Top 200 Wise Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Be a lamp unto yourself.”

— Buddha

102. “As a wise man once said, ‘If not us, then who; if not now, then when?’”

— Michael Jackson

103. “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.”

— Abraham Lincoln

104. “Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to “die before you die” – and find that there is no death.”

— Eckhart Tolle

105. “She does not show herself, and therefore is apparent. She does not affirm herself, and therefore is acknowledged. She does not boast and therefore has merit. She does not strive and therefore is successful. It is exactly because she does not contend, that nobody can contend with her.”

— Lao Tzu

106. “Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

107. “I don’t mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom. It is a timeless spiritual truth: release attachment to outcomes, deep inside yourself, you’ll feel good no matter what.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

108. “Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.”

— Lao Tzu

109. “If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”

— Rumi

110. “This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.”

— Rumi

111. “Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.”

— William Penn

112. “That old law about ‘an eye for an eye’ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

113. “You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

114. “The noble-minded are calm and steady. Little people are forever fussing and fretting.”

— Confucius

115. “I wish it need not have happened in my time,’ said Frodo. ‘So do I,’ said Gandalf, ’and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

116. “The poor look for jobs while the rich build networks.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

117. “Every day is a new life to a wise man.”

— Dale Carnegie

118. “Successful people have libraries. The rest have big screen TVs.”

— Jim Rohn

119. “If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

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

— Wayne W. Dyer

121. “In today’s rush we all think too much, seek too much, want too much and forget about the joy of just Being.”

— Eckhart Tolle

122. “The master observes the world but trusts his inner vision. He allows things to come and go. He prefers what is within to what is without.”

— Lao Tzu

123. “God is too good to be unkind, too wise to be mistaken; and when you cannot trace His hand, you can trust His heart.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

124. “Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.”

— Jim Rohn

125. “It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”

— Paulo Coelho

126. “It is said that the darkest hour of the night comes just before the dawn.”

— Thomas Fuller

127. “Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

128. “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

129. “Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.”

— Henry Ford

130. “The best fighter is never angry.”

— Lao Tzu

131. “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”

— Confucius

132. “Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”

— Marcus Aurelius

133. “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.”

— Solomon

134. “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”

— Oscar Wilde

135. “Anything that makes you weak – physically, intellectually, and spiritually, reject it as poison.”

— Swami Vivekananda

136. “Peace begins with a smile.”

— Mother Teresa

137. “In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart. ”

— Swami Vivekananda

138. “Don’t compare yourself with anyone in this world. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.”

— Bill Gates

139. “We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

140. “The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.”

— James Oppenheim

141. “Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.”

— Confucius

142. “All good things are wild and free.”

— Henry David Thoreau

143. “There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

144. “Many people are passionate, but because of their limiting beliefs about who they are and what they can do, they never take actions that could make their dream a reality.”

— Tony Robbins

145. “To a mind that is still the whole universe surrenders.”

— Lao Tzu

146. “The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel.”

— Steven Furtick

147. “When you talk you are only repeating something you already know. But, if you listen you may learn something new.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

148. “To hold, you must first open your hand. Let go.”

— Lao Tzu

149. “Life begins where fear ends.”

— Osho

150. “A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.”

— Hippocrates