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

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

Buddha

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

Russell, Bertrand

I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Voltaire

I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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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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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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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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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

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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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Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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 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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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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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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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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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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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

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

Patton, George S.

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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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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.

Fleischer, Lenore

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The thought pattern characteristic of the right brain lends itself to the formation of original ideas, insights, discoveries. We might describe it as the kind of thought prevalent in early childhood, when everything is new and everything has meaning. If you have ever walked along a beach and suddenly stopped to pick up a piece of driftwood because it looked to you like a leaping impala or a troll, you know the feeling of pleasure that comes from the sudden recognition of a form. Your Design mind (right brain) has perceived connections and had made a pattern of meaning. It takes logical, rational acts and facts of the world you know, the snippets of your experience, the bits and pieces of your language capabilities, and perceives connections, patterns, and relationships in them.

Rico, Gabriele Lusser

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No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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It was at a particular moment in the history of my own rages that I saw the Western world conditioned by the images of Marx, Darwin and Freud; and Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western world. The simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.

Golding, William

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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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Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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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.

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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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We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care aboutwhat you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

Vivekananda, Swami

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

Bible

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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