Top 200 Clever Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”

— Marilyn Monroe

52. “Nothing we do can change the past, but everything we do changes the future.”

— Ashleigh Brilliant

53. “Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.”

— Warren Buffett

54. “Be kind to unkind people. They need it the most.”

— Ashleigh Brilliant

55. “Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.”

— J.K. Rowling

56. “You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.”

— Mick Jagger

57. “In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.”

— Eric Hoffer

58. “You can have it all. Just not all at once.”

— Oprah Winfrey

59. “Ideas are bulletproof.”

— Alan Moore

60. “A computer is like air conditioning – it becomes useless when you open Windows.”

— Linus Torvalds

61. “No good deed goes unpunished.”

— Oscar Wilde

62. “If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.”

— J.K. Rowling

63. “Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.”

— J.K. Rowling

64. “Change is inevitable but personal growth is a choice.”

— Bob Proctor

65. “No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away.”

— Terry Pratchett

66. “Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.”

— Randy Pausch

67. “A goal properly set is halfway reached.”

— Zig Ziglar

68. “Less is more.”

— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

69. “Don’t let failure go to your heart, and don’t let success go to your head.”

— Will Smith

70. “The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.”

— Lily Tomlin

71. “Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.”

— Haruki Murakami

72. “If you just communicate, you can get by. But if you communicate skillfully, you can work miracles.”

— Jim Rohn

73. “Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.”

— Benjamin Franklin

74. “Slowing down is sometimes the best way to speed up.”

— Mike Vance

75. “Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. ”

— Coco Chanel

76. “The journey is the destination.”

— Dan Eldon

77. “Why climb Mount Everest? Because it’s there.”

— George Leigh Mallory

78. “The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.”

— Khalil Gibran

79. “I’d rather have 1% of the effort of 100 men than 100% of my own effort.”

— J. Paul Getty

80. “I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”

— Mark Twain

81. “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”

— Groucho Marx

82. “Never underestimate your power to change yourself; never overestimate your power to change others.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

83. “What’s in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.”

— William Shakespeare

84. “Mr. Market is kind of a drunken psycho. Some days he gets very enthused, some days he gets very depressed. And when he gets really enthused, you sell to him, and when he gets depressed, you buy from him. There’s no moral taint attached to that.”

— Warren Buffett

85. “Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.”

— John Wooden

86. “A real girl isn't perfect. A perfect girl isn't real.”

— Harry Styles

87. “Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.”

— Otto von Bismarck

88. “Quality is remembered long after price is forgotten.”

— Aldo Gucci

89. “Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter.”

— Richard P. Feynman

90. “I am not young enough to know everything.”

— Oscar Wilde

91. “If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?”

— Steven Wright

92. “When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.”

— Warren Buffett

93. “Inch by inch, life’s a cinch. Yard by yard, life’s hard.”

— John Bytheway

94. “Never complain and never explain.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

95. “You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.”

— Jim Rohn

96. “There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

97. “Keep an open mind; it’s the only way new things can get in.”

— Colleen Hoover

98. “Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy.”

— Charlie Munger

99. “What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.”

— T. S. Eliot

100. “Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7 of your life.”

— Steven Wright