Motivational Mondays.....Noble Thoughts
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We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.
Mao Tse-Tung
Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lipman
Thoughts are but dreams till their effects be tried.
William Shakespeare
Men give me some credit for genius. All the genius I have lies in this: When I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. I explore it in all its bearings. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort which I make is what the people call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.
Alexander Hamiltonr
The aim of education should be to teach us how to think, rather than what to think.
James Beattie
What gems of painting or statuary are in the world of art, or what flowers are in the world of nature, are gems of thought to the cultivated and the thinking.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
They are able who think they are able.
Virgil
We bring forth weeds when our quick minds lie still.
William Shakespeare
Every man has a train of thought on which he rides when he is alone.
Joseph Fort Newton
The less men think, the more they talk.
Baron Montesquieu
Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.
Marcus Aurelius
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
Confucius
The universe is change;
our life is what our thoughts make it.
Marcus Aurelius
Our thoughts are epochs in our lives; all else is but as a journal of the winds that blow while we are here.
Henry David Thoreau
But words are things, and a small drop of ink
Falling like dew upon a thought, produces
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
Sir Aubrey De Vere
Thoughts rule the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself.
Plato
Impromptu thoughts are mental wild-flowers.
Mme. du Deffand
Your disposition will be suitable to that which you most frequently think on; for the soul is, as it were, tinged with the color and complexion of its own thoughts.
Marcus Antonius
Fully to understand a grand and beautiful thought requires, perhaps, as much time as to conceive it.
Joseph Joubert
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probably reason why so few people engage in it.
Henry Ford
What I must do is all that concerns me, not what other people think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The efficient man is the man who thinks for himself, and is capable of thinking hard and long.
Charles W. Eliot
Thought is the soul of act.
Robert Browning
They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.
Sir Philip Sidney
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale
Obvious thinking commonly leads to wrong judgments and wrong conclusions.
Humphrey B. Neil
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