Top 160 Common Sense Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Bullying is not okay. Period.”

— Jim C. Hines

102. “If you want milk, don’t sit on a stool in the middle of a field in the hope that a cow will back up to you.”

— Richard Branson

103. “Wake up and smell the coffee.”

— Ann Landers

104. “Delete the negative; accentuate the positive!”

— Donna Karan

105. “Don’t be so busy making a living that you forget how to live. Work hard to be successful, but enjoy the journey.”

— David Cottrell

106. “Be honest. Be kind. Be honorable. Work hard. And always be awesome.”

— Wil Wheaton

107. “Spend less than you make; always be saving something. Put it into a tax-deferred account. Over time, it will begin to amount to something. This is such a no-brainer.”

— Charlie Munger

108. “Make hay while the sun shines.”

— John Heywood

109. “Where you are today is the sum of every choice you’ve ever made. If you don’t like where you are, start making different choices!”

— Dave Ramsey

110. “If you don’t plan your time, someone else will help you waste it.”

— Zig Ziglar

111. “You are what you are today because of the choices you made in the past.”

— Jim Rohn

112. “The only certain things in life are death and taxes!”

— Benjamin Franklin

113. “Life is going by. Don’t waste a minute being negative, offended, or bitter. Choose to be happy.”

— Joel Osteen

114. “Life is what you make it: If you snooze, you lose; and if you snore, you lose more.”

— Phyllis George

115. “Spend time doing things that matter.”

— Robin S. Sharma

116. “Tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember a story.”

— John Wooden

117. “Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word. Never get too big for your britches. Trust in God. Have no fear; and Never forget a friend.”

— Harry S. Truman

118. “If you don’t listen to your customers, someone else will.”

— Sam Walton

119. “The secret of success is to find a need and fill it, to find a hurt and heal it, to find somebody with a problem and offer to help solve it.”

— Robert H. Schuller

120. “If you have no destination, you’ll never get there.”

— Harvey MacKay

121. “You’ll never progress if you never try.”

— Joe Budden

122. “Don’t ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.”

— Lou Holtz

123. “When we help one another, everybody wins.”

— Jim Stovall

124. “If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.”

— Harry S. Truman

125. “Not all knowledge comes from college.”

— Mike Rowe

126. “Plan your work – work your plan.”

— B.C. Forbes

127. “Hard work and honesty, if you keep at it, will get you almost anything.”

— Charlie Munger

128. “Go to bed early, get up early-this is wise.”

— Mark Twain

129. “Do what you say you are going to do, when you say you are going to do it, in the way you said you were going to do it.”

— Larry Winget

130. “Hard work always wins in the end.”

— Lucas Till

131. “Lazy hands make a man poor, but diligent hands bring wealth.”

— Solomon

132. “If it’s raining you can’t fix the roof, if it’s not raining it doesn’t need to be fixed.”

— Jim Rohn

133. “You’ll never go wrong in doing what is right.”

— Robin S. Sharma

134. “Vague goals produce vague results.”

— Jack Canfield

135. “Work hard. Don’t quit. Be appreciative, be thankful, be grateful, be respectful. Also, never whine, never complain. And always, for crying out loud, keep a sense of humor.”

— Michael Keaton

136. “If you wait until everything in your life is perfect before you begin something challenging and new, you’ll be waiting forever. The best time is NOW.”

— Bill Phillips

137. “If you have your health, if you have people in your life to love, you are blessed. Slow down and enjoy the simple things in life.”

— Joel Osteen

138. “If you vote and you elect dishonest, incompetent people into office who screw everything up, you are responsible for what they have done. You caused the problem; you voted them in; you have no right to complain.”

— George Carlin

139. “Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.”

— Brian Tracy

140. “If you are going to do something, do it now. Tomorrow is too late.”

— Pete Goss

141. “What you do today creates every tomorrow.”

— Oprah Winfrey

142. “Walk that walk and go forward all the time. Don’t just talk that talk, walk it and go forward. Also, the walk didn’t have to be long strides; baby steps counted too. Go forward.”

— Chris Gardner

143. “Tell the truth. If you tell the truth all the time you don't have to worry three months down the line about what you said three months earlier. Truth is always the truth. You won't have to complicate your life by trying to cover up.”

— Ben Carson

144. “Make the other person feel important – and do it sincerely.”

— Dale Carnegie

145. “The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your relationships. The quality of your business is no different.”

— Harvey MacKay

146. “If you’ve got time to lean, you’ve got time to clean.”

— Ray Kroc

147. “Complaining does not work as a strategy. We all have finite time and energy. Any time we spend whining is unlikely to help us achieve our goals. And it won’t make us happier.”

— Randy Pausch

148. “It’s important to learn from your mistakes, but it is BETTER to learn from other people’s mistakes, and it is BEST to learn from other people’s successes. It accelerates your own success.”

— Jim Rohn

149. “Parkinson’s First Law: Work expands to fill the time available.”

— C. Northcote Parkinson

150. “Look before you leap.”

— John Heywood