Quotes about Thoughts
We become what we think about all day long.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Words were something, and it was a lie from the enemy to say words were nothing. Words were something, because words led to actions. As a man thinks, so he is. As he speaks, so he becomes.
- Randy Ingermanson
Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joy, laughter and jests, as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs, and tears.
- Hippocrates
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement.
- Napoleon Hill
No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability.
- Samuel Johnson
O ye powers that search The heart of man, and weigh his inmost thoughts, If I have done amiss, impute it not! The best may err, but you are good.
- Joseph Addison
Men think all things would be very glorious if they might be done according to their mind. Perhaps, indeed, they would-but with their glory, not the glory of God.
- John Owen
We should judge a man much more surely from what he dreams than from what he thinks.
- Victor Hugo
Thoughts that most frequently occupy the mind determine a man's course of action.
- David O. McKay
What disturbs and alarms man are not the things, but his opinions and fancies about the things.
- Epictetus
It is the man who does not want to express an opinion whose opinion I want.
- Abraham Lincoln
What is essential in the life of a man of my kind is what he thinks and how he thinks, and not what he does or suffers.
- Albert Einstein