Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Aurelius, Marcus

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

When I'm getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Watson, Thomas J.

Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Jefferson, Thomas

One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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

Arrington, Eva

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Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.

Robbins, Anthony

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Thoughts of themselves have no substance; let them arise and pass away unheeded. Thoughts will not take form of themselves, unless they are grasped by the attention; if they are ignored, there will be no appearing and no disappearing.

Ashvaghosha

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

Bourget, Paul

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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

Barzan, George

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Huxley, Aldous

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Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

Montale, Eugenio

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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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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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The reason there are so few good talkers in public is that there are so few thinkers in private.

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Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples don't count on harvesting golden Delicious .

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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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Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Think then act safely.

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The revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Paine, Thomas

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

Faber, Frederick W.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is perilous.

Confucius

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If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Madwed, Sidney

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Frost, Robert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo