Top 200 Wise Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Comparison is the thief of joy.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

152. “I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.”

— Jewish Proverb

153. “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.”

— Allen Saunders

154. “A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.”

— Bruce Lee

155. “No matter what you’ve done for yourself or for humanity, if you can’t look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?”

— Lee Iacocca

156. “If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine.”

— Morris L. West

157. “You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.”

— Henry Ford

158. “Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”

— Oscar Wilde

159. “To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.”

— Marcus Aurelius

160. “Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and try to live up to it.”

— Swami Vivekananda

161. “For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

162. “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”

— Albert Schweitzer

163. “Wise men change, fools stay the same.”

— Kevin Gates

164. “The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”

— William James

165. “Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.”

— Francis Bacon

166. “Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.”

— Eckhart Tolle

167. “Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.”

— Ram Dass

168. “Become who you are.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

169. “The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.”

— Paulo Coelho

170. “You cannot change your future, but you can change your habits, and surely your habits will change your future.”

— Abdul Kalam

171. “The wise man can change his mind; the stubborn one, never.”

— Immanuel Kant

172. “You can’t be old and wise, if you were never young and crazy.”

— Chris Brown

173. “Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.”

— Benjamin Franklin

174. “Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”

— Confucius

175. “You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.”

— Naguib Mahfouz

176. “The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.”

— Osho

177. “Get mad, then get over it.”

— Colin Powell

178. “Investing in yourself is the best investment you will ever make. It will not only improve your life, it will improve the lives of all those around you.”

— Robin S. Sharma

179. “Courage is grace under pressure.”

— Ernest Hemingway

180. “The truth is that teamwork is at the heart of great achievement.”

— John C. Maxwell

181. “The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.”

— Swami Vivekananda

182. “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.”

— Rumi

183. “A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.”

— Confucius

184. “Happiness is determined more by one's state of mind than by external events.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

185. “Awareness is the greatest agent for change.”

— Eckhart Tolle

186. “The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.”

— Khalil Gibran

187. “If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.”

— Confucius

188. “Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

189. “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”

— Sun Tzu

190. “Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.”

— Bruce Lee

191. “Wise men say only fools rush in. But I can’t help falling in love with you.”

— Elvis Presley

192. “In solitude, where we are least alone.”

— Lord Byron

193. “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”

— Margaret Mead

194. “Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.”

— Peter F. Drucker

195. “Each work has to pass through these stages: ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.”

— Swami Vivekananda

196. “Management by objective works – if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don’t.”

— Peter F. Drucker

197. “There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.”

— W. Clement Stone

198. “Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.”

— Steve Martin

199. “Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?”

— Marcus Aurelius

200. “If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.”

— Steve Jobs