Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.

- Quarles, Francis

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

When I'm getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say.

Lincoln, Abraham

Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

What stops people in their tracks is a small mental packet of energy. It is called a thought. They think I can't.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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

Stevens, Wallace

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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

Allen, James

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

Bourget, Paul

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

Forster, Edward M.

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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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Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life [Matthew 6:27]

Bible

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

Martin, Steve

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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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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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

Einstein, Albert

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Learn to think like a winner. Think positive and visualize your strengths.

Braden, Vic

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

Maharshi, Ramana

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

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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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

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When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which is no way correspond to our real thoughts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves from our senses and experience the world even less directly. We can think about our life, rather than thinking in our life. We can think about what we think about our life, and we can think about what we think about that. We can shift perceptual positions many times over.

Emerick, John J.

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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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The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentialities and capabilities?

Dinsah, H.Jay

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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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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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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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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

Faber, Frederick W.