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Thoughts and thinking

Make not your thoughts you prisons.

- Shakespeare, William

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

When someone you greatly admire and respect appears to be thinking deep thoughts, they are probably thinking about lunch.

A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Voltaire

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Allen, James

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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

May, Louise

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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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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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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Rushdie, Salman

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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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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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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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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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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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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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If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

Pascal, Blaise

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The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

Horton, Doug

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

Young, Eva

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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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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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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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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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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.

Horton, Doug

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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THINK. Think about your appearance, associations, actions, ambitions, accomplishment.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves from our senses and experience the world even less directly. We can think about our life, rather than thinking in our life. We can think about what we think about our life, and we can think about what we think about that. We can shift perceptual positions many times over.

Emerick, John J.

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Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

Eliot, George

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Madwed, Sidney

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo