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Thoughts and thinking

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

- Madwed, Sidney

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

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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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

Thoughts is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Stevens, Wallace

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Every thought you entertain is a force that goes out, and every thought comes back laden with its kind.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.

Horton, Doug

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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Huxley, Aldous

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Rushdie, Salman

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Think success, don't think failure. At work, in your home, substitute success thinking for failure thinking. When you face a difficult situation, think, I'll win, not I'll probably lose. When you compete with someone else, think, I'm equal to the best, not I'm out-classed. When opportunity appears, think I can do it, never I can't. Let the master thought I-will-succeed dominate your thinking process. Thinking success conditions your mind to create plans that produce success. Thinking failure does the exact opposite. Failure thinking conditions the mind to think other thoughts that produce failure.

Schwartz, David J.

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They use thought only to justify their injustices, and speech only to disguise their thoughts.

Voltaire

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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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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.

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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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 problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.

Duranty, Walter

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If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking.

Patton, George S.

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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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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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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

Brookner, Anita

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Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.

Eliot, George

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Think then act safely.

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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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When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Paine, Thomas

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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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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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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond