Top 200 Life Philosophy Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Lao Tzu

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2. “Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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3. “The greatest things in life all require commitment, sacrifice, some struggle and hardship. It’s not easy. But absolutely worth it.”

— Robin S. Sharma

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4. “All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore love for love’s sake, because it is law of life, just as you breathe to live.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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5. “You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.”

— Henry David Thoreau

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6. “Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.”

— Lao Tzu

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7. “How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours. Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you. If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

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8. “There are no mistakes in life, only lessons. There is no such thing as a negative experience, only opportunities to grow, learn and advance along the road of self-mastery. From struggle comes strength. Even pain can be a wonderful teacher.”

— Robin S. Sharma

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9. “In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present – I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then am I dissatisfied if I am going to do the things for which I exist and for which I was brought into the world?”

— Marcus Aurelius

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

— Lao Tzu

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11. “My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.”

— Ayn Rand

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12. “If you don’t make the time to work on creating the life you want, you’re eventually going to be forced to spend a lot of time dealing with a life you don’t want.”

— Kevin Ngo

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13. “Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”

— Rumi

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14. “Wherever you go, go with all your heart.”

— Confucius

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15. “Don’t think about what can happen in a month. Don’t think about what can happen in a year. Just focus on the 24 hours in front of you and do what you can to get closer to where you want to be.”

— Eric Thomas

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16. “Become who you are.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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17. “It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”

— Paulo Coelho

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18. “Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.”

— Maya Angelou

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19. “If you start today to do the right thing, you are already a success even if it doesn’t show yet.”

— John C. Maxwell

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20. “Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!”

— Audrey Hepburn

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21. “Be – don’t try to become.”

— Osho

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22. “There is no substitute for hard work.”

— Thomas A. Edison

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23. “A dream is not what you see while sleeping; it is something that does not let you sleep.”

— Abdul Kalam

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24. “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”

— Oscar Wilde

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25. “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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26. “Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.”

— Lao Tzu

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27. “If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.”

— Bruce Lee

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28. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”

— Helen Keller

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29. “Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

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30. “Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.”

— Rumi

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31. “Respect yourself and others will respect you.”

— Confucius

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32. “You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, love like you’ll never be hurt, sing like there’s nobody listening, and live like it’s heaven on earth.”

— William W. Purkey

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33. “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”

— Socrates

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34. “Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.”

— Napoleon Hill

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35. “Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.”

— Winston Churchill

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36. “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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37. “When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.”

— Paulo Coelho

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38. “Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what matters to me.”

— Steve Jobs

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39. “Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”

— Oscar Wilde

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40. “You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When you pour water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can drip and it can crash. Become like water, my friend.”

— Bruce Lee

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41. “Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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42. “Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Walt Disney

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44. “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.”

— Maya Angelou

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45. “Love is the absence of judgment.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

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46. “One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away.”

— Stephen Hawking

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47. “Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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48. “We become what we think about.”

— Earl Nightingale

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49. “Focus on the possibilities for success, not on the potential for failure.”

— Napoleon Hill

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50. “He that can have patience can have what he will.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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