Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.

Proverb, Italian

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

Madwed, Sidney

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Think twice before you speak, then say it to yourself first.

Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.

Quarles, Francis

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Think then act safely.

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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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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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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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

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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's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.

Russell, Bertrand

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The thought pattern characteristic of the right brain lends itself to the formation of original ideas, insights, discoveries. We might describe it as the kind of thought prevalent in early childhood, when everything is new and everything has meaning. If you have ever walked along a beach and suddenly stopped to pick up a piece of driftwood because it looked to you like a leaping impala or a troll, you know the feeling of pleasure that comes from the sudden recognition of a form. Your Design mind (right brain) has perceived connections and had made a pattern of meaning. It takes logical, rational acts and facts of the world you know, the snippets of your experience, the bits and pieces of your language capabilities, and perceives connections, patterns, and relationships in them.

Rico, Gabriele Lusser

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Far more numerous are those as such; who think too little and talk too much.

Dryden, John

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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The birthplace of success for each person is in his Inner-Consciousness. The Inner-Consciousness will use whatever it is given. If constructive thoughts are planted positive outcomes will be the result. Plant the seeds of failure and failure will follow.

Madwed, Sidney

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

Vivekananda, Swami

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Horton, Doug

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

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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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.

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

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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