Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Butterworth, Eric

We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.

Twain, Mark

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

Allen, James

No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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

I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Braden, Vic

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

Voltaire

Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it. and never destroy it.

Kempis, Thomas

10.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

Baruch, Bernard M.

12.

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

13.

Do not think that what your thoughts dwell upon is of no matter. Your thoughts are making you.

Steere, Bishop

14.

Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

16.

A man of meditation is happy, not for an hour or a day, but quite round the circle of all his years.

Taylor, Isaac

17.

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

18.

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

19.

If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

20.

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

May, Louise

21.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

22.

How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.

Thoreau, Henry David

23.

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

24.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Hill, Napoleon

25.

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

26.

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

Hugo, Victor

27.

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

Buddha

28.

Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

Eliot, George

29.

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

Dryden, John

30.

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

31.

The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

Horton, Doug

32.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

33.

Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure. Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.

Adams, Bryan

34.

Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

35.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

36.

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

37.

One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

38.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

41.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

42.

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

43.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

44.

If you make people think they're thinking they'll love you: but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

Marquis, Don

45.

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

46.

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

47.

It was at a particular moment in the history of my own rages that I saw the Western world conditioned by the images of Marx, Darwin and Freud; and Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western world. The simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.

Golding, William

48.

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

Stevens, Wallace

49.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

50.

To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.

Young, Eva