Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

- Twain, Mark

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought).

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

The birth of thought in the depths of the spirit, the shaping and ordering of it into periods, the translation into signs, and above all the transference of it from one spirit to another, the communication that is, if only for an instant, the meeting of two beings, with the unforeseeable consequences that such a meeting always causes, is in fact a miracle; except that the moment one stops to think about it one can't even write a letter.

Satta, Salvatore

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

Thought is, perhaps, the forerunner and even the mother of ideas, and ideas are the most powerful and the most useful things in the world.

Gardner, George

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Dryden, John

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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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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

Stevens, Wallace

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

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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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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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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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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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I have known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, but never had a thought.

Mizner, Wilson

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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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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.

Barzan, George

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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

Young, Eva

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.

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

Po, Huang

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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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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David