Famous Quotes about Thoughts and Thinking (265 Quotations)

Every thought you entertain is a force that goes out, and every thought comes back laden with its kind.

Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities.

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

Far more numerous are those as such; who think to little and talk to much.

Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself thinking once or twice a week.

Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever, is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things. [Philippians 4:8]

For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.

Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

Having each some shingles of thought well dried, we sat and whittled them.

He that never thinks can never be wise.

He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

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.

How can I know what I think till I see what I say?

How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.

How you look at a situation is very important, for how you think about a problem may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. When you get discouraged or depressed, try changing your attitude from negative to positive and see how life can change for you. Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it — you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory.

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

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.

I am not what I think. I am thinking what I think.