Thinking Good Quotes:

Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.

- Mary Lou Retton

source: Mary Lou Retton (2000). “Mary Lou Retton's Gateways to Happiness: 7 Ways to a More Peaceful, More Prosperous, More Satisfying Life”, Broadway

topic: Positive, Optimism, People, Just Be Happy, You Make Me Happy

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring, Solved Problems, Problem Solvers

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

- George S. Patton

topic: Motivational, Business, Learning, Military General, Being Weird

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [259]

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Happiness, Horatio, Either Or

The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.

- Robert Kiyosaki

topic: Past, Way, Study, Way In Life, Young Entrepreneurs

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

- Peter Drucker

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Way In Life, Young Entrepreneurs

Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

- Alan Kay

topic: Worry, Way, Live By, Way In Life, Young Entrepreneurs

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

- Marilyn Monroe

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, When Things Go Wrong, Times Have Changed

The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Inspiration, Way, Way In Life, Young Entrepreneurs, Creating Worlds

If you are feeling good , it is because you are thinking good thoughts .

- Rhonda Byrne

topic: Thinking, Feel Good, Feelings, Thinking Good

Fear you?" she said without thinking. "Good God, I would never do that." Easing her head back, Westcliff looked at her while a slow smile spread across his face. "No, you wouldn't," he agreed. "You'd spit in the devil's eye if it suited you.

- Lisa Kleypas

topic: Eye, Thinking, Devil, Thinking Good

The president met with BP CEO Tony Hayward, and Obama was demanding that BP clean up the Gulf. And I'm thinking, good luck. They can't even clean up their gas station restrooms.

- David Letterman

topic: Good Luck, Thinking, President, Restroom, Thinking Good

Simply by performing good actions and thinking good thoughts you will not attain enlightenment. It takes something more.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Thinking, Enlightenment, Action, Right Action, Good Actions

Writing well is at one and the same time good thinking, good feeling, and good expression; it is having wit, soul, and taste, all together.

- Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

topic: Writing, Thinking, Expression, Writing Well, Good Thinking

A goal without real consequences is wishful thinking. Good follow-through doesn't depend on the right intentions. It depends on the right incentives.

- Tim Ferriss

topic: Real, Thinking, Goal, Follow Through, Thinking Good

Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.

- Douglas Horton

topic: Thinking, Example, Deeds, Thinking Good

Count yourself lucky. I watched my entire family as they were eaten alive by the very pack of animals you have downstairs in your house with your child. The blood of my parents flowed from their bodies through the floorboards and drenched me while I lay in terror of being torn apart by them. I was only a year older than your child when it happened. My parents gave their lives for mine and I watched as they gave them. So you’ll have to excuse me if I have a hard time thinking good of any animal except those who are dead or caged. (Angelia)

- Sherrilyn Kenyon

topic: Children, Hard Times, Animal, Thinking Good, Torn Apart

In order to be kind, one must do. There is no point in thinking good thoughts and not acting on them. There is no currency in wishing things were better but not rolling up one's sleeves and helping to change them.

- Ingrid Newkirk

source: Ingrid Newkirk (2009). “The PETA Practical Guide to Animal Rights: Simple Acts of Kindness to Help Animals in Trouble”, p.21, Macmillan

topic: Thinking, Order, Wish, Good Thoughts, Rolling Up