Top 200 Famous Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

Also featured in: Quotes About Strength, Important Quotes, Inspiring Quotes

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

— Bruce Lee

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Life Quotes, Time Quotes

3. “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”

— Mark Twain

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Integrity Quotes, Funny Quotes

4. “Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.”

— Winston Churchill

Also featured in: Confidence Quotes, Attitude Quotes, Interesting Quotes

5. “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Positive Motivational Quotes, Inspirational Life Quotes

6. “Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.”

— Bruce Lee

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Failure Quotes, Short Motivational Quotes

7. “Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.”

— Richard Branson

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Startup Quotes, Business Quotes, Failure Quotes

8. “Change is the only constant.”

— Heraclitus

Also featured in: Change Quotes, Meaningful Quotes, Life Lessons Quotes, Wisdom Quotes

9. “Courage is grace under pressure.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Also featured in: Courage Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Men, Challenges Quotes

10. “Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”

— Steve Jobs

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Confidence Quotes, Deep Quotes About Life, Interesting Quotes

11. “We accept the love we think we deserve.”

— Stephen Chbosky

Also featured in: Love Quotes, Relationship Quotes, Emotional Quotes, Philosophical Quotes

12. “There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”

— Leonard Cohen

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Music Quotes, Sunday Inspirational Quotes, Important Quotes

13. “The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.”

— Carl Sagan

Also featured in: Meaningful Quotes, Perspective Quotes, Science Quotes

14. “It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”

— Marcus Aurelius

Also featured in: Action Quotes, Live Life Quotes, Inspirational Life Quotes

15. “He that can have patience can have what he will.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Also featured in: Perseverance Quotes, Patience Quotes, Life Philosophy Quotes

16. “Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do.”

— Oprah Winfrey

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Life Quotes, Action Quotes

17. “Know thyself.”

— Socrates

Also featured in: Short Inspirational Quotes, Self-Realization Quotes, Personality Quotes

18. “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

Also featured in: Life Lessons Quotes, Struggle Quotes, Thought Provoking Quotes

19. “I'll be back.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

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20. “The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.”

— Stephen R. Covey

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Focus Quotes, Perseverance Quotes

21. “To be interesting, be interested.”

— Dale Carnegie

Also featured in: Motivational Work Quotes, Short Inspirational Quotes, Personality Quotes

22. “The root of suffering is attachment.”

— Buddha

Also featured in: Spiritual Growth Quotes, Deep Quotes, Life Philosophy Quotes

23. “We must never stop dreaming. Dreams provide nourishment for the soul, just as a meal does for the body.”

— Paulo Coelho

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Creativity Quotes, Motivational Monday Quotes

24. “Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.”

— John Wooden

Also featured in: Goal Quotes, Hard Work Quotes, Failure Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Work

25. “The brave man is not the one who has no fears, he is the one who triumphs over his fears.”

— Nelson Mandela

Also featured in: Courage Quotes, Motivational Quotes About Life, Encouragement Quotes

26. “If it’s your job to eat a frog, it’s best to do it first thing in the morning. And if it’s your job to eat two frogs, it’s best to eat the biggest one first.”

— Mark Twain

Also featured in: Funny Quotes, Quotes About Work, Good Morning Quotes

27. “Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”

— Victor Hugo

Also featured in: Music Quotes, Emotion Quotes, Beautiful Quotes, Quotes About Feelings

28. “We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.”

— Carl Sagan

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

29. “Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”

— Winston Churchill

Also featured in: Military Quotes, Powerful Quotes, Important Quotes

30. “If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.”

— Richard Bach

Also featured in: Love Quotes, Sweet Quotes, Moving On Quotes, Freedom Quotes

31. “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Also featured in: Courage Quotes, Short Inspiring Quotes, Motivational Monday Quotes, Important Quotes

32. “The greatest truths are the simplest things in the world, simple as your own existence.”

— Swami Vivekananda

Also featured in: Inspirational Life Quotes, Truth Quotes, Important Quotes

33. “All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.”

— Winston Churchill

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Empowering Quotes, Meaningful Quotes

34. “To be or not to be that is the question.”

— William Shakespeare

Also featured in: Deep Quotes About Life, Fiction Quotes, Philosophy Quotes

35. “Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.”

— Sun Tzu

Also featured in: Strategy Quotes, Military Quotes, Fighting Quotes

36. “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, but are spiritual beings having a human experience.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Also featured in: Awakening Quotes, Enlightenment Quotes, Life Philosophy Quotes, Spirituality Quotes

37. “Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.”

— George S. Patton Jr.

Also featured in: Leadership Quotes, Confidence Quotes, Attitude Quotes, Powerful Motivational Quotes

38. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

Also featured in: Morality Quotes, Fighting Quotes, Struggle Quotes

39. “Trust your instincts. Intuition doesn’t lie.”

— Oprah Winfrey

Also featured in: Confidence Quotes, Positive Quotes for Women, Motivational Quotes for Women

40. “If your plan is for one year plant rice. If your plan is for ten years plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred years educate children.”

— Confucius

Also featured in: Education Quotes, Impact Quotes, Growth Quotes

41. “The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.”

— Helen Keller

Also featured in: Positive Inspirational Quotes, Short Quotes, Powerful Motivational Quotes, Impact Quotes

42. “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Also featured in: Care Quotes, Wellness Quotes, Common Sense Quotes

43. “Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Time Quotes, Short Inspirational Quotes, Sweet Quotes

44. “Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.”

— William Shakespeare

Also featured in: Courage Quotes, Opportunity Quotes, Life Philosophy Quotes

45. “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

— George Bernard Shaw

Also featured in: Changing the World Quotes, Not Giving Up Quotes, Thought Provoking Quotes

46. “All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.”

— Sun Tzu

Also featured in: Strategy Quotes, Warrior Quotes, Fighting Quotes

47. “This above all: to thine own self be true.”

— William Shakespeare

Also featured in: Integrity Quotes, Be Yourself Quotes, Poetry Quotes

48. “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Also featured in: Attitude Quotes, Live Life Quotes, Empowering Quotes

49. “Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes for Work, Motivational Monday Quotes, Motivational Quotes About Life

50. “No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.”

— Nelson Mandela

Also featured in: Acceptance Quotes, Meaningful Quotes, Values Quotes