Top 200 Meaningful Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.”

— Joseph Campbell

52. “The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

53. “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

54. “I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you, all else melted away.”

— Rumi

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

— Marcus Aurelius

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

— Dalai Lama XIV

57. “Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we’re supposed to be and embracing who we are.”

— Brené Brown

58. “The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

59. “There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

60. “To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

61. “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

62. “Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.”

— Khalil Gibran

63. “Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain.”

— Eckhart Tolle

64. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”

— Charles Dickens

65. “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

66. “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

67. “Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell them, “Certainly I can!”. Then get busy and find out how to do it.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

68. “You are the hero of your own story.”

— Joseph Campbell

69. “Objective judgement, now, at this very moment. Unselfish action, now, at this very moment. Willing acceptance – now, at this very moment – of all external events. That’s all you need.”

— Marcus Aurelius

70. “If you’re going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It’s the only good fight there is.”

— Charles Bukowski

71. “If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”

— C. S. Lewis

72. “A little faith will bring your soul to heaven; a great faith will bring heaven to your soul.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

73. “Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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

— Stephen R. Covey

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

— Maya Angelou

76. “We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.”

— Carl Sagan

77. “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

78. “In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.”

— John Muir

79. “We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something.”

— Mother Teresa

80. “Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.”

— Osho

81. “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

82. “You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.”

— Maya Angelou

83. “If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.”

— Nora Roberts

84. “The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child’s own natural desire to learn.”

— Maria Montessori

85. “Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours.”

— C. S. Lewis

86. “Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

87. “I can be changed by what happens to me, but I refuse to be reduced by it.”

— Maya Angelou

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

— Dalai Lama XIV

89. “Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”

— William Shakespeare

90. “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

91. “It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.”

— Seneca the Younger

92. “All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages.”

— William Shakespeare

93. “Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

94. “In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.”

— Albert Camus

95. “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.”

— Rumi

96. “For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

97. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.”

— Mark Twain

98. “Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.”

— Og Mandino

99. “Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”

— Maya Angelou

100. “Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists. It is real. It is possible. It’s yours.”

— Ayn Rand