Ought Quotes - Page 11

The things that matter most are not things.

At least once a day, allow yourself the freedom to think and dream for yourself.

The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected.

If you didn't have anxiety, then you wouldn't have passion for anything. The reason we have anxiety is because you care and you're thoughtful.

Sometimes you face difficulties not because you're doing something wrong, but because you're doing something right.

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure.

Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

Now is all we have. Everything that has ever happened to you, and anything that is ever going to happen to you, is just a thought.

You spend so much time in your profession it ought to be something you love.

Big Data will spell the death of customer segmentation and force the marketer to understand each customer as an individual within eighteen months, or risk being left in the dust.

If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.

Oh what people of God we ought to be; and grace can make us so!

Psychologically our thought-apart from its expression in words-is only a shapeless and indistinct mass.

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

He who helped you when you were in trouble ought not afterwards be despised by you

A wise man will be master of his mind, a fool will be its slave.

Luckily, eating healthy and exercise are activities I enjoy, but I still like to indulge every now and then. I don't deprive myself, but I'm thoughtful about my choices.

Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

What I ought to do and what I feel like doing are seldom the same thing.

I’ve long advised that bloggers seeking to make money from blogging spread their interests across multiple revenue streams so as not to put all their eggs in one basket.

Thoughtful people are concerned with the future because that is the only area of experience about which anything can be done. We cannot change the past, and the present is gone as soon as it is reported, but the future is that in which we can make a difference.

If there were one word that could act as a standard of conduct for one's entire life, perhaps it would be 'thoughtfulness.

A creative train of thought is set off by: the unexpected, the unknown, the accidental, the disorderly, the absurd, the impossible.