Thought Quotes

I never thought a role model should be negative.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

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.

Language is the dress of thought.

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation.

My thought has been shaped by books; my desires by pictures.

I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.

My father wasn't around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, 'Why me? Why don't I have a father? Why isn't he around? Why did he leave my mother?' But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, 'I don't know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?'

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.

I never thought that the long haired, bearded guy I married in law school would end up being President.

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

I never thought I'd land in pictures with a face like mine.

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.

I'm just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I'd be seeing Elvis soon.

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

In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

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.

Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

Thought is the parent of the deed.

A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little "personal characteristics."

A man's sentiments are generally just and right, while it is second selfish thought which makes him trim and adopt some other view. The best reforms are worked out when sentiment operates, as it does in women, with the indignation of righteousness.

To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

I told my mom, 'I'm not buying another magazine until I can get past this thought of looking like the girl on the cover'. She said, "Miley, you are the girl on the cover,' and I was, like, 'I know, but I don't feel like that girl every day.' You can't always feel perfect.