thoughts quotes

• All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking. (Friedrich Nietzsche) [thoughts]
• Memory and imagination help [a man] as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. (William Morris) [memory/imagination/thoughts/thoughts]
• The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts. (John Locke) [men/thoughts]
• We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation. (Jane Fonda) [control/thoughts/control/words]
• Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. (Thomas Gray) [poetry/thoughts/words]
• When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child. (Sophia Loren) [mother/thoughts/mother/think]
• In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind. (William Wordsworth) [thoughts/thoughts/mind]
• Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight. (Francis Bacon) [thoughts]
• Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable. (Francis Bacon) [thoughts/moment]
• One essential to success is that your desire be an all-obsessing one, your thoughts and aim be coordinated, and your energy be concentrated and applied without letup. (Claude M. Bristol) [desire/thoughts]
• It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us. (Samuel Butler) [thoughts]
• Seek always for the answer within. Be not influenced by those around you, by their thoughts or their words (Eileen Caddy) [thoughts/words]
• All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. (Albert Camus) [thoughts]
• The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand. (Elias Canetti) [thoughts/order]
• Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness the thoughts, the emotion and the actual condition of their own heart, others will listen because we all are knit together by the tie of sympathy. (Thomas Carlyle) [thoughts/condition/willpower]
• Action hangs, as it were, dissolved in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of speech in a man betokens the kind of action you will get from him. (Thomas Carlyle) [action/speech/thoughts/speech]
• Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope. (Thomas Carlyle) [/change/thoughts/change]
• There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends. (Miguel De Cervantes) [strange/thoughts/sorrow/men]
• Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to as much disadvantage, and be as ill received, as your person, though ever so well-proportioned, would if dressed in rags, dirt, and tatters. (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield) [literary style/thoughts/literary style/willpower]
• The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large. ( Confucius) [more/thoughts/willpower]
• Study the best and highest things that are; but of yourself humble thoughts retain. (Joe Davis) [thoughts]
• Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power. (Rene Descartes) [thoughts/power]
• Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think. (Benjamin Disraeli) [mind/thoughts/willpower/think]
• Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is, with thoughts of what may be. (John Dryden) [happiness/care/thoughts]
• The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem... I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists. (Marcel Duchamp) [thoughts/thoughts/design/beauty]
• She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts. (George Eliot) [misfortune/thoughts]
• Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better. (George Eliot) [more/thoughts]
• Great people are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [people/thoughts]
• Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [desire/thoughts]
• In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [genius/thoughts]
• By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [delight/thoughts]

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