Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Thoughts

Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.

Rene Descartes

A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.

Paul Valery

Make not your thoughts your prisons.

William Shakespeare

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

James Lane Allen

Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him. For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.

Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus

Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language.

Cicero

There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.

Voltaire

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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In every work of genius we see our own rejected thoughts.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts, therefore guard accordingly; and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue, and reasonable nature.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel.

William Shakespeare

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In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best.

Euripides

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When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts.

Anzia Yezierska

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Thoughts are but dreams till their effects be tried.

William Shakespeare

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My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.

Walter Landor

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No man deserves punishment for his thoughts.

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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.

Charles Darwin

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Our thoughts are free.

Cicero

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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.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom and ever three parts coward.

William Shakespeare

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Call home thy ancient thoughts from banishment.

William Shakespeare

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But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool.

William Shakespeare

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In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts, and strives without fear to do justice to them.

Berthold Auerbach

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Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become your character. Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.

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My words fly up, my thoughts remain below. Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

William Shakespeare

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All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.

Albert Camus

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There is nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

William Shakespeare