60 Overthinking Quotes To Break Free From The Mental Trap

"Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight."
- Benjamin Franklin

"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

"If you want to conquer overthinking, bring your mind to the present moment and reconnect it with the immediate world."
- Amit Ray

"We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them."
- Albert Einstein

"Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever."
- Leo Buscaglia

"Stop worrying about what tomorrow may bring. Focus on what you can control. Stay positive. Enjoy today. Expect good things to come."
- Karen Salmansohn

"Of the thousands of decisions you make every day, the majority are simply not worth draining your brain power over."
- Katie McCallum

"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

"Overthinking, also, best known as creating problems that are never there"
- David Sikhosana

"To think too much is a disease."
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems."
- Epictetus

"Worry is like a rocking chair: it gives you something to do but never gets you anywhere."
- Erma Bombeck

"Overthinking is just a painful reminder that you care entirely too much, even when you shouldn’t."
- Unknown

"People are often trapped by their own thoughts because they are striving for perfection or are trying to find a way to control a situation."
- Megan Marples

"You will never be free until you free yourself from the prison of your own thoughts."
- Philip Arnold

"People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them."
- George Bernard Shaw

"There is nothing more exhausting than going through the same pattern of negative thoughts over and over again."
- Parmita Uniyal

"I think and think and think, I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it."
- Jonathan Safran Foer

"Why is she so distant today? I must have said something stupid. She’s losing interest. She probably likes someone else."
- PsychAlive

"I'm going to automatically assume that everyone is unworthy to be trusted, so that way I won't get close to anyone, so I'm protecting myself."
- Syeda Hasan

"Ironically, individuals who ruminate really value their relationships—romantic, family, friends—to the point that they’ll sacrifice greatly to salvage one. But they often don’t see that they contribute to stress in the relationship by overthinking both real and imaginary problems."
- Ellen Hendriksen

"If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times."
- Dean Smith

"Overthinking is a dream-killer. Sometimes you can drown yourself in your own thoughts."
- Steve Maraboli

"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

"Nothing can harm you as much as your own thoughts unguarded."
- Buddha

"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

"We drink the poison our minds pour for us and wonder why we feel so sick"
- Atticus

"The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4 am knows all my secrets."
- Poppy Z. Brite

"I don't think they realize how sleepless nights can affect you, or how overthinking slowly kills you. I don't think they know how it can turn your mind into thoughts you wish weren't yours."
- Unknown

"We don't lie down at night and think to ourselves, ‘Okay, time to ruminate for the next two hours instead of falling asleep.' Your brain simply does what it has done in the past."
- Sarah Sperber

"If overthinking was a sport, I would be a world champion."
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"I was having a pretty decent day, until I thought of something I said when I was 15."
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"I've got 99 problems and 86 of them are completely made up scenarios in my head that I'm stressing about for absolutely no logical reason."
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"Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in."
- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Don't wait. The time will never be just right."
- Napoleon Hill

"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

"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

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

"The sharpest minds often ruin their lives by overthinking the next step, while the dull win the race with eyes closed."
- Bethany Brookbank

"You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."
- Martin Luther King, Jr

"Ruminating on the worst possible scenarios and outcomes can be a misguided form of self-protection."
- Syeda Hasan

"More thinking is needed, you feel, when actually what you need to do is step back and stop."
- Annalisa Barbieri

"While introspection can lead to self-understanding, insights, solutions and goal-setting, rumination can make us feel self-critical, self-doubting, stifled or even self-destructive."
- PsychAlive

"My father taught me not to overthink things, that nothing will ever be perfect, so just keep moving and do your best."
- Scott Eastwood

"Because we feel vulnerable about the future, we keep trying to solve problems in our head."
- Dinsa Sachan

"Rule number one is, don't sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it's all small stuff."
- Robert Eliot

"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

"So often people confuse overthinking with problem-solving."
- Dinsa Sachan

"Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it."
- Kahlil Gibran

"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

"Spend eighty percent of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of yesterday."
- Brian Tracy

"Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and start to organize your life around it."
- Brian Tracey

"Everyone does stupid things they regret. I, for one, do them daily. So stop your downward spiral by heaving a big sigh and saying ‘OK, that happened.' And then move on."
- Ellen Hendriksen

"Mastery is the opposite of passivity and, as it grows, turns long-suffering rumination into confident action."
- Ellen Hendriksen

"Ironically, individuals who ruminate really value their relationships—romantic, family, friends—to the point that they'll sacrifice greatly to salvage one. But they often don't see that they contribute to stress in the relationship by overthinking both real and imaginary problems."
- Ellen Hendriksen

"There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so."
- William Shakespeare

"Thinking has, many a time, made me sad, darling; but doing never did in all my life... My precept is, 'Do something, my sister, do good if you can; but, at any rate, do something.'"
- Elizabeth Gaskell

"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

"The more you rationalize, the more you move farther away from your authentic self."
- Shannon L. Alder