Top 280 Yoko Ono Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “You change the world by being yourself.”

— Yoko Ono

Featured in: Confidence Quotes, Self-Esteem Quotes, Short Quotes About Life, Live Life Quotes, Self-Realization Quotes

2. “Art is a way of survival.”

— Yoko Ono

Featured in: Creativity Quotes, Art Quotes

3. “You may think I’m small, but I have a universe inside my mind.”

— Yoko Ono

Featured in: Quotes About Thinking, Mind Quotes, Imagination Quotes

4. “Art is my life and my life is art.”

— Yoko Ono

Featured in: Aesthetic Quotes, Artist Quotes, Culture Quotes, Art Quotes

5. “Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you’ll start to see a big difference in your life.”

— Yoko Ono

Featured in: Sweet Quotes, Personality Quotes, Good Morning Quotes, Joy Quotes, Smile Quotes

6. “World peace is one project that we have to do together.”

— Yoko Ono

Featured in: Make A Difference Quotes, Harmony Quotes, Collaboration Quotes

7. “Some people are old at 18 and some are young at 90. Time is a concept that humans created.”

— Yoko Ono

8. “The sky is always there for me, while my life has been going through many, many changes. When I look up at the sky, it gives me a nice feeling, like looking at an old friend.”

— Yoko Ono

Featured in: Sky Quotes

9. “It’s better to dance than to march through life.”

— Yoko Ono

Featured in: Creativity Quotes, Joy Quotes, Happy Saturday Quotes

10. “When people don’t understand my work, I don’t feel like explaining.”

— Yoko Ono

11. “Smile to the future and it will smile back to you.”

— Yoko Ono

Featured in: Monday Morning Quotes, Happy Friday Quotes, Happy Wednesday Quotes, Happy Tuesday Quotes, Happy Saturday Quotes

12. “But only art and music have the power to bring peace.”

— Yoko Ono

13. “Try to say nothing negative about anybody for three days, for forty-five days, for three months. See what happens to your life.”

— Yoko Ono

14. “I’m just trying to do my best every day, hoping that I have done my best every day, and its very easy in a way, but also it’s not that easy. Every day counts.”

— Yoko Ono

15. “Confusion has become a state of mind, more of less; we’re trained to be confused. Quite simply, the people in power are keeping us down, keeping us docile and keeping us consuming with this confusion. It’s a cultural confusion and it is deliberate.”

— Yoko Ono

16. “I trust myself. You need that to survive.”

— Yoko Ono

17. “Every drop in the ocean counts.”

— Yoko Ono

18. “When people ask me what the most important thing is in life, I answer: ‘Just breathe.’”

— Yoko Ono

19. “You can be very wild and still be very wise.”

— Yoko Ono

20. “Healing yourself is connected with healing others.”

— Yoko Ono

21. “Most people think that I am too optimistic, but my optimism is based on the thought that negative thinking is a luxury that we can’t afford.”

— Yoko Ono

22. “Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.”

— Yoko Ono

Featured in: Creativity Quotes, Sadness Quotes

23. “If your life changes, we can change the world, too.”

— Yoko Ono

Featured in: Artist Quotes

24. “Spring passes and one remembers one’s innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one’s perseverance.”

— Yoko Ono

25. “Listen to the sound of the earth turning.”

— Yoko Ono

26. “Look at yourself in the mirror and don’t be afraid to notice how beautiful you are.”

— Yoko Ono

27. “Remember love. Remember our hearts are one. Even when we are fighting with each other, our hearts are beating in unison. I love you.”

— Yoko Ono

28. “There’s a long life ahead of you and it’s going to be beautiful, as long as you keep loving and hugging each other.”

— Yoko Ono

29. “The opposite of love is fear, not hate.”

— Yoko Ono

30. “We are never alone. We are all aspects of one great being. No matter how far apart we are, the air links us.”

— Yoko Ono

31. “All my life, I have been in love with the sky. Even when everything was falling apart around me, the sky was always there for me.”

— Yoko Ono

Featured in: Sky Quotes

32. “Be kind to yourself this evening. Buy something for yourself. Treat yourself to a meal. Look in the mirror and give yourself a smile.”

— Yoko Ono

33. “Nobody’s life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear and we all just do our best.”

— Yoko Ono

34. “The regret of my life is that I have not said ‘I love you’ often enough.”

— Yoko Ono

35. “All women are feminists. Being a feminist is allowing woman to be natural, for what she is, whatever it is. All of us can be natural and we’re all feminists in that sense.”

— Yoko Ono

36. “We get shy about saying things like I love you. Life is so short. It’s crazy, that we hesitate to express our true thoughts to each other.”

— Yoko Ono

Featured in: Crazy Quotes

37. “We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.”

— Yoko Ono

38. “Don’t ever give up on life. Life can be so beautiful, especially after you’ve spent a lot of time with it.”

— Yoko Ono

39. “Every moment in our lives is a miracle we should enjoy instead of ignoring.”

— Yoko Ono

40. “Loneliness is equal to the radius of one’s awareness.”

— Yoko Ono

Featured in: Loneliness Quotes

41. “You can’t love someone unless you are in an equal position with them. A lot of women have to cling to men out of fear or insecurity, and that’s not love – basically that’s why women hate men.”

— Yoko Ono

42. “It is sad that the air is the only thing we share. No matter how close we get to each other, there is always air between us.”

— Yoko Ono

43. “Each time we don’t say what we wanna say, we’re dying.”

— Yoko Ono

44. “What a beautiful future it will be! Don’t worry about life being boring. It will never be.”

— Yoko Ono

45. “Japanese are very proud and workaholics. Proud workaholics.”

— Yoko Ono

46. “Money is not everything. We don’t need billions and trillions of dollars.”

— Yoko Ono

47. “I’m kind of honored to be a dragon lady. The dragon is a very powerful, mythical animal.”

— Yoko Ono

48. “Look at a star in the sky not as something unreachable but as a planet you would visit one day.”

— Yoko Ono

49. “We’re all water from different rivers, That’s why it’s so easy to meet, We’re all water in this vast, vast ocean, Someday we’ll evaporate together.”

— Yoko Ono

50. “Give peace a chance and let’s hope that one day we will all live in peace.”

— Yoko Ono