Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

- Kierkegaard, S°ren

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Horton, Doug

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

Proverb, Italian

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Paine, Thomas

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

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

Steere, Bishop

Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.

Fleischer, Lenore

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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

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Think then act safely.

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

Young, Eva

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A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever.

Secker, Thomas

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

Einstein, Albert

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

Dryden, John

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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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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

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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

Hugo, Victor

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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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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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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Brookner, Anita

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

Allen, James

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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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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 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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Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.

Thoreau, Henry David

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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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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Every thought you entertain is a force that goes out, and every thought comes back laden with its kind.

Trine, Ralph Waldo