Top 200 Life Lessons Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

102. “You will never ever be successful, until you turn your pain into greatness, until you allow your pain to push you from where you are to push you to where you need to be. Stop running from your pain and embrace your pain. Your pain is going to be a part of your prize, a part of your product. I challenge you to push yourself.”

— Eric Thomas

103. “Believe that you will succeed, and you will.”

— Dale Carnegie

104. “We don’t “have” a great day, we “make it” a great day!”

— Frosty Westering

105. “Attitude, not aptitude, determines altitude.”

— Zig Ziglar

106. “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you’ll do things differently.”

— Warren Buffett

107. “You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.”

— Brian Tracy

108. “You are here to enable the divine purpose of the Universe to unfold. That is how important you are!”

— Eckhart Tolle

109. “Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”

— Mother Teresa

110. “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

111. “Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.”

— Paulo Coelho

112. “The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.”

— Oprah Winfrey

113. “Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, and others make it happen.”

— Michael Jordan

114. “Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

115. “The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.”

— Alan Watts

116. “The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.”

— Michelangelo

117. “It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”

— Dale Carnegie

118. “Our only limitations are those we set up in our own minds.”

— Napoleon Hill

119. “The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.”

— Eckhart Tolle

120. “Life is a matter of choices, and every choice you make makes you.”

— John C. Maxwell

121. “When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.”

— Alexander Graham Bell

122. “One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.”

— Tony Robbins

123. “I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”

— Mother Teresa

124. “Nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.”

— Denzel Washington

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

— Henry David Thoreau

126. “Change is the only constant.”

— Heraclitus

127. “I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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

— Viktor E. Frankl

129. “If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

130. “You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

131. “Remember anything you want that’s valuable requires you to break through short-term pain in order to gain long-term pleasure.”

— Tony Robbins

132. “Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.”

— Bruce Lee

133. “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

134. “We become what we think about.”

— Earl Nightingale

135. “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”

— Marie Curie

136. “Doing as others told me, I was Blind. Coming when others called me, I was Lost. Then I left everyone, myself as well. Then I found Everyone, Myself as well.”

— Rumi

137. “If your life is worth thinking about, it is worth writing about.”

— Robin S. Sharma

138. “My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.”

— Maya Angelou

139. “Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”

— Rumi

140. “Laughter opens your heart and soothes your soul. No one should ever take life so seriously that they forget to laugh at themselves.”

— Robin S. Sharma

141. “I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.”

— Florence Nightingale

142. “Unless you change how you are, you will always have what you've got.”

— Jim Rohn

143. “Do not let your difficulties fill you with anxiety, after all it is only in the darkest nights that stars shine more brightly.”

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

144. “Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

145. “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.”

— Stephen R. Covey

146. “Be strong, but not rude; Be kind, but not weak; Be bold, but not bully; Be humble, but not timid; Be proud, but not arrogant.”

— Zig Ziglar

147. “In a gentle way, you can shake the world.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

148. “Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do.”

— Oprah Winfrey

149. “I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”

— Henry David Thoreau

150. “Always remember that your present situation is not your final destination. The best is yet to come.”

— Zig Ziglar