Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Make not your thoughts you prisons.

- Shakespeare, William

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

Colton, Charles Caleb

I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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 forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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 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 I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books, They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Young, Eva

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Madwed, Sidney

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Arrington, Eva

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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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I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why thunder lasts longer than that which causes it, and why immediately on its creation the lightning becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Martin, Steve

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

Proverb, Italian

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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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We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world.

Buddha

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

Butterworth, Eric

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What is the hardest thing in the world? To think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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

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

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

Braden, Vic

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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You become what you think about.