Top 200 Life Philosophy Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”

— Maya Angelou

52. “There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.”

— Nelson Mandela

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

— Eckhart Tolle

54. “Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.”

— Henry David Thoreau

55. “Live with passion!”

— Tony Robbins

56. “The root of suffering is attachment.”

— Buddha

57. “Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.”

— Oscar Wilde

58. “Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.”

— Joseph Campbell

59. “Bless people when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing by helping to stamp out the false ego.”

— Swami Vivekananda

60. “Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.”

— Jim Rohn

61. “Start going the extra mile and opportunity will follow you.”

— Napoleon Hill

62. “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

63. “Nothing worth having was ever achieved without effort.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

64. “If you will assume your desire and live there as though it were true, no power on earth can stop it from becoming a fact.”

— Neville Goddard

65. “How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?”

— Seth Godin

66. “Three rules for a career: Don’t sell anything you wouldn’t buy yourself. Don’t work for anyone you don’t respect and admire. Work only with people you enjoy.”

— Charlie Munger

67. “Don’t be afraid to fail. Anything I’ve ever attempted, I was always willing to fail. ”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

68. “When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”

— Lao Tzu

69. “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

— Oscar Wilde

70. “An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”

— Benjamin Franklin

71. “Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

72. “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

73. “To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.”

— Alan Watts

74. “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

75. “It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”

— William Shakespeare

76. “What we do now echoes in eternity.”

— Marcus Aurelius

77. “The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat.”

— Napoleon Hill

78. “There are three constants in life: change, choice and principles.”

— Stephen R. Covey

79. “Happiness is something that multiplies when it is divided.”

— Paulo Coelho

80. “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, but are spiritual beings having a human experience.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

81. “This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.”

— Alan Watts

82. “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”

— Marcus Aurelius

83. “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.”

— Robert Frost

84. “You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

85. “We are all born with a divine fire in us. Our efforts should be to give wings to this fire and fill the world with the glow of its goodness.”

— Abdul Kalam

86. “To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.”

— Saint Augustine

87. “It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

88. “We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”

— Joseph Campbell

89. “Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”

— Marcus Aurelius

90. “You may delay, but time will not.”

— Benjamin Franklin

91. “It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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

— Epictetus

93. “The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”

— Alan Watts

94. “Stop leaving and you will arrive. Stop searching and you will see. Stop running away and you will be found.”

— Lao Tzu

95. “If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.”

— Bruce Lee

96. “Our life is what our thoughts make it.”

— Marcus Aurelius

97. “Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”

— Seneca

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

— Victor Hugo

99. “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And you are the one who’ll decide where to go.”

— Dr. Seuss

100. “We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing; those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind? We make our own destiny.”

— Swami Vivekananda