Top 200 Important Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “At the end of the day people won’t remember what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel.”

— Maya Angelou

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Love Quotes, Be Kind Quotes, Emotional Quotes

2. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

— Nelson Mandela

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Change Quotes, Education Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes

3. “Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”

— Marcus Aurelius

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Integrity Quotes, Time Quotes, Action Quotes

4. “The time is always right to do the right thing.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Integrity Quotes, Attitude Quotes, Life Lessons Quotes

5. “Your beliefs become your thoughts, your thoughts become your words, your words become your actions, your actions become your habits, your habits become your values, your values become your destiny.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

Also featured in: Life Lessons Quotes, Wisdom Quotes, Wellness Wednesday Quotes, Quotes About Thinking

6. “First, think. Second, believe. Third, dream. And finally, dare.”

— Walt Disney

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes for Success, Optimistic Quotes, Mindset Quotes, Personal Development Quotes

7. “You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us. And the world will live as one.”

— John Lennon

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Music Quotes, Change Quotes, Interesting Quotes

8. “You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Also featured in: Wisdom Quotes, Choices Quotes, Intelligent Quotes, Philosophy Quotes

9. “Fight for your dreams, and your dreams will fight for you.”

— Paulo Coelho

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Persistence Quotes, Short Inspirational Quotes, Powerful Motivational Quotes

10. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Change Quotes, Optimistic Quotes, Feel Good Quotes

11. “Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.”

— Calvin Coolidge

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Persistence Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Work, Motivational Work Quotes, Inspirational Life Quotes

12. “I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.”

— Steve Jobs

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Change Quotes, Action Quotes, Life Lessons Quotes

13. “My life is my message.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Action Quotes, Morality Quotes, Identity Quotes

14. “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.”

— Henry Ford

Also featured in: Learning Quotes, Deep Quotes About Life, Interesting Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes

15. “An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

Also featured in: Interesting Quotes, Quality Quotes, Wise Quotes, Peace Quotes

16. “Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.”

— George Washington

Also featured in: Perseverance Quotes, Short Inspiring Quotes, Quotes About Trying, Being Strong Quotes

17. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.”

— John C. Maxwell

Also featured in: Leadership Quotes, Attitude Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Work, Empowering Quotes

18. “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”

— C. S. Lewis

Also featured in: Interesting Quotes, Sunday Inspirational Quotes, Faith Quotes, Spirituality Quotes

19. “If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Happiness Quotes, Life Lessons Quotes, Mindfulness Quotes

20. “We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Also featured in: Interesting Quotes, Science Quotes, Thought Provoking Quotes

21. “When you know better you do better.”

— Maya Angelou

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Change Quotes, Education Quotes, Positive Life Quotes

22. “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

Also featured in: Persistence Quotes, Change Quotes, Interesting Quotes, Short Inspirational Quotes

23. “Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes, Optimistic Quotes, Impact Quotes

24. “Our first duty is not to hate ourselves, because to advance we must have faith in ourselves first and then in God. Those who have no faith in themselves can never have faith in God.”

— Swami Vivekananda

Also featured in: Confidence Quotes, Believe in Yourself Quotes, Personal Development Quotes, Quotes About Believing

25. “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Meaningful Quotes, Wisdom Quotes, Life Philosophy Quotes, Philosophical Quotes

26. “Big Brother is watching you.”

— George Orwell

Also featured in: Famous Quotes, Fiction Quotes, Hard Hitting Quotes, Powerful Quotes

27. “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Also featured in: Courage Quotes, Famous Quotes, Motivational Monday Quotes, Short Inspiring Quotes

28. “We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing; those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind? We make our own destiny.”

— Swami Vivekananda

Also featured in: Empowering Quotes, Meaningful Quotes, Motivational Quotes About Life, Effort Quotes

29. “Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance, the only thing it cannot be is moderately important.”

— C. S. Lewis

Also featured in: Christian Quotes, Sunday Morning Quotes, Sunday Inspirational Quotes

30. “The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

Also featured in: Perseverance Quotes, Motivational Work Quotes, Meaningful Quotes, Effort Quotes

31. “When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation, or accept it. All else is madness.”

— Eckhart Tolle

Also featured in: Change Quotes, Life Lessons Quotes, Personal Development Quotes, Spirituality Quotes

32. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”

— Charles Dickens

Also featured in: Meaningful Quotes, Fiction Quotes, Storytelling Quotes, Challenges Quotes, Powerful Quotes

33. “Peace is the greatest weapon for development that any person can have.”

— Nelson Mandela

Also featured in: Positive Inspirational Quotes, Changing the World Quotes, Peace Quotes, Encouraging Quotes

34. “When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.”

— Billy Graham

Also featured in: Integrity Quotes, Loss Quotes, Character Quotes, Health Quotes

35. “We must use time creatively, and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.”

— Nelson Mandela

Also featured in: Integrity Quotes, Time Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes, Life Philosophy Quotes

36. “What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”

— Helen Keller

Also featured in: Relationship Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes, Meaning Quotes, Emotional Quotes, Reflection Quotes

37. “Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Also featured in: Greatness Quotes, Challenges Quotes, Ambition Quotes

38. “No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.”

— Taylor Swift

Also featured in: Short Quotes About Life, Positive Inspirational Quotes, Care Quotes, Positive Life Quotes, Cute Quotes

39. “Whatever the question, love is the answer.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

Also featured in: Love Quotes, Short Inspirational Quotes, Feel Better Quotes, Kindness Quotes

40. “People don’t buy what you do; they buy why you do it. And what you do simply proves what you believe.”

— Simon Sinek

Also featured in: Startup Quotes, Inspirational Business Quotes, Motivational Monday Quotes, Quotes About Believing

41. “Get action. Do things; be sane; don’t fritter away your time; create, act, take a place wherever you are and be somebody; get action.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Also featured in: Startup Quotes, Confidence Quotes, Change Quotes, Action Quotes

42. “This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.”

— Neil Armstrong

Also featured in: Famous Quotes, Science Quotes, Quotes About Humanity, Powerful Quotes

43. “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

Also featured in: Acceptance Quotes, Meaningful Quotes, Struggle Quotes, Quotes About Hope

44. “It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.”

— Mother Teresa

Also featured in: Love Quotes, Blessing Quotes, Short Inspirational Quotes, Positive Life Quotes

45. “As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison.”

— Nelson Mandela

Also featured in: Motivational Work Quotes, Empowerment Quotes, Sunday Inspirational Quotes, Friday Motivational Quotes

46. “Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.”

— Abdul Kalam

Also featured in: Future Quotes, Quotes About Hope, Responsibility Quotes

47. “The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.”

— Albert Schweitzer

Also featured in: Care Quotes, Service Quotes, Morality Quotes, Sunday Inspirational Quotes, Helping Others Quotes

48. “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.”

— Desmond Tutu

Also featured in: Meaningful Quotes, Morality Quotes, Taking Action Quotes, Challenges Quotes, Peace Quotes

49. “Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.”

— Oprah Winfrey

Also featured in: Integrity Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Women, Live Life Quotes, Empowering Quotes

50. “Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

Also featured in: Deep Quotes About Life, Famous Quotes, Short Quotes, Choices Quotes