Thinking Quotes

Bless people when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing by helping to stamp out the false ego.

Be Grateful to the Man you help, think of Him as God. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship God by helping our fellow men?

Ask nothing; want nothing in return. Give what you have to give; it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.

According to the Hindu way of thinking, marriage is rather a duty than a privilege.

Each work has to pass through these stages-ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.

The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.

Whatever you think, that you will be. If you think yourselves weak, weak you will be; if you think yourselves strong, strong you will be.

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.

To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction.

There is no limit to which a man will not go to avoid thinking.

The man who doesn't make up his mind to cultivate the habit of thinking misses the greatest pleasure in life.

The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.

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

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

We think too much and feel too little.

The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical; our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.

The more I think of it, the more I realize there are no answers. Life is to be lived.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition

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.