Thoughts Quotes

When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts.

If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.

In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

In every work of genius we see our own rejected thoughts.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.

Watch your thoughts, they become words.
Watch your words, they become actions.
Watch your actions, they become habits.
Watch your habits, they become your character.
Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.

Make not your thoughts your prisons.

But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool.

There is nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

Thoughts are but dreams till their effects be tried.

My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel.

A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom and ever three parts coward.

Call home thy ancient thoughts from banishment.

When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below.
Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.

All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts 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.