Top 200 Interesting Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.”

— Robert Frost

52. “You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”

— Abraham Lincoln

53. “If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”

— Marcus Aurelius

54. “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

55. “Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it. Once you’ve lost it you can never get it back.”

— Harvey MacKay

56. “You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.”

— Maya Angelou

57. “A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”

— Douglas Adams

58. “If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it.”

— Lao Tzu

59. “Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”

— Anton Chekhov

60. “Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.”

— William Arthur Ward

61. “The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”

— Jack London

62. “The future is a concept, it doesn’t exist. There is no such thing as tomorrow. There never will be, because time is always now. That’s one of the things we discover when we stop talking to ourselves and stop thinking. We find there is only present, only an eternal now.”

— Alan Watts

63. “He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.”

— Marcus Aurelius

64. “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

65. “In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn’t read all the time — none, zero.”

— Charlie Munger

66. “For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.”

— Carl Sagan

67. “When you have a choice to be right, or to be kind, choose to be kind.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

68. “Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”

— Rumi

69. “First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.”

— Napoleon Hill

70. “Even as a solid rock is unshaken by the wind, so are the wise unshaken by praise or blame.”

— Buddha

71. “If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.”

— Jim Rohn

72. “By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”

— Confucius

73. “If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.”

— Steve Jobs

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

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

75. “When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.”

— Marcus Aurelius

76. “Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.”

— Rumi

77. “For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

78. “After all, tomorrow is another day.”

— Margaret Mitchell

79. “Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— William Shakespeare

81. “Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them – a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.”

— Muhammad Ali

82. “I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.”

— Audrey Hepburn

83. “And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

— Sylvia Plath

84. “Recognize reality even when you don’t like it – especially when you don’t like it.”

— Charlie Munger

85. “As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.”

— Seneca

86. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

— Martin Luther King Jr.

88. “Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

89. “Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it.”

— Muhammad Ali

90. “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading. How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book.”

— Jane Austen

91. “All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.”

— Earl Nightingale

92. “Tears are words that need to be written.”

— Paulo Coelho

93. “A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.”

— Neil Gaiman

94. “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

95. “The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall. ”

— Vince Lombardi

96. “There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.”

— Ansel Adams

97. “Dance, when you’re broken open. Dance, if you’ve torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you’re perfectly free.”

— Rumi

98. “And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.”

— Roald Dahl

99. “You have to dream before your dreams can come true.”

— Abdul Kalam

100. “To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.”

— Khalil Gibran