Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Horton, Doug

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Halifax, Edward F.

The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.

Duranty, Walter

Do not think that what your thoughts dwell upon is of no matter. Your thoughts are making you.

Steere, Bishop

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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'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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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How you look at a situation is very important, for how you think about a problem may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. When you get discouraged or depressed, try changing your attitude from negative to positive and see how life can change for you. Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it -- you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory.

Harris, Franco

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Tell your boss what you think of him and the truth shall set you free.

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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What stops people in their tracks is a small mental packet of energy. It is called a thought. They think I can't.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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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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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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.

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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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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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There is a big difference between thinking: I'm in a relationship and something's wrong. Therefore something must be wrong with the relationship. and thinking I'm in a relationship and we've got problems. This is evidence that you are different than me.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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

Bourget, Paul

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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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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought).

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care aboutwhat you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

Vivekananda, Swami