Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Steere, Bishop

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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

Learn to think like a winner. Think positive and visualize your strengths.

Braden, Vic

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

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

Bible

When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which is no way correspond to our real thoughts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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

Young, Eva

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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

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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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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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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Confucius

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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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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Montale, Eugenio

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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Steere, Bishop

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.

Chapman, John Jay

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther