You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

Thinking more than others about our own thoughts is not self-centeredness. It means that if asked what's on our mind, we are less likely to mention being aware of the world around us, and more likely to mention our inner reflections. But we are less likely to mention thinking about other people.

You live with your thoughts -- so be careful what they are.

If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.

No matter how hard you work for success if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.

The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.

A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever, is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things. [Philippians 4:8]

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.

We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.

We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world.

Thought is the parent of the deed.

There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.

Man is what he believes.

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

I thought so hard I got a headache.

Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentialities and capabilities?

The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.

There is a big difference between thinking: I'm in a relationship and something's wrong. Therefore something must be wrong with the relationship. and thinking I'm in a relationship and we've got problems. This is evidence that you are different than me.

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves from our senses and experience the world even less directly. We can think about our life, rather than thinking in our life. We can think about what we think about our life, and we can think about what we think about that. We can shift perceptual positions many times over.

A man's what he thinks about all day long

The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.

Thought makes every thing fit for use.

What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

Either you think -- or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.

Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.

Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

What was once thought can never be unthought.

Thought is, perhaps, the forerunner and even the mother of ideas, and ideas are the most powerful and the most useful things in the world.

All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.

Thought would destroy their paradise.

How you look at a situation is very important, for how you think about a problem may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. When you get discouraged or depressed, try changing your attitude from negative to positive and see how life can change for you. Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it -- you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory.

Every thought we think is creating our future.

Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.

Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody.

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being. We are constantly reminded that the one superiority that man has over other animals is the ability to think. It is primarily our ability to think that sets us apart from other animals.

The average person thinks he isn't.

If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. One must fight one's way through before regaining one's original primal state. If one succeeds in the fight and reaches the goal, the enemy, namely the thoughts, will all subside in the Self and disappear entirely.

I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed.

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.

The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment and financial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking. Thought rules the world.

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these.

You become what you think about.

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs."

When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.

We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.

When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth more than ruin more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.

Thought is free.

Do not think that what your thoughts dwell upon is of no matter. Your thoughts are making you.

Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.

Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

A man of meditation is happy, not for an hour or a day, but quite round the circle of all his years.

Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.

I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me.

Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.

Having each some shingles of thought well dried, we sat and whittled them.

Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.

Some have half-baked ideas because their ideals are not heated up enough.

The brain that bubbles with phrases has hard work to collect its thoughts.

The reason there are so few good talkers in public is that there are so few thinkers in private.

A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.