Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

- Kierkegaard, S°ren

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

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

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

Huxley, Aldous

Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

Montale, Eugenio

Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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

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 is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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

Hugo, Victor

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Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

Faber, Frederick W.

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When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which is no way correspond to our real thoughts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.

Stevens, Wallace

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It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed.

May, Louise

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Do you suffer your thoughts to tamper with evil; and to dally with wrong-doing? If so; you are not sincere. God will regard your thoughts; for thoughts are heard in heaven. If you willingly sin in thought; if you are base and guilty there; because you think that no eye will see your thoughts; the guilt and baseness will sooner or later break into the outlets of word and deed -- from thought to wish -- from wish to purpose -- from purpose to word -- from word to act -- from act to habit -- from delight in the imagination to consent in the will -- from deed to repeated transgression; such is the genesis of sin.

Farrar, Frederick

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Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is perilous.

Confucius

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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

Rushdie, Salman

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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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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.

Barzan, George

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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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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Chapman, John Jay

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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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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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

Secker, Thomas

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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Either you think -- or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott