Thought Quotes

When I'm getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say.

Abraham Lincoln

A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.

Italian Proverb

There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace? If they have not, there is something wrong with them -- so keep seeking! If what you do has brought you inner peace, stay with what you believe is right.

Peace Pilgrim

Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Julian S. Huxley

One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

Paul Bourget

As you think, so shall you become.

Bruce Lee

Thought, like all potent weapons, is exceedingly dangerous if mishandled. Clear thinking is therefore desirable not only in order to develop the full potentialities of the mind, but also to avoid disaster.

Giles St. Aubyn

Everything is bilateral in the domain of thought. Ideas are binary. Janus is the myth of criticism and the symbol of genius. Only God is triangular!

Honore de Balzac, Illusions perd

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

Norman Vincent Peale

There is a big difference between thinking: I'm in a relationship and something's wrong. Therefore something must be wrong with the relationship. and thinking I'm in a relationship and we've got problems. This is evidence that you are different than me.

Wayne Dyer

I think and that is all that I am.

Wayne Dyer

Der Gedanke ist ein Vogel, der Raum braucht und in einem Käfig von Worten zwar seine Flügel ausbreiten, aber nicht fliegen kann.

Kahlil Gibran

Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.

Johann von Goethe

It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.

Hans Christian Andersen

Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.

Henri Frederic Amiel

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.

Thomas Paine

A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

Georges Bernanos

A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

Edward F. Halifax

I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not.

Clare Boothe Luce

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

James Allen