100+ Best Wise Quotes to Inspire & Motivate Your Day

“Know thyself.” – Socrates

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” – Socrates

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” – Aristotle

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” – Aristotle

“To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.” – Benjamin Disraeli

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

“No man ever steps in the same river twice.” – Heraclitus

“The unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates

“He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.” – Plato

“Doubt is the origin of wisdom.” – Augustine

“Change your thoughts and you change your world.” – Norman Vincent Peale

“Fall seven times, stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius

“It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” – Vince Lombardi

“Resilience is knowing you can endure anything life throws at you.” – Anonymous

“Strength doesn’t come from what you can do, it comes from overcoming what you once thought you couldn’t.” – Rikki Rogers

“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” – Maya Angelou

“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill

“The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph.” – Swami Vivekananda

“Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations.” – Zig Ziglar

“When you come out of the storm, you won't be the same person who walked in.” – Haruki Murakami

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.” – Oprah Winfrey

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” – Aristotle

“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” – David Viscott

“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” – Audrey Hepburn

“Where there is love, there is life.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“Love makes our souls grow.” – Victor Hugo

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu

“Love is not about possession. It’s about appreciation.” – Osho

“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.” – Victor Hugo

“Love one another and you will be happy. Hate one another and you will be unhappy.” – Dale Carnegie

“Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.

“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.” – Mignon McLaughlin

“Love is the bridge between two hearts.” – Anonymous

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill

“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Opportunities don't happen. You create them.” – Chris Grosser

“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” – Thomas Jefferson

“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon

“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” – Will Rogers

“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky

“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney

“Dream big and dare to fail.” – Norman Vaughan

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” – Lao Tzu

“Your outer world reflects your inner world.” – Earl Nightingale

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.” – William Butler Yeats

“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” – Chinese Proverb

“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” – Albert Einstein

“He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.” – Confucius

“Growth begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch

“Self-discipline is the key to mastery.” – Jim Rohn

“Every day is a new beginning. Take a deep breath, smile and start again.” – Anonymous

“Invest in yourself. Your career is the engine of your wealth.” – Paul Clitheroe

“Small daily improvements are the key to staggering long-term results.” – Robin Sharma

“Leadership is not about being in charge. It is about taking care of those in your charge.” – Simon Sinek

“The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.” – Ronald Reagan

“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” – John C. Maxwell

“People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.” – John C. Maxwell

“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower

“True leadership stems from individuality that is honestly and sometimes imperfectly expressed.” – Margaret Wheatley

“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” – Ralph Nader

“A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.” – Arnold H. Glasow

“You don’t lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going with them to get there.” – Ken Kesey

“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” – Warren Bennis

“Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results, not attributes.” – Peter Drucker

“The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are.” – John C. Maxwell

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” – Plato

“Less is more.” – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

“Keep it simple, stupid.” – Naval Aviation Principle

“Live simply so others may simply live.” – Gandhi

“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” – Albert Einstein

“Sometimes the simplest things are the hardest to find.” – Katerina Stoykova Klemer

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” – Leonardo da Vinci

“The simplest things are often the truest.” – Richard Bach

“Do small things with great love.” – Mother Teresa

“Breathe. It’s just a bad day, not a bad life.” – Anonymous

“Gratitude turns what we have into enough.” – Aesop

“Today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present.” – Alice Morse Earle

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.” – Nelson Mandela

“Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.” – Winston Churchill

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Do one thing every day that scares you.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” – E.E. Cummings

“The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all.” – Megan McArdle

“Fear is interest paid on a debt you may not owe.” – Dan Greenberg

“Feel the fear and do it anyway.” – Susan Jeffers

“Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” – George Addair

“Fortune favors the bold.” – Virgil

“There is no passion to be found playing small.” – Nelson Mandela

“Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more.” – Swedish Proverb

“Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.” – William Penn

“The trouble is, you think you have time.” – Buddha

“Lost time is never found again.” – Benjamin Franklin

“Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” – Jim Rohn

“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.” – Leo Tolstoy

“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” – Bertrand Russell

“In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take.” – Lewis Carroll

“So this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad, and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.” – Jonathan Safran Foer

“We are dying from the moment we are born.” – Seneca

“Life isn’t measured in years, but in the moments that take your breath away.” – Anonymous

“The days are long, but the years are short.” – Gretchen Rubin

“Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.

“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.” – Pablo Picasso

“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

“Purpose is the reason we strive, not just survive.” – Simon Sinek

“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” – Howard Thurman

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Meaning is not something you stumble across. It’s something you build into your life.” – Dan Buettner

“Find out who you are and do it on purpose.” – Dolly Parton

“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work.” – Steve Jobs

“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” – Mark Twain

“We don’t need more hours in a day. We need more meaning in our hours.” – Rachel Naomi Remen

“Purpose is the compass that guides your choices.” – Anonymous

“Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret.” – Mary Anne Radmacher