Top 200 Life Lessons Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Whatever you feel, you become. It is your responsibility.”

— Osho

52. “Don't look back – forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring,and infinite patience – then alone can great deeds be accomplished”

— Swami Vivekananda

53. “It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.”

— Brian Tracy

54. “A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

55. “Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty. I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

56. “Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”

— Mark Twain

57. “When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.”

— Zig Ziglar

58. “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

59. “When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation, or accept it. All else is madness.”

— Eckhart Tolle

60. “We’re all just walking each other home.”

— Ram Dass

61. “A life without a cause is a life without effect.”

— Paulo Coelho

62. “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”

— Khalil Gibran

63. “Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.”

— Jack Kerouac

64. “Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”

— Victor Hugo

65. “The goal is not to be better than the other man, but your previous self.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

66. “Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.”

— Lao Tzu

67. “Make time, not excuses.”

— Grant Cardone

68. “To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

69. “The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.”

— Carl R. Rogers

70. “Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”

— Henry David Thoreau

71. “Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.”

— Alan Watts

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

73. “Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”

— Anne Frank

74. “Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.”

— Eckhart Tolle

75. “Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire.”

— Oprah Winfrey

76. “Getting lost along your path is a part of finding the path you are meant to be on.”

— Robin S. Sharma

77. “Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.”

— Calvin Coolidge

78. “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.”

— Marianne Williamson

79. “I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.”

— Lao Tzu

80. “It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.”

— Eckhart Tolle

81. “If you want to change your life you have to raise your standards.”

— Tony Robbins

82. “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

83. “Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.”

— Earl Nightingale

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

— Marcus Aurelius

85. “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”

— Rumi

86. “I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”

— Confucius

87. “The time is always right to do the right thing.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

88. “Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we’re supposed to be and embracing who we are.”

— Brené Brown

89. “There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.”

— Nelson Mandela

90. “I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.”

— Bruce Lee

91. “You become what you think about most of the time.”

— Brian Tracy

92. “Change your thoughts and you change your world.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

93. “May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.”

— Nelson Mandela

94. “Your beliefs become your thoughts, your thoughts become your words, your words become your actions, your actions become your habits, your habits become your values, your values become your destiny.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

95. “Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”

— Eckhart Tolle

96. “Trade your expectations for appreciation and the world changes instantly.”

— Tony Robbins

97. “Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.”

— Pema Chödrön

98. “Our thoughts make us what we are.”

— Dale Carnegie

99. “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”

— Paulo Coelho

100. “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.”

— Walt Disney