Tuesday 18 September 2018

Thoughts - Quotes

A great thought begins by seeing something differently, with a shift of the mind’s eye. - Albert Einstein

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it. - John Galsworthy

A person is limited only by the thoughts that he chooses. - James Allen

A profound thought is in a constant state of becoming; it adopts the experience of a life and assumes its shape. - Albert Camus

All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts. - James Allen

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

An action is the perfection and publication of thought. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

An artist carrying a thought from his mind into expression is like a child bearing a bucket brimming with water from the well to the house – part of the content is spilled. - Austin O’Malley

Anything great that has been accomplished in the history of humanity has started with one small thought. We all have those thoughts; few people do anything with theirs, however. What do you intend to do with yours? - Ernie J. Zelinski

As but a swift glance is enough to catch the glory of a great landscape, or only a little lingering is necessary to observe many peculiar beauties in it, so but a brief turn of the mind to sublime thoughts will give us their light and power. - James Vila Blake

As the plant springs from, and could not be without, the seed, so every act of man springs from the hidden seeds of thought, and could not have appeared without them. - James Allen

Be careful of your thoughts, they may become words at any moment. - Iara Gassen

Call one thought, and another will follow. - Edward Counsel

Choose your thoughts carefully. Keep what brings you peace, release what brings you suffering. And know that happiness is just a thought a way. - Nishan Panwar

Clearness is the ornament of deep thought. - Luc de Clapiers

Every great movement starts with a simple thought in the mind. It begins with a little step forward. Never discount what you are doing right now and call it small – as long as you are moving forward. - Janette Green

Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Every thought is a seed which inevitably will bear fruit of its own kind. - Walter Matthews

Every thought pretends that it matters so much. It wants to draw your attention in completely. Here is a new spiritual practice for you: don’t take your thoughts too seriously. - Eckhart Tolle

Every wheatfield of human thought after a while becomes filled with cockle; then the husbandmen destroy the grain with the cockle and plant anew. - Austin O’Malley

Great thoughts in crude, unshapely verse set forth lose half their preciousness, and ever must, unless the diamond with its own rich dust be cut and polished, it seems little worth. - Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dealer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts. - Alfred, Lord Tennyson

He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality, and will never, therefore, make any progress. - Anwar Sadat

He who influences the thought of his times influences all the times that follow. He has made his impress on eternity. - Elbert Hubbard

If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it. - Roald Dahl

If I supply you a thought you may remember it and you may not. But if I can make you think a thought for yourself, I have indeed added to your stature. - Elbert Hubbard

If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition. - Charles Caleb Colton

If we were all on trial for our thoughts, we would all be hanged. - Margaret Atwood

If what we think now is different from what we thought then, we can take it for granted that what we think in a year will be different again. - Doris Lessing

If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely. - Roald Dahl

If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start again. - Aristophanes

It has been proven now scientifically that, an affirmative thought is hundreds of times more powerful than a negative thought. - Michael Beckwith

It is in our own mind and not in exterior objects that we perceive most things; fools know scarcely anything because they are empty, and their heart is narrow; but great souls find in themselves a number of exterior things; they have no need to read or to travel or to listen or to work to discover the highest truths; they have only to delve into themselves and search, if we may say so, their own thoughts. - Luc de Clapiers

It's the thought that counts. - Proverb

Let no one rule your mind or body. Take special care that your thoughts remain unfettered. One may be a free man and yet be bound tighter than a slave. - Christopher Paolini

Look sharply after your thoughts. They come unlooked for, like a new bird seen in your trees, and, if you turn to your usual task, disappear. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives. - Louise Hay

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