Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

A man's what he thinks about all day long

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking.

Patton, George S.

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

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and of the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.

Proverb, Chinese

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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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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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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We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.

Twain, Mark

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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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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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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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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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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 minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Thoughts is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

Russell, Bertrand

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Think then act safely.

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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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Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.

Buddha

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Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Stevens, Wallace

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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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.

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

Byron, Lord

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A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

Bernanos, Georges

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Martin, Steve

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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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