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Thoughts and thinking

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

- Vivekananda, Swami

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

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

Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.

Fleischer, Lenore

Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.

Allen, James

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

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

Young, Eva

Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.

Paz, Octavio

Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Rushdie, Salman

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Huxley, Aldous

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Patton, George S.

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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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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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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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There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.

Chapman, John Jay

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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

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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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Think twice before you speak, then say it to yourself first.

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Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

Fredrich

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

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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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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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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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If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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

Hugo, Victor

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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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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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Proverb, Italian

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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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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Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature; but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapor, a drop of water is enough to kill him. But even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows nothing of this.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Thoreau, Henry David