“As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.”
“A man of meditation is happy, not for an hour or a day, but quite round the circle of all his years.”
“We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world.”
“You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.”
“An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent.”
“Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.”
“I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not.”
“We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.”
“Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.”
“Every thought you entertain is a force that goes out, and every thought comes back laden with its kind.”
“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.”
“For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.”
“Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.”
“Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.”
“The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.”
“Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking.”
“It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.”
“If you make people think they're thinking they'll love you: but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.”
“Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.”
“Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.”
“The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.”
“We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.”
“What stops people in their tracks is a small mental packet of energy. It is called a thought. They think ''I can't.''”
“Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.”
“He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.”
“It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.”
“Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.”
“It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.”
“We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.”
“The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.”