Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Hugo, Victor

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.

Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Secker, Thomas

As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

Buddha

Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

Kant, Immanuel

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. One must fight one's way through before regaining one's original primal state. If one succeeds in the fight and reaches the goal, the enemy, namely the thoughts, will all subside in the Self and disappear entirely.

Maharshi, Ramana

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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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It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.

Horton, Doug

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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 has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.

Robbins, Anthony

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Learn to think like a winner. Think positive and visualize your strengths.

Braden, Vic

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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

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

Allen, James

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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 labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Hugo, Victor

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Bourget, Paul

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We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.

Buddha

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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being. We are constantly reminded that the one superiority that man has over other animals is the ability to think. It is primarily our ability to think that sets us apart from other animals.

Lorayne, Harry

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.