Thinking Quotes
Updated: Mar 18, 2022
Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.
Lorraine Hansberry
How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?
E M Forster
My mind to me a kingdom is. Such perfect joy therein I find.
Edward Dyer
Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.
Marcus Aurelias
An idea is powerless if it stays inside of you. If you communicate an idea in a way that resonates, change will happen.
Nancy Duarte
The beauty of mind, the purity of the soul, revealed in the countenance, will have more power to attract and exert an influence upon hearts than any outward adorning.
Ellen G White
How can anyone become a thinker if he does not spend at least a third of the day without passions, people, and books?
Nietzsche
Change your thoughts, and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale
Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself intelligently.
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
Philippians 4:8
To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.
Eva Young
You and I are not what we eat; we are what we think.
Walter Anderson
Fight, Flight, Freeze or Figure Out.
Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.
William James
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Albert Einstein
Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
Plato
The thoughts you dwell on determine the world you live in.
Thoughts and ideas are the source of all wealth, success, material gain, all great discoveries, inventions and achievements.
Mark Victor Hansen
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.
Bruce Lee
A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Men are changed in accordance with what they contemplate.
Ellen G White
Make the positive argument. If thinking negative, think the opposite, and you’ll find evidence to support this.
I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life.
Warren Buffet
Think about yourself so you can forget yourself.
The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
John Milton
Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.
2 Corinthians 10:5
The best ideas come from those who have the most ideas.
The brain is like velcro for negative experiences, but Teflon for positive ones.
Rick Hanson
Your head is for having ideas, not for holding them.
David Allen
What you think you become.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Elbert Hubbard
How you think about a problem is more important than the problem itself. So always think positively.
Norman Vincent Peale
While a cheery, optimistic spirit is something worth striving for, researchers have correlated a positive impact for individuals who simply try to avoid negative thinking. So if becoming a sunshiny optimist seems like too much of a stretch at the moment, you may improve your health by simply cutting off negative thoughts.
Neil Nedley
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Oprah Winfrey
Benjamin Franklin
A big part of emotional intelligence is being able to feel an emotion without having to act on it.
Sow a thought and you reap an act, sow an act and you reap a habit, sow a habit and you reap a character, sow a character and you reap a destiny.
Samuel Smiles
Thoughts = mental furniture.
Think like a man of action. Act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
The world is what we think it is – if we can change our thoughts, we can change the world.
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
William James
Grand and dignified thoughts must be expected from those alone whose minds are ever employed on glorious and noble objects.
Longinus
The mind is like tofu. It tastes like whatever you marinate it in.
Sylvia Boorstein
Think before you speak. Read before you think.
Fran Lebowitz
What consumes your mind, controls your life.
Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
Joseph Joubert
A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
Roald Dahl