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 Journalist, Self-Help Author
Your programming leads to your thoughts; your thoughts lead to your feelings; your feelings lead to your actions; your actions leads to your results. Therefore, just as is done with a personal computer, by changing your programming, you take the first essential step to changing your results.
—T. Harv Eker (b.1954) American Motivational Speaker, Lecturer, Author
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 (1803–82) American Philosopher
We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.
—Jose Ortega y. Gasset (1883–1955) Spanish Critic, Journalist, Philosopher
Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
—Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) American Author, Journalist, Attorney, Lecturer
When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–65) American Head of State
There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902) British Victorian Novelist, Essayist, Critic
All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.
—James Lane Allen (1849–1925) American Novelist, Short Story Writer
Cherish your visions. Cherish your ideals. Cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow all delightful conditions, all heavenly environment; of these, if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built.
—James Allen (1864–1912) British Philosophical Writer
Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish Poet, Playwright
Learn to think like a winner. Think positive and visualize your strengths.
—Vic Braden (b.1929) American Sportsperson, Author
Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.
—Robert Frost (1874–1963) American Poet
Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.
—Buddhist Teaching
All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.
—George Santayana (1863–1952) Spanish-American Poet, Philosopher
Writing is another powerful way to sharpen the mental saw. Keeping a journal of our thoughts, experiences, insights, and learnings promotes mental clarity, exactness, and context.
—Stephen Covey (1932–2012) American Self-help Author
Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.
—Octavio Paz (1914–98) Mexican Poet, Diplomat
If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.
—Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919) Scottish-American Industrialist
Think then act safely.
—Unknown
If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.
—Blaise Pascal (1623–62) French Mathematician, Physicist, Theologian
What is the hardest thing in the world? To think.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
Planning allows you to mentally create a model of your future.
—Steve Pavlina (b.1971) American Motivational Speaker
It’s important to realize that inquiry is about noticing, not about dropping the thought… Inquiry is not about getting rid of thoughts; it’s about realizing what’s true for you, through awareness and unconditional self-love. Once you see the truth, the thought lets go of you, not the other way around.
—Byron Katie (b.1942) American Speaker, Author
How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seed time of character?
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–62) American Philosopher
The law of the harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit; sow a habit, and you reap a character; sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
—George Boardman the Younger (1828–1903) American Clergyman, Author
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.
—Thomas Paine (1737–1809) American Nationalist, Author, Pamphleteer, Inventor
When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–92) French Essayist
An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent.
—Charles Mackay (1814–89) Scottish Poet, Journalist, Songwriter
No one on earth has lived through the exact same experiences you have, and no one thinks the exact same thoughts you do.
—Steve Pavlina (b.1971) American Motivational Speaker
It’s only a thought, and a thought can be changed.
—Louise Hay (1926–2017) American Self-Help Author, Speaker
Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it. and never destroy it.
—Thomas a Kempis (1379–1471) German Religious Priest, Writer
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