Thoughts Quotes

Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do.

Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are.

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

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

First thoughts are not always the best.

The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

Whether you're a newspaper journalist, a lawyer, a doctor. You have to organize your thoughts.

The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it's a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free.

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.

Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.

Prayer's important, not just as some kind of a metaphysical exercise, but I think it's a way to refresh one's own mind and motive. If you're praying, you're really looking beyond your own personal thoughts and the pressures that are around you.

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

The interpretation of facts in a certain way stimulates other scientists' thoughts.

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

During my solitude, conflicting thoughts increased; but much exercise of soul had the effect of causing the scriptures to gain complete ascendancy over me.

You can be interested in a Jane Smiley novel whether or not anyone says a word. She enters into her characters' thoughts with great understanding and depth.

When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.

Marriage is a reflection of your life in general: how you treat people, how you argue, how secure you are in your own thoughts. How vehemently do you argue your point of view? With what disdain do you view the other's point of view?

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.

Your hands, your eyes, your voice, your thoughts are your servants.

The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.

We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.

It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.

An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.

Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!

The fingers of your thoughts are molding your face ceaselessly.