Top 200 Smart Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.”

— Eckhart Tolle

102. “There is one grand lie - that we are limited. The only limits we have are the limits we believe.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

103. “To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. For a man who claims to have knowledge, while actually knowing nothing, is less smart than you, who claim to know nothing.”

— Socrates

104. “The same wind blows on us all; the winds of disaster, opportunity and change. Therefore, it is not the blowing of the wind, but the setting of the sails that will determine our direction in life.”

— Jim Rohn

105. “Don’t be afraid of a little opposition. Remember that the ‘Kite’ of success generally rises AGAINST the wind of Adversity, not with it.”

— Napoleon Hill

106. “Smart work pays best. Trust it.”

— Conor McGregor

107. “There is no greater education than one that is self-driven.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

108. “There is nothing permanent except change. Nothing is permanent except change. The only constant is change. Change is the only constant. Change alone is unchanging.”

— Heraclitus

109. “It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.”

— René Descartes

110. “My favorite holding period is forever.”

— Warren Buffett

111. “Leadership is taking responsibility while others are making excuses.”

— John C. Maxwell

112. “Wit beyond measure is a man’s greatest treasure.”

— J.K. Rowling

113. “The intelligent man is never bored.”

— Isaac Asimov

114. “Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent. You will be amazed at how your whole approach to a person or problem becomes very different.”

— Indra Nooyi

115. “It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.”

— Steve Jobs

116. “Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.”

— Mwai Kibaki

117. “Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.”

— W. Clement Stone

118. “We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.”

— Randy Pausch

119. “If you do the things you need to do when you need to do them, then someday you can do the things you want do when you want to do them.”

— John C. Maxwell

120. “Genius sees the answer before the question.”

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

121. “A great attitude is not the result of success; success is the result of a great attitude.”

— Earl Nightingale

122. “If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it’s not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

123. “Alone we are smart. Together we are brilliant.”

— Steven Anderson

124. “Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

125. “Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions.”

— Tony Robbins

126. “If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it’s not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

127. “Take care of yourself. Eat well, rest, train hard and smart, make time to think and breathe. Be intentional with your time.”

— Kristin Armstrong

128. “If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.”

— Isaac Asimov

129. “It is not the things we do in life that we regret on our death bed. It is the things we do not.”

— Randy Pausch

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

— Benjamin Franklin

131. “Control your thoughts. Decide about that which you will think and concentrate upon. You are in charge of your life to the degree you take charge of your thoughts.”

— Earl Nightingale

132. “Success comes in cans, failure comes in can’ts.”

— Zig Ziglar

133. “The starting point of all achievement is desire.”

— Napoleon Hill

134. “I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.”

— Oprah Winfrey

135. “The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.”

— George Bernard Shaw

136. “Time is our most valuable asset, yet we tend to waste it, kill it and spend it rather than invest it.”

— Jim Rohn

137. “If you don’t change what you are doing today, all of your tomorrows will look like yesterday.”

— Jim Rohn

138. “The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people.”

— Stephen Hawking

139. “Every positive change in your life begins with a clear, unequivocaldecision that you are going to either do something or stop doing something.”

— Brian Tracy

140. “When you ask a dumb question, you get a smart answer.”

— Aristotle

141. “The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves.”

— Bob Proctor

142. “All men by nature desire knowledge.”

— Aristotle

143. “With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice. ”

— Oprah Winfrey

144. “You need not apologize for being brilliant, talented, gorgeous, rich, or smart.”

— Marianne Williamson

145. “Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.”

— Coco Chanel

146. “Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people from their experiences, stupid people already have all the answers.”

— Socrates

147. “Getting 1 percent better every day counts for a lot in the long-run.”

— James Clear

148. “My motto is: ‘Keep it simple, stupid. Work smart, not hard.’”

— Joe Teti

149. “Do something instead of killing time. Because time is killing you.”

— Paulo Coelho

150. “If you don’t know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but a wise man for the rest of your life.”

— Seneca the Younger