Top 200 Important Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”

— William James

52. “Commit yourself to lifelong learning. The most valuable asset you’ll ever have is your mind and what you put into it.”

— Brian Tracy

53. “In looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if they don’t have the first, the other two will kill you.”

— Warren Buffett

54. “Be aware that what you think, to a large extent, creates the emotions that you feel. See the link between your thinking and your emotions. Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.”

— Eckhart Tolle

55. “It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.”

— Muhammad Ali

56. “Business has only two basic functions – marketing and innovation.”

— Peter F. Drucker

57. “Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”

— Helen Keller

58. “Never let someone’s opinion become your reality. Never sacrifice who you are because someone else has a problem with it. Love who you are inside and out.”

— Les Brown

59. “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.”

— Abraham Lincoln

60. “The times they are a-changing.”

— Bob Dylan

61. “Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.”

— Langston Hughes

62. “A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.”

— John C. Maxwell

63. “Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true.”

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

64. “To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one’s own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.”

— Plato

65. “Life begins where fear ends.”

— Osho

66. “Focus on the solution, not on the problem.”

— Jim Rohn

67. “Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.”

— John C. Maxwell

68. “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”

— Peter F. Drucker

69. “It is said that the darkest hour of the night comes just before the dawn.”

— Thomas Fuller

70. “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

— Thomas Jefferson

71. “Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”

— Steve Jobs

72. “Details matter; it’s worth waiting to get it right.”

— Steve Jobs

73. “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

74. “Be happy, but never satisfied.”

— Bruce Lee

75. “The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.”

— Ronald Reagan

76. “Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.”

— Rumi

77. “What do you need to start a business? Three simple things: Know your product better than anyone. Know your customer, and have a burning desire to succeed.”

— Dave Thomas

78. “A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.”

— John Lennon

79. “Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

80. “I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

81. “Some are born great, others achieve greatness.”

— William Shakespeare

82. “History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”

— Winston Churchill

83. “The truth is that teamwork is at the heart of great achievement.”

— John C. Maxwell

84. “Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”

— Aristotle

85. “Rule No. 1: Never lose money. Rule No. 2: Never forget Rule No. 1.”

— Warren Buffett

86. “The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.”

— Carl Sagan

87. “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”

— Haruki Murakami

88. “Accounting is the language of business.”

— Warren Buffett

89. “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”

— C.G. Jung

90. “The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

91. “Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.”

— John C. Maxwell

92. “If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.”

— Lao Tzu

93. “Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.”

— Bill Gates

94. “Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.”

— Dale Carnegie

95. “True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.”

— C. S. Lewis

96. “You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.”

— Warren Buffett

97. “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”

— C.G. Jung

98. “You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.”

— Jim Rohn

99. “The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”

— Henry Ford

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

— Leonard Cohen