Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

You become what you think about.

- 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

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Frost, Robert

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Madwed, Sidney

As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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

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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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

Montale, Eugenio

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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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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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Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Voltaire

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The reason there are so few good talkers in public is that there are so few thinkers in private.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Allen, James

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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

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

Buddha

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Steere, Bishop

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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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

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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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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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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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