Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Maharshi, Ramana

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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.

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

Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary of the talkers who talk.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Horton, Doug

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Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever, is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things. [Philippians 4:8]

Bible

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Thoughts is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

Russell, Bertrand

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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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

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.

Buddha

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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.

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What is the hardest thing in the world? To think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.

Horton, Doug

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

Hugo, Victor

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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

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When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.

Po, Huang

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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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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Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.

Taylor, Susan

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

Stevens, Wallace

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In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin with doubts, they will end in certainties.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?

Forster, Edward M.

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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

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Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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THINK. Think about your appearance, associations, actions, ambitions, accomplishment.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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