Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Rushdie, Salman

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Bourget, Paul

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.

Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Montale, Eugenio

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

Rushdie, Salman

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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

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

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.

Paine, Thomas

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It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.

Frye, Northrop

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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

Confucius

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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

Fredrich

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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It was at a particular moment in the history of my own rages that I saw the Western world conditioned by the images of Marx, Darwin and Freud; and Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western world. The simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.

Golding, William

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Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary of the talkers who talk.

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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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Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear may impede your progress. Remind yourself, as often as necessary, that you are a creature of God and have the power to achieve any dream by lifting up your thoughts. You can fly when you decide that you can. Never consider yourself defeated again. Let the vision in your heart be in your life's blueprint. Smile!

Mandino, Og

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The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo