Top 200 Smart Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Leadership is not a title. It’s a behavior. LIVE it.”

— Robin S. Sharma

152. “Time is the most valuable asset you don’t own. You may or may not realize it yet, but how you use or don’t use your time is going to be the best indication of where your future is going to take you .”

— Mark Cuban

153. “It’s not how smart you are that matters, what really counts is how you are smart.”

— Howard Gardner

154. “All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, it will not change you.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

155. “Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that’s the stuff life is made of.”

— Benjamin Franklin

156. “I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest.”

— Veronica Roth

157. “Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.”

— Stephen R. Covey

158. “Shall I teach you what knowledge? When you know a thing, say that you know it; when you do not know a thing, admit that you do not know it. That is knowledge.”

— Confucius

159. “Always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody says distract you from your goals.”

— Michelle Obama

160. “I think there are too many smart people pursuing internet stuff, finance, and law. That is part of the reason why we haven’t seen as much innovation.”

— Elon Musk

161. “You begin to fly when you let go of self-limiting beliefs and allow your mind and aspirations to rise to greater heights.”

— Brian Tracy

162. “Smart men walked on the moon, daring men walked on the ocean floor, but wise men walk with God.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

163. “Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.”

— William Arthur Ward

164. “I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.”

— Henry David Thoreau

165. “When someone isn’t smart enough to express their frustration, they use dirty words. Those are words that describe a lack of intelligence. Smart people don’t use those kind of dirty words, because they find it an insult to their intelligence.”

— Nouman Ali Khan

166. “Live boldly. Laugh Loudly. Love Truly. Play as often as you can Work as smart as you are able. Share your heart as deeply as you can reach.”

— Mary Anne Radmacher

167. “There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.”

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

168. “Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance. You cannot build a program of discovery on the assumption that nobody is smart enough to figure out the answer to a problem.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

169. “Girls should never be afraid to be smart.”

— Emma Watson

170. “A wise man first thinks and then speaks and a fool speaks first and then thinks.”

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

171. “It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it’s good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven’t lost the things money can’t buy.”

— George Horace Lorimer

172. “To be successful you don’t need to do extraordinary things, you just need to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.”

— Jim Rohn

173. “Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.”

— Jim Rohn

174. “The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.”

— Bertrand Russell

175. “Culture is a simplification and a lie. It’s the currency by which fools navigate the world. Smart people get beyond it.”

— Terence McKenna

176. “Some of the world’s greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.”

— Doug Larson

177. “None of us is as smart as all of us.”

— Kenneth H. Blanchard

178. “He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.”

— Epictetus

179. “A wise man will be master of his mind, a fool will be its slave.”

— Publilius Syrus

180. “Don’t join an easy crowd; you won’t grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high.”

— Jim Rohn

181. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.”

— Florence Nightingale

182. “Failure comes from ego, greed, envy, fear, imitation. I have success not because I am smart, but because I am rational.”

— Warren Buffett

183. “The world is full of smart, poor people.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

184. “A stupid man’s report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.”

— Bertrand Russell

185. “I am successful because I have always been a tortoise. I did not come from a rich family. I was not smart in school. I did not finish school. I am not particularly talented. Yet, I am far richer than most people simply because I did not stop.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

186. “I was lucky. I grew up knowing that hard work and smart work have a greater impact on results than being passionate about something.”

— Mark Cuban

187. “Do not let anyone tell you what you can be. Do not let anyone tell you that you are not good enough or smart enough. Remember that nobody is better than you. Everybody puts on their pants one leg at a time.”

— Farrah Gray

188. “If you don’t change the direction you are going, then you’re likely to end up where you’re heading.”

— John C. Maxwell

189. “Dream it. Dare it. Do it.”

— Catherine DeVrye

190. “Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.”

— Brian Kernighan

191. “I’m too fast. I’m too smart. I’m too pretty.”

— Muhammad Ali

192. “It only takes one mistake and nothing else you ever do will matter. No matter how hard you work or how smart you become, you’ll always be known for that one poor choice.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

193. “When Kepler found his long-cherished belief did not agree with the most precise observation, he accepted the uncomfortable fact. He preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions, that is the heart of science.”

— Carl Sagan

194. “It does not matter who you are, or how smart you are, or what title you have, or how many of you there are, and certainly not how many papers your side has published, if your prediction is wrong then your hypothesis is wrong. Period.”

— Richard P. Feynman

195. “Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.”

— Frederick Douglass

196. “You can make excuses or you can make progress. You choose.”

— Brian Tracy

197. “The Sneetches got really quite smart on that day. The day they decided that Sneetches are Sneetches. And no kind of Sneetch is the best on the beaches. That day, all the Sneetches forgot about stars and whether they had one, or not, upon thars.”

— Dr. Seuss

198. “If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

199. “Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.”

— Robert A. Heinlein

200. “There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for.”

— Mahatma Gandhi