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Thoughts and thinking

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

- Aurelius, Marcus

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

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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

If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.

Barzan, George

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Patton, George S.

In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought).

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.

Thoreau, Henry David

As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.

Cousins, Norman

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Young, Eva

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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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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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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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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.

Buddha

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.

Po, Huang

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What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

Kant, Immanuel

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. One must fight one's way through before regaining one's original primal state. If one succeeds in the fight and reaches the goal, the enemy, namely the thoughts, will all subside in the Self and disappear entirely.

Maharshi, Ramana

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A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.

Proverb, Italian

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Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life [Matthew 6:27]

Bible

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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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I have known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, but never had a thought.

Mizner, Wilson

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

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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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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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It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Russell, Bertrand

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Kempis, Thomas

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The revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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.