Our Thoughts Quotes - Page 8

• The biggest lesson I have learned is the stupendous importance of what we think. If I knew what you think, I would know what you are, for your thoughts make you what you are; by changing our thoughts, we can change our lives.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Thinking, Lessons

  Dale Carnegie (2012). “The Leader In You”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

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• Pardon, we beseech Thee, all our offences of omission and commission; and grant that in all our thoughts, words, and actions, we may conform to Thy known will manifested in our consciences, and in the revelations of Jesus Christ our Saviour.

  Timothy Pickering

  Jesus, Omission, May

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• We are given up to those gods, those monsters, those giants, — our thoughts.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Hands, Monsters

  "Ninety-Three: A Historical Novel".

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• [Providences] often puzzle and entangle our thoughts, but bring them to the Word, and your duty will be quickly manifested. "Until I went into the sanctuary of God, then understood I their end" (Ps. 73:17). And not only their end, but his own duty, to be quiet in an afflicted condition and not envy their prosperity.

  John Flavel

  Christian, Envy, Sanctuary

  John flavel, Rev Terry Kulakowski (2017). “The Mystery of Providence”, p.142, Lulu.com

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• The path to realizing our dreams is never smooth. Invariably we encounter bends, turns, detours, and roadblocks. Sometimes our frustrations make us want to give up the journey, but frustrations signal the need to pause for introspection and redirection. Frustrations are promptings from God to search our souls even more deeply to find our power and purpose, and to live it. Frustrations tell us that our thoughts and actions are not yet in harmony with our desires.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Dream, Giving Up, Frustration

  Susan L. Taylor (2010). “Lessons in Living”, p.64, Anchor

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• If we understood the power of our thoughts, we would guard them more closely. If we understood the awesome power of our words, we would prefer silence to almost anything negative. In our thoughts and words we create our own weaknesses and our own strengths. Our limitations and joys begin in our hearts. We can always replace negative with positive.

  Betty Eadie

  Positive, Strength, Yoga

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• It is striking how our language reveals the visual nature of our thoughts about the future state of affairs. When we invent the future, we try to get a mental picture of what things will be like long before we have begun the journey. Visions are our windows on the world of tomorrow.

  James M. Kouzes

  Communication, Journey, Long

  James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner (1987). “The leadership challenge: how to get extraordinary things done in organizations”, Jossey-Bass, 1988

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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.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Selfless Giving

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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. If a man speaks or acts with an impure mind, suffering will follow him as the wheel of the cart follows the beast that draws the cart. If a man speaks or acts with a pure mind, joy follows him as his own shadow.

  Gautama Buddha

  Men, Yesterday, Meditation

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• How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

  Plato

  Inspirational, Dream, Philosophical

  Plato “Writings of Plato”, Lulu.com

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• Human beings are emotional amoral egoists, driven above all by emotional self-interest. All of our thoughts, beliefs and motivations are neurochemically mediated, some predetermined for survival, others alterable.

  Nayef Al-Rodhan

  Motivation, Emotional, Self

  "Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man: A Philosophy of History and Civilisational Triumph". Book by Nayef Al-Rodhan, 2009.

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• Unless we're very intentional about meditating on these truths [that show God's love], they slip from our thoughts like misty dreams that evaporate in the morning light. That's why Luther said we must take heed then, to embrace...the love and kindness of God...[and to] daily excercise [our] faith therein, entertain no doubt of God's love and kindness.

  Elyse Fitzpatrick

  Dream, Morning, Kindness

  Elyse M. Fitzpatrick “Because He Loves Me: How Christ Transforms Our Daily Life”, Crossway

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• An old man said, We are not condemned because of our thoughts that enter us, but because we use our thoughts badly; our thoughts can cause us either to suffer shipwreck or to be crowned.

  Poemen

  Men, Suffering, Use

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• We do not truly own our thoughts or experiences until we have negotiated them with ourselvesand for this writing is the prime medium.

  Carl Bereiter

  Education, Reading, Writing

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• We are what we think, and all that we are rises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. Speak and act with a pure mind and happiness will follow.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Thinking, Mind

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• Pictures rule, but words define, explain, express, direct, and hold together our thoughts and what we know.

  Don Watson

  Together, Language, Translations

  Don Watson (2003). “Death sentence: the decay of public language”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• Whatever we focus our attention on is what will dominate our thoughts (Proverbs 23:7). If our thoughts are dominated by the things of this world then we are going to get worldly results in our lives. We need to focus on God to get godly results.

  Andrew Wommack

  Godly, Focus, Needs

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• When we see the world through our thoughts, we stop experiencing life as it really is and others as they really are. When I have a thought about you, that’s something I’ve created. I’ve turned you into an idea. In a certain sense, if I have an idea about you that I believe, I’ve degraded you. I’ve made you into something very small. This is the way of human beings, this is what we do to each other.

  Adyashanti

  Believe, Ideas, World

  Adyashanti (2011). “Falling into Grace: Insights on the End of Suffering”, p.8, Sounds True

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• Fixing our thoughts on Jesus requires time, for true reflection cannot happen with a glance. No one can see the beauty of the country if he hurries through it on the interstate.

  R. Kent Hughes

  Christian, Country, Jesus

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• In reality, we are still children. We want to find a playmate for our thoughts and feelings.

  Wilhelm Stekel

  Children, Reality, Feelings

  Wilhelm Stekel (2014). “The Depths of the Soul (Psychology Revivals): Psycho-Analytical Studies”, p.206, Routledge

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• Everywhere we look, the world urges us to turn on the radio or TV, to make a phone call, to see a movie. Many of us fear, worry, that if left alone with our thoughts and feelings, we may discover that we do not make very good company for ourselves.

  James O. Freedman

  Fear, Phones, Worry

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• It was with horror that I learned of the abominable terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington in which so many innocent people have lost their lives. My government staunchly condemns these acts of terrorism. The German people are at the side of the United States of America in this difficult hour. I wish to express my deep-felt condolences and complete solidarity to you and the American people. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the victims and their families.

  Gerhard Schroder

  New York, Prayer, Condolences

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• An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past

  Pierre Corneille

  Past, Destiny, Mirrors

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• Even as water carves monuments of stone, so do our thoughts shape our character.

  Hugh B. Brown

  Inspirational, Character, Water

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• For many of us, conversion is an ongoing process and not a onetime event that results from a powerful or dramatic experience. Line upon line and precept upon precept, gradually and almost imperceptibly, our motives, our thoughts, our words, and our deeds become aligned with the will of God. Conversion unto the Lord requires both persistence and patience.

  David A. Bednar

  Powerful, Persistence, Deeds

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