Top 200 Wise Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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2. “Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

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3. “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”

— Mae West

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4. “If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”

— Bruce Lee

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5. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”

— Lao Tzu

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6. “Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.”

— Nelson Mandela

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7. “Mind is everything. What we think, we become.”

— Buddha

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8. “There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do and mostly Live.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

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9. “Chase the vision, not the money. The money will end up following you.”

— Tony Hsieh

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10. “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”

— Thomas A. Edison

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11. “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

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12. “The future depends on what you do today.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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13. “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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14. “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”

— Lao Tzu

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15. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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16. “To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.”

— Osho

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17. “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”

— Helen Keller

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18. “Great acts are made up of small deeds.”

— Lao Tzu

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19. “Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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20. “Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

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

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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22. “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.”

— Stephen R. Covey

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23. “Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.”

— Les Brown

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24. “While we wait for life, life passes.”

— Seneca

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25. “There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don't you?”

— Rumi

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26. “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”

— Nelson Mandela

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27. “Goodness is the only investment that never fails.”

— Henry David Thoreau

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28. “Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

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29. “The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”

— Joseph Campbell

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30. “Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.”

— Joseph Campbell

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

— William Shakespeare

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32. “To be successful, you must be willing to do the things today others won’t do in order to have the things tomorrow others won’t have.”

— Les Brown

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33. “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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34. “Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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35. “If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”

— Mother Teresa

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36. “Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.”

— Mother Teresa

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37. “The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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38. “What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end.”

— Warren Buffett

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39. “Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”

— Bertrand Russell

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40. “Do you have the patience to wait until your mud settles and the water is clear?”

— Lao Tzu

Also featured in: Patience Quotes, Deep Quotes About Life, Meaningful Quotes, Life Lessons Quotes

41. “Compassion is the wish to see others free from suffering.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

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42. “An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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43. “Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

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44. “I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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45. “The true value of a leader is not measured by the work they do. A leader’s true value is measured by the work they inspire others to do.”

— Simon Sinek

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46. “Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.”

— Lao Tzu

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47. “When you have a choice to be right, or to be kind, choose to be kind.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

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48. “No man is free who is not master of himself.”

— Epictetus

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49. “Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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50. “The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.”

— Thomas A. Edison

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