Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

- King Jr. Martin Luther

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Rushdie, Salman

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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

A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

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

10.

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

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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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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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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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I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

Martin, Steve

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If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking.

Patton, George S.

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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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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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They use thought only to justify their injustices, and speech only to disguise their thoughts.

Voltaire

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

Chapman, John Jay

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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

Confucius

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

Horton, Doug

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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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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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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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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

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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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Butler, Samuel

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Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life [Matthew 6:27]

Bible

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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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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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To know the true reality of yourself, you must be aware not only of your conscious thoughts, but also of your unconscious prejudices, bias and habits.