Thoughts Quotes

You will never be greater than the thoughts that dominate your mind

You are the sum total of your dominating or most prominent thoughts.

A person's acts are always in harmony with the dominating thoughts of his or her mind.

The harder you try to forget something, the more you think about it subconsciously.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if our mind growled like our stomach does when it is hungry?

I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things, so that all our thoughts shall be tinged with triviality.

The dew seemed to sparkle more brightly on the green leaves the air to rustle among them with a sweeter music and the sky itself to look more blue and bright. Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercise, even over the appearance of external objects.

Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad results; bad thoughts and actions can never produce good results … We understand this law in the natural world, and work with it; but few understand it in the mental and moral world—although its operation there is just as simple and undeviating— and they, therefore, do not cooperate with it.

Once I realized that right thinking is vital to victorious living, I got more serious about thinking about what I was thinking about, and choosing my thoughts carefully.

Much like the hands of a clock go nowhere fast, anxious thoughts run us round-and-round without taking us anywhere!

Do you have to think specific positive thoughts about your body in order for your body to be the way you want it to be? No. But you have to not think the specific negative thoughts. If you could never again think about your body and, instead, just think pleasant thoughts - your body would reclaim its place of Well-being.

That which you think today becomes that which you are tomorrow.

Good thoughts are blessed guests, and should be heartily welcomed, well fed, and much sought after. Like rose leaves, they give out a sweet smell if laid up in the jar of memory.

Every man is what he is, because of the DOMINATING THOUGHTS which he permits to occupy his mind.

All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.

It really is true that you are what you are and where you are because of what has gone into your mind, and you can change what you are and where you are by changing what goes into your mind.

Whatever your mind feeds upon your mind attracts to you.

We're wanting you to come to the place where you're beginning to offer your thought deliberately. Where you are guiding your thoughts on purpose, where you are the creator of your own experience. Because you are the manager of your own thought

We become what we think about all day long. The qustion is, "What do you think about?"

Keep your mind going in the right direction, and your life will catch up with it.

Whatever you're thinking about is literally like planning a future event. When you're worrying, you are planning. When you are appreciating, you are planning...What are you planning?

I feel that if I kept it secret it might grow in my mind (as poisonous things grow in the dark) and take its place with the other terrible thoughts that gnaw me

Think and grow rich.

All you are or ever shall become is the result of the use to which you put your mind.

Happiness is something that you are, and it comes from the way you think.

The power to think as you wish to think is the only power over which you have absolute control.

Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself. All day long, the mill of his brain is grinding, and his thoughts, not those of other things, are his history. These are his life, and they are not written. Everyday would make a whole book of 80,000 words -- 365 books a year. Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man -- the biography of the man himself cannot be written.

Attitude is your thought life turned inside out

I could not help wondering in my own mind....how it came to pass that our joints of meat were of such extraordinary shapes - and whether our butcher contracted for all the deformed sheep that came into the world; but I kept my reflections to myself.

Look past your thoughts, so you may drink the pure nectar of This Moment.

Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts.

All your behavior results from the thoughts that precede it.

What you feed your mind determines your appetite.

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of the state of your mind.

Your thoughts really, truly shape everything in your life that you feel and experience.

The only thing worried thoughts have the power to change is what the next thing will be for you to worry over!

Attitudes are nothing more than habits of thought.

Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power. The thing itself cannot touch you. But if you allow your fear to seep into your mind and overtake your thoughts, it will rob you of your life.

It is in the contemplation of what you desire that you create what it is you want for yourself

Dress not thy thoughts in too fine a raiment. And be not a man of superfluous words or superfluous deeds.

There is no such thing as stress; only people thinking stressful thoughts.

Life is a mirror of your consistent thoughts.

We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.

I have shed pewter tears! It is too melancholy! Rather let me go to the wars and lose arms and legs! It would at least be a change. I cannot bear it longer! Now, I know what it is to have a visit from one's old thoughts, with what they may bring with them! I have had a visit from mine, and you may be sure it is no pleasant thing in the end; I was at last about to jump down from the drawers.

Watch your thoughts, they become your words.

Where you now stand is a result of thoughts and feelings that you have offered before, but where you are going is a result of your perspective of where you now stand.

The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.

Destructive thoughts and emotions undermine the very causes of peace and happiness. If you think clearly about it, it makes no sense to think you’re seeking happiness, if you do nothing to restrain angry, spiteful, and malicious thoughts and emotions.

Wellness that is being allowed - or the wellness that is being denied - is all about the mindset, the mood, the attitude, the practiced thoughts. There is not one exception, in any human or beast; because, you can patch them up again and again, and they will just find another way of reverting back to the natural rhythm of their mind. Treating the body really is about treating the mind. It is all psychosomatic. Every bit of it, no exceptions.

Wherever you are, at whatever age, you're only a thought away from changing your life.

You become what you think about

A man only begins to be a man when he ceases to whine and revile, and commences to search for the hidden justice which regulates his life. And he adapts his mind to that regulating factor, he ceases to accuse others as the cause of his condition, and builds himself up in strong and noble thoughts; ceases to kick against circumstances, but begins to use them as aids to his more rapid progress, and as a means of the hidden powers and possibilities within himself.

Bless people when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing by helping to stamp out the false ego. Hold fast to the real Self. Think only pure thoughts, and you will accomplish more than a regiment of mere preachers. Out of purity and silence comes the word of power.

She that fails to command her thoughts will soon lose command of her actions.

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.

If you can't control what you think, you will not be able to control what you do.

Thoughts are living things - they travel far.