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- Thoughts are funny little things,
They can make paupers or make kings. - Sidney Madwed
- Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.
- William James (1842 - 1910)
- The only means of strengthening one's intelligence is to make up one's mind about nothing-- to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.
- John Keats (1795 - 1821)
- Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
- There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
- Martin H. Fischer
- As the flectcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.
- Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC)
- All that a man does outwardly is but the expression and completion of his inward thought. To work effectually, he must think clearly; to act nobly, he must think nobly. Intellectual force is a principal element of the soul's life, and should be proposed by every man as the principal end of his being.
- William E. Channing
- 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.
- Baudjuin
- The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts; they are forever influencing the opinions and destinies of men.
- John Christian Bovee
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