200 Overthinking Quotes to Slow Down and Relax Your Mind
The destructive habit of overthinking is one of the most common things that keeps people stuck in inaction and from doing what they want to do. These overthinking quotes help you to get out of your head, and stop worrying once and for all.
Overthinking Quotes
1. “You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” – Marcus Aurelius.
2. “Concentration is a cornerstone of mindfulness practice. Your mindfulness will only be as robust as the capacity of your mind to be calm and stable.” – Jon Kabat-Zinn
3. “If you want power, control the narrative in other people’s head. If you seek happiness, control the narrative in your own head.” – Johnny Uzan.
4. “Step outside for a while – calm your mind. It is better to hug a tree than to bang your head against a wall continually.” – Rasheed Ogunlaru
5. “Life is God’s novel. Let him write it.” – Isaac Bashevis Singer
6. “Keep your ears open and listen to the whispers of the universe, it will direct you towards the right direction.” – Hina Hashmi
7. “Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchil
8. “Clinging to old ways and fighting change is not the answer.” -Michael Rapino
9. “To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces. The sea air, sunshine, and patience, Watson—all else will come.” – Arthur Conan Doyle
10. “Overthinking uses energy and leads to activity with no action. That is one particular problem many will face. Questology is the answer to cure this cancer.” – Thomas Vato
11. “It has been well said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.” – Charles Spurgeon
12. “The world is full of people who will help you manufacture tornados in order to blow out a match.” – Shaun Hick
13. “Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.” – Kahlil Gibran
14. “Nothing in the world can bother you as much as your own mind, I tell you. In fact, others seem to be bothering you, but it is not other, it is your own mind.” – Sri Ravi Shankar
15. “Overthinking will not empower you over things that are beyond your control. So, let it be if it is meant to be and cherish the moment.” – Mahsati A.
16. “If you have fear of some pain or suffering, you should examine whether there is anything you can do about it. If you can, there is no need to worry about it; if you cannot do anything, then there is also no need to worry.” – Dalai Lama
17. “If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.” – Bruce Lee
18. “What do do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.” – Dean Smith
19. “The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.” – William James
20. “He never complicates a desire by overthinking it, unlike Mirabelle, who spins a cocoon around an idea until it is immobile.” – Steve Martin
21. “I have to remind myself, stop thinking about the future. Stop thinking about what happened at work today, or another choice you could have made.” – Anna Gunn
23. “The greatest force is derived from the power of thought. The finer the element, the more powerful it is. The silent power of thought influences people even at a distance, because mind is one as well as many. The universe is a cobweb; minds are spiders.” – Swami Vivekananda
24. “Don’t keep things bottled up. It’s not good for you.” – Kody Keplinger
25. “The closer one comes to truth, the further one gets from mind.” – James Pierce
26. “Overthinking is a dream-killer. Sometimes you can drown yourself in your own thoughts.” – Steve Maraboli
27. “Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.” – Epictetus.
28. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.” – Mark Twain
29. “A mistake in judgment isn’t fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is.” – Pauline Kael
30. “Worry is the triumph of fear.” – Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel
31. “Thinking too deeply will only drown me.” – Greta Farrel
32. “No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.” – Alan Watts.
33. “Try not to give the driving seat of your mind to anyone. People are happy to drive you to regrets.” – Vineet Raj Kapoor
34. “Worry is interest paid on trouble before it is due.” – William R. Inge
35. “Trust the still, small voice that says, “this might work and I’ll try it.” – Diane Mariechild
36. “Life stops when one stops dreaming for better because of overwhelming pressure of fear that arises from his overthinking..” – Srinivas Mishra
Stop Overthinking Quotes
37. “Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.” – Benjamin Franklin
38. “Soon you will be dead and none of it will matter” – Marcus Aurelius
39. “If you get stuck, draw with a different pen. Change your tools; it may free your thinking.” – Paul Arden
40. “Turning pro is a mindset. If we are struggling with fear, self-sabotage, procrastination, self-doubt, etc., the problem is, we’re thinking like amateurs.
Amateurs don’t show up. Amateurs crap out. Amateurs let adversity defeat them. The pro thinks differently. He shows up, he does his work, he keeps on truckin’, no matter what.” – Steven Pressfield
41. “To think too much is a disease.” – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
42. “Don’t get too deep, it leads to over thinking, and over thinking leads to problems that doesn’t even exist in the first place.” – Jayson Engay
43. “Your focus determines your reality.” – Qui-Gon Jinn
44. “Worrying is like paying a debt you don’t owe.” – Mark Twain
45. “Stop overthinking everything. Just let it be. Relax and go with the flow more. Worry less. And don’t take life so seriously… live a little!” – Mandy Hale
46. “You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
47. “The more I think about it, the more I realize that overthinking isn’t the real problem. The real problem is that we don’t trust.” – L.J. Vanier
48. “Overthinking is parasitic. It’s viral. It’s deadly, even.” – Genereux Philip
49. “Most of us never stop to consider our blessings; rather, we spend the day only thinking about our problems. But since you have to be alive to have problems, be grateful for the opportunity to have them.” – Bernie Siegel
50. “I’m not thinking about anything when I’m climbing, which is part of the appeal. I’m focused on executing what’s in front of me.” – Alex Honnold
51. “Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” – Napoleon Hill
52. “In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.” – Theodore Roosevelt
53. “Overthinking is often a product of underdoing.” – Yehuda Berg
54. “You only have control over three things in your life, the thoughts you think, the images you visualize, and the actions you take.” – Jack Canfield
55. “If my mind is busy thinking about things like how someone hurt or upset me and how I can protect myself or get back at them, I’m too busy in my head to enjoy the present moment.” – Ankush Jain
56. “A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is causing anxiety.” – Bertrand Russell
57. “Majority of people who are easily stressed are the ones who think too much about the problems instead of solutions. Always focus on solutions.” – Subodh Gupt
58. “Put your thoughts to sleep. Do not let them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart. Let go of thinking.” – Rumi
59. “Nothing can harm you as much as your own thoughts unguarded.” – Buddha
60. “Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.” – W. Clement Stone
61. “Remember, the talking about the thing isn’t the thing. Doing the thing is the thing.” – Amy Poehler
62. “Worrying about how things might go wrong, doesn’t help things to go right.” – Karen Salmansohn
63. “You know, it is a little known fact that thinking is entirely overrated. The world would be a much better place if we all did a lot less of it.” – Laurie Viera Rigler
64. When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.” – Winston Churchill
65. “I have realized sometimes I do better working under a crazy schedule. It gives me less time to overthink things and forces me to be present.” – Torrey DeVitto
66. “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
67. “You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” – Martin Luther King, Jr
68. “Overthinking, also best known as creating problems that are never there.” – David Sikhosana
69. “If you want to conquer overthinking, bring your mind to the present moment and reconnect it with the immediate world.” – Amit Ray
Funny Overthinking Quotes
70. “My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.” – Sylvia Plath
71. “Worrying does not take away tomorrow’s troubles, it takes away today’s peace.” – Randy Armstrong
72. “The more you rationalize, the more you move farther away from your authentic self.” – Shannon L. Alder
73. “If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you’ll die a lot of times.”– Dean Smith
74. “My father taught me not to overthink things, that nothing will ever be perfect, so just keep moving and do your best.” – Scott Eastwood
75. “Only about two percent of one percent of our thoughts deserve to be taken seriously.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
76. “The more you overthink the less you will understand.” – Habeeb Akande
77. “I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.” – Jonathan Safran Foer.
78. “There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.” – William Shakespeare
79. “Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
80. “The sharpest minds often ruin their lives by overthinking the next step, while the dull win the race with eyes closed.” – Bethany Brookbank
81. “Stop worrying about what tomorrow may bring. Focus on what you can control. Stay positive. Enjoy today. Expect good things to come.” – Karen Salmansohn
82. ”Spend eighty percent of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of yesterday.” – Brian Tracy
83. “Worrying is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn’t get you anywhere.” – Van Wilder
84. “While you were overthinking, you missed everything worth feeling.” – Nitya Prakash
85. “Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
86. “Overthinking ruins you. It ruins the situation. And it twists things around. It makes you worry. Plus it just makes everything worst than it actually is.” – Karen Salmanso
87. “I get anxious about everything. I just can’t stop thinking about things all the time. And here’s the really destructive part — it’s always retrospective. I waste time thinking of what I should have said or done.” – Hugh Laurie
88. “We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It’s a death trap.” – Anthony Hopkins
89. “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” – Albert Einstein
90. “The more you overthink the less you will understand.” – Habeeb Akande
91. “It’s a good idea always to do something relaxing prior to making an important decision in your life.” – Paulo Coelho
92. “Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” – Napoleon Hill
93. “In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.” – Theodore Roosevelt
94. “You only have control over three things in your life, the thoughts you think, the images you visualize, and the actions you take.” – Jack Canfield
95. “Remember, the talking about the thing isn’t the thing. Doing the thing is the thing.” – Amy Poehler
96. “Worry is like a rocking chair: it gives you something to do but never gets you anywhere.” – Erma Bombeck
97. “Trust the still, small voice that says, “this might work and I’ll try it.” – Diane Mariechild
98. “We cannot solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them.” – Albert Einstein
99. “If you’re stressing over happiness, you’re doing it wrong!” — Shannon L. Alder
100. “Don’t think. It complicates things. Just feel, and if it feels like home then follow its path.” — R.M. Drake
101. “Over thinking ruins moods and kills good vibes.” — Supa Nova Slom
102. “Sometimes you’re overthinking, you convince yourself to get out of it and you’re like, ‘Ah I shoulda did that!’ You can’t live life with regrets.” — Michael B. Jordan
103. “Don’t overthink things. Sometimes you can convince your head not to listen to your heart. Those are the decisions you regret for the rest of your life.” — Leah Braemel.
104. “I admire the linear and decisive way a certain kind of man thinks, to my curlicue boundless overthinking.” — J. Courtney Sullivan
Sad Overthinking Quotes
105. “Everything is too easy. If you want to record a song, you can buy Pro Tools and record four hundred guitar tracks. That leads to overthinking, which kills any spontaneity and the humanity of the performance.” — Jack White
106. “The main things to rebel against – overproduction, too much technology, overthinking.” — Jack White
107. “I have found that sometimes I do better working on a crazy schedule. It gives me less time to overthink things and forces me to be present.” — Torrey DeVitto
108. “Worrying how things go wrong doesn’t help things go right.” — Karen Salmansohn
109. “If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.” — Dale Carnegie
110. “You can’t change who you are, but you can change what you have in your head, you can refresh what you’re thinking about, you can put some fresh air in your brain.” — Ernesto Bertarelli
111. “Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organize your life around it.” — Brian Tracy.
112. “It’s always the mind that needs quieting and the heart that needs listening to.” — Rasheed Ogunlaru
113. “The nearer a man comes to a calm mind the closer he is to strength.” — Marcus Aurelius.
114. “Spend eighty percent of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of yesterday.” — Brian Tracy
115. “Your overthinking voice out of your head sounds like a strict adult who always counts your problems and points out your mistakes, but doesn’t ever help you with solutions.” — Anon
116. “You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
117. “If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you’ll die a lot of times.” — Dean Smith
118. “The more I think about it, the more I realize that overthinking isn’t the real problem. The real problem is that we don’t trust.” — L.J. Vanier
119. “My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.” — Sylvia Plath
120. “The more you overthink, the more your comfort zone becomes a forest of negative thoughts.” — Unknown
121. “Overthinking, also, best known for creating problems that are never there.” — David Sikhosana
122. “Don’t get too deep, it leads to overthinking, and overthinking leads to problems that don’t even exist in the first place.” — Jayson Engay
123. “Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever.” — Leo Buscaglia
124. “When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.” — Winston Churchill
125. “Because remember, talking about the thing isn’t the thing. Doing the thing is the thing.” — Amy Poehler
126. “An overthinking mind drags you on and around the same jagged patch of your negative past.” — HIP
127. “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.” — Steve Jobs
128. “When the cycle of your thoughts pedal up and down the same stretch of highway without stopping or exiting, then you’re overthinking.” — Sandip Roy
129. “Thinking is good. Overthinking is not. Stop overthinking; life is too short to waste on that.” — Anon
130. “Don’t ruin a new day thinking about yesterday. Yesterday has gone; why drag it back by overthinking?” — Anon
131. “Overthinking is one of the biggest causes of unhappiness. It mostly creates problems that do not exist.” — Anon
132. “When you overthink, you recycle sad scenes from your past and re-live the sadness of those moments again and again.” — Anon
133. “Oftentimes, overthinking can worsen the problem rather than fix it.” – Anonymous
134. “You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
135. “Thinking too much is a way to let life pass by.” Anonymous
136. “Don’t get too deep, it leads to over thinking, and over thinking leads to problems that doesn’t even exist in the first place.” – Jayson Engay
137. “Overthinking, also best known as creating problems that are never there.” – David Sikhosana
138. “Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever.” – Leo Buscaglia
139. “If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you’ll die a lot of times.” – Dean Smith
Overthinking Quotes about Love
140. “Only about two percent of one percent of our thoughts deserve to be taken seriously.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
141. “Never let your thoughts fool you.” – Anonymous
142. “Put your thoughts to sleep. Do not let them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart. Let go of thinking.” – Rumi
143. “Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” – Napoleon Hill
144. “Thinking too much isn’t something to be proud of.” – Anonymous
145. “Stop thinking and start doing.” – Anonymous
146. “Worrying about how things might go wrong, doesn’t help things to go right.” – Karen Salmansohn
147. “Overthinking is a complete waste of time. Stop it.” – Anonymous
148. “Stop letting your thoughts dictate your entire life.” – Anonymous
149. “The more I think about it, the more I realize that overthinking isn’t the real problem. The real problem is that we don’t trust.” – L.J. Vanier
150. “I think and think and think, I’ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.” – Jonathan Safran Foer
151. “A year from now you may wish you had started today.” – Karen Lamb
152.“We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them.” – Albert Einstein
153. “Worry is like a rocking chair: it gives you something to do but never gets you anywhere.” – Erma Bombeck
154. “You will never accomplish anything with overthinking.” – Anonymous
155. “Nothing happens by overthinking; then why stress? Is it too hard to sit down and relax?” – Sukant Ratnakar
156. “Overthinking will only lead you to disappointment.” – Anonymous
157. “Remember, the talking about the thing isn’t the thing. Doing the thing is the thing.” – Amy Poehler
158. “Worrying is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn’t get you anywhere.” – Van Wilder
159. “Overthinking is already a bad choice itself.” – Anonymous
160. “Imagine what you can accomplish when you stop overthinking.” – Anonymous
161. “The more you overthink the less you will understand.” – Habeeb Akande
162. “People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.” – George Bernard Shaw
163. “A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is causing anxiety.” – Bertrand Russell
164. “You won’t be able to grow when you let your thoughts control you.” – Anonymous
165. “Like what Nike said, ‘Just Do It’.” Anonymous
166. “Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
167. “Overthinking will take up too much of your time; thus, making it a waste of time.” – Anonymous
168. “Imagine this, others are out there doing and growing, while you’re just sitting there and thinking.” – Anonymous
169. “Nothing can harm you as much as your own thoughts unguarded.” – Buddha
170. “It’s a good idea always to do something relaxing prior to making an important decision in your life.” – Paulo Coelho
171. “The more you rationalize, the more you move farther away from your authentic self.” – Shannon L. Alder
172. “Overthinking is not the way to grow your brain muscles.” – Anonymous
173. “When you overthink, don’t you wish you were just a cow in a farm eating grass? Because that would be better.” – Anonymous
174. “If you’re stressing over happiness, you’re doing it wrong!” – Shannon L. Alder
175. “Overthinking ruins you. It ruins the situation. And it twists things around. It makes you worry. Plus it just makes everything worse than it actually is.” – Karen Salmansohn
176. “Overthinking is a horrible cycle.” – Anonymous
177. “Don’t think. It complicates things. Just feel, and if it feels like home then follow its path.” – R.M. Drake
178. “Overthinking is one way to have a regretful life.” – Anonymous
179. “When you think too much, you’re not solving problems, you’re just adding more.” – Anonymous
Overthinking Slogans
180. “Over thinking ruins moods and kills good vibes.” – Supa Nova Slom
181. “Turns out, too much thinking does more harm than good.” – Anonymous
182. “Sometimes you’re overthinking, you convince yourself to get out of it and you’re like, ‘Ah I shoulda did that!’ You can’t live life with regrets.” – Michael B. Jordan
183. “Don’t overthink, just do it.” – Shia LaBeouf
184. “Overthinking just takes the life out of you.” – Anonymous
185. “If you let your worries take over, don’t expect happiness to come anytime soon.” – Anonymous
186. “Overthinking can lead to worrying which leads to anxiety. Anxiety can at times be crippling, leaving people frozen and unable to act.” – Brien Blatt
187. “Overthinking can be the only thing keeping you from discovering your potential.” – Anonymous
188. “My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.” – Sylvia Plath
189. “Majority of people who are easily stressed are the ones who think too much about the problems instead of solutions. Always focus on solutions.” – Subodh Gupt
190. “Worrying about how things might go wrong, doesn’t help things to go right.” – Karen Salmansohn
191. “When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.” – Winston Churchill
192. “Overthinking is parasitic. It’s viral. It’s deadly, even.” – Genereux Philip
193. “Overthinking is often a product of underdoing.” – Yehuda Berg
194. “Life stops when one stops dreaming for better because of overwhelming pressure of fear that arises from his overthinking..” – Srinivas Mishra
195. “If you’re just overthinking all the time, you’re not really living.” – Anonymous
196. “We can’t blame those that overthink a lot because they grew up in an environment that didn’t give them enough reassurance. And, that’s just sad.” – Anonymous
197. “Soon you will be dead and none of it will matter.” – Marcus Aurelius
198. “Thinking has, many a time, made me sad, darling; but doing never did in all my life… Do good if you can; but, at any rate, do something.” – Elizabeth Gaskell
199. “Overthinking is a dream-killer. Sometimes you can drown yourself in your own thoughts.” – Steve Maraboli
200. “Thinking too deeply will only drown me.” – Greta Farrel
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