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Thoughts and thinking

You become what you think about.

- Nightingale, Earl

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Voltaire

Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentialities and capabilities?

Dinsah, H.Jay

For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

Byron, Lord

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

Stevens, Wallace

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

May, Louise

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

Po, Huang

Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself thinking once or twice a week.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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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Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.

Russell, Bertrand

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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Rushdie, Salman

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

Montale, Eugenio

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We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.

Buddha

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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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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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

Buddha

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Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Horton, Doug

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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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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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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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Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin with doubts, they will end in certainties.

Bacon, Francis

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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

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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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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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He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.

Bentham, Jeremy