66 Thought Quotes
that Show the Power of Thoughts

Welcome to Thought Quotes. The quotes given here prove beyond doubt that it is thought that creates, and that thought precedes action.

It is now universally recognised that destiny, good luck, bad luck, fortune, misfortune, etc. are all euphemisms for "result of thinking".

The only person/thing/activity affecting the course of our life is our thoughts. Ancient sages have been telling this, modern psychologists have been reiterating this. The following thought quotes will prove that. As we think, so we are. Hence the Bible says, "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he." (Proverbs 23:7) Also, in Job 3:25, there is - "For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me".

What we think about regularly, that reality is created for us. Change your thinking, change your life. The following thought quotes tell us what the famous and successful think about the power of thought.

Thought Quotes 1

• It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
  ~ Christian Nevell Bovee
  
  

• In your hands will be placed the exact results of your thoughts; you will receive that which you earn, no more, no less. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fail, remain, or rise with your thoughts, your wisdom, desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
  ~ James Allen
  
  

• It's not the situation that's causing your stress, it's your thoughts, and you can change that right here and now. You can choose to be peaceful right here and now. Peace is a choice, and it has nothing to do with what other people do or think.
  ~ Gerald G. Jampolsky, MD
  
  

Thought Quotes 2

• The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.
  ~ Robert M. Pirsig
  
  

• The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts: and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible.
  ~ Montaigne
  
  

• Beautiful things happen when you distance yourself from ugly thoughts.
  ~ Matshona Dhliwayo
  
  

• Your mind is a ship; it can sail across the universe as long as you don't allow negative thoughts to sink it.
  ~ Matshona Dhliwayo
  

• The significant problems we face in life can not be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
  ~ Albert Einstein
  
  

• The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
  ~ Marcus Aurelius
  
  

Thought Quotes 3

• You have powers you never dreamed of. You can do things you never thought you could do. There are no limitations in what you can do except the limitations of your own mind.
  ~ Darwin P. Kingsley
  
  

• Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.
  ~ Henri Bergson

• Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
  ~ Margaret Mead

• Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
  ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  

• Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.
  ~ Sam Harris
  

• The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
  ~ Marcus Aurelius

• You are a product of your mind, a result of your thoughts, and a consequence of your actions.
  ~ Matshona Dhliwayo
  
  
  
• The seeds of happiness can grow from one thought, one idea, one simple change in focus.
  ~ Charles F. Glassman
  
  

Thought Quotes 4

• The truth is that stress doesn't come from your boss, your kids, your spouse, traffic jams, health challenges, or other circumstances. It comes from your thoughts about these circumstances.
  ~ Andrew J. Bernstein
  
  

• Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
  ~ Alexander Graham Bell
  
  

• Our thoughts create our reality - where we put our focus is the direction we tend to go.
  ~ Peter McWilliams

• Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.
  ~ Henry Ford
  
  

• Thought creates character.
  ~ Annie Besant
  
  

• Man’s power of choice enables him to think like an angel or a devil, a king or a slave. Whatever he chooses, mind will create and manifest.
  ~ Frederick Bailes
  
  

• Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
  ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
  
  

• Nothing is good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
  ~ William Shakespeare

Thought Quotes 5

• Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.
  ~ Benjamin Disraeli
  
  

• Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.
  ~ Sidney Madwed
  
  

• Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
  ~ Dale Carnegie
  
  

• The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy.
  ~ Florence Shinn
  
  

• The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.
  ~ Norman Vincent Peale
  
  

• 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.
  ~ Joseph Edward Murphy
  
  

• No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.
  ~ Voltaire
  
  

• No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head.
  ~ Terry Josephson
  
  

Thought Quotes 6

• You and I are not what we eat; we are what we think.
  ~ Walter Anderson

• He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.
  ~ Isaac Newton

• A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.
  ~ Victor Hugo
  
  
  
• Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.
  ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
  
  
  
• A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.
  ~ James Allen
  
  
  
• Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous.
  ~ Confucius
  
  

• The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but you thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking.
  ~ Eckhart Tolle
  
  

Thought Quotes 7

• For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.
  ~ Kahlil Gibran
  
  

• You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
  ~ Somerset Maugham
  
  
  
• Those who cannot attack the thought, instead attack the thinker.
  ~ Paul Valéry
  
  

• Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself.
  ~ Plato
  
  
  
• Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own.
  ~ Shakespeare
  
  

• Few have at once both thought and capacity for action. Thought expands, but lames; action animates, but narrows.
  ~ Goethe
  
  
  
• Thought once awakened does not again slumber.
  ~ Carlyle
  
  

• Thought is the property of those only who can entertain it.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
  
  

Thought Quotes 8

• Thinkers are scarce as gold; but he whose thoughts embrace all his subject, pursues it uninterruptedly and fearless of consequences, is a diamond of enormous size.
  ~ Lavater
  
  

• Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
  
  
  
• Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
  ~ Bacon
  
  

• Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
  ~ August Hare
  
  
  
• The charm of a deed is its doing; the charm of a life is its living; the soul of the thing is the thought.
  ~ Eugene F. Ware
  
  

• Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.
  ~ Josiah Royce
  
  
  
• You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control.
  ~ Elizabeth Gilbert
  
  

• If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
  ~ Roald Dahl
  
  
  
• You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
  ~ Mahatma Gandhi
  
  

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