Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.

- Peale, Norman Vincent

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Paine, Thomas

We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world.

Buddha

In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Madwed, Sidney

Some people study all their life, and at death they have learned everything except how to think.

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

Allen, James

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

Rushdie, Salman

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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The revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Do you suffer your thoughts to tamper with evil; and to dally with wrong-doing? If so; you are not sincere. God will regard your thoughts; for thoughts are heard in heaven. If you willingly sin in thought; if you are base and guilty there; because you think that no eye will see your thoughts; the guilt and baseness will sooner or later break into the outlets of word and deed -- from thought to wish -- from wish to purpose -- from purpose to word -- from word to act -- from act to habit -- from delight in the imagination to consent in the will -- from deed to repeated transgression; such is the genesis of sin.

Farrar, Frederick

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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Every thought you entertain is a force that goes out, and every thought comes back laden with its kind.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Frost, Robert

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Patton, George S.

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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

Taylor, Isaac

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

Einstein, Albert

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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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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I have known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, but never had a thought.

Mizner, Wilson

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The birth of thought in the depths of the spirit, the shaping and ordering of it into periods, the translation into signs, and above all the transference of it from one spirit to another, the communication that is, if only for an instant, the meeting of two beings, with the unforeseeable consequences that such a meeting always causes, is in fact a miracle; except that the moment one stops to think about it one can't even write a letter.

Satta, Salvatore

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Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.

Thales of Miletus

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

Chapman, John Jay

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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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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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We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.

Cousins, Norman

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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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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Dryden, John

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.