What did other great minds say about thoughts?

Think happy thoughts and you can fly. Peter Pan

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. Buddha

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become. Buddha

You are today where your thoughts have brought you. You will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. James Lane Allen

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

The price of greatness is responsibility over each of your thoughts. Winston Churchill

Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be. Henry David Thoreau

Words are the small change of thought. Jules Renard, writer

Even a thought, even a possibility, can shatter us and transform us. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, 19th Century German philosopher

Be careful of your thoughts; they may become words at any moment. Ira Gassen

Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits.

Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny. Frank Outlaw

In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy. Florence Scovel Shinn, writer, artist and teacher

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing -- to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts. John Keats, poet

The thoughts we choose to act upon define us to others, the ones we do not act upon define us to ourselves. Yahia Lababidi, writer

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer. Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author

Our destiny changes with our thoughts; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thoughts correspond with our desires. Orison Swett Marden

All truly wise thoughts have been thought already, thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take firm root in our personal experience. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The future of civilization depends on our overcoming the meaninglessness and hopelessness that characterizes the thoughts of men today. Albert Schweitzer

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. Confucius, philosopher and teacher

Never think of the consequences of failing, you will always think of negative results. Think only positive thoughts and your mind will gravitate towards those thoughts! Michael Jordon, NBA's greatest player

Thoughts lead to acts, acts lead to habits, habits lead to character, and our character will determine our eternal destiny. Ezra Taft Benson

Thoughts become things... choose the good ones! Mike Dooley