Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.

- Nightingale, Earl

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

Bourget, Paul

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

Newton, Sir Isaac

Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.

Horton, Doug

The birthplace of success for each person is in his Inner-Consciousness. The Inner-Consciousness will use whatever it is given. If constructive thoughts are planted positive outcomes will be the result. Plant the seeds of failure and failure will follow.

Madwed, Sidney

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.

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

Dryden, John

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.

Paine, Thomas

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

Twain, Mark

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why thunder lasts longer than that which causes it, and why immediately on its creation the lightning becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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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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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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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 then act safely.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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

Young, Eva

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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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The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.

Proverb, Italian

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

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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Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.

Buddha

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When someone you greatly admire and respect appears to be thinking deep thoughts, they are probably thinking about lunch.

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Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Anderson, Hans Christian