Top 70 Short Deep Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order; we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.”

— Confucius

52. “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

— Lord Acton

53. “Conflict cannot survive without your participation.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

54. “When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly. When people see some things as good, other things become bad.”

— Lao Tzu

55. “Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place.”

— Rumi

56. “It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

57. “We think we see the world as it is, when in fact we see the world as we are.”

— Stephen R. Covey

58. “The only thing harder than letting go is moving on.”

— Anonymous

59. “Take a deep breath. Get present in the moment and ask yourself what is important this very second.”

— Greg McKeown

60. “As you are, so is the world.”

— Ramana Maharshi

61. “Have no friends not equal to yourself.”

— Confucius

62. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”

— Steve Jobs

63. “Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

64. “If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

65. “You’re going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don’t do. You don’t get to choose to not pay a price. You get to choose which poison you’re going to take. That’s it.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

66. “Peace is the only battle worth waging.”

— Albert Camus

67. “There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be...”

— John Lennon

68. “Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you.”

— Byron Katie

69. “If you only walk on sunny days you’ll never reach your destination.”

— Paulo Coelho

70. “The business of business is relationships; the business of life is human connection.”

— Robin S. Sharma

71. “We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.”

— Benjamin Franklin

72. “A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.”

— Oscar Wilde

73. “Travel light, live light, spread the light, be the light.”

— Yogi Bhajan

74. “Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.”

— Oscar Wilde