Top 200 Life Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “Our lives may be no more than dewdrops on a summer morning. But surely, it is better that we sparkle while we are here.”

— Lewis Carroll

102. “You are free to choose, but the choices you make today will determine what you have, be, and do in the tomorrow of your life.”

— Zig Ziglar

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103. “Everything can be taken from a person but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

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104. “Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.”

— Nelson Mandela

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105. “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”

— Mary Oliver

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106. “Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”

— Rumi

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107. “Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.”

— Bruce Lee

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108. “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”

— Maya Angelou

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109. “Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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110. “If you live each day as it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right.”

— Steve Jobs

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111. “Realize deeply that the present moment is all you will ever have.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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112. “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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113. “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.”

— Dr. Seuss

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114. “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”

— Mark Twain

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115. “For things to change, you have to change.”

— Jim Rohn

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116. “Respect yourself and others will respect you.”

— Confucius

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117. “Awareness is the greatest agent for change.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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118. “Confidence and hard work are the best medicines to kill the disease called failure. They will make you a successful person.”

— Abdul Kalam

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119. “For your life to be great, your faith must be bigger than your fear.”

— Robin S. Sharma

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120. “Be like water, my friend.”

— Bruce Lee

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121. “The unexamined life is not worth living.”

— Socrates

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122. “Get busy living or get busy dying.”

— Stephen King

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123. “Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.”

— Brian Tracy

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124. “If you can change your mind, you can change your life.”

— William James

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125. “Without a struggle, there can be no progress.”

— Frederick Douglass

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126. “There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.”

— C. S. Lewis

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

— Eckhart Tolle

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128. “When I say be creative I don’t mean that you should all go and become great painters and great poets. I simply mean let your life be a painting, let your life be a poem.”

— Osho

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

— Buddha

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130. “Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.”

— Les Brown

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131. “If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.”

— Tony Robbins

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132. “The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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133. “You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.”

— Brian Tracy

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134. “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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135. “Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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136. “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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137. “Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do.”

— Oprah Winfrey

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138. “Don’t ever let someone tell you that you can’t do something. You got a dream, you gotta protect it. When people can’t do something themselves, they are going to tell you that you can’t do it. You want something, go get it. Period.”

— Will Smith

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139. “Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living?”

— Bob Marley

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140. “Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.”

— Confucius

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141. “You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”

— Maya Angelou

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142. “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined.”

— Henry David Thoreau

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143. “Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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144. “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.”

— Jim Rohn

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145. “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”

— Maya Angelou

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146. “Do small things, with great love.”

— Mother Teresa

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147. “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”

— Mark Twain

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148. “The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.”

— C.G. Jung

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149. “You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.”

— Oprah Winfrey

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

— Brené Brown

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