Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

When I'm getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say.

- Lincoln, Abraham

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

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

Voltaire

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Butler, Samuel

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You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.

Maharshi, Ramana

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Thought is, perhaps, the forerunner and even the mother of ideas, and ideas are the most powerful and the most useful things in the world.

Gardner, George

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

Horton, Doug

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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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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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I am not what I think. I am thinking what I think.

Butterworth, Eric

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and of the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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

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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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The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment and financial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking. Thought rules the world.

Murphy, Joseph Edward

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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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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.

Frost, Robert

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

Quarles, Francis

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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.

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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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Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Barzan, George

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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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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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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Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Confucius

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Allen, James

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.