Top 200 Life Lessons Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.”

— Mother Teresa

152. “Why fit in when you were born to stand out?”

— Dr. Seuss

153. “If you can change your mind, you can change your life.”

— William James

154. “Even dust, if piled up, will become a mountain.”

— Japanese Proverb

155. “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”

— W. Clement Stone

156. “Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life – all areas of life. The really good news is that anyone can develop both honesty and integrity.”

— Zig Ziglar

157. “Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.”

— Oprah Winfrey

158. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”

— Nelson Mandela

159. “I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.”

— Steve Jobs

160. “Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

161. “Expect change. Analyze the landscape. Take the opportunities. Stop being the chess piece; become the player. It’s your move.”

— Tony Robbins

162. “Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still, looking, and listening activates the non-conceptual intelligence within you. Let stillness direct your words and actions.”

— Eckhart Tolle

163. “It’s always too early to quit.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

164. “To hold, you must first open your hand. Let go.”

— Lao Tzu

165. “Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way.”

— Alan Watts

166. “When someone shows you who they are believe them; the first time.”

— Maya Angelou

167. “Everything can be taken from a person but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

168. “When you know better you do better.”

— Maya Angelou

169. “Where there’s hope, there’s life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.”

— Anne Frank

170. “Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive.”

— Howard Thurman

171. “We always have a choice.”

— Tony Robbins

172. “Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

173. “Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

174. “The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.”

— Randy Pausch

175. “All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.”

— Walt Disney

176. “Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

177. “Life is long, if you know how to use it.”

— Seneca

178. “There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.”

— Epictetus

179. “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”

— Henry David Thoreau

180. “Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what’s urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.”

— Stephen R. Covey

181. “Get action. Do things; be sane; don’t fritter away your time; create, act, take a place wherever you are and be somebody; get action.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

182. “The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”

— Paulo Coelho

183. “You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

184. “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

185. “At the end of the day people won’t remember what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel.”

— Maya Angelou

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

— Eckhart Tolle

187. “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”

— Mary Oliver

188. “Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.”

— Abdul Kalam

189. “Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”

— George Bernard Shaw

190. “If you conquer yourself, then you conquer the world.”

— Paulo Coelho

191. “If you can’t figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. For your passion will lead you right into your purpose.”

— T.D. Jakes

192. “If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

193. “Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”

— Marcus Aurelius

194. “Difficulties in your life do not come to destroy you, but to help you realise your hidden potential and power, let difficulties know that you too are difficult.”

— Abdul Kalam

195. “The Service you do for others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth.”

— Muhammad Ali

196. “When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it – always.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

197. “Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.”

— Imam Ali

198. “Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

199. “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”

— Henry David Thoreau

200. “Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.”

— Michael Jordan