Top 200 Smart Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

— George Santayana

52. “Integrity never goes out of style.”

— Jim George

53. “The real secret to a life of abundance is to stop spending your days searching for security and to start spending your time pursuing opportunity.”

— Robin S. Sharma

54. “Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.”

— John Wooden

55. “No one is you, and that is your power.”

— Dave Grohl

56. “Champions are brilliant at the basics.”

— John Wooden

57. “It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.”

— Napoleon Hill

58. “Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art.”

— Peter F. Drucker

59. “Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.”

— Horace

60. “Never spend your money before you have earned it.”

— Thomas Jefferson

61. “Once your mindset changes, everything on the outside will change along with it.”

— Steve Maraboli

62. “Believe in yourself, work hard, work smart and passionately present your best self to the world.”

— Hill Harper

63. “When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are.”

— Oprah Winfrey

64. “Well-behaved women seldom make history.”

— Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

65. “A budget is telling your money where to go instead of wondering where it went.”

— Dave Ramsey

66. “I try to buy stock in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one will.”

— Warren Buffett

67. “Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.”

— Aldous Huxley

68. “Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”

— Epicurus

69. “Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.”

— Oprah Winfrey

70. “Indecision is the greatest thief of opportunity.”

— Jim Rohn

71. “Read 500 pages every day. That’s how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest.”

— Warren Buffett

72. “Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.”

— William Arthur Ward

73. “If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.”

— Derek Bok

74. “Take action in order to move toward your goals.”

— Les Brown

75. “Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don’t.”

— Steve Maraboli

76. “You playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing enlightening about shrinking so others won’t feel insecure around you. As you let your own light shine, you indirectly give others permission to do the same.”

— Marianne Williamson

77. “The book you don't read can't help.”

— Jim Rohn

78. “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.”

— Margaret Thatcher

79. “The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.”

— Dale Carnegie

80. “The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”

— William James

81. “Each failure brings you one step closer to success.”

— Zig Ziglar

82. “The strangest secret in the world is that you become what you think about.”

— Earl Nightingale

83. “An investment in your personal development is the best investment you can make.”

— Jim Rohn

84. “Be strong enough to stand alone, smart enough to know when you need help, and brave enough to ask for it.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

85. “Vocabulary enables us to interpret and to express. If you have a limited vocabulary, you will also have a limited vision and a limited future.”

— Jim Rohn

86. “Impossible is just an opinion.”

— Paulo Coelho

87. “Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. No one can hit their target with their eyes closed.”

— Paulo Coelho

88. “Don’t LIVE the same year 75 times and call it a Life.”

— Robin S. Sharma

89. “Education is our passport to the future.”

— Malcolm X

90. “So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.”

— Christopher Reeve

91. “Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That’s why it’s so hard.”

— David McCullough

92. “There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.”

— Napoleon Hill

93. “No wealth like education and no poverty like ignorance.”

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

94. “To the man with only a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.”

— Charlie Munger

95. “Happiness is a mindset for your journey, not the result of your destination.”

— Shawn Achor

96. “For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”

— Nelson Mandela

97. “So please ask yourself: What would I do if I weren’t afraid? And then go do it.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

98. “Delegate – work smarter not harder; do what you do best and drop the rest; get control of your calendar; do what you love because it will give you energy; work with people you like so your energy isn’t depleted.”

— John C. Maxwell

99. “Only dumb people try to impress smart people. Smart people just do what they do.”

— Chris Rock

100. “Think deeply about things. Don’t just go along because that’s the way things are or that’s what your friends say. Consider the effects, consider the alternatives, but most importantly, just think.”

— Aaron Swartz