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Thoughts and thinking

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

- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

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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

Do you suffer your thoughts to tamper with evil; and to dally with wrong-doing? If so; you are not sincere. God will regard your thoughts; for thoughts are heard in heaven. If you willingly sin in thought; if you are base and guilty there; because you think that no eye will see your thoughts; the guilt and baseness will sooner or later break into the outlets of word and deed -- from thought to wish -- from wish to purpose -- from purpose to word -- from word to act -- from act to habit -- from delight in the imagination to consent in the will -- from deed to repeated transgression; such is the genesis of sin.

Farrar, Frederick

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.

Frost, Robert

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.

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Braden, Vic

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When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books, They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Young, Eva

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

Stevens, Wallace

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Einstein, Albert

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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Hill, Napoleon

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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 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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It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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

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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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Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.

Horton, Doug

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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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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

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin with doubts, they will end in certainties.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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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

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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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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed.

May, Louise

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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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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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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