Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own

Our wills and fates do so contrary run, That our devices still are overthrown; Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own.

— William Shakespeare

Thoughts are but dreams till their effects are tried.

— William Shakespeare

I do begin to have bloody thoughts.

— William Shakespeare

Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them.

— Paramahansa Yogananda

As long as we hold unforgivable thoughts in our mind, we will not be able to experience total inner peace.

— Gerald Jampolsky

It is the thoughts that matter.

— Vikrant Parsai

“I realized that most thoughts are impersonal happenings, like self-assembling machines. Unless we train ourselves, the thoughts passing through our mind have little involvement…

— Daniel Pinchbeck

“We are constantly evolving products of the influences we take into our brains. What we look at, what we long for-to a large extent,…

— Anne Bogel

Our thoughts are either focused on what's eternal, life-changing, and true, or lost in the details of our temporary, selfish, false beliefs.

— Craig Groeschel

Determine to do some thinking for yourself. Don't live entirely upon the thoughts of others. Don't be an automaton.

— James Cash Penney

As people who know me know, probably to a fault, I am usually not without thoughts and words.

— Ben Rhodes

Let positive, strong, helpful thoughts enter into your brains from very childhood. Lay yourselves open to these thoughts, and not to weakening and paralysing…

— Swami Vivekananda

All that we are is the result of what we have thought.

— Anonymous

If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.

— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

I can't say that there are 'things' that make me come alive. There are thoughts that make me come alive.

— Marianne Williamson