The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people. — Leo Tolstoy
Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they are executed. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable. — Francis Bacon
The mind is free and the slightest thought has great influence. It is therefore important that you think enlightened thoughts. — Moroccan Proverbs
Thoughts are like drops of water: with our thoughts we can drown in a sea of negativity, or we can float on the ocean of life. — Louise Hay
Great thoughts are against all doctrines of conformity — Austin Osman Spare
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind. — Theodore Roosevelt
An open mind leaves a chance for someone to drop a worthwhile thought in it. — Mark Twain
Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. — Bryan Adams
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
Beautify your thoughts. Thoughts are the headwaters of action, life and manifestation. — David Wolfe
Let positive, strong, helpful thoughts enter into your brains from very childhood. Lay yourselves open to these thoughts, and not to weakening and paralysing ones. — Swami Vivekananda
Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit. — James Allen
Good thoughts are no better than good dreams if you don't follow through. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Positive thoughts lead to positive results. — Maria V. Snyder
Short Useful Thoughts Quotes
Garner up pleasant thoughts in your mind, for pleasant thoughts make pleasant lives. — John Wilkins
Thoughts Become Things... Choose The Good Ones! — Mike Dooley
The thought: A logical inquiry — Gottlob Frege
The mind is like an umbrella. Its most useful when open. — Walter Gropius
One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings — Diogenes
Be vigilant; guard your mind against negative thoughts — Buddha
Thought is an errand boy, fear a mine of worries. — Yunus Emre
Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones. — Thomas More
The value of an idea lies in the using of it. — Thomas A. Edison
Good thinking brings good feeling and good feeling brings good thinking. — Jimmy Cliff
I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so I wondered, what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks? — George Carlin
True ambition is not what we thought it was. True ambition is the profound desire to live usefully and walk humbly under the grace of God. — Bill W.
We are perfect and it's just for us to acknowledge this aspect of us, be conscious in our thoughts and use mind power to bring forth the betterment of the nation. — Sizzla
Pay close attention to the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness. — Byron Katie
You are searching for the magic key that will unlock the door to the source of power; and yet you have the key in your own hands, and you may use it the moment you learn to control your thoughts. — Napoleon Hill
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of. — Burt Bacharach
You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment. — Alvin Toffler
I used to like fishing because I thought it had some larger significance. Now I like fishing because it's the one thing I can think of that probably doesn't. — John Gierach
Initially, I thought that Ethereum was a thing that would be used for people to write simple financial scripts. As it turns out, people are writing stuff like Augur on top of it. — Vitalik Buterin
Useful Thoughts Image Quotes
The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.
Thoughtful 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
I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be. — Ken Venturi
Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.
The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly. — Jim Rohn
Management is about persuading people to do things they do not want to do, while leadership is about inspiring people to do things they never thought they could. — Steve Jobs
Wonderful Thoughts Quotes
Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds; your mind transcends limitations; your conscious expands in every direction; and you find yourself in a great, new and wonderful world. — Patanjali
I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded in its flank was wonderful. — Betty Smith
If you have a bad thought about yourself, tell it to go to hell because that is exactly where it came from.
Patience, grasshopper," said Maia. "Good things come to those who wait." "I always thought that was 'Good things come to those who do the wave,'" said Simon. "No wonder I've been so confused all my life. — Cassandra Clare
Babies are always more trouble than you thought and more wonderful. — Charles Osgood
I always have on my mind the thought that next year I must do something greater, something more wonderful. — Harry Houdini
Someday this pain will be useful to you.
Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains. — Alfred North Whitehead
The greatest gift in life is the ability to think great thoughts and have the strength to take action so that those thoughts become reality in this wonderful and abundant world. — Jack Black
A week ago it was the mountains I thought the most wonderful, and today it's the plains. I guess it's the feeling of bigness in both that carries me away. — Georgia O'Keeffe
I change my life when I change my thinking.
I am Light. I am Spirit.
I am a wonderful, capable being.
And it is time for me to acknowledge
that I create my own reality with my thoughts.
If I want to change my reality,
then it is time for me to change my mind. — Louise Hay
Random Thoughts Quotes
Creative thought must always contain a random component. — Gregory Bateson
Listen to your hunches, pay attention to your intuition, do not dismiss your random thoughts, inspirations or ideas.... They could be giving you the best advice you ever had. — Neale Donald Walsch
Talking about one's feelings defeats the purpose of having those feelings. Once you try to put the human experience into words, it becomes little more than a spectator sport. Everything must have a cause, and a name. Every random thought must have a root in something else. — Derek Landy
Try no to resist the changes that come in your way. Instead, let life live through you. And do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come? How Rumi Can Change Your Life?
Talk to people no one else is talking to. Who would have thought that giving a speech at a funeral at age 12 would introduce me to a man who would introduce me to my first business contact who would introduce me to several other important people in my life. That's luck. That's randomness. — Ben Casnocha
It was our use of probability theory as logic that has enabled us to do so easily what was impossible for those who thought of probability as a physical phenomenon associated with "randomness". Quite the opposite; we have thought of probability distributions as carriers of information. — Edwin Thompson Jaynes
For me, it feels like my ideas are more specific to random thoughts or single ideas I might have, as opposed to being influenced by a general perception of absurdity. — Jon Glaser
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.
It's funny, the whole cooking thing came out of just a random thought of writing a cookbook with my mom and my sister for fun. — Trisha Yearwood
I learned a lot. I really did. Millennium is a state of mind. I always thought of Frank Black as the greatest chess player that could take random pieces of information and string them together into a scenario that was accurate. I never thought of him as a psychic at all. We need people like that. — Lance Henriksen
Those who express random thoughts to legislative committees are often surprised and appalled to find themselves the instigators of law. — Mark B. Cohen
What a strange, demented feeling it gives me when I realize I have spent whole days before this ink stone, with nothing better to do, jotting down at random whatever nonsensical thoughts have entered my head. — Yoshida Kenko
Simple Thoughts Quotes
The only way you will ever awaken is through silence, not through analyzation of facts. Not by sorting out good and bad, but through simple silence, letting go. Letting go of all thoughts, all the hurts, all the dogmas and concepts. Letting go of these things daily. — Robert Adams
Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts. — Walker Evans
A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer. — Doris Lessing
One small positive thought in the morning can change you whole day.
God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that. — Joseph Campbell
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
It is essential that in a society, divine thoughts and power should co-exist. Simple Faith, not backed by material forces, is weak and Strength without touch of Divinity is monstrous. — Pandurang Shastri Athavale
How amazing is it to find someone who wants to hear about all the things that go in your head.
My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win... channel your energy. Focus. — Carl Lewis
She thought about how it was so simple with animals. They gave their hearts without question or fear. They had no expectations. They were so easy to love. If people could only be like that, no one would ever be hurt, she thought. No one would ever need to learn how to forgive. — Elizabeth George
The simple part is, every thought we think and every word we speak is creating our future. If you change your thinking, you can change your life. — Louise Hay
Honor is a simple word; it means to give special respect and to pay tribute. It means to respond to teachings that have been patiently and thoughtfully given. Each of our families would be more happy if we as children would honor our fathers and our mothers. — Hugh W. Pinnock
Powerful Thoughts Quotes
If you think down, you will go down. If you think up, you will go up. You’ll always travel in the direction of your thinking. — T. D. Jakes
Your mind is a powerful thing. When you filter it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change. — Buddha
Authority, power, and wealth do not change a man; they only reveal him — Ali ibn Abi Talib
There is a voice that doesn't use words. Listen.
Since everything is a reflection of our minds, everything can be changed by our minds. — Buddha
When you do not seek or need approval, you are at your most powerful. — Caroline Myss
Don't use a lot where a little will do.
Your subconscious mind does not argue with you. It accepts what your conscious mind decrees. If you say, "I can't afford it," your subconscious mind works to make it true. Select a better thought. Decree, "I'll buy it. I accept it in my mind." — Joseph Murphy
YOUR WORD IS YOUR WAND. THE WORDS YOU SPEAK CREATE YOUR OWN DESTINY — Florence Scovel Shinn
You have considerable power to construct self-helping thoughts, feelings and actions as well as to construct self-defeating behaviors. You have the ability, if you use it, to choose healthy instead of unhealthy thinking, feeling and acting. — Albert Ellis
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. — Maya Angelou
Good Thoughts Quotes
I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day. — Dalai Lama
You are perfect exactly as you are. With all your flaws and problems, there's no need to change anything. All you need to change is the thought that you aren't good enough. — J. Cole
Turn yourself not away from three best things: Good Thought, Good Word, and Good Deed. — Zoroaster
You must sacrifice every thought, every ideology for the good of the nation and for the serenity of our fatherhood. — Francisco Franco
Your good thoughts, good words and good deeds alone will be your intercessors. Nothing more will be wanted. They alone will serve you as a safe pilot to the harbour of Heaven, as a safe guide to the gates of paradise. — Zoroaster
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. — Stevie Wonder
If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely. — Roald Dahl
Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny. — Mahatma Gandhi
After you have made a decision that is pleasing to God, the Devil may try to make you have second thoughts. Intensify your prayer time, meditation, and good deeds. For if Satan's temptations merely cause you to increase your efforts to grow in holiness, he'll have an incentive to leave you alone. — Ignatius of Loyola
Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work. — Adrienne Rich
Information is Power. Think For Yourself. CAUTION: proper use of the brain is not endorsed by federal governments nor huge corporations involved in serious financial profit from a brainwashed and enslaved population. Mild discomfort may occur as confusing independent thought challenges popular views of the world. — Timothy Leary
When Jerry Lewis and I were big, we used to go to parties, and everybody thought I was big-headed and stuck up, and I wasn't. It was because I didn't know how to speak good English, so I used to keep my mouth shut. — Dean Martin
Adam was a super being when God created him...he had dominion over the fowls of the air which means he used to fly...well of course how could you have dominion over the birds and not be able to do what they do. Adam flew into space, with one thought he would be on the moon. — Benny Hinn
Some people left you for dead. They thought it was over. They said you're hopeless, you're helpless. You can't be used. You're not ministry material. You're going to be poor. You're going to be messed up.But guess what?Tell the devil, go to hell. You're a liar. — Paula White
Question your thoughts.
Question your stories.
Question your assumptions.
Question your opinions.
Question your conclusions.
Question them all into utter emptiness, stillness and joy.
The keys to freedom are in your hands.
Use them. — Adyashanti
You only have control over three things in your life - the thoughts you think, the images you visualize, and the actions you take (your behavior). How you use these three things determines everything you experience. If you don't like what you are producing and experiencing, you have to change your responses. — Jack Canfield
There are three types of thought that our brains produce: insightful used for problem-solving, experiential focused on the task at hand, and narrative chatter. Those types are so distinctively different from each other that they occur in different parts of our brain. — Mo Gawdat
True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense. — Emanuel Swedenborg
As soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences everything gets distorted, language is just no damn good—I use it because I have to, but I don’t put any trust in it. We never understand each other. — Marcel Duchamp
Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out. — Stephen Hawking
Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience. — Henry David Thoreau
But we are living in a sceptical and, if I may use the phrase, a thought-tormented age: and sometimes I fear that this new generation, educated or hyper-educated as it is, will lack those qualities of humanity, of hospitality, of kindly humour which belonged to an older day. — James Joyce
The single thought that can empower us to empower the world: Mankind’s use of fossil fuels is supremely virtuous-because the human life is the standard of value, and because using fossil fuels transforms our environment to make it wonderful for human life. — Alex Epstein
There are five main purposes of central bank cooperation"..."the provision of international credits and joint efforts to influence asset prices (especially gold and foreign exchange) in circumstances where this might be thought useful. — William Smith White
I had a rule that I had to go to bed before the sun came up. So I used to look up the sunrise times because I thought it would be bad karma to be going to bed as dawn was arriving. — Eric Schmidt
Forget not, never forget that you have promised me to use this silver to become an honest man.... Jean Valjean, my brother: you belong no longer to evil, but to good. It is your soul that I am buying for you. I withdraw it from dark thoughts and from the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God! — Victor Hugo
I refuse to go into a fast-food outlet - to use the toilet even - in case anyone got the wrong idea and thought I was sneaking in a quick burger. — Jonny Wilkinson
As an adult (after college) and as an artist I thought about what was real, what sustained me - it was Christian Science. I was using that when I didn't know it. Saying yes to the Light and your better instinct. — Alfre Woodard
I think cinema should provoke thoughts, sure, but using it as I soapbox I think is the wrong place. — Jeremy Renner
Chess books should be used as we use glasses: to assist the sight, although some players make use of them as if they thought they conferred sight — Jose Raul Capablanca
For a long time, I used to think that I had a man's brain that I thought more like a man than a woman. But now I've come to realise that whatever it is I do think like, it's not like men; because men don't really think like men, they think like boys. — David Baddiel
Risky, thought Paul D, very risky. For a used-to-be-slave woman to love anything that much was dangerous, especially if it was her children she had settled on to love. The best thing, he knew, was to love just a little bit, so when they broke its back, or shoved it in a croaker sack, well, maybe you'd have a little love left over for the next one. — Toni Morrison
Around 25% of Brazilians are thought to live in the infamous favela slums. When one in four of a state’s population is in abject poverty, it is difficult for the state to become rich. But Brazil will keep working to create a South American powerhouse by using its diplomatic and increasing economic strength. It has managed to maintain good relations with all the other eleven South American nations despite having a border with nine of them. — Tim Marshall
Awareness is not the same as thought. It lies beyond thinking, although it makes no use of thinking, honoring it's value and it's power. Awareness is more like a vessel which can hold and contain our thinking, helping us to see and know our thought as thought rather than getting caught up in them as reality. — Jon Kabat-Zinn
The theory that thought is merely a movement in the brain is, in my opinion, nonsense; for if so, that theory itself would be merely a movement, an event among atoms, which may have speed and direction but of which it would be meaningless to use the words 'true' or 'false'. — C. S. Lewis
Forgiving is not forgetting; its actually remembering--remembering and not using your right to hit back. Its a second chance for a new beginning. And the remembering part is particularly important. Especially if you dont want to repeat what happened. — Desmond Tutu
Real change comes when people are enabled to use their thinking and their energy in a new way, using a different system of thought, different language, and having fresh visions of the future. — Scilla Elworthy
Visible things can be invisible. However, our powers of thought grasp both the visible and the invisible – and I make use of painting to render thoughts visible. — Rene Magritte
We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4am of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends. We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. — Joan Didion
When I was 40, I used to wonder what people thought of me. Now I wonder what I think of them. — Brooke Astor
By the inquiry 'Who am I?'.
The thought 'who am I?' will destroy all other thoughts,
and like the stick used for stirring the burning pyre, it will itself in the end get destroyed. Then, there will arise Self-realization. — Ramana Maharshi
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