Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Russell, Bertrand

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

I am not what I think. I am thinking what I think.

Butterworth, Eric

Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Butler, Samuel

Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Shaw, George Bernard

You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Madwed, Sidney

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Fredrich

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

Po, Huang

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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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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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The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.

Duranty, Walter

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Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

Brookner, Anita

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how little we are able to convey! The phantom is through the mind and out of the window before we can lay salt on

Woolf, Virginia

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

Voltaire

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Bourget, Paul

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

Braden, Vic