Thoughts - Quotes

The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal. - Walter Lippmann

The thoughts that come often unsought and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have. - John Locke

There are little thoughts in your head that can grow until they eat your entire mind. Just tiny little thoughts – they are like a cancer, there is no telling what triggers the spread, or who will be struck, and why some get it and others are spared. - Anne Enright

There is something at the bottom of every new human thought, every thought of genius, or even every earnest thought that springs up in any brain, which can never be communicated to others, even if one were to write volumes about it and were explaining one's idea for thirty-five years; there's something left which cannot be induced to emerge from your brain, and remains with you forever. - Fyodor Dostoevsky

Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything. - Henri Poincaré

Thought is pure energy. Every thought you have, have ever had, and ever will have is creative. The energy of your thought never ever dies. Ever. It leaves your being and heads out into the universe, extending forever. A thought is forever. - Neale Donald Walsch

Thought is what makes humans human ... It's the luminous spark of reason that grants us lordship over the animals, endows us with cell phones, and offers hope, even in our darkest hours, that our species will somehow calculate the way forward to a brighter tomorrow. - Bruno Maddox

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Thoughts are as the sands of the seashore – infinite. - Edward Counsel

Thoughts are no more than electrical surges in the brain. - Alan Lightman

Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking. - Susan L. Taylor

Thoughts shut up want air, and spoil, like bales unopen'd to the sun. - Edward Young

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. - Buddha

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

What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind. - Buddha

When thoughts cannot find vent and utterance in action, the mind ceases to think. It will not continue to produce its mighty births of power and beauty, to see them fall dead-born into the world, or to be strangled in embryo. - Horace Mann

Whether thoughts and ideas manifest in a material outcome depends on our transmission of them into perceived reality. - Ly de Angeles

You are the thinker of your thoughts and as such you are the maker of yourself and condition. Thought is causal and creative, and appears in your character and life in the form of results. There are no accidents in your life. Both its harmonies and antagonisms are the responsive chords of your thoughts. A man thinks, and his life appears. - James Allen

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. - James Allen

You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions. - Elizabeth Gilbert

You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you. - Dan Millman

Thoughts - Quotes

Man being made a 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

Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:- for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty, man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Man is made or unmade by himself. In the armory of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself. He also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace. - James Allen

New conditions of life will stimulate thought and give new forms to its expression. - James Russell Lowell

Nothing in this world requires such long seasoning and ripening as new thoughts. - Henry Ward Beecher

Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity. - Christian Nestell Bovee

Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met. - Fran Lebowitz

Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday. You are today where the thoughts of yesterday have brought you and you will be tomorrow where the thoughts of today take you. - Blaise Pascal

Our thoughts are like roots which reach out in every direction into the cosmic ocean of formless energy, and these thought-roots set in motion vibrations like themselves and attract the affinities of our desires and ambitions. - Orison Swett Marden

Our thoughts at least are ours. - William Wordsworth

Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going. - Lawrence J. Peter

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money. - Thomas Jefferson

The highest stage in moral culture at which we can arrive, is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts. - Charles Darwin

The man who gives me a new thought enriches me. - Reuen Thomas

The most dangerous thief is unwholesome thought. - Gautama Buddha

The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care. And let it spring from love, born out of concern for all beings. - Buddha

The wise man hath his thoughts in his head; the fool, on his tongue. - Ivan Panin

The world is your kaleidoscope, and the varying combinations of colours, which at every succeeding moment it presents to you are the exquisitely adjusted pictures of your ever-moving thoughts. - James Allen

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

Thinking - Quotes

A ‘new think,’ when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what other people have thought. - F. M. Colby

A man has a right to think lots of things he has no right to say. - Edgar Watson Howe

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. - Oscar Wilde

A new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move to higher levels. - Albert Einstein

All power is indeed weak compared with that of the thinker. He sits upon the throne of his Empire of Thought, mightier far than they who wield material sceptres. - Christian Nestell Bovee

Better to think wrongly with your own head, than to think rightly with the head of another. - Ivan Panin

Either you think – or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think. - Thomas Edison

Force a hand ... and it will fight you. But convince a mind to think as you want it to think, and you have an ally. - Dan Brown

He who thinks little errs much. - Leonardo da Vinci

I’ll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there’s evidence of any thinking going on inside it. - Terry Pratchett

If thou thinkest twice, before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it. - William Penn

In martial arts, as in life, you quickly learn not to think too much. You have to do. While you're thinking, you open spaces where an opponent can successfully strike at you. The more you think, the more vulnerable you become. - Joseph Cardillo

Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned. - Edward de Bono

It is almost impossible to think of something no one has thought of before, but it is always possible to add different frills. - Isaac Asimov

Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong. - Agatha Christie

One never lives so intensely as when one has been thinking hard. - Fernando Pessoa

Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think. - Martin Luther king, Jr.

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. - John Kenneth Galbraith

The greatest difficulty is that men do not think enough of themselves, do not consider what it is that they are sacrificing when they follow in a herd, or when they cater for their establishment. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The more you think, the more time you have. - Henry Ford

There is within every human being a deep well of thinking over which a heavy iron lid is kept clamped. - Sherwood Anderson

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the things you can think up if only you try - Dr. Seuss

Thinking begins when you ask really difficult questions. - Slavoj Zizek

Thinking is an experimental dealing with small quantities of energy, just as a general moves miniature figures over a map before setting his troops in action. - Sigmund Freud

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it. - Henry Ford

Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life. - Dr. APJ Kalam

To cease to think creatively is but little different from ceasing to live. - Benjamin Franklin

To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous. - Confucius

To think is to live. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

We must care to think about the unthinkable things, because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless. - James Fulbright

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

What is the hardest task in the world? To think.’ - Ralph Waldo Emerson

What you are thinking about, you are becoming. - Muhammad Ali

Whatever you do, you must remain nimble in your thinking. Do not become so attached to any one belief that you cannot see past it to another possibility. - Christopher Paolini

You become what you think about. - Buddha

You may glean knowledge by reading, but you must separate the chaff from the wheat by thinking. - John Thornton

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Thoughts - Quotes

A man would do well to carry a pencil in his pocket and write the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought are commonly the most valuable and should be secured, because they seldom return. - Unknown

A person who shows a sour face must be having sour thoughts as well. Behaviour always follows thought. - Unknown

A ship can sail around the world many, many times, but just let enough water get into the ship and it will sink. Just so with the human mind. Let enough negative thoughts or improper thoughts get into the human mind and the person sinks just like a ship. - Alfred Montapert 

A thought may be very commendable as a thought, but I value it chiefly as a window through which I can obtain insight on the thinker. - Alexander Smith

All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world. - The Buddha

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him. - The Buddha

All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking. - Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought. - Napoleon Hill

Anyone who lifts his thoughts can ascent, triumph, and achieve anything he does irrespective of the obstacles he faces. - Unknown

Any thought that is passed on to the subconscious often enough and convincingly enough is finally accepted. - Robert Collier

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives. - Henry David Thoreau

As surgeons keep their instruments and knives always at hand for cases requiring immediate treatment, so shouldst thou have thy thoughts ready to understand things divine and human, remembering in thy every act, even the smallest, how close is the bond that unites the two. - Marcus Aurelius

Beautiful thoughts build a beautiful soul. - Wayne Dyer

Change your thoughts and you change your world. - Norman Vincent Peale

Dive into the sea of thought, and find there pearls beyond price. - Moses Ibn Ezra

Don’t accept that others know you better than yourself. Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results. - James Allen

Even as water carves monuments of stone, so do our thoughts shape our character. - Hugh B. Brown 

Every positive thought is a silent prayer which will change your life. - Bryant McGill

Every revolution was first a thought in one man’s mind. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit. Let a man radically alter his thoughts, and he will be astonished at the rapid transformation it will effect in the material conditions of his life. Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are. - James Allen

If we are not responsible for the thoughts that pass through our doors, we, at least, are responsible for those which we admit and entertain. - Charles B. Newcomb

I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me. - Sara Teasdale

It is hard for the face to conceal the thoughts of the heart. - Unknown

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts. - Robert Schuller

Look sharply after your own thoughts. They come unlooked for, like a new bird seen on your trees, and, if you turn to your usual task, disappear; and you shall never find that perception again. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought. - Eugenio Montale

Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought. - Mortimer Jerome Adler

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth. - Unknown

Negative thought patterns can eat away at you like a cancer. Cut them out by thinking positively. You will be amazed what a difference it will make in your day, your spirit, and your life.

No one can ever overcome anything until his thoughts are creative and positive. - Norman Vincent Peale

Once you become consciously aware of just how powerful your thoughts are, you will realize everything in your life is exactly how  you allow it to be. - Unknown

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results. - Willie Nelson

One small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day. - Unknown 

Only thoughts can travel faster than the speed of light. Think and you are there. - Unknown

Our concentrated thoughts are greatly effective. When we visualize our desired ideals and the service we want to render, we may be sure that we will be successful. - Unknown

Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him. - James Allen

Our thoughts are penetrating, far reaching, and once we begin to radiate a loving appreciation to others, a fusion of the light of the mind and of the living grow within us will begin to take place. - Unknown

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts. - Marcus Aurelius

That a man can change himself … and master his own destiny is the conclusion of every mind who is wide-awake to the power of right thought. - Unknown

The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results. - Norman Vincent Peale

The right to express our thoughts means something only if we are able to have thoughts of our own. - Erich Fromm

The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it. - Marcus Aurelius

They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts. - Philip Sidney

Think truly, and thy thoughts shall the world’s famine feed. - Unknown

Thought is the fountain of action, life and manifestation; make the fountain pure, and all will be pure. - James Allen

Thought is the parent of the deed. - Thomas Carlyle

Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. - Amos Bronson Alcott

Thoughts are invisible clouds that go out and gather up results for us. They determine what we reap. - Unknown

Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntarily opened. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thoughts create powerful energy that empowers you. It affects how you feel within, which in turn affects how you perform in life. And it is how you perform that determines where you will be in the world. - Unknown

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large. - Confucius

There is nothing in this world that can trouble you as much as y our own thoughts. - Unknown

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings – always darker, emptier and simpler. - Friedrich Nietzsche

To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning. - Henry David Thoreau

Today, try to replace every negative thought with a positive one. Try it again tomorrow and then again the next day… until it becomes a habit. Eventually, you will think more positive thoughts than negative ones, and you will attract more positive things into your life. - Unknown

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. - The Buddha

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

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world. - The Buddha

We clothe events with the drapery of our own thoughts. . . . - James Allen

When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected. - Marquis De Vauvenargues

When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions. - W. Clement Stone

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. - James Allen

You can make a difference in the world like a ripple effect just by changing one thought. - Sheena Stegent

You can suffocate a thought by expressing it with too many words. - Frank A. Clark

Your habitual thoughts will determine your future. Always be mindful of the energy that you bring into your life. Think positively. - Unknown

Your morning thoughts may determine your conduct for the day. Optimistic thoughts will make your day bright and productive, while pessimistic thinking will make it dull and wasteful. Face each day cheerfully, smilingly and courageously, and it will naturally follow that your work will be a real pleasure and progress will be a delightful accomplishment. - William M. Peck

Thinking - Quotes

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. - William James

As long as you are going to think anyway, you might as well think big. - Unknown

Don’t think too much. You will create a problem that wasn’t even there in the first place. - Unknown

Everything hangs on one’s thinking. - Seneca

 
He can who thinks he can, and he can’t who thinks he can’t. This is an inexorable, indisputable law. - Orison Swett Marden

I think; therefore I am. - Rene Descartes

If you make people think they’re thinking, they’ll love you; But if you really make them think, they’ll hate you. - Don Marquis

If you think too long, you think wrong. - Unknown

Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think. - Neil Degrasse Tyson

Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power. - Henry George

Most people can’t think, most of the remainder won’t think, the small fraction who do think mostly can’t do it very well. - Robert Heinlein

Never be afraid to sit awhile and think. - Lorraine Hansberry

Never discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed. - Russell Bertrand

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched. - George Jean Nathan

Nothing pains some people more than having to think. - Martin Luther King Jr.

Positive thinking does not always grant you positive results. Right thinking always does. - Unknown

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will. - Zig Ziglar

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. - John Locke

Sometimes you got to quit thinking so much. If it feels right, it probably is. So just go with it. - Unknown

The simple reason for thinking long-term is because you expect to be living here long. - Unknown 

There are very real obstacles and challenges to any course of action. And there’s no need to add to them, by making up obstacles of your own. Unchain yourself from the bondage of your own thinking. - Ralph Marston

Think above trivial things. Focus your attention on big objectives. Before getting involved in a petty matter, ask yourself “Is it really important?” - David. J. Schwartz 

Think as you work, for in the final analysis, your worth to your company comes not only in solving problems, but also in anticipating them. - Tom Lehrer

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too. - Voltaire

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. - William Butler Yeats

Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.
- Doris Lessing

Thinking big expands your perspective of your ability to succeed in life. - Unknown

Thinking makes the man. A man is literally what he thinks. - Unknown

Thinking: The talking of the soul with itself. - Plato

To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted. - Unknown

To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing. - Eva Young

What you think means more than anything else in your life. More than what you earn, more than where you live, more than your social position, and more than what anyone else may think about you. - George Adams

You are what you think, not what you think you are. - Unknown

You have to think anyway, so why not think big? - Donald Trump

You may chain my hands, you may shackle my feet; you may even throw me into a dark prison; but you shall not enslave my thinking, because it is free. - Kahlil Gibran

Converting Thought Into Action

The conversion of intelligent thought into action is not an accidental or chance process. Such achievement comes only as the result of vigorous and sustained effort. Any thought, however rich in content and potential in design, must be supported by an active and purposeful endeavour in order to surpass the state of wishful thinking and find expression as a noble realization.

Within themselves, our most inspiring thoughts and noblest ideals are not a sufficient cause of great human achievement. They provide the necessary pattern or blueprint for further active response. Many great and noble thoughts have been allowed to lie dormant and ineffective simply because they were not related to one’s will and supported by an ernest effort.

The surest way to concert a thought into action is to act while the thought is still fresh and vigorous. The longer we confine a thought or impression within limits of theory alone, and fail to give it volitional expression, the easier it becomes for us to live with that thought and, at the same time, hold it in utter disregard. That lofty thought or idea which came to us with such vibrant life and creative potency, when neglected, tends to withdraw from us and will find a more suitable channel for its release. Whoever ignores the opportunity to make thinking creative loses a measure of respect for both the thought he had and for himself.

Great thoughts are much like fruit. When ripe, they must be harvested. This principle of timely action has been recognized and emphasized by leading thinkers of all ages. While they have expressed this concept in different ways, the essence of what they said on the subject was the same. “Whatsoever thou resolves to do, do it quickly. Defer not till the evening what the morning may accomplish.”

The conversion of a thought into action involves personal commitment to all the implications of the process. The thought must be clearly visualized and appreciated. That thought must be supported by a dominant desire to see it materialized. Then, the dominant desire must be backed by a strong and determined will toward action. The whole enterprise will succeed in the exact measure in which the agent involved works in harmony with cosmic forces.

- Author Unknown