Thinking
619 quotes: 75 by Keith Craft, 544 from other voices.
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- Every improvement that is put upon the real estate is the result of an idea in somebody's head.
- Every man is where he is by the law of his being; the thoughts which he has built into his character have brought him there, and in the arrangement of his life there is no element of chance, but all is the result of a law which cannot err.
- Every man should use his intellect, not as he uses his lamp in the study, only for his own seeing, but as the lighthouse uses its lamps, that those afar off on the sea may see the shining, and learn their way.
- Every one of us is the sum total of his own thoughts
- Every thought-seed sown or allowed to fall into the mind, and to take root there, produces its own, blossoming sooner or later into act, and bearing its own fruitage of opportunity and circumstance.
- Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is the wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.
- Everyone complains of the badness of his memory, but nobody of his judgment.
- Everything gets easier when you stop expecting it to be easy.
- Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travellers upon their road; they both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find that they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived.
- Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and insensibly approximate to the characters we most admire. In this way, a generous habit of thought and of action carries with it an incalculable influence.Christian Nestell BoveeSourced
- Faith is a state of mind that can be conditioned through self-discipline. Faith will accomplish.
- Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.
- Fear, in any of its expressions, like worry or anxiety, can not live an instant in your mind in the presence of the opposite thought, the image of courage, fearlessness, confidence, hope, self-assurance, self-reliance.
- Fill your brain with giant dreams so it has no space for petty pursuits.
- For every effect there is a root cause. Find and address the root cause rather than try to fix the effect, as there is no end to the latter.
- For one who has conquered his mind, a mind is best of friends, but for one who has failed to do so, a mind is the greatest enemy.
- Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph.
- Freedom begins between the ears.
- Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
- Genius is only a superior power of seeing.
- Good thoughts are blessed guests, and should be heartily welcomed, well fed, and much sought after. Like rose leaves, they give out a sweet smell if laid up in the jar of memory.
- Good thoughts are no better than good dreams unless they be executed.
- Gratitude changes your perspective about life. You see the future, experience the present, and remember the past in a dramatically different way.
- Great Minds Discuss Ideas, Average Minds Discuss Events, Small Minds Discuss People
- Great thoughts come from the heart.
- Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
- Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
- Greatness of life emanates from greatness of thought.
- Hadst thou not Greek enough to understand thus much: The end of man is an Action, and not a Thought, though it were the noblest.
- Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world.
- Happiness is the product of habitual right thinking.
- Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
- Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can’t be done.
- He that never thinks never can be wise.
- He who fails to reflect before acting, walks with his eyes shut and advances with danger. He also falls very often, because the eye of reflection does not enable him to see whither his footsteps lead.
- He who foresees calamities, suffers them twice over.
- He who indulges in empty fears earns himself real fears.
- He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.
- He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.