100+ Iconic Big Lebowski Quotes You Need to Know

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

It always seems impossible until it’s done.

Your limitation—it's only your imagination.

Push yourself, because no one else is going to do it for you.

Great things never come from comfort zones.

Dream big, work hard, stay focused, and surround yourself with good people.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

Success doesn’t just come and find you, you have to go chase it.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift someone else.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

I'm not arguing, I'm just explaining why I'm right.

I’m not lazy, I’m just on energy-saving mode.

I don’t need therapy, I just need to win the lottery.

I used to be indecisive. Now I’m not sure.

I’m not short, I’m concentrated awesome.

I put the ‘pro’ in procrastination.

My bed is a magical place where I suddenly remember everything I was supposed to do.

I followed my dreams… now I’m lost.

If silence is golden, then I must be a millionaire.

I’m not weird, I’m limited edition.

I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

Common sense is like deodorant. The people who need it most never use it.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

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

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.

Existence precedes essence.

Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought.

The mind is everything. What you think, you become.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.

Every moment with you is like a beautiful dream I never want to wake up from.

If I had to choose between breathing and loving you, I would use my last breath to say I love you.

You are my today and all of my tomorrows.

In your arms I've found my home, and in your eyes, I've seen forever.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect, and I loved you even more.

When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew—love is mutual.

You’re the missing piece I didn’t know my heart was searching for.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

I choose you. And I’ll choose you over and over and over. Without pause, without a doubt, in a heartbeat. I’ll keep choosing you.

You are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.

You have power over your mind—not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

She believed she could, so she did.

I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.

Know thyself and you will win all battles.

I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.

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

Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'

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

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

I define courage as the ability to act in spite of fear.

You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.

Is it not possible to be both kind and strong?

What if the thing we fear most is actually the path to our freedom?

Why do we run from silence when it might hold the answers we seek?

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

Are we shaping technology, or is technology shaping us?

What if happiness isn’t the point, but growth is?

Can true connection exist without vulnerability?

How much of your identity is inherited, and how much is chosen?

Why do we measure success by speed rather than meaning?

What would you do differently if you knew no one would judge you?

Does progress require sacrifice, or can we evolve without loss?

If love leaves no proof, does it still matter?

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

Patience is not the ability to wait, but how you act while you're waiting.

A wise man once said nothing at all.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

The foolish man thinks he knows everything; the wise man knows he knows nothing.

Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

True wisdom comes not from knowledge, but from understanding.

Silence is a source of great strength.

The more you know, the more you realize you don’t know.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.

Do more listening than talking, and you’ll learn twice as fast.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

Less is more.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Breathe.

Be here now.

Let go.

Enough.

Slow down.

Just this.

Peace.

Stillness speaks.

One step.

Simply begin.

To be or not to be, that is the question.

All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by.

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

So it goes.

Call me Ishmael.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

The past is never dead. It's not even past.

I am the master of my fate, the captain of my soul.