Thought Quotes

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln

Fool, Doubt, Speak

I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.
Ken Venturi

Else, Everybody

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

Money, Worth, Warm

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
Mark Twain

Fool, Doubt, Silent

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle

Mind, Able, Educated

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
Henry David Thoreau

Mind, Deep, Single

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
Oscar Wilde

Life, Money, Important

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A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.
John Ruskin

Money, Great, Kindness

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.
Buddha

Wise, Through, Speech

Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store.
Dr. Seuss

Christmas, Maybe, Store

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
Abraham Lincoln

Life, Mind, Flower

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
Og Mandino

Life, Today, Kindness

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
Mahatma Gandhi

Thoughts, Word, Aim

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Abraham Lincoln

Best, Said, Flower

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
C. S. Lewis

History, Find, Become

Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
John F. Kennedy

Enjoy, Opinion, Often

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
Robert H. Schuller

Positive, Thoughts, Negative

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Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
Napoleon Hill

Mind, May, Through

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Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
Augustus Hare

Knowledge, Wind, Mankind

I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.
Muhammad Ali

Life, Losing, Happened

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.
Winston Churchill

Europe, Greater, Bore

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.
Joseph Campbell

God, Simple, Metaphor

The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
Mahatma Gandhi

Life, Live, Give

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Happiness, Good, Giving

Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.
Bruce Lee

Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
Mahatma Gandhi

Human, Action, Less

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
Leonardo da Vinci

Learning, Live, Die

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Soren Kierkegaard

Freedom, Speech, Seldom

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.
Mahatma Gandhi

Strong, May, Goal

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.
Thomas Jefferson

Good, Great, Learn

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