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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.
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Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.
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A man is literally what he thinks
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All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.
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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.
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You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
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Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.
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It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.
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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.
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You live with your thoughts -- so be careful what they are.
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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.
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A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.
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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
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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.
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No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.
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If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.
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No matter how hard you work for success if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.
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The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.
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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.
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A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.
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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]
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Think twice before you speak to a friend in need.
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One thought fills immensity.
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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.
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The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.
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Learn to think like a winner. Think positive and visualize your strengths.
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Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.
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Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.
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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.
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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.
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As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.
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All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.
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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.
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We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world.
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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
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I am not what I think. I am thinking what I think.
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For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.
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The power of thought, the magic of the mind.
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Thought is the parent of the deed.
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Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, --till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.
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There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.
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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.
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Man is what he believes.
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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To think is to practice brain chemistry.
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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
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I thought so hard I got a headache.
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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.
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Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is perilous.
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We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.
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I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why thunder lasts longer than that which causes it, and why immediately on its creation the lightning becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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I think therefore I am.
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The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think -- rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men.
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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?
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Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
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Far more numerous are those as such; who think to little and talk to much.
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The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.
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I think and that is all that I am.
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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.
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There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.
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It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
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We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
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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.
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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.
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Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.
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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.
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What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.
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If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.
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Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.
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Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.
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The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.
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The revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
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The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.
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There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.
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Thought makes every thing fit for use.
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To think is to act.
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A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking.
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A man's what he thinks about all day long
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We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.
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Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
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