Thoughts And Thinking Quotes

The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.

Robert H. Schuller

Inspirational, Positive, Dream

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Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius

Inspirational, Life, Change

"Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book IV, (3), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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The world we have created is a product of our thinking.

Albert Einstein

Motivational, Thinking, World

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Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.

Willie Nelson

Life, Change, Positive

FaceBook post by Willie Nelson from Oct 29, 2013

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

Henry Ford

Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

The High School Teacher, Vol. XI, 1935.

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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.

Will Durant

Honesty, Fear, Integrity

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Few minds wear out; more rust out.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Thinking, Curiosity, Mind

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We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Anais Nin

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

William James

Motivational, Inspiring, Attitude

"American Treasury, 1455 - 1955". Book by Clifton Fadimany, 1455 - 1955, 1955.

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No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

Voltaire

Inspirational, Education, Clever

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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

Marcus Aurelius

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), André Dacier, Thomas Gataker (1701). “The Emperor-Marcus Antonius: his conversation with himself. together with the preliminary discourse of the learned Gataker”

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Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become your actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character. Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.

Frank Jackson

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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At a certain age some people's minds close up; they live on their intellectual fat.

William Lyon Phelps

Thinking, People, Intellectual

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Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.

Howard Mumford Jones

Men, Thinking, Atheism

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Sometimes I think and other times I am.

Paul Valery

Thinking, Sometimes

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The trouble with most people is that they quit before they start.

Thomas A. Edison

Thinking, People, Quitting

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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

Soren Kierkegaard

Freedom, Thinking, People

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There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

William Shakespeare

Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [259]

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Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Norman Vincent Peale

Inspirational, Motivational, Change

Norman Vincent Peale (1970). “Norman Vincent Peale's treasury of courage and confidence”

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

George Bernard Shaw

Success, Stress, Ignorance

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What luck for rulers that men do not think.

Adolf Hitler

Work, School, Stupid People

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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

Edmund Burke

Reading, Book, Thinking

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Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

John F. Kennedy

Wisdom, Thinking, Government

Yale University Commencement Address, delivered 11 June 1962

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When you lose the power to laugh, you lose your power to think straight.

Jerome Lawrence

Laughter, Humor, Thinking

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Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

Plato

Life, Philosophical, Thinking

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