Top 200 Meaningful Quotes
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101. “All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.”

— Winston Churchill

102. “You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.”

— Deepak Chopra

103. “Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.”

— Eckhart Tolle

104. “It's not what you will get out of the books that is so enriching - it is what the books will get out of you that will ultimately change your life.”

— Robin S. Sharma

105. “Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

106. “Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.”

— Victor Hugo

107. “The Four Agreements 1. Be impeccable with your word. 2. Don’t take anything personally. 3. Don’t make assumptions. 4. Always do your best.”

— Miguel Ruiz

108. “Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.”

— William Arthur Ward

109. “Life before Death. Strength before Weakness. Journey before Destination.”

— Brandon Sanderson

110. “Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.”

— Carl Sagan

111. “Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

112. “You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.”

— Brené Brown

113. “The time has come to turn your heart into a temple of fire. Your essence is gold hidden in dust. To reveal its splendor you need to burn in the fire of love.”

— Rumi

114. “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”

— Albert Camus

115. “We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.”

— Swami Vivekananda

116. “Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realise that we can not eat money.”

— Chief Seattle

117. “Go on bravely. Do not expect success in a day or a year. Always hold on to the highest. Be steady. Avoid jealousy and selfishness. Be obedient and eternally faithful to the cause of truth, humanity, and your country, and you will move the world.”

— Swami Vivekananda

118. “The highest result of education is tolerance.”

— Helen Keller

119. “From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

120. “Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.”

— Hermann Hesse

121. “Follow your passion. It will lead you to your purpose.”

— Oprah Winfrey

122. “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”

— Oscar Wilde

123. “Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

124. “Service to others leads to greatness.”

— Jim Rohn

125. “Speak up. Believe in yourself. Take risks.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

126. “Kid, you’ll move mountains.”

— Dr. Seuss

127. “He not busy being born is busy dying.”

— Bob Dylan

128. “Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.”

— Deepak Chopra

129. “No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.”

— Nelson Mandela

130. “Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”

— John Wooden

131. “And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.”

— Roald Dahl

132. “Vulnerability is the core of shame and fear and our struggle for worthiness, but it appears that it’s also the birthplace of joy, of creativity, of belonging, of love.”

— Brené Brown

133. “Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. ”

— John Wooden

134. “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”

— Elie Wiesel

135. “A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself. A mentor is someone who allows you to know that no matter how dark the night, in the morning joy will come. A mentor is someone who allows you to see the higher part of yourself when sometimes it becomes hidden to your own view.”

— Oprah Winfrey

136. “Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”

— Pablo Picasso

137. “Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

— George Santayana

138. “The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.”

— Barack Obama

139. “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

140. “In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.”

— Paul McCartney

141. “A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.”

— Buddha

142. “We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

143. “Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think.”

— Buddha

144. “Between stimulus and response is the freedom to choose.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

145. “Try not to resist the changes that come your way. Instead let life live through you. And do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come?”

— Rumi

146. “Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything – anger, anxiety, or possessions – we cannot be free.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

147. “As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.”

— C.G. Jung

148. “In my walks, every man I meet is my superior in some way, and in that I learn from him.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

149. “Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”

— Buddha

150. “One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.”

— Malala Yousafzai