Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Horton, Doug

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Hugo, Victor

Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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.

A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Secker, Thomas

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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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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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Thought is, perhaps, the forerunner and even the mother of ideas, and ideas are the most powerful and the most useful things in the world.

Gardner, George

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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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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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We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.

Cousins, Norman

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

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Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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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 sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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Thoughts is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

Russell, Bertrand

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.

Twain, Mark

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.

Chapman, John Jay

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Horton, Doug

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