Top 200 Wise Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “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

52. “When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

53. “If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

54. “Each person comes into this world with a specific destiny – he has something to fulfill, some message has to be delivered, some work has to be completed. You are not here accidentally – you are here meaningfully. There is a purpose behind you. The whole intends to do something through you.”

— Osho

55. “If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one’s own self-deception and ignorance.”

— Marcus Aurelius

56. “Don't let yesterday take up too much of today.”

— John Wooden

57. “Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.”

— Plato

58. “Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.”

— Oprah Winfrey

59. “Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

60. “A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.”

— Confucius

61. “When anger rises, think of the consequences.”

— Confucius

62. “I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.”

— Lao Tzu

63. “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

64. “Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do. But it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.”

— Dale Carnegie

65. “The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.”

— Henry David Thoreau

66. “You have to find what sparks a light in you so that you in your own way can illuminate the world.”

— Oprah Winfrey

67. “Put first things first and second things are thrown in. Put second things first and you lose both first and second things.”

— C. S. Lewis

68. “The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.”

— Marcus Aurelius

69. “Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

70. “Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”

— Isaac Asimov

71. “For it is in giving that we receive.”

— Francis of Assisi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

73. “All the things that truly matter, beauty, love, creativity, joy and inner peace arise from beyond the mind.”

— Eckhart Tolle

74. “Life is long, if you know how to use it.”

— Seneca

75. “Wisdom is like the rain. Its source is limitless, but it comes down according to the season.”

— Rumi

76. “Silence is sometimes the best answer.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

77. “Beautiful people are not always good, but good people are always beautiful.”

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

78. “Truth never damages a cause that is just.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

79. “The only thing permanent is change.”

— Heraclitus

80. “Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything – anger, anxiety, or possessions – we cannot be free.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

81. “The way you speak to others can offer them joy, happiness, self-confidence, hope, trust, and enlightenment. Mindful speaking is a deep practice.”

— Nhat Hanh

82. “The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.”

— Thomas Stephen Szasz

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

— Mother Teresa

84. “The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

85. “Love all. Serve all. Help ever. Hurt never.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

86. “You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.”

— Eckhart Tolle

87. “Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don’t walk into the river. Listen to the ocean.”

— Rumi

88. “Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction.”

— Rumi

89. “Life is available only in the present moment.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

90. “Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

91. “Millions of people are suffering: they want to be loved but they don’t know how to love. And love cannot exist as a monologue; it is a dialogue, a very harmonious dialogue.”

— Osho

92. “When you learn, teach. When you get, give.”

— Maya Angelou

93. “Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.”

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Marcus Aurelius

95. “However we may receive blows, and however knocked about we may be, the Soul is there and is never injured. We are that Infinite.”

— Swami Vivekananda

96. “Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not.”

— Epictetus

97. “You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”

— Buddha

98. “Look for the answer inside your question.”

— Rumi

99. “Because I always have a choice, I choose love.”

— Deepak Chopra

100. “Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.”

— Abraham Lincoln