The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.
—Norman Vincent Peale (1898–1993) American Clergyman, Self-Help Author
That’s where the fear comes from—from your uninvestigated thoughts.
—Byron Katie (b.1942) American Speaker, Author
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
Some have half-baked ideas because their ideals are not heated up enough.
—Unknown
It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish Playwright
I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not.
—Clare Boothe Luce (1903–87) American Playwright, Diplomat, Journalist, Diplomat, Elected Rep
Think twice before you speak to a friend in need.
—Ambrose Bierce (1842–1913) American Short-story Writer, Journalist
I have discovered that in every language and every country I have visited, there are no new stories. They’re all recycled. The same stressful thoughts arise in each mind one way or another, sooner or later.
—Byron Katie (b.1942) American Speaker, Author
Far more numerous are those as such; who think to little and talk to much.
—John Dryden (1631–1700) English Poet, Literary Critic, Playwright
Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.
—Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born Physicist
I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me.
—Sara Teasdale (1884–1933) American Poet
Every thought we think is creating our future.
—Louise Hay (b.1926) American Author
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless—like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
—Bruce Lee (1940–73) American Martial Artist, Actor, Philosopher
Let your thoughts be ruled by principle, and then live up to your thoughts.
—Wallace Wattles (1860–1911) American New Thought Author
Vacant minds must have their uses, yet it seems a pity to waste first-class bodies on them.
—Indian Proverb
Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German Poet
Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–94) American Physician, Essayist
When you do The Work, you see who you are by seeing who you think other people are. Eventually you come to see that everything outside you is a reflection of your own thinking. You are the storyteller, the projector of all stories, and the world is the projected image of your thoughts.
—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
Thought and action can be perceived as two different dimensions of who you are: the mental you and the physical you
—Steve Pavlina (b.1971) American Motivational Speaker
He that never thinks can never be wise.
—Samuel Johnson (1709–84) British Essayist
Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English Essayist
Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.
—Blaise Pascal (1623–62) French Mathematician, Physicist, Theologian
As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.
—Buddhist Teaching
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
Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts; for the soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. Soak it then in such trains of thoughts as, for example: Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible.
—Marcus Aurelius (121–180) Emperor of Rome, Stoic Philosopher
Make a decision that from now on, your thoughts do not run you, you run your thoughts. From now on, your mind is not the captain of your ship, you are the captain of the ship, and your mind works for you.
—T. Harv Eker (b.1954) American Motivational Speaker, Lecturer, Author
Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
—Victor Hugo (1802–85) French Novelist
Thoughts are funny little things; they can make paupers or make kings.
—Sidney Madwed (1926–2013) American Poet, Author
High thoughts must have high language.
—Aristophanes (447–386 BCE) Greek Comic Playwright