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Thoughts and thinking

Make not your thoughts you prisons.

- Shakespeare, William

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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.

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care aboutwhat you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

Vivekananda, Swami

No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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

The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

Some people study all their life, and at death they have learned everything except how to think.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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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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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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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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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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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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Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.

Quarles, Francis

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.

Robbins, Anthony

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Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.

Thales of Miletus

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Stevens, Wallace

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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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.

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

Taylor, Susan

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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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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

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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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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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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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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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, 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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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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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Voltaire