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Thoughts and thinking

Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it. and never destroy it.

- Kempis, Thomas

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

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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.

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

How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment and financial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking. Thought rules the world.

Murphy, Joseph Edward

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

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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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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How you look at a situation is very important, for how you think about a problem may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. When you get discouraged or depressed, try changing your attitude from negative to positive and see how life can change for you. Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it -- you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory.

Harris, Franco

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?

Forster, Edward M.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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A man of meditation is happy, not for an hour or a day, but quite round the circle of all his years.

Taylor, Isaac

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

Rushdie, Salman

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When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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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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As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

Buddha

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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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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Butler, Samuel

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We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Confucius

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

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Far more numerous are those as such; who think too little and talk too much.

Dryden, John

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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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