Top 200 Interesting Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”

— William Shakespeare

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2. “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”

— Mark Twain

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3. “Fall down seven times, get up eight.”

— Japanese Proverb

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4. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”

— Lao Tzu

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

— John C. Maxwell

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6. “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”

— Oscar Wilde

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7. “I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.”

— William Ernest Henley

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8. “What you seek is seeking you.”

— Rumi

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9. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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10. “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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11. “Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

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12. “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

— Oscar Wilde

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13. “If it doesn’t challenge you, it doesn’t change you.”

— Fred DeVito

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14. “It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life.”

— Jean-Luc Picard

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15. “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

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16. “If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it.”

— Muhammad Ali

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17. “I always knew I was going to be rich. I don’t think I ever doubted it for a minute. ”

— Warren Buffett

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18. “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined.”

— Henry David Thoreau

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19. “All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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20. “Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”

— Steve Jobs

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21. “I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.”

— Og Mandino

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

— Henry Ford

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23. “Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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24. “Do not go gently into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.”

— Dylan Thomas

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25. “I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.”

— Oscar Wilde

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26. “All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.”

— Joseph Campbell

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27. “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

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— William Shakespeare

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30. “Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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31. “When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

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32. “Every battle is won before it is fought.”

— Sun Tzu

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33. “We are what we believe we are.”

— C. S. Lewis

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34. “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”

— Nelson Mandela

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35. “Don’t hurry anything. Don’t worry about the future. Don’t worry about what progress you’re making. Just be entirely content to be aware of what is.”

— Alan Watts

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36. “Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.”

— Steve Jobs

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37. “Start small, think big. Don’t worry about too many things at once. Take a handful of simple things to begin with, and then progress to more complex ones. Think about not just tomorrow, but the future. Put a ding in the universe.”

— Steve Jobs

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

— Stephen Hawking

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39. “In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”

— Douglas Adams

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40. “The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.”

— Jim Rohn

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41. “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

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42. “We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.”

— Carl Sagan

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43. “Working hard for something we don’t care about is called stress; working hard for something we love is called passion.”

— Simon Sinek

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44. “An open heart is an open mind.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

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45. “Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”

— Marilyn Monroe

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46. “I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

— Soren Kierkegaard

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48. “Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.”

— Oscar Wilde

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49. “There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

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50. “It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”

— J.K. Rowling

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