Great Thoughts Quotes

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.

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.

he who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors

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.

To think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists.

Like every person, every thought has the potential to become something great.

It is not for a care-free existence I am fighting, but for the possibility of devoting myself to the task which I believe and know has been laid upon me by God -- the work which seems to me more important and needful in Norway than any other, that of arousing the nation and leading it to think great thoughts.

Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.

Time is of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh to -day as when they first passed through their authors' minds ages ago.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts

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.

The ground of all great thoughts is sadness.

Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.

Great thoughts ensure musical expression.

Everything great that has ever happened to humanity has begun as a single thought in someone's mind, and if anyone of us is capable of such a thought, then all of us has the same capacity, capability, because we're all the same.

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.

Blest is he whose heart is the home of the great dead and their great thoughts.

These are the living springs of great thoughts and great actions. Everything grows clear in the reflections from the Infinite.

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.

Education would be a divine thing, if it did nothing more than help us to think and love great thoughts instead of little thoughts.

The front aspect of great thoughts can only be enjoyed by those who stand on the side whence they arrive.

It is important to say all the great thoughts again, without knowing that they have already been said.