Top 200 Important Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”

— Oscar Wilde

102. “The course of true love never did run smooth.”

— William Shakespeare

103. “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

— John Quincy Adams

104. “How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

105. “The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

106. “Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.”

— Confucius

107. “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”

— Maya Angelou

108. “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

109. “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

110. “Plan your work and work your plan.”

— Napoleon Hill

111. “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”

— Stephen King

112. “It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.”

— Bill Gates

113. “Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

114. “Look up at the stars, not down at your feet.”

— Stephen Hawking

115. “Time stays long enough for those who use it.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

116. “Every artist was first an amateur.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

117. “Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

118. “An open heart is an open mind.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

119. “To be interesting, be interested.”

— Dale Carnegie

120. “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.”

— Jim Rohn

121. “What got you here won’t get you there.”

— Marshall Goldsmith

122. “Improve quality, you automatically improve productivity.”

— W. Edwards Deming

123. “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”

— Soren Kierkegaard

124. “Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.”

— Bill Gates

125. “The beginning is the most important part of the work.”

— Plato

126. “Financial freedom is available to those who learn about it and work for it.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

127. “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”

— William Shakespeare

128. “Time is valuable, and when it is gone, it is gone. Time is wealth, and unlike money, when it is gone, you cannot replace it.”

— Napoleon Hill

129. “And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”

— Haruki Murakami

130. “As long as you live, keep learning how to live.”

— Seneca

131. “Put God first in everything you do.”

— Denzel Washington

132. “CAN is 100 times more important than IQ.”

— Max Lucado

133. “Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

134. “Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.”

— C.G. Jung

135. “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”

— Mark Twain

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

— Confucius

137. “To grow yourself, you must know yourself.”

— John C. Maxwell

138. “Life is like a camera. Focus on what’s important. Capture the good times. And if things don’t work out, just take another shot.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

139. “The most important actions are never comfortable.”

— Tim Ferriss

140. “There is no time to leave important words unsaid.”

— Paulo Coelho

141. “Treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.”

— Stephen R. Covey

142. “Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”

— Winston Churchill

143. “Progress is more important than perfection.”

— Simon Sinek

144. “When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.”

— Abraham Lincoln

145. “Story is king. Everything else is slave to story.”

— Casey Neistat

146. “Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”

— Thomas Jefferson

147. “If your business is not on the Internet, then your business will be out of business.”

— Bill Gates

148. “There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing.”

— Brian Tracy

149. “The most important three words you can say to yourself: Yes I can!”

— Denis Waitley

150. “Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson