Thoughts And Thinking Quotes

• 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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  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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• Few minds wear out; more rust out.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Thinking, Curiosity, Mind

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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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  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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• 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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• 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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• All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wise, Wisdom, Time

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

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• Nurture your mind with great thoughts

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Happiness, Hero, Inspiration

  Benjamin Disraeli (1844). “Coningsby: Or, The New Generation”, p.111, London : H. Colburn

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• No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Education, Clever

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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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• No amount of energy will take the place of thought.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Energy, Amount

  Henry Van Dyke (2009). “Joy & Power: Three Messages with One Meaning”, p.51, The Floating Press

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• If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.

  Clarence Darrow

  Inspirational, Laughter, Attitude

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

  Robert H. Schuller

  Inspirational, Positive, Dream

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• You and I are not what we eat; we are what we think.

  Walter Inglis Anderson

  Positive, Thinking, Power Of Thought

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  Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

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• Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.

  Alan Alda

  Change, Teaching, Humility

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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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• Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Gene Griessman, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “The Words Lincoln Lived By: 52 Timeless Principles to Light Your Path”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.163, Vintage

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• All that we are is the result of what we have thought; what we think we become.

  Gautama Buddha

  Karma, Buddhist, Attitude

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• Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man. But they don't bite everybody.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Men, Thinking, Make You Think

  "Unkempt Thoughts". Book by Stanisław Jerzy Lec, translated by Jacek Galazka, 1962.

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  Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

  Zig Ziglar

  Positive, Thinking Of You, Attitude

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Dec 08, 2014

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• It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  Attributed to Aristotle in "Religion and the Pursuit of Truth" by Lowell Lindsay Bennion, p. 52, 1959.

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