Top 200 Life Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we’re supposed to be and embracing who we are.”

— Brené Brown

152. “How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours. Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you. If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

153. “Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what’s urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.”

— Stephen R. Covey

154. “Difficulties in your life do not come to destroy you, but to help you realise your hidden potential and power, let difficulties know that you too are difficult.”

— Abdul Kalam

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

— Carl Sagan

156. “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

157. “You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

158. “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

159. “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”

— Mark Twain

160. “Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.”

— Abraham Lincoln

161. “Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.”

— John Wooden

162. “Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe.”

— Oprah Winfrey

163. “Let everything happen to you: Beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

164. “Helping others is the way we help ourselves.”

— Oprah Winfrey

165. “Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.”

— Carl Sagan

166. “Always give without remembering and always receive without forgetting.”

— Brian Tracy

167. “Talent is a gift, but character is a choice.”

— John C. Maxwell

168. “If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it.”

— Lao Tzu

169. “Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.”

— Lao Tzu

170. “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

171. “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

172. “Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

173. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

174. “Only time can heal what reason cannot.”

— Seneca

175. “It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

176. “You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.”

— Joyce Meyer

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

— Winston Churchill

178. “Our life is what our thoughts make it.”

— Marcus Aurelius

179. “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”

— Anaïs Nin

180. “Never blame anyone in your life. Good people give you happiness. Bad people give you experience. Worst people give you a lesson. And best people give you memories.”

— Zig Ziglar

181. “Each person comes into this world with a specific destiny – he has something to fulfill, some message has to be delivered, some work has to be completed. You are not here accidentally – you are here meaningfully. There is a purpose behind you. The whole intends to do something through you.”

— Osho

182. “Make of yourself a light.”

— Buddha

183. “Assume life will be really tough, and then ask if you can handle it. If the answer is yes, you’ve won.”

— Charlie Munger

184. “Dream, dream, dream. Dreams transform into thoughts and thoughts result in action.”

— Abdul Kalam

185. “Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.”

— Rudyard Kipling

186. “Paradoxical as it may seem, the purposeful life has no content, no point. It hurries on and on, and misses everything. Not hurrying, the purposeless life misses nothing, for it is only when there is no goal and no rush that the human senses are fully open to receive the world.”

— Alan Watts

187. “Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?”

— Charles Dickens

188. “Spend each day getting a little wiser than you were when you woke up. Discharge your duties faithfully and well. Step by step you get ahead, but not necessarily in fast spurts. But you build discipline by preparing for fast spurts. Slug it out one inch at a time, day by day. At the end of the day – if you live long enough – most people get what they deserve.”

— Charlie Munger

189. “Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.”

— Helen Keller

190. “When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”

— Paulo Coelho

191. “I don’t mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom. It is a timeless spiritual truth: release attachment to outcomes, deep inside yourself, you’ll feel good no matter what.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

192. “Smile, breathe and go slowly.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

193. “You either walk inside your story and own it or you stand outside your story and hustle for your worthiness.”

— Brené Brown

194. “Wherever you are, be there totally.”

— Eckhart Tolle

195. “You can choose courage or you can choose comfort, but you can’t have both.”

— Brené Brown

196. “There should be no boundaries to human endeavor. However bad life may seem, there is always hope.”

— Stephen Hawking

197. “Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.”

— Og Mandino

198. “Every setback is a setup for a comeback!”

— Joel Osteen

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

— Oprah Winfrey

200. “If you start today to do the right thing, you are already a success even if it doesn’t show yet.”

— John C. Maxwell