10 Overthinking Quotes to Help You Stop Thinking and Start Doing

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These inspirational overthinking quotes will help you stay positive and productive on those days of self-doubt and overthinking everything.

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Ready to stop overthinking and start doing? Let’s dive in and get inspired with some inspirational quotes.


1. “Overthinking is the arch-enemy of happiness.” – Ordinary & Happy

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2. “To think too much is a disease.” – Dostoyevsky

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3. “Worrying is like paying a debt you don’t owe.” – Mark Twain

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4. “Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

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5. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.” – Mark Twain

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6. “In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.” – Theodore Roosevelt

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7. “Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.” – Benjamin Franklin

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8. “If you overthink everything, you’ll never even get started.” – Ordinary & Happy

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9. “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” – Albert Einstein

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10. “By overthinking, we often create problems that aren’t even there.” – Ordinary & Happy

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The next time you are overthinking so much it is paralyzing you, use these quotes to break that state of mind.

We create change by taking action, not thinking about it all of the time.

Embrace the mistakes, embrace the risk, and let these quotes inspire you to get to work. Only by doing, can we make our dreams a reality.


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