Thinking Quotes

When you lose something in your life, stop thinking it's a loss for you... it is a gift you have been given so you can get on the right path to where you are meant to go, not to where you think you should have gone.
Suze Orman

Life, Path, Lose

Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins.
Charles Stanley

Fear, Failure, Confidence

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Great, Hope, Winner

We are a nation that is unenlightened because of religion. I do believe that. I think religion stops people from thinking. I think it justified crazies.
Bill Maher

Religion, Nation, Justified

How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.
David Joseph Schwartz

Mind, Through, Act

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Samuel Johnson

Reality, May, Travelling

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.
Bertrand Russell

Women, Men, Simple

The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking.
Deepak Chopra

Death, Old, Whole

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.
John Barrymore

Wisdom, Wife, Why

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.
Ambrose Bierce

While, Talking, Admiral

The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Saying, Why, Others

Authenticity is the alignment of head, mouth, heart, and feet - thinking, saying, feeling, and doing the same thing - consistently. This builds trust, and followers love leaders they can trust.
Lance Secretan

Love, Trust, Heart

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
Kin Hubbard

Music, Keep, Turn

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
A. A. Milne

Happy, Mind, Majority

Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Faith, Someone, Else

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

Fear, Action, Overcome

I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.
Billy Joel

Fool, Wish, Rejection

I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.
Roald Dahl

Life, Simple, Realize

If you're going to be thinking, you may as well think big.
Donald Trump

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
John Locke

Knowledge, Mind, Makes

Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.
Thomas Sowell

Best, Words, Others

It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.
Jules Renard

Enough, Storm, Away

Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.
Deepak Chopra

Behaviour, Response, Therefore

True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.
Ralph W. Sockman

Respect, True, Self

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
Blaise Pascal

Nature, Feeble, Reed

I believe in businesses where you engage in creative thinking, and where you form some of your deepest relationships. If it isn't about the production of the human spirit, we are in big trouble.
Anita Roddick

Human, Big, Creative

A lot of very beautiful women can be a pain because all they're thinking about is how they look.
Emma Thompson

Women, Beautiful, Pain

If more politicians in this country were thinking about the next generation instead of the next election, it might be better for the United States and the world.
Claude Pepper

Country, Election, Might

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Someone, Else, Reading

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.
Virginia Woolf

Truth, Business, Fight

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