Top 200 Quotes About Thinking (2025 Update)
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51. “You either control your mind or it controls you.”

— Napoleon Hill

52. “As You Think, So Shall You Be.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

53. “Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

54. “What you focus on grows. What you concentrate on is what you see more of in your life.”

— Robin S. Sharma

55. “The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

56. “Thinking is the hardest thing a man can do, probably the reason so few of them do it.”

— Henry Ford

57. “A genius is simply one who has taken full possession of his own mind and directed it toward objectives of his own choosing, without permitting outside influences to discourage or mislead him.”

— Napoleon Hill

58. “Set your mind on a definite goal and observe how quickly the world stands aside to let you pass.”

— Napoleon Hill

59. “The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”

— Coco Chanel

60. “The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”

— Marcus Aurelius

61. “You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.”

— Zig Ziglar

62. “If you believe it will work out, you’ll see opportunities. If you believe it won’t you will see obstacles.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

63. “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”

— Socrates

64. “Your problem is that you think you have time.”

— Carlos Castaneda

65. “You are what you believe yourself to be.”

— Paulo Coelho

66. “Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life.”

— Abdul Kalam

67. “They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.”

— Khalil Gibran

68. “I once read that people who study others are wise but those who study themselves are enlightened.”

— Robin S. Sharma

69. “Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

70. “My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.”

— John Green

71. “A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open.”

— Frank Zappa

72. “The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

73. “The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.”

— Plutarch

74. “As you think, so shall you become.”

— Bruce Lee

75. “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”

— William Shakespeare

76. “A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

77. “Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.”

— Muhammad Ali

78. “Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”

— Marcus Aurelius

79. “Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we’re supposed to be and embracing who we are.”

— Brené Brown

80. “Rule your mind or it will rule you.”

— Horace

81. “Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.”

— Ludwig van Beethoven

82. “It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”

— Dale Carnegie

83. “First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.”

— Napoleon Hill

84. “I think, therefore I am.”

— René Descartes

85. “I only know one thing, and that is I know nothing.”

— Socrates

86. “We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.”

— Carl Sagan

87. “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”

— Marcus Aurelius

88. “Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.”

— Zig Ziglar

89. “If you can think about what you want in your mind, and make that your dominant thought, you will bring it into your life.”

— Rhonda Byrne

90. “I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.”

— Richard P. Feynman

91. “In today’s rush we all think too much, seek too much, want too much and forget about the joy of just Being.”

— Eckhart Tolle

92. “Intelligence is what you use when you don’t know what to do.”

— Jean Piaget

93. “None can destroy iron, but its own rust can! Likewise none can destroy a person, but its own mindset can!”

— Ratan Tata

94. “Nothing is impossible unless you think it is.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

95. “If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one’s own self-deception and ignorance.”

— Marcus Aurelius

96. “Keep challenging yourself to think better, do better, and be better.”

— Robin S. Sharma

97. “As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.”

— Henry David Thoreau

98. “What you’re thinking is what you’re becoming.”

— Muhammad Ali

99. “If you see it in your mind, you will hold it in your hand.”

— Bob Proctor

100. “Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.”

— William James