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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON THOUGHTS 3
What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.
Earl Nightingale (1921-1989, American radio announcer, author, motivator, speaker)
You become what you think about.
Earl Nightingale (1921-1989, American radio announcer, author, motivator, speaker)
It is the mind that wins or loses.
Nepalese Proverb
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.
Thomas Paine (1737-1809, Anglo-American political theorist, writer)
When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
Thomas Paine (1737-1809, Anglo-American political theorist, writer)
Thinking is heavily endorsed.
Mal Pancoast
All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
Charles H. Parkhurst (1842-1933, American clergyman, reformer)
If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662, French scientist, religious philosopher)
Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662, French scientist, religious philosopher)
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.
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662, French scientist, religious philosopher)
Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662, French scientist, religious philosopher)
If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking.
George S. Patton (1885-1945, American army general during World War II)
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.
Octavio Paz (1914-1998, Mexican poet, essayist)
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs."
Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993, American Christian reformed pastor, speaker, author)
The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.
Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993, American Christian reformed pastor, speaker, author)
Thinking too much about how you're doing when you're doing is disastrous.
Harvey Penick (1904-, American golfer)
Man, being made reasonable, and so a thinking creature, there is nothing more worthy of his being than the right direction and employment of his thoughts; since upon this depends both his usefulness to the public, and his own present and future benefit in all respects.
William Penn (1644-1718, British religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania)
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
Peace Pilgrim (1908-1981, American peace activist)
There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: have they brought you inner peace? If they have not, there is something wrong with them -- so keep seeking! If what you do has brought you inner peace, stay with what you believe is right.
Peace Pilgrim (1908-1981, American peace activist)
Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself.
Plato (BC 427?-347?, Greek philosopher)
When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.
Huang Po
That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1845, American poet, critic, short-story writer)
Everyone thinks his own thoughts are best.
Afghani Proverb
A timely no beats a hasty yes.
Brazilian Proverb
He who thinks too much about every step he takes will always stay on one leg.
Chinese Proverb (Sayings of Chinese origin)
Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and of the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.
Chinese Proverb (Sayings of Chinese origin)
A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.
Italian Proverb (Sayings of Italian origin)
The distance between heaven and earth is no greater than one thought.
Mongolian Proverb
Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.
Francis Quarles (1592-1644, British poet)
The thought pattern characteristic of the right brain lends itself to the formation of original ideas, insights, discoveries. We might describe it as the kind of thought prevalent in early childhood, when everything is new and everything has meaning. If you have ever walked along a beach and suddenly stopped to pick up a piece of driftwood because it looked to you like a leaping impala or a troll, you know the feeling of pleasure that comes from the sudden recognition of a form. Your Design mind (right brain) has perceived connections and had made a pattern of meaning. It takes logical, rational acts and facts of the world you know, the snippets of your experience, the bits and pieces of your language capabilities, and perceives connections, patterns, and relationships in them.
Gabriele Lusser Rico
Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.
Anthony Robbins (1960-, American author, speaker, peak performance expert, coach) Author's website: www.anthonyrobbins.com
We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.
James H. Robinson (American businessman, chairman of American express)
To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.
Jean Rostand (1894-1977, French biologist, writer)
Do not sit long with a sad friend. When you go to a garden do you look at the weeds? Spend more time with the roses and jasmines.
Jalal-Uddin Rumi (1207-1273, Persian sufi, mystic poet)
When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.
Salman Rushdie (1948-, Indian-born British author)
Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970, British philosopher, mathematician, essayist)
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.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970, British philosopher, mathematician, essayist)
Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970, British philosopher, mathematician, essayist)
Thoughts is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970, British philosopher, mathematician, essayist)
All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.
George Santayana (1863-1952, American philosopher, poet)
It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)
If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared for.
Florence Scovel Shinn (1876-1953, American artist, metaphysics teacher, author)
The birth of thought in the depths of the spirit, the shaping and ordering of it into periods, the translation into signs, and above all the transference of it from one spirit to another, the communication that is, if only for an instant, the meeting of two beings, with the unforeseeable consequences that such a meeting always causes, is in fact a miracle; except that the moment one stops to think about it one can't even write a letter.
Salvatore Satta (1902-1975, Italian jurist, novelist)
Who reflects too much will accomplish little.
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller (1759-1805, German dramatist, poet, historian)
Who reflects too much will accomplish little.
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller (1759-1805, German dramatist, poet, historian)
There is nothing that is too obvious of an absurdity to be firmly planted in the human head as long as you begin to instill before the age of five by constantly repeating it with an air of great seriousness.
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860, German philosopher)
Think success, don't think failure. At work, in your home, substitute success thinking for failure thinking. When you face a difficult situation, think, "I'll win," not "I'll probably lose." When you compete with someone else, think, "I'm equal to the best," not "I'm out-classed." When opportunity appears, think "I can do it," never "I can't. Let the master thought "I-will-succeed" dominate your thinking process. Thinking success conditions your mind to create plans that produce success. Thinking failure does the exact opposite. Failure thinking conditions the mind to think other thoughts that produce failure.
David J. Schwartz (American trainer, author of "The Magic of Thinking Big")
Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever.
Thomas Secker
Make not your thoughts your prisons.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)
Thought is free.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself thinking once or twice a week.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)
I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)
What stops people in their tracks is a small mental packet of energy. It is called a thought. They think "I can't."
Rex Steven Sikes (American trainer, peak performance expert)
One of the most devastating experiences in human life is disillusionment.
Art Sisson
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
B(urrhus) F(rederic) Skinner (1904-1990, American psychologist)
To find yourself, think for yourself.
Socrates (BC 469-399, Greek philosopher of Athens)
Thou hast commanded that an ill-regulated mind should be its own punishment.
St. Augustine (354-430, Numidian-born bishop of Hippo, theologian)
He who gazes at the stars unavoidably starts thinking.
Gerhard Staguhn
Do not think that what your thoughts dwell upon is of no matter. Your thoughts are making you.
Bishop Steere
You can promote your healing by your thinking.
James E. Sweeney
Vacant minds must have their uses, yet it seems a pity to waste first-class bodies on them.
Author Unknown
Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.
Wallace Stevens (1879-1955, American poet)
The question is not so much what the hand is doing (passing over some cash or a check) but what the heart is thinking while the hand is doing it.
John R. Stott (1921-, British Anglican clergyman and writer)
What we prepare for is what we shall get.
William Graham Sumner
Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.
Diamond Sutra
The man with the average mentality, but with control; with a definite goal and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the power of application and labor, wins in the end.
William Howard Taft (1857-1930, American President (27th))
A man of meditation is happy, not for an hour or a day, but quite round the circle of all his years.
Isaac Taylor
Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.
Susan Taylor (Editor of Essence Magazine)
I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me.
Sara Teasdale (1884-1933, American poet)
Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.
Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892, British poet)
Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.
Thales of Miletus (640-546 BC, Founder of Greek philosophy, sciences)
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.
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism) Source: Philippians 4:8
A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as his brain.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862, American essayist, poet, naturalist)
Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862, American essayist, poet, naturalist)
Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862, American essayist, poet, naturalist)
Having each some shingles of thought well dried, we sat and whittled them.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862, American essayist, poet, naturalist)
How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seedtime of character.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862, American essayist, poet, naturalist)
Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862, American essayist, poet, naturalist)
To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862, American essayist, poet, naturalist)
A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator the smaller the fraction.
Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910, Russian novelist, philosopher)
Every thought you entertain is a force that goes out, and every thought comes back laden with its kind.
Ralph Waldo Trine (1866-1945, American author)
Thoughts are forces.
Ralph Waldo Trine (1866-1945, American author)
Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.
Mark Twain (1835-1910, American humorist, writer)
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.
Mark Twain (1835-1910, American humorist, writer)
Thought is made in the mouth.
Tristan Tzara (1896-1963, Rumanian-born French Dadaist)
A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
Author Unknown
Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples don't count on harvesting golden Delicious .
Author Unknown
He that never thinks can never be wise.
Author Unknown
If you prepare for old age, old age comes sooner.
Author Unknown
No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.
Author Unknown
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.
Author Unknown
Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.
Author Unknown
Some have half-baked ideas because their ideals are not heated up enough.
Author Unknown
Some people study all their life, and at death they have learned everything except how to think.
Author Unknown
Take a moment to reflect and recharge; its time well spent.
Author Unknown
Tell your boss what you think of him and the truth shall set you free.
Author Unknown
The brain that bubbles with phrases has hard work to collect its thoughts.
Author Unknown
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.
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951, Austrian philosopher)
The reason there are so few good talkers in public is that there are so few thinkers in private.
Author Unknown
Think all you speak, but speak not all you think.
Author Unknown
Think then act safely.
Author Unknown
Think twice before you speak, then say it to yourself first.
Author Unknown
Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary of the talkers who talk.
Author Unknown
Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary of the talkers who talk.
Author Unknown
Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.
Author Unknown
To know the true reality of yourself, you must be aware not only of your conscious thoughts, but also of your unconscious prejudices, bias and habits.
Author Unknown
When someone you greatly admire and respect appears to be thinking deep thoughts, they are probably thinking about lunch.
Author Unknown
When we look for the best in others, we find the best in ourselves.
Author Unknown
A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.
Paul Valery (1871-1945, French poet, essayist)
Our most important thoughts are those which contradict our emotions.
Paul Valery (1871-1945, French poet, essayist)
Great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.
Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890, Dutch-born French painter)
All grand thoughts come from the heart.
Marquis De Vauvenargues (1715-1747, French moralist)
Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.
Marquis De Vauvenargues (1715-1747, French moralist)
Great thoughts always come from the heart.
Marquis De Vauvenargues (1715-1747, French moralist)
We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
Swami Vivekananda
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778, French historian, writer)
They use thought only to justify their injustices, and speech only to disguise their thoughts.
Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778, French historian, writer)
Think for yourselves, and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too. Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.
Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778, French historian, writer)
Keep off your thoughts from things that are past and done; for thinking of the past wakes regret and pain.
Arthur Waley
THINK. Think about your appearance, associations, actions, ambitions, accomplishment.
Thomas J. Watson (1874-1956, American businessman, founder of IBM)
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking.
Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947, British mathematician, philosopher)
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947, British mathematician, philosopher)
Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.
Oscar Wilde (1856-1900, British author, wit)
The way a man's mind runs is the way he is sure to go.
Henry B. Wilson
Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities.
Oprah Winfrey (1954-, American TV personality, producer, actress, author)
In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought).
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951, Austrian philosopher)
Most of the time we think we're sick it's all in the mind.
Thomas Wolfe (1931-, American author, journalist)
We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how little we are able to convey! The phantom is through the mind and out of the window before we can lay salt on.
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941, British novelist, essayist)
To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.
Eva Young
Concentrated thoughts produce desired results.
Zig Ziglar (1926-, American sales trainer, author, motivational speaker) Author's website: www.zigziglar.com
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