Top 100 Than We Think Quotes
#1. We are stronger than we think we are.
We have courage that we do not recognize until we need it.
We are equal to challenges that we haven't even imagined yet
Peter Buffett
#2. Maybe age is kinder to us than we think. With my bad eyes, I can't see how bad I look, and with my rotten memory, I have a good excuse for getting out of a lot of stuff.
Erma Bombeck
#3. The foundations of our lives are far more fragile than we think. So we are severely shaken when life turns out to have a will of its own.
Susanne Bier
#4. We are vastly more powerful than we think we are. With a little support from flowers, we can recognize how deeply we affect others with our own energy and presence. We can cultivate a sharper awareness of our impact in the world.
Katie Hess
#5. We all survive more than we think we can.
Joan Didion
#6. We can all endure disaster and tragedy, and triumph over them-if we have to. We may not think we can, but we have surprisingly strong inner resources that will see us through if we will only make use of them. We are stronger than we think.
Dale Carnegie
#8. It is in carrying heavier burdens than we think we can bear that we become stronger.
Brent Weeks
#9. Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine
Lawrence Durrell
#10. Life repeats Shakespearian themes more often than we think. Did Lady Macbeth, Richard III, and King Claudius exist only in the Middle Ages? Shylock wanted to cut a pound of flesh from the body of the merchant of Venice. Is that a fairy tale?
Varlam Shalamov
#11. Time's a river, Locke, and we've always drifted farther down it than we think.
Scott Lynch
#12. But our hearts are more elastic than we think, and the work of forgiveness and transformation and growth can do things you can't even imagine from where you're standing now.
Shauna Niequist
#13. Prayer is easier than we think. we want to think it is too hard or too high and holy for us, because that gives us an excuse for not doing it. This is false humility. We can all do it, even the most sinful, shallow, silly, and stupid of us.
Peter Kreeft
#14. Here's the deal: I believe - and I attempt to live my life this way - we all have more time than we think we do. We all waste so much time.
Hill Harper
#15. We can endure much more than we think we can; all human experience testifies to that. All we need to do is learn not to be afraid of pain. Grit your teeth and let it hurt. Don't deny it, don't be overwhelmed by it. It will not last forever. One day, the pain will be gone and you will still be there.
Harold S. Kushner
#18. Significant and seemingly impossible social and political change happens more often than we think, and it happens more rapidly than we realize. Even the most momentous change is always possible if one finds the right way to make it happen.
Glenn Greenwald
#19. It was all about taking the leap of faith. It said that the fear that stops us from doing what we really want, is often not based on reality. We shape our fears in our heads, but things are so much easier than we think.
Effrosyni Moschoudi
#20. Make time for prayer and reflection; try to understand your value as a man on earth but see, too, your proper place in the scheme of things. It may sound funny to say this, but I have come to see that we are all far more important and less important than we think.
Elizabeth Berg
#21. What we have to realize is that when the inner voice gives us guidance, it's always going to be for our highest good - and it's always going to bring us more joy than we think.
Echo Bodine
#22. Money matters but less than we think and not in the way that we think. Family is important. So are friends. Envy is toxic. So is excessive thinking. Beaches are optional. Trust is not. Neither is gratitude.
Eric Weiner
#23. All humans can do more than they think they can do. So I think we can all actually be more superhuman than we think we can.
Eddie Izzard
#24. We are responsible for the problem and we must be held responsible for the solution. It will indeed be a sad indictment on our species if rhinos and elephants are no more. And that day will come much sooner than we think if we do not take action.
Brian Connell
#25. What the soul knows is often unknown to the man who has a soul. We are infinitely more than we think.
Khalil Gibran
#26. The best results are achieved by using the right amount of effort in the right place at the right time. And this right amount is usually less than we think we need.
Tony Buzan
#27. We persist and linger longer than we think, leaving traces of ourselves wherever we go. If you take that away, then we all simply vanish.
Dinaw Mengestu
#28. We are better than we think and not yet what we want to be.
Nikki Giovanni
#29. Every child begins the world again, to some extent, and loves to stay outdoors, even in wet and cold. It plays house, as well as horse, having an instinct for it ... At last we know not what it is to live in the open air, and our lives are domestic in more senses than we think.
Henry David Thoreau
#30. There is more going on beneath the surface than we think, and more going on in little, finite moments of time than we would guess.
Malcolm Gladwell
#31. Let us all be men and women in full. Let us expect from ourselves more than we think we can give, more than we think we can do and more than we think we already know.
Michael Mullen
#32. What happens and what you encounter, what you collide with - it's so exciting and revealing about how much more interesting and tricky the universe is than we think in our daily lives.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#33. stories lie hidden inside other stories, and we always know more about any given thing than we think we do, even if the only thing we know is nothing.
Gemma Files
#34. Clearly, animals know more than we think, and think a great deal more than we know.
Irene M. Pepperberg
#35. Still often interventionist, convinced of our importance in the world, even those of us born long after 1900 live in a country that is much more Victorian than we think.
Kate Williams
#36. We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we are.
Madeleine L'Engle
#37. We are more capable of turning around our global health crisis than we think.
Kris Carr
#38. The act of discovering who we are will force us to accept that we can go further than we think.
Paulo Coelho
#39. And that was the greatest heartbreak of all- no matter how spectacular we want our children to be, no matter how perfect we pretend they are, they are bound to disappoint. As it turns out, kids are more like us than we think: damaged, through and through.
Jodi Picoult
#40. This is one of the things we rely on our friends for: to think better of us than we think of ourselves. It makes us feel better, but it also makes us be better; we try to be the person they believe we are.
Tim Kreider
#41. Time, fertile in resources, more inventive and more charitable than we think, possesses a remarkable capacity to help us out, to afford us at any hour of the day some new humiliation.
Emil Cioran
#42. Memory is like that, too. We build careful bridges. But they're weaker than we think.
Lauren Oliver
#43. we think of our children as amazingly fragile and entirely moldable. Both assumptions are mistaken. It's harder to ruin our kids than we think and harder to stamp them for success than we'd like.
Kevin DeYoung
#45. To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.
Jean Rostand
#46. Living in America and, of course, just being women in general, we've got more strength than we think we do.
Dolly Parton
#47. At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.
Frida Kahlo
#48. We are more powerful, more knowledgeable, better prepared than we think we ever are.
Joe Navarro
#49. We lead more interesting lives than we think. We are characters in plots, without the compression and numinous sheen. Our lives, examined carefully in all their affinities and links, abound with suggestive meaning, with themes and involute turnings we have not allowed ourselves to see completely.
Don DeLillo
#50. We travel to learn; and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own.
Maria Mitchell
#51. You will never disappear," I said. "Even if it may feel like you have at some point. We're going to remain a part of each other's lives for much longer than we think. There's nothing we can say or do to change that.
Dinaw Mengestu
#52. We can all do so much more than we think we can. Wherever you think you are right now, you can go further, do better, be more than ever! What's wonderful is the future you're looking forward to and also your present potential right now! You're winning regardless. Both now and later.Celebrate you.
Sereda Aleta Dailey
#55. Everything that happens to you is a reflection of what you believe about yourself. We cannot outperform our level of self-esteem. We cannot draw to ourselves more than we think we are worth.
Iyanla Vanzant
#56. The past haunts the present in more ways than we think. It certainly scares the living daylights out of ME"~ Old Wrinkly
Cressida Cowell
#57. PROBABILITY BY LIA PURPURA Most coincidents are not miraculous, but way more common than we think - it's the shiver of noticing being central in a sequence of events that makes so much seem wild and rare - because what if it wasn't? Astonishment's nothing without your consent.
Anonymous
#58. But life here is not the end. Reality is more than we think it to be. There is another and greater reality that envelops this earthly one. Earth is not outside heaven, as the philosopher Peter Kreeft wrote; it is heaven's workshop, heaven's womb.
Gerald L. Sittser
#59. We all lead more pedestrian lives than we think we do. The boiling of an egg is sometimes more important than the boiling of a love affair in the end.
Lillian Hellman
#60. The human body is much stronger than we think. It seems to laugh at the cobwebs of despair that the heart weaves before our eyes in order to blind us to our fate. The body walks and goes on walking.
Consuelo De Saint-Exupery
#61. We still need to be reminded that God is bigger than we think. We need to be awed by His unfathomable love for us.
Francis Chan
#62. And suddenly we realize that the things we were ashamed of are the same things everyone deals with at one time or another. We are so much less alone than we think.
Jenny Lawson
#63. Hopefully, someday we will both realize that despite our sharp differences, you and I have more in common than we think.
Ray Bourhis
#64. With the right mindset and the right teaching, people are capable of a lot more than we think.
Carol S. Dweck
#65. What's that about? Love must be more about power than we think, if even in its most intimate moment of expression we think about not being the one who risks the most.
Deb Caletti
#66. I think that we all have to have that rite of passage of dating the tortured artist who seems cooler than we think we are; we aspire to be like them, and we're excited that somebody is turning us on to new music or a new lifestyle.
Drew Barrymore
#67. Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.
Werner Heisenberg
#69. From search and books to online TV and operating systems, antitrust affects our daily digital lives in more ways than we think.
Marvin Ammori
#70. We surely know by some nameless instinct more about our futures than we think we know.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#71. We are all capable of so much more than we think, the only thing we need to do is change our beliefs
Steven Aitchison
#72. We're all tougher than we think we are. We're fixed so that almost anything heals.
Wallace Stegner
#73. Mediocre people find their way into positions of authority ... because when it comes to even the most important positions, our selection decisions are a good deal less rational than we think.
Malcolm Gladwell
#74. If quantum mechanics is how reality structures itself, then the world is far weirder than we think. It is truly a wonderful time to write Science Fiction!
Stavros Halvatzis
#75. Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely.
Haruki Murakami
#76. Much sooner than we think, comes the end! Science is the only master who can change this.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#77. We are all a little bit stronger than we think we are.
Robin Roberts
#78. I think God understands our pain better than we think. Crying over a sister or a brother who has died is natural and by no means wrong. We can be comforted to know that even though they are gone, we will see them again when we are all in heaven.
Sarah Holman
#79. I think we all depend on a significant other, and we think if they leave me, I'll die. But that's not true. We're all much stronger than we think we are.
Katharine McPhee
#80. Where do you learn how to act? Not at church. America is a lot more like pagan Rome than we think. We still sacrifice to objects to gain our social goals.
Dave Hickey
#81. We are all of us richer than we think we are; but we are taught to borrow and to beg, and brought up more to make use of what is another's than of our own.
Michel De Montaigne
#82. We are thus conscious less of the time than we think, because we cannot be conscious of when we are not conscious.
Julian Jaynes
#83. There are angels near you to guide you and protect you, if you would but invoke them. It is not later than we think, it is a bigger world than we think.
Fulton J. Sheen
#84. World is crazier and more of it than we think,
Incorrigibly plural. I peel and portion
A tangerine and spit the pips and feel
The drunkenness of things being various.
Louis MacNeice
#87. We are all capable of much more than we think we are.
Laozi
#88. ...we need to remind ourselves that natural systems are much more finely tuned than we think, and if we like the way they currently work, then we should try very, very hard to not screw with them.
Rowan Jacobsen
#89. Trust is a core currency of any relationship. Sometimes our need to control and micromanage everything erodes our confidence in ourselves and others. The truth: People are much more capable than we think. A hearty dose of trust is often what's needed to unlock the magic. Go ahead, have faith.
Kris Carr
#90. How differently we behave in other peoples countries ... no sooner than we think we can get away with it, we do as we please. It doesn't require the breakdown of a social order. It takes a six-hour plane flight.
Aminatta Forna
#91. As a girl who was raised on the idea that we should give back to our community as much as possible, I believe that we have more power than we think when it comes to making change.
Laura Marano
#92. We are all more capable than we think we are.
Anne Murray
#93. People die all the time. Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely. It's too easy not to make the effort, then weep and wring your hands after the person dies.
Haruki Murakami
#94. Time is kinder than we think,' thought Anne. 'It's a dreadful mistake to cherish bitterness for years ... hugging it to our hearts like a treasure.
L.M. Montgomery
#95. A good story needs conflict, and virtual reality is a great hypothetical way to create conflict ... In some ways, the future is going to be more boring than we think.
Palmer Luckey
#96. But when the group is literally capable of changing our perceptions, and when to stand alone is to activate primitive, powerful, and unconscious feelings of rejection, then the health of these institutions seems far more vulnerable than we think.
Susan Cain
#97. Because God is better than we think we have to change the way we think.
Bill Johnson
#98. We live in such an amazing World and we don't even see it.
It's clouded by hate, betrayal and death.
When do we stop all of that and begin living?, when do we realise that we're made for more than this?, our ability is far more powerful than we think!.
Ellie Williams
#100. We all fantasize about a relationship we'd like to do over or something we'd like to change about our past. I think there are a lot more opportunities for second chances in our lives than we think.
Jean Smart
