Top 200 Different Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it’s called Life.”

— Terry Pratchett

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Sarcastic Quotes, Witty Quotes

2. “The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Time Quotes, Aesthetic Quotes

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

— Groucho Marx

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

4. “Be willing to go all out, in pursuit of your dream. Ultimately it will pay off. You are more powerful than you think you are.”

— Les Brown

Also featured in: Quotes About Dreams, Dream Big Quotes, Impossible Quotes, Path Quotes

5. “The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.”

— J.M. Barrie

Also featured in: Dreaming Big Quotes, Growth Mindset Quotes, Boldness Quotes, Doubt Quotes

6. “If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.”

— Paulo Coelho

Also featured in: Short Inspiring Quotes, Inspirational Life Quotes, Travel Quotes

7. “Everybody wants happiness, nobody wants pain, but you can’t have a rainbow without a little rain.”

— Anonymous

Also featured in: Emotional Quotes, Emotion Quotes, Optimism Quotes, Being Happy Quotes

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

— French Proverb

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

9. “The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself; it gives life to others as it transforms.”

— Lao Tzu

Also featured in: Deep Quotes About Life, Taoism Quotes

10. “The purpose of life is the life of purpose.”

— Robin S. Sharma

Also featured in: Optimistic Quotes, Motivational Quotes About Life, Intelligent Quotes, Meaning of Life Quotes

11. “To attain knowledge, add things everyday. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.”

— Lao Tzu

Also featured in: Mindset Quotes, Taoism Quotes

12. “Silence is a true friend who never betrays.”

— Confucius

Also featured in: Famous Quotes, Short Quotes, Important Quotes

13. “Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself; I am large – I contain multitudes.”

— Walt Whitman

Also featured in: Poetry Quotes, Life Philosophy Quotes, Quotes About Humanity, Being Yourself Quotes, Creative Quotes

14. “If you're lucky enough to be different, never change.”

— Taylor Swift

Also featured in: Self-Love Quotes, Feel Good Quotes, Personality Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Women, Being Yourself Quotes

15. “If your life is worth thinking about, it is worth writing about.”

— Robin S. Sharma

Also featured in: Short Quotes, Live Life Quotes, Life Lessons Quotes, Meaning of Life Quotes

16. “Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.”

— Douglas Adams

Also featured in: Funny Quotes, Hilarious Quotes, Witty Quotes

17. “We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Also featured in: Education Quotes, Preparation Quotes, Graduation Quotes, Quotes About Kids

18. “It isn't what the book costs. It's what it will cost you if you don't read it.”

— Jim Rohn

Also featured in: Quotes About Books And Reading, Education Quotes, Prosperity Quotes, Short Inspiring Quotes

19. “Wisdom is like the rain. Its source is limitless, but it comes down according to the season.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Deep Quotes About Life, Wise Quotes, Rain Quotes

20. “And what would humans be without love? RARE, said Death.”

— Terry Pratchett

Also featured in: Relationship Quotes, Fiction Quotes, Witty Quotes

21. “At the end of my life, with just one breath left, if you come, I’ll sit up and sing.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Sweet Quotes, Love You Quotes, Soul Quotes

22. “The meaning of life is that it is to be lived.”

— Bruce Lee

Also featured in: Short Quotes About Life, Meaning Quotes, Live Life Quotes, Motivational Quotes About Life

23. “Listen – are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?”

— Mary Oliver

Also featured in: Meaning Quotes, Live Life Quotes, Meaning of Life Quotes, Travel Quotes

24. “And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.”

— John Steinbeck

Also featured in: Short Positive Quotes, Self-Worth Quotes, Self-Realization Quotes, Fiction Quotes

25. “A change of feeling is a change of destiny.”

— Neville Goddard

Also featured in: Emotional Quotes, Emotion Quotes, Manifestation Quotes, Feel Better Quotes, Quotes About Feelings

26. “Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit.”

— William Shakespeare

Also featured in: Funny Quotes, Short Quotes, Fiction Quotes, Creative Quotes

27. “If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Also featured in: Be Yourself Quotes, Choices Quotes, Freedom Quotes, Being Yourself Quotes

28. “The real friendship is like fluorescence, it shines better when everything has darkened.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

Also featured in: Relationship Quotes, Meaningful Friendship Quotes, True Friendship Quotes

29. “You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren't paying attention to.”

— Robin Williams

Also featured in: Short Quotes About Life, Adversity Quotes

30. “The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

Also featured in: Sweet Quotes, Aesthetic Quotes, Appreciation Quotes, Creative Quotes

31. “Procrastination is opportunity’s assassin.”

— Victor Kiam

Also featured in: Time Quotes, Professional Growth Quotes, Quotes About Work, Procrastination Quotes

32. “Start where you are, use what you have.”

— Arthur Ashe

Also featured in: Athlete Quotes, Personal Responsibility Quotes, Taking Action Quotes, Quotes About Trying

33. “I love those who can smile in trouble...”

— Leonardo da Vinci

Also featured in: Optimism Quotes, Character Quotes, Adversity Quotes

34. “Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.”

— Charlie Chaplin

Also featured in: Failure Quotes, Silly Quotes, Artist Quotes, Creative Quotes

35. “I am not strange. I am just not normal.”

— Salvador Dalí

Also featured in: Creativity Quotes, Crazy Quotes, Individuality Quotes

36. “Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.”

— Muhammad Ali

Also featured in: Acceptance Quotes, Quotes About Humanity, Respect Quotes

37. “When you are confused, it’s a blessing because in confusion a concept is being broken in your mind and a new concept is being formed. This is a sign of progress.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Also featured in: Positive Short Quotes, Progress Quotes, Wednesday Inspirational Quotes

38. “Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.”

— J.K. Rowling

Also featured in: Fiction Quotes, Compassion Quotes, Meaning of Life Quotes, Moving Quotes

39. “Excuse me while I kiss the sky.”

— Jimi Hendrix

Also featured in: Music Quotes, Artist Quotes, Crazy Quotes, Quotes About Songs

40. “There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Also featured in: Moving On Quotes, Progress Quotes

41. “In order to be irreplaceacle, one must always be different.”

— Coco Chanel

Also featured in: Creative Quotes, Individuality Quotes, Personal Branding Quotes

42. “Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can’t afford to lose.”

— Thomas A. Edison

Also featured in: Time Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Work, Short Quotes About Life, Work Ethic Quotes

43. “Don’t explain. Your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe you.”

— Paulo Coelho

44. “Take one step at a time, there’s no need to rush.”

— Jordin Sparks

Also featured in: Sweet Quotes, Good Morning Quotes, Moving Quotes, Moving Forward Quotes

45. “A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Also featured in: Happy Quotes, Being Happy Quotes, Joy Quotes

46. “Mondays are fine. It’s your life that sucks.”

— Ricky Gervais

Also featured in: Funny Quotes, Funny Work Quotes, Monday Quotes, Funny Yearbook Quotes

47. “There is a miracle in every new beginning.”

— Hermann Hesse

Also featured in: Optimistic Quotes, Happy Quotes, Miracle Quotes, Moving Forward Quotes

48. “Live without pretending, love without depending, listen without defending, speak without offending.”

— Drake

Also featured in: Sweet Quotes, Being Yourself Quotes, Artist Quotes, Humble Quotes

49. “That’s how you came here, like a star without a name. Move across the night sky with those anonymous lights.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Poetry Quotes, Deep Quotes, Short Deep Quotes

50. “If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Experience Quotes, Short Quotes About Life, Live Life Quotes