Top 200 Wisdom Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “In a day when you don’t come across any problems, you can be sure that you are traveling on the wrong path.”

— Swami Vivekananda

102. “Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”

— Rumi

103. “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”

— Benjamin Franklin

104. “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.”

— Reinhold Niebuhr

105. “Realize deeply that the present moment is all you will ever have.”

— Eckhart Tolle

106. “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

— André Gide

107. “A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with Reality, and lives in a world of illusion.”

— Alan Watts

108. “Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”

— Lao Tzu

109. “In youth we learn; in age we understand.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

110. “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

111. “If you want to be happy, be.”

— Leo Tolstoy

112. “Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.”

— Confucius

113. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

114. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”

— Robert Frost

115. “Faith is a passionate intuition.”

— William Wordsworth

116. “Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

117. “Don’t get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.”

— Dolly Parton

118. “You teach best what you most need to learn.”

— Richard Bach

119. “The goal is not to be better than the other man, but your previous self.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

120. “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”

— William Shakespeare

121. “You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.”

— Swami Vivekananda

122. “If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.”

— Paulo Coelho

123. “You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.”

— Franz Kafka

124. “Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.”

— Ludwig van Beethoven

125. “You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”

— Rumi

126. “The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.”

— Bertrand Russell

127. “Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life. ”

— Swami Vivekananda

128. “You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, love like you’ll never be hurt, sing like there’s nobody listening, and live like it’s heaven on earth.”

— William W. Purkey

129. “When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.”

— Paulo Coelho

130. “I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”

— Confucius

131. “Change is hardest at the beginning, messiest in the middle and best at the end.”

— Robin S. Sharma

132. “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”

— Thomas Jefferson

133. “Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution.”

— Deepak Chopra

134. “What you’re thinking is what you’re becoming.”

— Muhammad Ali

135. “The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”

— Marcus Aurelius

136. “Our thoughts make us what we are.”

— Dale Carnegie

137. “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you’ll do things differently.”

— Warren Buffett

138. “Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. ”

— Dale Carnegie

139. “What we do now echoes in eternity.”

— Marcus Aurelius

140. “Turn your wounds into wisdom.”

— Oprah Winfrey

141. “Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”

— Warren Buffett

142. “Our only limitations are those we set up in our own minds.”

— Napoleon Hill

143. “They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”

— Tom Bodett

144. “The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.”

— Eckhart Tolle

145. “An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”

— Benjamin Franklin

146. “Change is the only constant.”

— Heraclitus

147. “It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank God that such men lived.”

— George S. Patton Jr.

148. “Happiness equals reality minus expectations.”

— Tom Magliozzi

149. “All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.”

— Swami Vivekananda

150. “A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.”

— Lao Tzu