Top 200 Quotes About Thinking (2025 Update)
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101. “The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

102. “Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.”

— Henry Ford

103. “Your life is a reflection of your thoughts. If you change your thinking, you change your life.”

— Brian Tracy

104. “Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.”

— Carl Sagan

105. “Fill your brain with giant dreams so it has no space for petty pursuits.”

— Robin S. Sharma

106. “The common question that gets asked in business is, ‘why?’ That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, ‘why not?’”

— Jeff Bezos

107. “THINK before you speak. Is it True, Helpful, Inspiring, Necessary, Kind?”

— Alan Redpath

108. “There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”

— Soren Kierkegaard

109. “Your beliefs become your thoughts, your thoughts become your words, your words become your actions, your actions become your habits, your habits become your values, your values become your destiny.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

110. “Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

111. “You become what you think about most of the time.”

— Brian Tracy

112. “We are what our thoughts have made us.”

— Swami Vivekananda

113. “Every thought has a frequency. Thoughts send out a magnetic energy.”

— Rhonda Byrne

114. “Your thoughts create your reality. Your mind is more powerful than you know.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

115. “Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”

— Margaret Mead

116. “You have a brain and mind of your own. Use it, and reach your own decisions.”

— Napoleon Hill

117. “Think for yourself, or others will think for you without thinking of you.”

— Henry David Thoreau

118. “Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself.”

— Albert Camus

119. “There are no limits on what you can achieve with your life, except the limits you accept in your mind.”

— Brian Tracy

120. “Our thoughts make us what we are.”

— Dale Carnegie

121. “Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

122. “What you focus on grows, what you think about expands, and what you dwell upon determines your destiny.”

— Robin S. Sharma

123. “We become what we think about.”

— Earl Nightingale

124. “Your words will tell others what you think. Your actions will tell them what you believe.”

— T.D. Jakes

125. “If you don’t have time, the truth is, you don’t have priorities. Think harder; don’t work harder.”

— Tim Ferriss

126. “A positive attitude will have positive results because attitudes are contagious.”

— Zig Ziglar

127. “If you ever think about giving up, remember why you held on for so long.”

— Hayley Williams

128. “Self-worth comes from one thing – thinking that you are worthy.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

129. “Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think.”

— Buddha

130. “Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.”

— Ernest Holmes

131. “Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.”

— Horace

132. “Think big and don’t listen to people who tell you it can’t be done. Life’s too short to think small.”

— Tim Ferriss

133. “For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.”

— Marcus Aurelius

134. “Don’t just follow the trend. You may have heard me say that it’s good to think in terms of the physics approach of first principles. Which is, rather than reasoning by analogy, you boil things down to the most fundamental truths you can imagine and you reason up from there.”

— Elon Musk

135. “The future is a concept, it doesn’t exist. There is no such thing as tomorrow. There never will be, because time is always now. That’s one of the things we discover when we stop talking to ourselves and stop thinking. We find there is only present, only an eternal now.”

— Alan Watts

136. “All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.”

— Swami Vivekananda

137. “As a man thinketh in his heart, so shall he be.”

— James Allen

138. “Once your mindset changes, everything on the outside will change along with it.”

— Steve Maraboli

139. “What you think about you bring about.”

— Bob Proctor

140. “The law of attraction is the law of creation. Quantum physicists tell us that the entire Universe emerged from thought!”

— Rhonda Byrne

141. “Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.”

— Thomas Stephen Szasz

142. “He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.”

— Confucius

143. “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 Buffett

144. “Don’t believe everything you think. Thoughts are just that – thoughts.”

— Allan Lokos

145. “A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with Reality, and lives in a world of illusion.”

— Alan Watts

146. “Be bold and don’t worry about what people think. They don’t do it that often anyway.”

— Tim Ferriss

147. “Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.”

— David Allen

148. “Thoughts are living things – they travel far.”

— Swami Vivekananda

149. “When you visualize, then you materialize.”

— Denis Waitley

150. “At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.”

— Frida Kahlo