Top 200 Quality Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “First, think. Second, believe. Third, dream. And finally, dare.”

— Walt Disney

102. “It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life.”

— Jean-Luc Picard

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

— Marcus Aurelius

104. “Good software, like wine, takes time.”

— Joel Spolsky

105. “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”

— Mark Twain

106. “Love what you do; Do what you love.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

107. “Only in the darkness can you see the stars.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

108. “The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”

— Leo Tolstoy

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

110. “They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”

— Tom Bodett

111. “Quality questions create a quality life.”

— Tony Robbins

112. “Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.”

— Vince Lombardi

113. “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

114. “Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.”

— John C. Maxwell

115. “Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.”

— Barack Obama

116. “I am still learning.”

— Michelangelo

117. “The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.”

— Carl Sagan

118. “Take a simple idea and take it seriously.”

— Charlie Munger

119. “You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

120. “Just be yourself, there is no one better.”

— Taylor Swift

121. “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

122. “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

123. “Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.”

— Brené Brown

124. “Leadership is an action, not a position”

— Donald McGannon

125. “Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

126. “My success is due more to my ability to work continuously on one thing without stopping than to any other single quality.”

— Thomas A. Edison

127. “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”

— Helen Keller

128. “The mind is the source of all experience, and by changing the direction of the mind, we can change the quality of everything we experience.”

— Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

129. “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.”

— Muhammad Ali

130. “Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.”

— Maya Angelou

131. “The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.”

— William Arthur Ward

132. “The price of greatness is responsibility.”

— Winston Churchill

133. “Quality involves living the message of the possibility of perfection and infinite improvement, living it day in and day out, decade by decade.”

— Tom Peters

134. “Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

135. “I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.”

— Og Mandino

136. “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”

— Isaac Newton

137. “My life is my message.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

138. “Make today worth remembering.”

— Zig Ziglar

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

— Marcus Aurelius

140. “Buy less. Choose well. Make it last. Quality, not quantity. Everybody’s buying far too many clothes.”

— Vivienne Westwood

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

— Benjamin Franklin

142. “You will never ‘find’ time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.”

— Charles Buxton

143. “All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

144. “Popularity is not a guarantee of quality.”

— Indira Gandhi

145. “I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.”

— Socrates

146. “I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.”

— Arthur Rubinstein

147. “Patience is not the ability to wait but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting.”

— Joyce Meyer

148. “Be strong, but not rude; Be kind, but not weak; Be bold, but not bully; Be humble, but not timid; Be proud, but not arrogant.”

— Zig Ziglar

149. “Your manners will depend very much upon the quality of what you frequently think on; for the soul is as it were tinged with the colour and complexion of thought.”

— Marcus Aurelius

150. “We think in language. The quality of our thoughts and ideas can only be as good as the quality of our language.”

— George Carlin