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All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door. -- Albert Camus
Nurture you mind with great thoughts -- Gunnar Nelson
Nurture your mind with great thoughts -- Benjamin Disraeli
The ground of all great thoughts is sadness. -- Philip James Bailey
he who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors -- Martin Heidegger
Dare to dwell on great thoughts, you will be great. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Greatness is attained only by the thinking of great thoughts. -- Wallace D. Wattles
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. -- Albert Camus
To think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
He that hath slight thoughts of sin never had great thoughts of God. -- John Owen
Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes. -- Benjamin Disraeli
The roads to the stars are open only to those who grasp the great thoughts! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size. -- Aristophanes
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Blest is he whose heart is the home of the great dead and their great thoughts. -- Philip James Bailey
It is important to say all the great thoughts again, without knowing that they have already been said. -- Elias Canetti
The front aspect of great thoughts can only be enjoyed by those who stand on the side whence they arrive. -- Henry David Thoreau
These are the living springs of great thoughts and great actions. Everything grows clear in the reflections from the Infinite. -- Louis Pasteur
Great thoughts of your sin alone will drive you to despair; but great thoughts of Christ will pilot you into the haven of peace. -- Charles Spurgeon
Education would be a divine thing, if it did nothing more than help us to think and love great thoughts instead of little thoughts. -- John Lancaster Spalding
Time is of no account with great thoughts. They are as fresh today as when they first passed through their author's minds, ages ago. -- Samuel Smiles
The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty. -- Samuel Smiles
Christian minds have been conformed to the modern spirit: the spirit, that is, that spawns great thoughts of man and leaves room for only small thoughts of God. -- J. I. Packer
Who can mistake great thoughts? They seize upon the mind; arrest and search, And shake it; bow the tall soul as by wind; Rush over it like a river reeds. -- Philip James Bailey
Men saw the stars at the edge of the sea They thought great thoughts about liberty Poets wrote down words that did fit Writers wrote books Thinkers thought about it. -- Van Morrison
It is very difficult to be learned; it seems as if people were worn out on the way to great thoughts, and can never enjoy them because they are too tired. -- George Eliot
The greatest gift in life is the ability to think great thoughts and have the strength to take action so that those thoughts become reality in this wonderful and abundant world. -- Jack Black
Be self-responsible. Avoid dependency on other people. Aim at being the most successful person you can be. Read about great, successful people. Learn to think great thoughts and work to become an excellent person. -- Mark F. LaMoure
The Dalai Lama once said that 'If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change!' This is a great thought! And great thoughts belong to great men only! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Be self-responsible. Be less dependent on other people. Aim at being the most responsible person you can be. Read about great, successful leaders. Learn to think great thoughts and work to be an excellent person. -- Mark F. LaMoure
Forms of energy from nature gave my father trouble. He refused to believe he was going to die. He had these weird delusions. It's amazing. Along with all the great thoughts, he had all this funny stuff. -- Paul Laffoley
Our great thoughts, our great affections, the truths of our life, never leave us. Surely they can not separate from our consciousness, shall follow it whithersoever that shall go, and are of their nature divine and immortal. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him. -- Philip James Bailey
Thought breeds thought; children familiar with great thoughts take as naturally to thinking for themselves as the well-nourished body takes to growing; and we must bear in mind that growth, physical, intellectual, moral, spiritual, is the sole end of education. -- Charlotte Mason
Thought breeds thought; children familiar with great thoughts take as naturally to thinking for themselves as the well-nourished body takes to growing; and we must bear in mind that growth, physical, intellectual, moral, spiritual, is the sole end of education. -- Charlotte Mason
I paint ideas, not things. My intention is less to paint works that are pleasing to the eye than to suggest great thoughts which will speak to the imagination and the heart and will arouse all that is noblest and best in man. -- George Frederic Watts
Blessed is he who carries within himself a God, an ideal, and who obeys it: ideal of art, ideal of science, ideal of the gospel virtues, therein lie the springs of great thoughts and great actions; they all reflect light from the Infinite. -- Louis Pasteur
A poet is not somebody who has great thoughts. That is the menial duty of the philosopher. A poet is somebody who expresses his thoughts, however commonplace they may be, exquisitely. That is the one and only difference between the poet and everybody else. -- Mark Forsyth
Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year's time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worthwhile actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings. -- Andre Maurois
Great thoughts come from the heart. -- Luc de Clapiers
I thought 'The King's Speech' was great. -- Paul Haggis
I've always thought Juliette Lewis was great. -- Indiana Evans
Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts. -- William Hazlitt
No truly great person ever thought themselves so. -- William Hazlitt
A great many people mistake opinions for thought. -- Herbert V. Prochnow
Man's greatness lies in his power of thought. -- Blaise Pascal
Nobody thought I would be a great coach. -- Rick Majerus
I always thought Ray Bourque was a great competitor. -- Mats Sundin
One great use of words is to hide our thoughts. -- Voltaire
Be great in act, as you have been in thought. -- Jean Paul
I thought 'Fight Club' was great as David Fincher's version. -- Chuck Palahniuk
The universe begins to look more like a great thought than a great machine. -- James Jeans
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind. -- Theodore Roosevelt
I do remember actually learning chords to Beatles songs. I thought they were great songwriters. -- Mick Taylor
Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free. -- Bertrand Russell
I loved 'Everybody Loves Raymond' because I like Ray and I thought it was beautifully cast, I thought it was great writing. I thought Patricia Heaton was wonderful. -- Bob Newhart
I think Ronald Reagan was one of the great presidents, period, not just recently. I thought he had the demeanor. I thought he had the bearing. I thought he had the thought process. -- Donald Trump
Great thoughts ensure musical expression. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Strong thoughts are accompanied by great emotions -- Bangambiki Habyarimana
Travel with your thoughts to great land. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Our thoughts are great place of voyage. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Great thoughts are against all doctrines of conformity -- Austin Osman Spare
We travel with our thoughts to great lands. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
A great many people mistake opinions for thoughts. -- Herbert V. Prochnow
Great thoughts, great feelings came to them, Like instincts, unawares. -- Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton
Great thoughts cannot remain silent. They are born to scream! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Great and pure thoughts cannot be deposited in minds accumulated with rubbish. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
I wish to devote all my time / To noble thoughts about great Love. -- Hadewijch
All the great blessings of my life are present in my thoughts today -- Phoebe Cary
Put your stressful thoughts on paper, question them, and have a great life. -- Byron Katie
Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There's two elements to rap: having the thoughts, and then being a great rapper. -- Drake
Everywhere that a great soul gives utterance to its thoughts, there also is a Golgotha. -- Heinrich Heine
All of the great mastermind thinkers throughout history have known that we become our thoughts. -- Bryant McGill
Opinions: men's thoughts about great subjects. Taste: their thoughts about small ones: dress, behavior, amusements, ornaments. -- George Eliot
You could only be stopped from being happy, successful, or great through your thoughts and beliefs. -- Edmond Mbiaka
When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds. -- Patanjali
Our Lord needs from us neither great deeds nor profound thoughts. Neither intelligence nor talents. He cherishes simplicity. -- Therese of Lisieux
Thoughts and prayers go out to Michael Weiner's family. A great leader and man. Going to be missed. -- Joba Chamberlain
The trees are God's great alphabet: With them He writes in shining green Across the world His thoughts serene. -- Leonora Speyer
When God delays in fulfilling our little thoughts, it is to have Himself room to work out His great ones. -- Lilias Trotter
Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The thoughts that you think define your life that you live. So have good thoughts to have a great life. -- Debasish Mridha
Heaven often protects valuable souls charged with great secrets, great ideas, by long shutting them up with their own thoughts. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There's a great space in which this moment takes place. There's a great silence that is listening to the thoughts. -- Adyashanti
The world is a great poem, and the world's The words it is writ in, and we souls the thoughts. -- Philip James Bailey
He watched them grow, until eventually, great forests of words had risen throughout Germany.... It was a nation of farmed thoughts. -- Markus Zusak
I'm merely a baseball player, guys, ... In the great scheme of things, my thoughts, opinions and attitudes are of little importance. -- John Rocker
It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts. -- Teresa of Avila
One great thing about fly fishing is that after a while nothing exists of the world but thoughts about fly fishing -- Norman Maclean
Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts. -- Zadie Smith
Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts. -- Allan Bloom
The thoughts of great men are the common heritage of humanity and let our countrymen receive inspiration and guidance from these thoughts. -- Bhagat Puran Singh
The great saint may be said to mix all his thoughts with thanks. All goods look better when they look like gifts. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I, answering in the end, began: 'Alas,how many yearning thoughts, what great desire,have lead them through such sorrow to their fate? -- Dante Alighieri
A great hallmark of mental wellness is the ability to be in the present moment, fully and with no thoughts of being elsewhere. -- Wayne Dyer
Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work. -- Swami Vivekananda
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It is one of my favorite thoughts that God manifests Himself to men in all the wise, good, humble, generous, great, and magnanimous men. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind. -- George William Curtis
The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible. -- Michel de Montaigne
My deepest condolences for DJ AM, you were a great artist and will be severely missed. My thoughts and Prayers to his family and friends. -- Shanna Moakler
A journal is a great way to keep track of what happens daily in your walk with God and to record your prayers and thoughts. -- David Jeremiah
The brain is a complex biological organ of great computational capability that constructs our sensory experiences, regulates our thoughts and emotions, and control our actions. -- Eric Kandel
The Comedy Store in LA, it's a really loose room and it's really dark and creepy and a great place to explore your own thoughts onstage. -- Joe Rogan
Our business is not to solve problems beyond our mortal powers, but to see to it that our thoughts are not unworthy of the great theme. -- William Macneile Dixon
There is great worth in holding universal truths and timelessly beautiful words in your heart, which will stay there forever, infusing your thoughts and speechâ?¦ -- Dan Stevens
The greatest human ideal is the great cause of bringing together the thoughts of Europe and Asia; the great soul of India will topple our world. -- Romain Rolland
You bring out a lot of your own thoughts and attitudes when acting. I think a great deal of it has to do with the inner you. -- Ginger Rogers
Before embarking on important undertakings sit quietly calm your senses and thoughts and meditate deeply. You will then be guided by the great creative power of Spirit. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
You can be interested in a Jane Smiley novel whether or not anyone says a word. She enters into her characters thoughts with great understanding and depth. -- Richard Russo
You can be interested in a Jane Smiley novel whether or not anyone says a word. She enters into her characters' thoughts with great understanding and depth. -- Richard Russo
There is great power in our words, because theyare thoughts to which we have given additional energy by speaking them aloud so another person can know them. -- Molly Friedenfeld
Cast off limiting thoughts and return to true emptiness. Stand in the midst of the great void. This is the secret of the Way of a Warrior. -- Morihei Ueshiba
When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."[Thoughts on Various Subjects] -- Jonathan Swift
When the dust of death has choked a great man's voice, the common words he said turn oracles, the common thoughts he yoked like horses draw like griffins. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Great Secret of Life is the law of attraction that says like attracts like, so when you think a thought, you are also attracting like thoughts to you. -- Rhonda Byrne

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