Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

- Pascal, Blaise

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

How you look at a situation is very important, for how you think about a problem may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. When you get discouraged or depressed, try changing your attitude from negative to positive and see how life can change for you. Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it -- you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory.

Harris, Franco

To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

Bernanos, Georges

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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.

Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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Think then act safely.

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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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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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 wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

Byron, Lord

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Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.

Paz, Octavio

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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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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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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He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Voltaire

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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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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

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Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Huxley, Aldous

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Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself thinking once or twice a week.

Shaw, George Bernard