Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
Mohandas Gandhi

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.
John Lennon

Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.
Walt Disney

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.
Theodore Roosevelt

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
Bill Gates

I watched the Indy 500, and I was thinking that if they left earlier they wouldn't have to go so fast.
Steven Wright

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
Henry Ford

Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
John Adams

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
George S. Patton

Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.
Robert Frost

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
W. Clement Stone

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
Henry David Thoreau

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Lao Tzu

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
Lao Tzu

When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
Joseph Campbell

When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.
Plato

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
Plato