there are so few thinkers in private.

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

Madwed, Sidney

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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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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Think success, don't think failure. At work, in your home, substitute success thinking for failure thinking. When you face a difficult situation, think, I'll win, not I'll probably lose. When you compete with someone else, think, I'm equal to the best, not I'm out-classed. When opportunity appears, think I can do it, never I can't. Let the master thought I-will-succeed dominate your thinking process. Thinking success conditions your mind to create plans that produce success. Thinking failure does the exact opposite. Failure thinking conditions the mind to think other thoughts that produce failure.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Arrington, Eva

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

Frost, Robert

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

Byron, Lord

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Think then act safely.

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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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A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Nightingale, Earl

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All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Allen, James

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.

Thales of Miletus

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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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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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I am not what I think. I am thinking what I think.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Rushdie, Salman

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When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Paine, Thomas

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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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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It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear may impede your progress. Remind yourself, as often as necessary, that you are a creature of God and have the power to achieve any dream by lifting up your thoughts. You can fly when you decide that you can. Never consider yourself defeated again. Let the vision in your heart be in your life's blueprint. Smile!

Mandino, Og

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

Horton, Doug