Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

Byron, Lord

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

Stevens, Wallace

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

Allen, James

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

Arrington, Eva

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

Nightingale, Earl

Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being. We are constantly reminded that the one superiority that man has over other animals is the ability to think. It is primarily our ability to think that sets us apart from other animals.

Lorayne, Harry

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

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

Steere, Bishop

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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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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Frost, Robert

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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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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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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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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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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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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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He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.

Bentham, Jeremy

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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THINK. Think about your appearance, associations, actions, ambitions, accomplishment.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

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

Fredrich

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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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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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

Rushdie, Salman

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

Chapman, John Jay

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To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.

Young, Eva

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