Top 200 Clever Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “A goal without a plan is just a wish.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Goal Quotes, Study Quotes, Goal Setting Quotes, Quality Quotes

2. “There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”

— Leonard Cohen

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Music Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sunday Inspirational Quotes, Important Quotes

3. “If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes – then learn how to do it later!”

— Richard Branson

Also featured in: Startup Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Action Quotes, Opportunity Quotes

4. “Time is money.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Time Quotes, Motivational Work Quotes, Inspirational Business Quotes

5. “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Also featured in: Action Quotes, Creativity Quotes, Wisdom Quotes

6. “You will never ‘find’ time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.”

— Charles Buxton

Also featured in: Time Quotes, Action Quotes, Positive Motivational Quotes, Effort Quotes, Quality Quotes

7. “In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”

— Douglas Adams

Also featured in: Funny Quotes, Interesting Quotes, Fiction Quotes, Hilarious Quotes

8. “Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”

— Douglas Adams

Also featured in: Funny Quotes, Silly Quotes, Hilarious Quotes, Crazy Quotes

9. “Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”

— Oscar Wilde

Also featured in: Time Quotes, Education Quotes, Graduation Quotes

10. “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”

— Mae West

Also featured in: Courage Quotes, Life Quotes, Happiness Quotes, Empowerment Quotes, Contentment Quotes

11. “Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.”

— Groucho Marx

Also featured in: Funny Quotes, Time Quotes, Silly Quotes, Hilarious Quotes

12. “If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives.”

— Lemony Snicket

Also featured in: Quotes About Trying, Risk-Taking Quotes, Progress Quotes, Moving Forward Quotes

13. “I try to buy stock in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one will.”

— Warren Buffett

Also featured in: Business Quotes, Wealth Quotes, Quotes About Money, Quotes About Trying

14. “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.”

— Yogi Berra

Also featured in: Silly Quotes, Hilarious Quotes, Crazy Quotes, Path Quotes

15. “If you don’t ask, the answer is always no.”

— Nora Roberts

Also featured in: Business Quotes, Confidence Quotes, Short Motivational Quotes, Personality Quotes, Opportunity Quotes

16. “Travel is never a matter of money but of courage.”

— Paulo Coelho

Also featured in: Courage Quotes, Interesting Quotes, Feel Good Quotes

17. “The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Also featured in: Science Quotes, Universe Quotes

18. “The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. ”

— Vince Lombardi

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Hard Work Quotes, Short Motivational Quotes, Motivational Work Quotes

19. “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Poetry Quotes, Quotes About Dreams, Imagination Quotes

20. “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

Also featured in: Short Positive Quotes, Quality Quotes, Knowledge Quotes, Wise Quotes

21. “There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory, which states that this has already happened.”

— Douglas Adams

Also featured in: Funny Quotes, Silly Quotes, Crazy Quotes

22. “The mind is a wonderful servant, but a terrible master.”

— Robin S. Sharma

Also featured in: Wisdom Quotes, Mindset Quotes, Mind Quotes, Smart Quotes

23. “Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.”

— Oscar Wilde

Also featured in: Love Quotes, Self-Worth Quotes, Fiction Quotes, Beautiful Quotes

24. “Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.”

— Oscar Wilde

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Silly Quotes, Hilarious Quotes

25. “Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.”

— John Green

Also featured in: Fiction Quotes

26. “Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”

— Oscar Wilde

Also featured in: Failure Quotes, Experience Quotes, Reflection Quotes, Sarcastic Quotes

27. “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”

— Stephen King

Also featured in: Quotes About Books And Reading, Fiction Quotes, Beautiful Quotes, Important Quotes

28. “Success is something you attract by the person you become.”

— Jim Rohn

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Work Quotes, Motivational Monday Quotes

29. “Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.”

— Miles Kington

Also featured in: Funny Quotes, Knowledge Quotes, Hilarious Quotes, Funny Inspirational Quotes

30. “You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills.”

— Jim Rohn

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Monday Motivation Quotes, Smart Quotes, Ambition Quotes

31. “Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”

— Oscar Wilde

Also featured in: Interesting Quotes, Short Inspirational Quotes, Life Philosophy Quotes, Positive Short Quotes

32. “You live, you learn, and you upgrade.”

— Anonymous

Also featured in: Change Quotes, Lifelong Learning Quotes, Moving On Quotes, Growth Quotes

33. “Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill. ”

— Warren Buffett

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes About Life, Investing Quotes

34. “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”

— Oscar Wilde

Also featured in: Quotes About Books And Reading, Famous Quotes, Fiction Quotes

35. “We buy things we don’t need with money we don’t have to impress people we don’t like.”

— Dave Ramsey

Also featured in: Common Sense Quotes, Quotes About Money

36. “I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”

— J.K. Rowling

Also featured in: Fiction Quotes, Creative Quotes, Character Quotes

37. “I don't do fashion, I AM fashion.”

— Coco Chanel

Also featured in: Famous Quotes, Aesthetic Quotes, Personal Branding Quotes

38. “Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.”

— Denis Waitley

Also featured in: Happiness Quotes, Action Quotes, Short Positive Quotes, Feel Good Quotes

39. “The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.”

— Will Rogers

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Funny Quotes, Interesting Quotes, Funny Work Quotes

40. “Give out what you most want to come back.”

— Robin S. Sharma

Also featured in: Short Positive Quotes, Sweet Quotes, Being Happy Quotes

41. “There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.”

— French Proverb

Also featured in: Integrity Quotes, Personality Quotes, Beautiful Quotes, Different Quotes

42. “I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.”

— Bruce Lee

Also featured in: Life Lessons Quotes, Being Yourself Quotes, Quotes About People

43. “Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.”

— Diane Duane

Also featured in: Quotes About Books And Reading

44. “The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.”

— Nolan Bushnell

Also featured in: Startup Quotes, Time Quotes, Work Ethic Quotes, Time Management Quotes

45. “Your margin is my opportunity.”

— Jeff Bezos

Also featured in: Strategy Quotes, Opportunity Quotes, Making Money Quotes, Competition Quotes

46. “A problem is only a problem when viewed as a problem. All change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.”

— Robin S. Sharma

Also featured in: Change Quotes, Motivational Work Quotes, Short Inspirational Quotes, Perspective Quotes

47. “None can destroy iron, but its own rust can! Likewise none can destroy a person, but its own mindset can!”

— Ratan Tata

Also featured in: Feel Good Quotes, Encouragement Quotes, Quotes About Thinking, Quotes About People

48. “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Also featured in: Famous Quotes, Care Quotes, Wellness Quotes, Common Sense Quotes

49. “It’s more important to do the right thing than to do things right.”

— Peter F. Drucker

Also featured in: Integrity Quotes, Business Quotes, Friday Motivational Quotes, Intelligent Quotes

50. “Dear Karma, I have a list of people that you missed.”

— Anonymous

Also featured in: Funny Quotes, Funny Movie Quotes, Revenge Quotes