Top 200 Important Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.”

— Mother Teresa

152. “Morning is an important time of day, because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have.”

— Daniel Handler

153. “Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.”

— Lao Tzu

154. “Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if you don’t have the first, the other two will kill you. You think about it; it’s true. If you hire somebody without integrity, you really want them to be dumb and lazy.”

— Warren Buffett

155. “Everyone has a price, the important thing is to find out what it is.”

— Pablo Escobar

156. “The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.”

— Maya Angelou

157. “The most important factor in survival is neither intelligence nor strength but adaptability.”

— Charles Darwin

158. “Your destiny is too great, your assignment too important, your time too valuable. Don’t let fear intimidate you.”

— Joel Osteen

159. “The greatest truths are the simplest things in the world, simple as your own existence.”

— Swami Vivekananda

160. “Cost is more important than quality but quality is the best way to reduce cost.”

— Genichi Taguchi

161. “The most important thing in life is to stop saying ‘I wish’ and start saying ‘I will.’ Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.”

— Charles Dickens

162. “Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.”

— Alexander Graham Bell

163. “Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.”

— Henry David Thoreau

164. “There is only one time that is important – NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time that we have any power.”

— Leo Tolstoy

165. “It’s so important to do something every day that will make you happy.”

— Bob Ross

166. “Money is not the most important thing in the world. Love is. Fortunately, I love money.”

— Jackie Mason

167. “Working hard is important. But there is something that matters even more, believing in yourself.”

— Daniel Radcliffe

168. “You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

169. “To be or not to be that is the question.”

— William Shakespeare

170. “If the challenge we face doesn’t scare us, then it’s probably not that important.”

— Tim Ferriss

171. “Attitude drives actions. Actions drive results. Results drive lifestyles.”

— Jim Rohn

172. “Everybody’s got a different circle of competence. The important thing is not how big the circle is. The important thing is staying inside the circle.”

— Warren Buffett

173. “Being nervous isn’t bad. It just means something important is happening.”

— Michael Jordan

174. “The most important thing is a person. A person who incites your curiosity and feeds your curiosity; and machines cannot do that in the same way that people can.”

— Steve Jobs

175. “Today is the most important day of our lives.”

— Nhat Hanh

176. “Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate.”

— Jon Bon Jovi

177. “In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.”

— John Muir

178. “Information is useless if it is not applied to something important or if you will forget it before you have a chance to apply it.”

— Tim Ferriss

179. “Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.”

— Sun Tzu

180. “Ups and downs in life are very important to keep us going, because a straight line even in an ECG means we are not alive.”

— Ratan Tata

181. “Hustle is the most important word – EVER.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

182. “To reach up for the new, you must let go of the old. What lies behind you is not nearly as important as what lies in front of you.”

— Joel Osteen

183. “There's as many atoms in a single molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. We are, each of us, a little universe.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

184. “What you do is infinitely more important than how you do it.”

— Tim Ferriss

185. “Day by day, what you do is who you become.”

— Heraclitus

186. “To go out of your mind at least once a day is tremendously important. By going out of your mind, you come to your senses.”

— Alan Watts

187. “When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off, you can often times arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions.”

— Steve Jobs

188. “You can choose courage or you can choose comfort, but you can’t have both.”

— Brené Brown

189. “It’s not so much staying alive, it’s staying human that’s important. What counts is that we don’t betray each other.”

— George Orwell

190. “Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help make the big choices in life. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.”

— Steve Jobs

191. “The most important things are the hardest to say.”

— Stephen King

192. “Without translation, I would be limited to the borders of my own country. The translator is my most important ally. He introduces me to the world.”

— Italo Calvino

193. “Music is a mantra that soothes the soul. It’s therapeutic. It’s something our body has to have. It’s very important to understand the power of music.”

— Michael Jackson

194. “It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.”

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

195. “Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

196. “We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

197. “Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever.”

— Leonardo DiCaprio

198. “For the ego to survive, it must make time – past and future – more important than the present moment.”

— Eckhart Tolle

199. “Doing something unimportant well does not make it important,”

— Tim Ferriss

200. “If there’s anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.”

— Douglas Adams