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.

There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their 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.

Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody.

A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.

Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him. For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.

It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them.

In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best.

High thoughts must have high language.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

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

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

Our thoughts are free.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts, therefore guard accordingly; and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue, and reasonable nature.

No man deserves punishment for his thoughts.

My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.

Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts, and strives without fear to do justice to them.

They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.

Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language.

If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.