Top 200 Wisdom Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

152. “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”

— Marcus Aurelius

153. “The unexamined life is not worth living.”

— Socrates

154. “Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”

— Mother Teresa

155. “If you wish to be out front, then act as if you were behind.”

— Lao Tzu

156. “Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”

— Rumi

157. “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”

— Isaac Newton

158. “You may delay, but time will not.”

— Benjamin Franklin

159. “Be here now.”

— Ram Dass

160. “Well done is better than well said.”

— Benjamin Franklin

161. “You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.”

— Buddha

162. “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”

— Paulo Coelho

163. “Our life is what our thoughts make it.”

— Marcus Aurelius

164. “Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.”

— Eckhart Tolle

165. “Be strong, but not rude; Be kind, but not weak; Be bold, but not bully; Be humble, but not timid; Be proud, but not arrogant.”

— Zig Ziglar

166. “Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble.”

— Warren Buffett

167. “You are the hero of your own story.”

— Joseph Campbell

168. “Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

169. “Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.”

— Maya Angelou

170. “Diligence is the mother of good luck.”

— Benjamin Franklin

171. “A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.”

— John Lubbock

172. “If you love a flower, don’t pick it up. Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.”

— Osho

173. “If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.”

— Maya Angelou

174. “If you can change your mind, you can change your life.”

— William James

175. “I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.”

— Steve Jobs

176. “When someone shows you who they are believe them; the first time.”

— Maya Angelou

177. “Don’t wish for less problems; wish for more skills.”

— Jim Rohn

178. “Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”

— Socrates

179. “Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.”

— Imam Ali

180. “The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of the state of your mind.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

181. “Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.”

— Buddha

182. “The mind is a wonderful servant, but a terrible master.”

— Robin S. Sharma

183. “All birds find shelter during rain. But the eagle avoids the rain by flying above the clouds. Problems are common, but attitude makes the difference.”

— Abdul Kalam

184. “Seek first to understand, then to be understood.”

— Stephen R. Covey

185. “No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.”

— Buddha

186. “If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.”

— Confucius

187. “All the world’s a stage.”

— William Shakespeare

188. “The true test of a man’s character is what he does when no one is watching.”

— John Wooden

189. “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”

— Benjamin Franklin

190. “Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.”

— Rudyard Kipling

191. “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”

— Albert Einstein

192. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

— George Bernard Shaw

193. “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”

— Henry David Thoreau

194. “Acknowledging what you don’t know is the dawning of wisdom.”

— Charlie Munger

195. “A tragedy, when a mature mind and a romantic heart are in the same body.”

— Nizar Qabbani

196. “You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.”

— Brian Tracy

197. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”

— Steve Jobs

198. “Opportunities come to pass, not to pause.”

— James Wallace

199. “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

200. “Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.”

— Eckhart Tolle