Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Patton, George S.

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care aboutwhat you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

Vivekananda, Swami

We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Twain, Mark

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

Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

Fredrich

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The birthplace of success for each person is in his Inner-Consciousness. The Inner-Consciousness will use whatever it is given. If constructive thoughts are planted positive outcomes will be the result. Plant the seeds of failure and failure will follow.

Madwed, Sidney

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself thinking once or twice a week.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.

Taylor, Susan

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Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life [Matthew 6:27]

Bible

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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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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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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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Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth more than ruin more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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

Proverb, Italian

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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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Think success, don't think failure. At work, in your home, substitute success thinking for failure thinking. When you face a difficult situation, think, I'll win, not I'll probably lose. When you compete with someone else, think, I'm equal to the best, not I'm out-classed. When opportunity appears, think I can do it, never I can't. Let the master thought I-will-succeed dominate your thinking process. Thinking success conditions your mind to create plans that produce success. Thinking failure does the exact opposite. Failure thinking conditions the mind to think other thoughts that produce failure.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentialities and capabilities?

Dinsah, H.Jay

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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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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.

Cousins, Norman

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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

Rushdie, Salman

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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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Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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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

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De