Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power intelligence and love and the lord of his own thoughts he holds the key to every situation.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

That neither our thoughts nor passions nor ideas formed by the imagination exist without the mind is what every body will allow.

Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.

For myself if I am to stake all I have and hope to be upon anything I will venture it upon the abounding fullness of God - upon the assurance that as the heavens are higher than the earth so are His ways higher than our ways and His thoughts than our thoughts.

A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope without friends without books even without music as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.

If a secret history of books could be written and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story how many insipid volumes would become interesting and dull tales excite the reader!

Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day as the poet's health sight his anticipations moods fears thoughts cannot be the same.

The truth is that stress doesn't come from your boss your kids your spouse traffic jams health challenges or other circumstances. It comes from your thoughts about these circumstances.

Only man clogs his happiness with care destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore guard accordingly and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be you will fall remain or rise with your thoughts your vision your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire as great as your dominant aspiration.

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.

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky the great ocean and the highest peak empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

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.

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind but great actions speak to all mankind.

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

Appreciation is the highest form of prayer for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts the better will be his world and the world at large.

The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?

However many blessings we expect from God His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor when to God who is the searcher of our hearts all our privacies are open?

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

My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.