Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.

- Robbins, Anthony

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Martin, Steve

Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is perilous.

Confucius

Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

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

Dryden, John

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

Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

Thoreau, Henry David

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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To know the true reality of yourself, you must be aware not only of your conscious thoughts, but also of your unconscious prejudices, bias and habits.

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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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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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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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Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.

Horton, Doug

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

Horton, Doug

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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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When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.

Po, Huang

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Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.

Allen, James

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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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Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

Fredrich

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

Quarles, Francis

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You live with your thoughts -- so be careful what they are.

Arrington, Eva

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The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

Horton, Doug

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth more than ruin more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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

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Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.

Horton, Doug

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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Hugo, Victor

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

Halifax, Edward F.

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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

Bible

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Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Steere, Bishop

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The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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