Thought Quotes

Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.
Norman Vincent Peale

Enough, Same, Action

My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.
Phyllis Diller

Bad, Kids, Cooking

If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.
Logan P. Smith

Truth, Liar, Tell

You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you'd experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.
Taylor Swift

Life, Experience, Rejection

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
Voltaire

Men, Thoughts, Speech

You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.
Emmet Fox

Positive, Mind, Optimistic

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.
Chanakya

Wise, Keep, Secret

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Well, your greatest joy definitely comes from doing something for another, especially when it was done with no thought of something in return.
John Wooden

Greatest, Done, Joy

Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen.
Conan O'Brien

Life, Work, Amazing

Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?
Richard Dawkins

Sad, Why, Spring

There are necessary evils. Money is an important thing in terms of representing freedom in our world. And now I have a daughter to think about. It's really the first time I've thought about the future and what it could be.
Johnny Depp

Time, Money, Freedom

We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Long, Find, Ungrateful

I always thought that record would stand until it was broken.
Yogi Berra

Broken, Until, Stand

We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year.
Walt Disney

Knowledge, Year, Within

A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
H. L. Mencken

Society, Made, Original

The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.
Sun Tzu

Good, Country, Service

If you and I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world.
Deepak Chopra

Single, Moment, Hatred

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
Victor Hugo

Life, Decision, Style

I'm no wizard, and I don't like being thought of in that light at all. I think of a wizard as being some sort of magician or something, doing something on the sly or something, and I don't want to be thought of in that way.
John Wooden

Light, Magician, Wizard

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Politics, Necessary, Perhaps

I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large.
Charlie Chaplin

Everything, Small, Big

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
Victor Hugo

Great, Human, Book

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
Blaise Pascal

Power, Greatness, Lies

I've had moments when I've thought about somebody, picked up the phone to call them and they are on the line already, and I think that maybe there's some vibration, some connection.
Clint Eastwood

Somebody, Call, Maybe

There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.
Angelina Jolie

Life, Death, Tomorrow

People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.
Muhammad Iqbal

Men, Thinking, Liberty

If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.
Carter G. Woodson

History, Race, Danger

Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Religion, Build, Frozen

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
Bertrand Russell

Education, Freedom, Become

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