Bad Thoughts Quotes

• There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [259]

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• Our life is what our thoughts make it.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book IV, (3), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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  If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Inspirational, Positive, Trust

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.80, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.

  James Allen

  Honesty, Positive Thinking, Fruit

  James Allen (2010). “As You Think: Second Edition”, p.34, New World Library

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• Just because I don't do bad things doesn't mean I don't have bad thoughts.

  Kristin Kreuk

  Mean Girls, Bad Things, Girl

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My dear heart, never think you are better than others. Listen to their sorrows with compassion. If you want peace, don't harbor bad thoughts, do not gossip and don't teach what you do not know.

  Rumi

  Heart, Thinking, Compassion

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• Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.

  James Allen

  Life, Men, People

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  Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.

  Willie Nelson

  Life, Change, Positive

  FaceBook post by Willie Nelson from Oct 29, 2013

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  Change your thoughts and you change your world.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Norman Vincent Peale (1970). “Norman Vincent Peale's treasury of courage and confidence”

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• Good thoughts bear good fruit.

  James Lane Allen

  Honesty, Fruit, Bears

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• Bad thoughts quickly ripen into bad actions.

  Beilby Porteus

  Action, Bad Actions

  Beilby Porteus (1805). “Lectures on the gospel of St. Matthew; ...”, p.85

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• We need to clear our minds of bad thoughts.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Mind

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• To think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral down into ever increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however, requires effort. This is one of the things that discipline and training is all about.

  James Clavell

  Thinking, Discipline, Effort

  James Clavell (2009). “Shogun”, p.94, Dell

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• When the dawn was still long hours away, bad thoughts took on flesh and began to walk. In the middle of the night thoughts became zombies.

  Stephen King

  Night, Long, Zombie

  "Under the Dome". Book by Stephen King, 2009.

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• If you can't stop the bad thoughts from coming to visit, at least you can make fun of them while they're hanging around.

  Jim Butcher

  Fun, Ifs, Hanging Around

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.91, Penguin

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• Mr. Shepherd, ye cannot stop a bad thought from coming into your head. But ye need not pull up a chair and bide it sit down." - Mrs. Brown

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Shepherds, Needs, Pull Ups

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• In temptations against chastity, the spiritual masters advise us, not so much to contend with the bad thought, as to turn the mind to some spiritual, or, at least, indifferent object. It is useful to combat other bad thoughts face to face, but not thoughts of impurity.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Spiritual, Temptation, Catholic

  St. Alphonsus Liguori (2012). “Sermons of St. Alphonsus Liguori: For All the Sundays of the Year”, p.295, TAN Books

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• The first duty of a Christian, of a disciple and follower of Jesus Christ, is to deny himself. To deny oneself means to give up one's bad habits, to root out of the heart all that ties us to the world; not to cherish bad desires and thoughts; to quench and suppress bad thoughts; to avoid occasions of sin; not to do or desire anything from self-love but to do everything out of love for God. To deny oneself means, according to the Apostle Paul, to be dead to sin and the world, but alive to God.

  Innocent of Alaska

  Christian, Jesus, Giving Up

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• There are no bad words. Bad thoughts. Bad intentions, and wooooords.

  George Carlin

  Intention, Bad Word, Bad Intentions

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• Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad results; bad thoughts and actions can never produce good results … We understand this law in the natural world, and work with it; but few understand it in the mental and moral world—although its operation there is just as simple and undeviating— and they, therefore, do not cooperate with it.

  James Allen

  Simple, Law, World

  James Allen (2010). “As You Think: Second Edition”, p.42, New World Library

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• So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Heart, Wine, Liquor

  Alexandre Dumas (2014). “The Count Of Monte Cristo (Unabridged)”, p.24, e-artnow sro

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• In the stutter-flashes of light, the clouds look like huge transparent brains filled with bad thoughts.

  Stephen King

  Clouds, Light, Brain

  Stephen King (2016). “It: A Novel”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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• Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts.

  St. Jerome

  Book, Hands, May

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• If you have a bad thought about yourself, tell it to go to hell because that is exactly where it came from.

  Brigham Young

  Hell, About Yourself, Ifs

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• There is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel, that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Yoga, Exercise, Meditation

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.282, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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