Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Taylor, Susan

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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.

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Confucius

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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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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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 thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.

Po, Huang

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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What stops people in their tracks is a small mental packet of energy. It is called a thought. They think I can't.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

Einstein, Albert

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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

Young, Eva

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

Martin, Steve

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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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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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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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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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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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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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He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Madwed, Sidney

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure. Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.

Adams, Bryan

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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

Arrington, Eva

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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 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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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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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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A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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