Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Think

It is reported that more than 90% of what we worry about never happens. That means that our negative worries have less than a 10% chance of being correct. If this is so, isn’t being positive more realistic than being negative? Think about your own life. I’ll wager that most of what you worry about never happens. So are you being realistic when you worry all the time? No!
Susan Jeffers (1938–2012) American Psychologist, Self-Help Author

You must do the things you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American First Lady, Diplomat, Humanitarian

You can actually shift your thinking in such a way as to make a wrong decision or mistake an impossibility.
Susan Jeffers (1938–2012) American Psychologist, Self-Help Author

The word mantra comes from two Sanskrit words man, (“to think”) and tra (“tool”). So the literal translation is “a tool of thought”. And that’s how mantras are used in Buddhist and Hindu practices, as tools that clear your mind of distractions. Because when you focus on repeating that mantra over and over again, soon the noise will die down and all you will hear is your inner voice.
Russell Simmons (b.1957) American Music Promoter

God is dead.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German Philosopher, Scholar, Writer

How do I know what I think, until I hear what I say?
E. M. Forster (1879–1970) English Novelist, Short Story Writer, Essayist

What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul’s emphasis is always right.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher

You may never relate the experiences of others, especially those of celebrities, to your life. You may think they are lucky because they aren’t afraid to put themselves out there. Not so! They had to push through a tremendous amount of fear to get where they are today… and they are still pushing.
Susan Jeffers (1938–2012) American Psychologist, Self-Help Author

Go first to your highest thought about yourself. Imagine the you that you would be if you lived that thought every day. Imagine what you would think, do, and say, and how you would respond to what others would do and say… Do you see any difference between that projection and what you think, do, and say now?
Neale Donald Walsch (b.1943) American Spiritual Writer

Frozen in fear, you avoid responsibility because you think your experience is beyond your control. This stance keeps you from making decisions, solving problems, or going after what you want in life.
David Emerald

Superstars think like superstars long before the fans or the press anoint them.
John Eliot (b.1971) American Psychologist, Academic

People say that what we’re all seeking in life is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experience on the purely physical plane will have resonances within our innermost being and reality, so that we actually fee the rapture of being alive.
Joseph Campbell (1904–87) American Mythologist, Writer, Lecturer

But when you think you’re supposed to do something with it and imagine that you’re the doer, that’s pure delusion. Just follow your passion. Do what you love. Inquire, and have a happy life while you’re doing it.
Byron Katie (b.1942) American Speaker, Author

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.
George Chapman (c.1560–1634) English Poet, Playwright

Extraordinary things like this occur frequently to most of us, but we disregard them, because of our lack of understanding, and we think they are mere coincidences.
Roger McDonald (b.1941) Australian Novelist, Poet, Screenwriter, Writer

Think of yourself as a role model for others—showing that you can be kind, generous, loving, and rich!
T. Harv Eker (b.1954) American Motivational Speaker, Lecturer, Author

Read less and think more. Read about great things and think about great questions and issues.
Wallace Wattles (1860–1911) American New Thought Author

If you think you’re too small to make an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.
Anita Roddick (1942–2007) English Businessperson, Activist, Environmentalist

A man is literally what he thinks.
James Lane Allen (1849–1925) American Novelist, Short Story Writer

Rich people think long-term. They balance their spending on enjoyment today with investing for freedom tomorrow.
T. Harv Eker (b.1954) American Motivational Speaker, Lecturer, Author

I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others… I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
Thomas Edison (1847–1931) American Inventor, Scientist, Entrepreneur

In all cases where doubt crops up, ask yourself, “If I had a gun to my head and had to do it, how would I do it?” It’s not as hard as you think.
Tim Ferriss (b.1977) American Self-help Author

Greatness is attained only by the thinking of great thoughts.
Wallace Wattles (1860–1911) American New Thought Author

Let your advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
Winston Churchill (1874–1965) British Head of State, Political leader, Historian, Journalist, Author

Those who think they know everything will learn nothing.
Roger McDonald (b.1941) Australian Novelist, Poet, Screenwriter, Writer

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 (1879–1955) German-born Physicist

To live differently, to love differently, to think differently, or to try to. Is the danger of beauty so great that it is better to live without it (the standard model)? Or to fall into her arms fire to fire? There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value.
Jeanette Winterson (b.1959) English Novelist, Journalist

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
Bertrand A. Russell (1872–1970) British Philosopher, Mathematician, Social Critic

I think every person should be able to enjoy life. Try to decide what you most enjoy doing, and then look around to see if there is a job for which you could prepare yourself that would enable you to continue having this sort of joy.
Linus Pauling (1901–94) American Scientist, Peace Activist

The crime which bankrupts men and states is job-work—declining from your main design, to serve a turn here and there. Nothing is beneath you, if it is in the direction of your life, nothing is great or desirable if it is off from that. I think we are entitled here to draw a straight line and say that society can never prosper but must always be bankrupts, until every man does that which he was created to do.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher

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