A human being…experiences his thoughts as something separate from the rest, a kind of optical delusion…Not to nourish it but to try to overcome it is the way to reach the attainable measure of peace of mind. – Albert Einstein
A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances. – Napoleon Hill
A man is what he thinks about all day long. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
All intelligent thoughts have already been thought. What is necessary is only to try to think them again. – Johann Wolfgang Goethe
An expert is a man who has stopped thinking because he knows. – Frank Lloyd Wright
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 mental path, we must think over and over the thoughts we wish to dominate our lives. – Henry David Thoreau
Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness. – Alejandra Jodorowski
Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner. – Loa Tzu
Change your thoughts and you change your world. – Norman Vincent Peale
Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order. – Samuel Beckett
Die in your thoughts every morning and you will no longer fear death. – Hagakure
Don’t think. Look. – Ludwig Wittgenstein
Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think. – Albert Einstein
Everybody thinks of changing the world, but no-one thinks of changing themselves. – Leo Tolstoy
For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he. – Proverb
Great men are they who see that spiritual thought is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Half the time you think you’re thinking you’re actually listening. – Terence McKenna
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. – Mahatma Gandhi
I am a firm believer in negative thinking when used correctly. We need to be AWARE of negatives so that we can steer clear of them. A golfer needs to know where the bunkers and sand traps are, but he doesn’t think continuously about the bunker, where he doesn’t want to go. His mind glances at the bunker, but he dwells upon the green. – Maxwell Maltz
I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt and see peace instead. – Hugh Prather
I discovered that when I believed my thoughts, I suffered, but that when I didn’t believe them, I didn’t suffer, and that this is true for every human being. Freedom is as simple as that. – Byron Katie
I do not fix problems. I fix my thinking. Then problems fix themselves. – Louise Hay
I don’t know what I think until I write it down. – Joan Didion
I think 99 times and find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in silence, and the truth comes to me. – Albert Einstein
If you think you can, or if you think you can’t, you’re right. – Henry Ford
If you wait until circumstances justify your thinking pleasant thoughts, you are likely to wait forever. – Maxwell Maltz
If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes. – Andrew Carnegie
If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking. – Buckminster Fuller
It you think you’re free, there’s no escape possible. – Baba Ram Dass
It’s simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don’t say it. – Sam Levenson
Learning without thinking is labor lost. Thinking without learning is perilous. – Confucius
Make the effort to think, then live your thoughts. – André Comte-Sponville
Mirrors would do well to think before they cast their reflections back at us. – Jean Cocteau
No matter how enmeshed a commander becomes in the elaboration of his own thoughts, it is sometimes necessary to take the enemy into account. – Winston Churchill
No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. – Henry David Thoreau
Not so much to see what no-one has seen yet, but to think what nobody has thought yet, about that which everybody sees. – Arthur Schopenhauer
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think. – Benjamin Disraeli
Once you decide that mediocrity is unthinkable, your only choices are excellence and quitting. – Nick Murray
One of the unique things about the human brain is that it can do only what it thinks it can do. – Deepak Chopra
Only shallow people think marketing is unimportant. – Oscar Wilde
Our actions should be based on the ever-present awareness that human beings in their thinking… are not free but are just as casually bound as the stars in their motion. – Albert Einstein
Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be. – Wayne Dyer
People with humility don’t think less of themselves. They just think of themselves less. – Ken Blanchard
Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I’m going to complete every pass. – Ron Jaworski
Put your thoughts to sleep, do not let them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart. Let go of thinking. – Rumi
Remembering you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. – Steve Jobs
Seagulls follow the trawler because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea. – Eric Cantona
Simply by changing your habitual vocabulary, you can instantaneously change how you think, how you feel, and how you live. – Tony Robbins
Sincere thinking and plain speaking will get any message across to the people. – Claude Bristol
Sooner or later everyone will invent a story that they think is their life. – Max Frisch
That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains. – Steve Jobs
The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts. – John Locke
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts. – Marcus Aurelius
The mind is everything; what you think you become. – Socrates
The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud. – Coco Chanel
The primary cause for unhappiness is never the situation, but thoughts about it. Beware of the thoughts you’re thinking. – Eckhart Tolle
The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them. – Albert Einstein
The soul never thinks without a picture – Aristotle
The tranquility that comes when you stop caring what they say, or think, or do. Only what you do. – Marcus Aurelius
The trouble is, you think you have time. – Buddha
There’s no one to beat you, no one to defeat you, except the thoughts of yourself feeling bad. – Bob Dylan
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. – Shakespeare
Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight. – Albert Schweitzer
Think of the words as science, not as art. – Leonard Cohen
Thinking is difficult. That’s why most people judge. – Carl Jung
To find yourself, think for yourself. – Socrates
Watch your thoughts, they become your words. Watch your words, they become your actions. Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character. Watch your character, it becomes your destiny. – Lao Tzu
We are shaped by our thoughts. We become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. – Buddha
We become what we think about all day long. The question is, what do you think about? – Wayne Dyer
What do you think would happen to you if you systematically copied the body language of a schizophrenic? – Morris Berman
What makes us human, I think, is… our sophisticated spoken language. – Jane Goodall
What you think of yourself is much more important than what others think of you. – Seneca
When everyone thinks the same, little is thought. – Polo Hofer
When I look back on all the crap I learned in high school, it’s a wonder I can think at all. – Paul Simon
When I was in India I met and conversed briefly with Shri Atmananda Guru of Trivandrum: and the question he gave me to consider was this: Where are you between two thoughts? – Joseph Campbell
When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bounds. Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be. – Patanjali
With your thoughts you fashion your environment…the only climate you will ever live in. – Steven Covey
Writing is refined thinking. – Stephen King
You are not what you think. What you think, you are. – Brian Tracy
You become what you think about most of the time. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
You know how when you visualize something every day, to such a degree that you can literately taste its reality? And you believe in the likelihood of its manifestation with all your heart and soul? And as often as you think of it, in at least some small way, you prepare for its arrival? Yet still absolutely nothing happens? Right! That’s impossible. – Mike Dooley
You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do comes from what you think. – Marianne Williamson
You must learn a new way to think before you can master a new way to be. – Marianne Williamson