Top 200 Life Philosophy Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.”

— Eckhart Tolle

102. “Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.”

— Jim Rohn

103. “If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.”

— Lao Tzu

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

— Eckhart Tolle

105. “Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”

— Barack Obama

106. “To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to leave the world a better place, to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived, this is to have succeeded.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

107. “When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

108. “You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.”

— Buddha

109. “Tough times never last, but tough people do.”

— Robert H. Schuller

110. “As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.”

— Rumi

111. “Those who flow as life flows know they need no other force.”

— Lao Tzu

112. “I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

113. “The starting point of all achievement is desire.”

— Napoleon Hill

114. “Diligence is the mother of good luck.”

— Benjamin Franklin

115. “Experience life in all possible ways – good, bad, bitter-sweet, dark, light, summer, winter. Experience all the dualities. Don’t be afraid of experience, because the more experience you have, the more mature you become.”

— Osho

116. “Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

117. “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

118. “It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.”

— Oscar Wilde

119. “Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself; I am large – I contain multitudes.”

— Walt Whitman

120. “When people walk away from you, let them go. Your destiny is never tied to anyone who leaves you, and it doesn’t mean they are bad people. It just means that their part in your story is over.”

— T.D. Jakes

121. “No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.”

— Buddha

122. “When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everyone will respect you.”

— Lao Tzu

123. “By letting go it all gets done.”

— Lao Tzu

124. “Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.”

— Steve Jobs

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

— Tony Robbins

126. “Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.”

— James Allen

127. “The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred with dust and sweat; who strives valiantly; who errs and may fall again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

128. “Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.”

— Buddha

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

— Stephen R. Covey

130. “While we wait for life, life passes.”

— Seneca

131. “How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

132. “Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”

— Marcus Aurelius

133. “We must use time creatively, and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.”

— Nelson Mandela

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

— Dr. Seuss

135. “Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.”

— Lao Tzu

136. “He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.”

— Lao Tzu

137. “It’s not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It’s because we dare not venture that they are difficult.”

— Seneca

138. “We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

139. “Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.”

— Swami Vivekananda

140. “Today is a new day, so rise up and move forward into the victory God has prepared for you!”

— Joel Osteen

141. “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”

— Soren Kierkegaard

142. “Act without expectation.”

— Lao Tzu

143. “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

144. “Instead of fighting the darkness, you bring in the light.”

— Eckhart Tolle

145. “The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him – that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.”

— Swami Vivekananda

146. “Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.”

— Ernest Hemingway

147. “I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life.”

— Louise Hay

148. “To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

149. “The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”

— Marcus Aurelius

150. “Follow the three R’s: – Respect for self. – Respect for others. – Responsibility for all your actions.”

— Dalai Lama XIV