“Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.”
“How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.”
“THINK. Think about your appearance, associations, actions, ambitions, accomplishment.”
“If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.”
“In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.”
“There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.”
“Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.”
“I have known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, but never had a thought.”
“There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.”
“Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these.”
“When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.”
“Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.”
“Thinking and Thought: Thoughts are funny little things, They can make paupers or make kings.”
“You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.”
“If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.”
“Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.”
“No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.”
“I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.”
“My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.”
“Do not think that what your thoughts dwell upon is of no matter. Your thoughts are making you.”
“They use thought only to justify their injustices, and speech only to disguise their thoughts.”
“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”
“When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.”
“Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.”
“We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.”
“In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.”
“To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.”
“All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.”
“The ''how'' thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ''ifs.''”
“Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.”