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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON THOUGHTS 1
Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure. Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.
Bryan Adams (1959-, Canadian musician, singer, songwriter)
Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.
Amos Bronson Alcott (1799-1888, American educator, social reformer)
A man is literally what he thinks.
James Allen (1864-1912, British-born American essayist, author, "As A Man Thinketh")
All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.
James Allen (1864-1912, British-born American essayist, author, "As A Man Thinketh")
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 (1864-1912, British-born American essayist, author, "As A Man Thinketh")
You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
James Allen (1864-1912, British-born American essayist, author, "As A Man Thinketh")
You cannot escape the results of your thoughts.... Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
James Allen (1864-1912, British-born American essayist, author, "As A Man Thinketh")
One thought fills immensity.
William Blake (1757-1827, British poet, painter)
Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.
Claude M. Bristol (1891-1951, American author of "The Magic Of Believing")
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 (1821-1881, Swiss philosopher, poet, critic)
It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.
Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875, Danish children stories writer)
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle (BC 384-322, Greek philosopher)
Thinking more than others about our own thoughts is not self-centeredness. It means that if asked what's on our mind, we are less likely to mention being aware of the world around us, and more likely to mention our inner reflections. But we are less likely to mention thinking about other people.
Elaine N. Aron (American psychologist, novelist)
You live with your thoughts -- so be careful what they are.
Eva Arrington
Thoughts of themselves have no substance; let them arise and pass away unheeded. Thoughts will not take form of themselves, unless they are grasped by the attention; if they are ignored, there will be no appearing and no disappearing.
Bhikshu Ashvaghosha (Renowned playwright and master of Buddhist philosophy)
The body manifests what the mind harbors.
Jerry Augustine
A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.
Marcus Aurelius (121-12180, Roman emperor, philosopher)
Our life depends on what our thoughts make it.
Marcus Aurelius (121-12180, Roman emperor, philosopher)
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
Marcus Aurelius (121-12180, Roman emperor, philosopher)
In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin with doubts, they will end in certainties.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626, British philosopher, essayist, statesman)
Learn to think like a winner. Think positive and visualize your strengths.
Vic Braden (American tennis coach)
The principle of life is that life responds by corresponding; your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be.
Raymond Charles Barker
No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.
Bernard M. Baruch (1870-1965, American financier)
If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.
George Barzan
The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.
Jean Baudrillard (French postmodern philosopher, writer)
He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.
Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832, British philosopher, jurist, political theorist)
Some patients I see are actually draining into their bodies the diseased thoughts of their minds.
Zachary T. Bercovitz
The stuff of thought is not caged to the brain, but is scattered all over the body...
Richard M. Bergland
We all have voices in our heads which talk to us on an almost constant basis. Our voices give us messages continually, and what they say to us affects us.
Juliene Berk
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 (1888-1948, French novelist, political writer)
Think twice before you speak to a friend in need.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914, American author, editor, journalist, "The Devil's Dictionary")
One-half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.
Josh Billings (1815-1885, American humorist, lecturer)
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
Niels Bohr (1885-1962, Danish physicist)
One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.
Paul Bourget (1852-1935, French novelist)
The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.
John Christian Bovee (1820-1904, American author, lawyer)
The world has a way of giving what is demanded of it. If you are frightened and look for failure and poverty, you will get them, no matter how hard you may try to succeed. Lack of faith in yourself, in what life will do for you, cuts you off from the good things of the world. Expect victory and you make victory. Nowhere is this truer than in business life, where bravery and faith bring both material and spiritual rewards.
Preston Bradley
I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution.
Wernher Von Braun (1912-1977, German rocket pioneer)
Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.
Anita Brookner (1938-, British novelist, art historian)
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.
Buddha (568-488 BC, Indian born, founder of Buddhism)
All we are is the result of what we have thought.
Buddha (568-488 BC, Indian born, founder of Buddhism)
As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.
Buddha (568-488 BC, Indian born, founder of Buddhism)
Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.
Buddha (568-488 BC, Indian born, founder of Buddhism)
Those who are determined and control their mind, body, and tongue are indeed well controlled.
Buddha (568-488 BC, Indian born, founder of Buddhism)
We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.
Buddha (568-488 BC, Indian born, founder of Buddhism)
We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world.
Buddha (568-488 BC, Indian born, founder of Buddhism)
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 (568-488 BC, Indian born, founder of Buddhism)
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 (568-488 BC, Indian born, founder of Buddhism)
There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
Samuel Butler (1612-1680, British poet, satirist)
For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.
Lord Byron (1788-1824, British poet)
The power of thought, the magic of the mind.
Lord Byron (1788-1824, British poet)
Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation -- till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881, Scottish philosopher, author)
It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.
Galius Valerius Catullus (BC 87-54, Roman lyric poet)
People are governed by the head; a kind heart is of little value in chess.
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort (1741-1794, French writer, journalist, playwright)
All that a man does outwardly is but the expression and completion of his inward thought. To work effectively, he must think clearly; to act nobly, he must think nobly.
William Ellery Channing (1780-1842, American Unitarian minister, author)
Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.
John Jay Chapman (1862-1933, American author)
Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904, Russian playwright, short story writer)
How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
Gilbert K. Chesterton (1874-1936, British author)
If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus T. Cicero (c. 106-43 BC, Roman orator, politician)
We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.
Kenneth, Lord Clark
I thought so hard I got a headache.
J.D. Cobb
Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues.
John Churton Collins
He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But He that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832, British sportsman writer)
We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.
Norman Cousins (1915-1990, American editor, humanitarian, author)
I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why thunder lasts longer than that which causes it, and why immediately on its creation the lightning becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life.
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519, Italian inventor, architect, painter, scientist, sculptor)
Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
Rene Descartes (1596-1650, French philosopher, scientist)
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think -- rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men.
John Dewey (1859-1952, American philosopher, educator)
Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentialities and capabilities?
Jay H. Dinsah
Before a painter puts a brush to his canvas he sees his picture mentally.... If you think of yourself in terms of a painting, what do you see?... Is the picture one you think worth painting?... You create yourself in the image you hold in your mind.
Thomas Dreier
The life each of us lives is the life within the limits of our own thinking. To have life more abundant, we must think in limitless terms of abundance.
Thomas Dreier
I think and that is all that I am.
Wayne Dyer (1940-, American psychotherapist, author, lecturer) Author's website: www.waynedyer.com
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 (1940-, American psychotherapist, author, lecturer) Author's website: www.waynedyer.com
If you think it's going to rain, it will.
Clint Eastwood (1930-, American actor, director, politician, composer, musician, producer)
It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
Thomas A. Edison (1847-1931, American inventor, founder of GE)
There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.
Thomas A. Edison (1847-1931, American inventor, founder of GE)
Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.
Robert Frost (1875-1963, American poet)
Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955, German-born American physicist)
We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955, German-born American physicist)
Don't think too much about yourself. Try to cultivate the habit of thinking of others; this will reward you.
Charles W. Eliot
Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.
George Eliot (1819-1880, British novelist)
Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.
George Eliot (1819-1880, British novelist)
Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.
Havelock Ellis (1859-1939, British psychologist)
Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves from our senses and experience the world even less directly. We can think about our life, rather than thinking in our life. We can think about what we think about our life, and we can think about what we think about that. We can shift perceptual positions many times over.
John J. Emerick (American NLP trainer)
A man is what he thinks about all day long
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.
Euripides (BC 480-406, Greek tragic poet)
Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
The soul contains the event that shall befall it, for the event is only the actualization of its thoughts, and what we pray to ourselves for is always granted.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
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