143 Thoughts Quotes

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Famous Thoughts Quotes

Thoughtfulness is like a glue that hold a married couple together. Be creative and consistent in finding thoughtful ways to show your spouse that you love them and they are always on your mind. — Dave Willis

If there were one word that could act as a standard of conduct for one's entire life, perhaps it would be 'thoughtfulness. — Confucius

A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference. — A. A. Milne

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money. — John Ruskin

Oh, but I think that thoughtfulness and manners are everything. — Diana Vreeland

When one's thoughts are neither frivolous nor flippant, when one's thoughts are neither stiff-necked nor stupid, but rather, are harmonious -- they habitually render physical calm and deep insight. — Hildegard of Bingen

The kinder and the more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people. — Leo Tolstoy

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind. — Theodore Roosevelt

A small act is worth a million thoughts. - Ai Weiwei

A small act is worth a million thoughts. — Ai Weiwei

Think before you speak. Think before you judge. Think before you think you have a person all figured out. — Lily Collins

Sincere thought means thought of concentration (quiet awareness). The thought of a distracted mind cannot be sincere — Bruce Lee

THINK before you speak. Is it True, Helpful, Inspiring, Necessary, Kind? — Alan Redpath

We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. — Buddha

Thought creates character. — Annie Besant

Two things to remember in life: take care of your thoughts when you are alone, and take are of your words when you are with people. — Lorde

Short Thoughts Quotes

  • Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought. — Kwame Nkrumah
  • And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. — Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results. — Willie Nelson
  • Thoughts come and go. Feelings come and go. Find out what it is that remains. — Ramana Maharshi
  • The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. — William James
  • The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it. — Eckhart Tolle
  • If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought. — Peace Pilgrim
  • People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. — Soren Kierkegaard
  • With meditation I found a ledge above the waterfall of my thoughts. — Mary Pipher
  • If you let a person talk long enough you'll hear their true intentions. Listen twice, speak once. — Tupac Shakur

Thoughts Image Quotes

The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do. - Michael Porter quote

The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do. — Michael Porter

Thoughts quote The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.
The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.
The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God. - Euclid quote

The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God. — Euclid

Change your thoughts and you change your world. - Norman Vincent Peale quote

Change your thoughts and you change your world. — Norman Vincent Peale

Your worst enemies won't harm you as much your own unguarded thoughts. - Buddha quote

Your worst enemies won't harm you as much your own unguarded thoughts. — Buddha

Our life is what our thoughts make it. - Marcus Aurelius quote

Our life is what our thoughts make it. — Marcus Aurelius

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. - Stevie Wonder quote

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. — Stevie Wonder

If you put a s infront of hitman, you have my exact thoughts on Bret Hart - Stone Cold Steve Austin quote

If you put a s infront of hitman, you have my exact thoughts on Bret Hart — Stone Cold Steve Austin

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts. - Marcus Aurelius quote

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts. — Marcus Aurelius

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought. - Napoleon Hill quote

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought. — Napoleon Hill

I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness. - Frederic Chopin quote

I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness. — Frederic Chopin

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. - Mahatma Gandhi quote

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. — Mahatma Gandhi

An equation means nothing to me unless it expresses a thought of God. - Srinivasa Ramanujan quote

An equation means nothing to me unless it expresses a thought of God. — Srinivasa Ramanujan

Poor people have big TV's. Rich people have big libraries. - Jim Rohn quote

Poor people have big TV's. Rich people have big libraries. — Jim Rohn

Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman. - Percy Bysshe Shelley quote

Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Protect yourself......from your own thoughts. - Rumi quote

Protect yourself......from your own thoughts. — Rumi

When you do not seek or need approval, you are at your most powerful. - Caroline Myss quote

When you do not seek or need approval, you are at your most powerful. — Caroline Myss

Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. - Bob Marley quote

Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. — Bob Marley

Your life is what your thoughts make it. - Marcus Aurelius quote

Your life is what your thoughts make it. — Marcus Aurelius

YOUR WORD IS YOUR WAND. THE WORDS YOU SPEAK CREATE YOUR OWN DESTINY - Florence Scovel Shinn quote

YOUR WORD IS YOUR WAND. THE WORDS YOU SPEAK CREATE YOUR OWN DESTINY — Florence Scovel Shinn

One small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day. - Joubert Botha quote

One small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day. — Joubert Botha

Thoughts quote It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Thank You For Being Thoughtful Quotes

Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond. — Rumi

Thank you for the sacrifices you and your families are making. Our Vietnam Veterans have taught us that no matter what are positions may be on policy, as Americans and patriots, we must support all of our soldiers with our thoughts and our prayers. — Zack Wamp

Thank you for the sacrifices you and your families are making. Our Vietnam Veterans have taught us that no matter what are positions may be on policy, as Americans and patriots, we must support all of our soldiers with our thoughts and our prayers. — Zach Wamp

Thoughts quote If you have a bad thought about yourself, tell it to go to hell because that is exactly where it cam
If you have a bad thought about yourself, tell it to go to hell because that is exactly where it came from.

Thanks are the highest form of thought. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs? — Gilbert K. Chesterton

It may seem strange, but the most grateful I've ever felt was when I was held up at gunpoint. After I handed over my wallet and the mugger ran off into the woods, I thought, 'Thank you for not shooting me.' I was overwhelmingly glad to be alive and unharmed. — Juliana Hatfield

Thoughts quote How amazing is it to find someone who wants to hear about all the things that go in your head.
How amazing is it to find someone who wants to hear about all the things that go in your head.

I always thought I'd be the one to go first. ... The world might be mourning an Everly Brother, but I'm mourning my brother Phil Everly. My wife Adela and I are touched by all the tributes we're seeing for Phil and we thank you for allowing us to grieve in private at this incredibly difficult time. — Don Everly

Truly, we have much to thank God for, but if we would be thankful, we must set our hearts to do it with a will. We grumble and complain without thought, but we must think to give thanks. — Samuel Logan Brengle

If you will thank me '' he replied let it be for yourself alone. That the wish of giving happiness to you might add force to the other inducements which led me on I shall not attempt to deny. But your family owe me nothing. Much as I respect them I believe I thought only of you. — Jane Austen

Thanks For Being Thoughtful Quotes

I am thankful for the way I was raised, to be positive. Even when times have gotten rough I have always tried to look on the bright side. Even when I was put down, yelled at and made feel insignificant, I still thought things were alright. I did realize when enough is enough. — Angela Merkel

Let's start with what we can be thankful for, and get our mind into that vibration, and then watch the good that starts to come, because one thought leads to another thought. — Bob Proctor

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the communion with superior minds. In the best books, authors talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books. — William Ellery Channing

Thoughts quote One small positive thought in the morning can change you whole day.
One small positive thought in the morning can change you whole day.

God be thanked for the thinkers of good and noble thoughts! It wakes up all the best in ourselves, to come into close contact with others greater and better in every way than we are. — Lucy Larcom

Being Thoughtful Of Others Quotes

A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity. — Jimmy Carter

Human beings are emotional amoral egoists, driven above all by emotional self-interest. All of our thoughts, beliefs and motivations are neurochemically mediated, some predetermined for survival, others alterable. — Nayef Al-Rodhan

I strongly believe that the more positive my vibration is, the clearer my message will be. I keep my negative thoughts from infiltrating my pathway and my dreams. Other people's thoughts are none of my business. — Erykah Badu

Thoughts quote Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.

There will never be enough thanks, never enough words nor thoughts high or deep enough to adequately convey His worth. I don't know how to give back to the Lord what He deserves other than to just offer Him my life and every part of me. — Kari Jobe

True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense. — Emanuel Swedenborg

Even my family laughed at me because they thought this young guy who's always stuttering in front of other people should be in front of 100 musicians and talk to them and leading them. — Kurt Masur

Thoughts quote Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stilln
Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain.

Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. — William Cowper

Help each other to live and to grow in the Christian faith so as to be valiant witnesses of the Lord. Be united, but not closed. Be humble, but not fearful. Be simple, but not naive. Be thoughtful, but not complicated. Enter into dialogue with others, but be yourselves. — Pope Benedict XVI

All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us. — Immanuel Kant

Do not base your life on the judgments of others; first, because they are as likely to be mistaken as you are, and further, because you cannot know that they are telling you their true thoughts. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Being A Thoughtful Person Quotes

I thought to myself: if it’s true that every person has a star in the sky, mine must be distant, dim, and absurd. Perhaps I never had a star. — Sadegh Hedayat

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely. — Roald Dahl

He wants all or nothing. The thought of a person calling himself a 'Christian' without being a devoted follower of Christ is absurd. — Francis Chan

Thoughts quote Empty Minds Make The Most Noise!
Empty Minds Make The Most Noise!

I always thought, 'Will I go into the business, or will I not go into the business?' But when my father got arrested, I really didn't have a choice. I was the oldest son, and it was something that had to be done. — Jared Kushner

The people who hanged Christ never, to do them justice, accused Him of being a bore - on the contrary; they thought Him too dynamic to be safe. It has been left for later generations to muffle up that shattering personality and surround Him with an atmosphere of tedium. — Dorothy L. Sayers

You can't just be you. You have to double yourself. You have to read books on subjects you know nothing about. You have to travel to places you never thought of traveling. You have to meet every kind of person and endlessly stretch what you know. — Mary Wells Lawrence

Thoughts quote Integrity is choosing your thoughts and actions based on values rather than personal gain.
Integrity is choosing your thoughts and actions based on values rather than personal gain.

Whatever you habitually think yourself to be, that you are. You must form, now, a greater and better habit; you must form a conception of yourself as a being of limitless power, and habitually think that you are that being. It is the habitual, not the periodical thought that decides your destiny. — Wallace D. Wattles

I'm a free person; I feel terribly free. They could put me in chains and I still would be free because my thoughts would be mine - and that's all I want to have. — Arthur Rubinstein

The frightening and most difficult thing about being what somebody calls a creative person is that you have absolutely no idea where any of your thoughts come from, really. And especially, you don't have any idea about where they're going to come from tomorrow. — Hal Riney

When people went on vacation, they shed their home skins, thought they could be a new person. — Aimee Friedman

Being Kind And Thoughtful Quotes

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. — Og Mandino

My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness. — Maya Angelou

Transform your world by transforming your internal state. Start by learning to let go of negative self judgment, and replace it with positive and loving thoughts about yourself. Be kind to yourself, and watch your external world change. — Anita Moorjani

Thoughts quote If you wouldn't say it to a friend, don't say it to yourself.
If you wouldn't say it to a friend, don't say it to yourself.

Grant me the grace to dissolve my negative thoughts about myself today. I breathe the grace of kindness into my heart. And may the grace of healing flow abundantly to every one in need of help. — Caroline Myss

Mindfulness gives you time. Time gives you choices. Choices, skillfully made, lead to freedom. You don't have to be swept away by your feeling. You can respond with wisdom and kindness rather than habit and reactivity. — Henepola Gunaratana

Warmth, kindness, and friendship are the most yearned for commodities in the world. The person who can provide them will never be lonely. — Ann Landers

Thoughts quote The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

Every good thought, every good word, every good emotion, and every act of kindness, is lifting the vibration of your being to new heights. And as you begin to raise your vibration, a new life and a new world will reveal itself to you. — Rhonda Byrne

A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe; a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts, and his feelings as something separate from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. — Albert Einstein

I think here in America the space programme was such an enticing thing to be going on, that the thought of a family being able to go into space and live up there was really kind of mind-bending at the time. — Angela Cartwright

When I looked at the state of women's MMA, what I saw was that it was missing rivalries or anything theatrical about it. Everybody was trying to be Miss America, unwilling to go under any kind of criticism, and taking the safe answers. I thought I needed to do whatever I could to get attention. — Ronda Rousey

Very Thoughtful Quotes

If you have confidence in your own words, aspirations, thoughts, and actions and do your very best, you will have no need to regret the outcome of what you do. Fear and trembling are lot of the person who, while stinting effort, hopes that everything will come out precisely as he wants. — Mas Oyama

I remember very clearly someone saying, 'Don't shake hands with the cactus,' and I thought, 'Well, why not? What could possibly go wrong?' Shaking hands is a friendly gesture. — Benedict Cumberbatch

Fear is not real. The only place that fear can exist is in our thoughts of the future. It is a product of our imagination, causing us to fear things that do not at present and may not ever exist. That is near insanity Kitai. Do not misunderstand me, danger is very real, but fear is a choice. — Will Smith

Shiva danced the world into existence... that's a very nice thought. — Michael Tippett

I look back on my life with great joy. I think it was a very successful life. I always did what I wanted and never cared what anyone thought. Women's lib? I was a liberated woman long before there was a name for it. — Peggy Guggenheim

He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality. — Anwar Sadat

I play with microbes. There are, of course, many rules to this play...but when you have acquired knowledge and experience it is very pleasant to break the rules and to be able to find something nobody has thought of. — Alexander Fleming

I never thought I want to do anything, really, except not go to work properly and turn up at the same place every day and eat sandwiches in the same canteen, if I can possibly help it, as I don't think I'd be very good at it. — Dylan Moran

I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they'd never seen one and neither had I. — Janis Joplin

If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd. — Elisabeth Elliot

Thoughtful Mind Quotes

As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind - every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder. — John Glenn

It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thought make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light. — Swami Vivekananda

Your mind is a powerful thing. When you filter it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change. — Buddha

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives. — Henry David Thoreau

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become. — Buddha

The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts. — Marcus Aurelius

My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives. — Mel Brooks

Since everything is a reflection of our minds, everything can be changed by our minds. — Buddha

Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect. — Edgar Allan Poe

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle

You Are So Thoughtful Quotes

O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. — Francis of Assisi

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far. — Swami Vivekananda

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

For each and every person, our Lord and Master provides sustenance. Why are you so afraid, O mind? The flamingos fly hundreds of miles, leaving their young ones behind. Who feeds them, and who teaches them to feed themselves? Have you ever thought of this in your mind? — Guru Nanak

I remember the time an older man asked me when I was young, "Do you know what you are doing now?" I thought it was some kind of trick question. Tell me," I said. You are building your memories," he replied, "so make them good ones. — Ravi Zacharias

I don't like the negative of reality tv - the 'you're no good, so you have to leave, I choose you, but I thought you really loved me.' It's all about how bad people are and I just hate that. I like Pimp my Ride where someone is helping somebody. — Bob Saget

The tighter you try and hold on to something that you are afraid of losing, the more you are pushing it away.Those thoughts are filled with fear, and if you continue to persist, what you fear the most will come upon you. Fear nothing - just think about what you want. It feels so much better! — Rhonda Byrne

What you need is a challenge network. I think of a challenge network as the group of your most thoughtful critics who are able to hold up a mirror so that you can see your blind spots and then know what you need to rethink. — Adam Grant

Happiness happens when you fit with your life, when you fit so harmoniously that whatsoever you are doing is your joy. Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind. — Daphne Du Maurier

Human potential is the same for all. Your feeling, 'I am of no value', is wrong. Absolutely wrong. You are deceiving yourself. We all have the power of thought — so what are you lacking? If you have will-power , then you can do anything. It is usually said that you are your own master. — Dalai Lama

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More Thoughts Quotes

An open mind leaves a chance for someone to drop a worthwhile thought in it. - Mark Twain quote

An open mind leaves a chance for someone to drop a worthwhile thought in it. — Mark Twain

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace. - Buddha quote

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace. — Buddha

Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee? - Albert Camus quote

Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee? — Albert Camus

We count our miseries carefully, and accept our blessings without much thought. - Chinese Proverbs quote

We count our miseries carefully, and accept our blessings without much thought. — Chinese Proverbs

All kids are born geniuses, but are crushed by society. - Michio Kaku quote

All kids are born geniuses, but are crushed by society. — Michio Kaku

A bartender is just a pharmacist with a limited inventory. - Albert Einstein quote

A bartender is just a pharmacist with a limited inventory. — Albert Einstein

Attachment is the strongest block to realization. - Neem Karoli Baba quote

Attachment is the strongest block to realization. — Neem Karoli Baba

The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow. - George R. R. Martin quote

The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow. — George R. R. Martin

It is thought and feeling which guides the universe, not deeds. - Edgar Cayce quote

It is thought and feeling which guides the universe, not deeds. — Edgar Cayce

A man's life is what his thoughts make of it. - Marcus Aurelius quote

A man's life is what his thoughts make of it. — Marcus Aurelius

All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking. - Friedrich Nietzsche quote

All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. - Percy Bysshe Shelley quote

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Silently, like thoughts that come and go, the snowflakes fall, each one a gem. - William Hamilton Gibson quote

Silently, like thoughts that come and go, the snowflakes fall, each one a gem. — William Hamilton Gibson

The price of discipline is always less than the pain of regret. - Nido R Qubein quote

The price of discipline is always less than the pain of regret. — Nido R Qubein

Be proud of your scars. They remind you that you have the will to live. - Paulo Coelho quote

Be proud of your scars. They remind you that you have the will to live. — Paulo Coelho

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. - Eleanor Roosevelt quote

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Time itself is the solution to all problems. - P. V. Narasimha Rao quote

Time itself is the solution to all problems. — P. V. Narasimha Rao

A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes. - Mahatma Gandhi quote

A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes. — Mahatma Gandhi

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages. - Virginia Woolf quote

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages. — Virginia Woolf

The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear. - Mahatma Gandhi quote

The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear. — Mahatma Gandhi

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. - Hannah Arendt quote

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt

Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave. - A. A. Milne quote

Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave. — A. A. Milne

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