Sadness does not come from bad circumstances. It comes from bad thoughts.
Most of the problems in life are because of two reasons: we act without thinking or we keep thinking without acting.
Watch your thoughts for they become words. Watch your words for they become actions. Watch your actions for they become habits. Watch your habits for they become your character. And watch your character for it becomes your destiny. What we think, we become. My father always said that… and I think I am fine.
– Margaret Thatcher
The mind is everything; what you think, you become.
– Buddha
You can’t control the thoughts, but you can control your reaction to them. React with indifference.
They can because they think they can.
– Virgil
To think is to act, to change and to advance in life.
– Dr T.P.Chia
You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
– James Allen
Positive thinking leads us to confidence and optimism, negative thinking blinds us to possibility and achievability.
– Dr T.P.Chia
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
– Marcus Aurelius
You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you.
– Dan Millman
Thinking is power and how to think is more important than what to think.
– Dr T.P.Chia
Thoughts are like clouds, be detached, let them pass.
– Anandmurti Gurumaa
The first duty of a man is to think for himself.
– Jose Marti
The best way to improve your ability to think is to spend large chunks of time thinking. One way to force yourself to slow down and think is to write. Good writing requires good thinking. Writing gives poor thinking nowhere to hide. A lack of understanding becomes visible.
– Shane Parrish
Read widely, think broadly, judge wisely.
– Dr T.P.Chia
We spend too much time thinking and not enough time doing.
Learning gives creativity
Creativity leads to thinking
Thinking provides knowledge
Knowledge makes you great.
– A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking.
– Leo Tolstoy
Many a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think.
– Robert Greene
Thoughts are the foundation of life. Practicing the positive thoughts, views and actions with a set mind is a key of peaceful and pleasant life.
Thinking is the capital, Enterprise is the way, Hard Work is the solution
– A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
The energetic mind produces thinking and powerful people, the idling mind creates unthinking and weak people.
– Dr T.P.Chia
Positive thinking creates ingenuity and originality. Negative thinking cripples imagination and creativity.
– Dr T.P.Chia
Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
– Joseph Joubert
Deep in our thoughts we find the best of us.
– Sipho P Nkosi
Sometimes just thinking about something is enough to hurt you all over again.
Positive thinking is empowering, positive action is achieving.
– Dr T.P.Chia
Thinking is more powerful than talking. Reading is more enlightening than seeing.
– Dr T.P.Chia
Thinking or planning without action is worthless or useless.
– Dr T.P.Chia
It’s like you have two brains – a rational brain and an irrational brain. And they’re constantly fighting.
– Emilie Ford
You can change your life by changing your thinking.
– Dr T.P.Chia
Do not underestimate the power of a truly thinking mind!
– Dr T.P.Chia
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
– William Shakespeare
Don’t think too much. That makes you believe you have more choices than you do. Then your mind becomes confused.
– Amy Tan
Think before you speak. Read before you think.
– Fran Lebowitz
Most people rather enjoy the comfort of not thinking than the labor of hard thinking.
– Dr T.P.Chia
Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Believing is easier than thinking. Hence so many more believers than thinkers.
-Bruce Calvert
I keep myself busy with things to do, but every time I pause, I still think of you.
Thinking is hard work; that’s why so few do it.
– Albert Einstein
Thoughts come clearly while one walks.
– Thomas Mann
The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
– Albert Einstein
An idealist thinks a lot, a pragmatist acts a lot.
– Dr T.P.Chia
Have you ever heard that saying, “and I was in the darkness so darkness I became?”
Well, I interpret it also as, if you want to become depressed, no matter what happens, unfortunately, you’re going to become depressed.
The achiever says his thoughts led him to success and the criminal says his thoughts led him to crime. Everybody thinks, but what we think determines our destiny.
– RVM
Thinking is the magician of the mind – it makes people thoughtful, imaginative, ingenious and creative.
– Dr T.P.Chia
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
– William James
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts.
– A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Thoughts are free, but actions have consequences.
Positive thinking is the source of altruism, negative thinking is the root of insolence.
– Dr T.P.Chia
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
– Margaret Mead
It is the power of thinking that makes man great.
– Dr T.P.Chia
The power of thinking contributes to a meaningful, happy life.
– Dr T.P.Chia
However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.
– John Calvin
The more you think of your future, the more you will do for your future.
– Dr T.P.Chia
Great minds think alike because a greater Mind is thinking through them.
– Criss Jami
If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can’t, you’re right!
If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
– George Orwell
Thoughts are like clouds in expansive span of sky. They come and float by. See it and don’t be attached to it. Thoughts will simply pass on.
– Anandmurti Gurumaa
Quiet time alone solves many problems.
Five percent of the people think;
ten percent of the people think they think;
and the other eighty- five percent would rather die than think.
– Thomas A. Edison
Few men think, yet all will have opinions. Hence men’s opinions are superficial and confused.
– John Locke
The way we think can provide us or rob us of a fulfilling and enjoyable life.
– Dr T.P.Chia
All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Both positive and negative thinking are contagious.
– Stephen Richards
It can look like still waters on the outside while a hurricane is swirling in your mind.
– Marcie Barber Phares
There is nothing in this world that can trouble you as much as your own thoughts.
Invest a few moments in thinking. It will pay good interest.
Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
– Napoleon Hill
To change your thoughts change what you consume.
– Alex Hormozi
Food cannot cause you to put on weight, unless you think it can.
– Rhonda Byrne
You are the one who calls the law of attraction into action, and you do it through your thoughts.
– Rhonda Byrne
If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking.
– Benjamin Franklin
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
– Albert Einstein
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
– Albert Einstein
The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.
– David Ogilvy
Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings – always darker, emptier and simpler.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
– Robert H. Schuller
Think in the morning. Act in the noon.
– William Blake
Hold your council before dinner; the full belly hates thinking as well as acting.
– Benjamin Franklin
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
– Marcus Aurelius
To think is to differ.
– Clarence Darrow
Think big and be yourself!
Ethics is not definable, is not implementable, because it is not conscious; it involves not only our thinking, but also our feeling
– Valdemar W. Setzer
Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.
– Walter Lippmann
Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life.
– A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
We are what our thought have made us; So take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; They travel far.
– Swami Vivekananda
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
– Zig Ziglar
Your mind is the garden, your thoughts are the seeds, so you can grow flower or weeds.
The mind can think only one thought at a time. If your mind is occupied by a meaningless thought, you block a meaningful thought from entering it.
– RVM
Start each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart.
– Roy Bennett
Free-thinking people must have the courage to act on their independent thought. Otherwise, they may as well be sheep.
– Ed Latimore
Think like a queen. A queen if not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.
– Oprah Winfrey
A man’s mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind.
– James Allen
Dare to be free. dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
– Swami Vivekananda
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
– Thomas Paine
If you want to own your wisdom, thinking is something you have to do by yourself.
– Shane Parrish
Don’t think too much.
It’s like a broken machine. Thoughts go in your head, get stuck and keep going around and around.
– Megan Flynn
Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.
– Albert Schweitzer
When the sufferers learn to think, then the thinkers will learn to suffer.
– Karl Marx
What did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever bring me? I think and think and think. I’ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
– Jonathan Safran Foer
Before embarking on important undertakings, sit quietly, calm your senses and thoughts, and meditate deeply. You will then be guided by the great creative power of Spirit.
– Paramahansa Yogananda
All that we are is a result of what we have thought.
– Rhonda Byrne
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
– William James
Right thinking comes with self-knowledge. Without understanding yourself, you have no basis for thought.
– Jiddu Krishnamurti
Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
– François de La Rochefoucauld
Idiots ‘think’ alike, intelligent people different.
He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.
– Andrew Carnegie
Don’t think too much. You’ll end up creating a problem that wasn’t even there in the first place.
I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
– Henri Bergson
The thoughts are not you and the scenario they present is not real.
Less mental clutter means more mental resources available for deep thinking.
– Cal Newport
We become what we think about.
If you want to write, start writing now in your own home town and write every day as hard as you can; do not think you have to go to Paris and wait for inspiration to strike.
– Thomas Wolfe
The revolution is carried out by means of one’s thought.
– Kim Jong-un
Never underestimate the power of thought; it is the greatest path to discovery.
– Idowu Koyenikan
If you don’t concentrate on what you are doing then the thing that you are doing is not what you are thinking.
– Alfred Tennyson
Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
-Buckminster Fuller
A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.
– James Allen
You can worry about the competition…or you can focus on what’s ahead of you and drive fast.
– Jack Dorsey
Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
– John Dryden
You become what you think about.
– Napoleon Hill
We waste our time with short term thinking and busywork. Warren Buffett spends a year deciding and a day acting. That act lasts decades.
– Naval Ravikant
The key to handling pressure situations like these is to keep yourself steady, follow your instincts and think clearly.
– Sachin Tendulkar
If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.
– Oprah Winfrey
Don’t hate a person just refuse his thoughts in you.
– P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar
Our thoughts create our world.
– Stephen Richards
If you want to think about something, write it out.
– Shane Parrish
Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
– H. Jackson Brown Jr.
The way you think determines the way you feel and how you feel influence the way you act and the way you act tells who you are.
My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.
– Sylvia Plath
How to think is more important than what to think. How to act is more important than what to act.
– Dr T.P.Chia
Meditation is not closing your eyes on your thoughts, meditation is opening your eyes on your thoughts.
– P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar
Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.
– Thomas Szasz
Good decision makers understand a simple truth: you can’t make good decisions without good thinking and good thinking requires time to think.
If you want to think better, schedule time to think.
– Shane Parrish
You are what you think all day.
Think before you talk. Don’t talk before you think because what is said cannot be unsaid.
Nothing limits achievement like small thinking; nothing expands possibilities like unleashed imagination.
– William Arthur Ward
A memory rarely fades when one stops to think.
– M. J. Lane
Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
– Winnie the Pooh
Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.
– T.S. Eliot
Do what you love, think what you feel and live the way you want.
– Santosh Kalwar
A person is limited only by the thoughts that he chooses.
– James Allen
There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.
– Mason Cooley
Why should we pay so much attention to what the majority thinks?
– Socrates
What makes a person are the things that he thinks about.
Things are only as possible and impossible as we paint them to be by our thoughts.
Don’t think. Believe. Trust your heart, not your brain. Don’t think. Feel. Believe.
– Ayn Rand
The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
– Joseph Joubert
If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
– Isaac Newton
I hope you never think about anything as much as I think about you.
– Jonathan Safran Foer
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
-Will Durant
You are what you think about all day long.
– Robert H. Schuller
Think eight hours, work two hours.
– Mirko Ilic
Thinking too much also creates the illusion of causal connections between unrelated events.
– Steve Martin
There is no such thing as a ‘self-made’ man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success.
– George Matthew Adams
As long as you are going to be thinking anyway, think big.
– Donald Trump
As he thinks, so he is; as he continues to think, so he remains.
– James Allen
Don’t think it can happen, think it will happen.
Support the type of thinking that leads you to feeling good, peaceful & happy.
– Allan Lokos
You’ve got to think about big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.
– Alvin Toffler
You don’t have to stay trapped in your thoughts just because you think them.
– Doug Dillon
Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.
– Deepak Chopra
It is well for people who think, to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean.
-Luther Burbank
Take time to think but when the opportunity comes stop thinking start acting.
Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.
– Mark Twain
Either we can be conscious of the now, or we can be grazing like a cow. Chewing thoughts one by one, losing life till it is done.
Think about what’s pleasurable, not just what’s possible.
– Brene Brown
Most of the time we think we’re sick, it’s all in the mind.
– Thomas Wolfe
You must think for yourself, what you must do. If someone tells you, then you are not trying.
– Amy Tan
Your thoughts are the facsimile of what you become.
Talking about something most people don’t talk about isn’t as impressive as thinking of something most don’t think about.
– Alan Robert Neal
Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, “By thinking about it all the time.”
Big thinking precedes great achievement.
– Wilferd Peterson
Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.
-Josiah Royce
The mind is what it thinks. To make it true, think true.
-Nisargadatta Maharaj
You can think all you can but don’t publicize all your thoughts.
– Bernard Kelvin Clive
The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.
– James Russell Lowell
Thinking has, many a time, made me sad, darling; but doing never did in all my life… My precept is, “Do something, my sister, do good if you can; but, at any rate, do something”.
– Elizabeth Gaskell
You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
– Colette
Think and wonder, wonder and think.
– Dr. Seuss
Man is now so overwhelmed by information and its processing, that it has become exceedingly difficult, nay impossible, for him to do any thinking of his own. Rather he has become a sort of a “neuron” in a global cerebrum that thinks at a higher level about subjects regarding which he has not the slightest notion.
– Boghos L. Artinian