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The Power of Wisdom: Timeless Quotes to Transform You

The Power of Wisdom: Timeless Quotes to Transform You

By MulaKhaiL Published 8 months ago 7 min read

Here’s a curated list of **350 life-changing quotes** to inspire, motivate, and transform your mindset. These quotes cover success, resilience, happiness, love, leadership, and personal growth.

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### **Success & Achievement**

1. **"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."** – Winston Churchill

2. **"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today."** – Franklin D. Roosevelt

3. **"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."** – Henry David Thoreau

4. **"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."** – Eleanor Roosevelt

5. **"Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going."** – Sam Levenson

6. **"The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary."** – Vidal Sassoon

7. **"Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."** – Winston Churchill

8. **"The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well."** – John D. Rockefeller

9. **"Opportunities don’t happen. You create them."** – Chris Grosser

10. **"The harder I work, the luckier I get."** – Samuel Goldwyn

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### **Resilience & Perseverance**

11. **"It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up."** – Vince Lombardi

12. **"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths."** – Arnold Schwarzenegger

13. **"Fall seven times, stand up eight."** – Japanese Proverb

14. **"The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived."** – Robert Jordan

15. **"Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th."** – Julie Andrews

16. **"Grit is living life like it’s a marathon, not a sprint."** – Angela Duckworth

17. **"Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life."** – J.K. Rowling

18. **"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it."** – Margaret Thatcher

19. **"Tough times never last, but tough people do."** – Robert H. Schuller

20. **"A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor."** – Franklin D. Roosevelt

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### **Mindset & Growth**

21. **"Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right."** – Henry Ford

22. **"Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change."** – Jim Rohn

23. **"The mind is everything. What you think, you become."** – Buddha

24. **"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."** – C.S. Lewis

25. **"Change your thoughts and you change your world."** – Norman Vincent Peale

26. **"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."** – Steve Jobs

27. **"If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down."** – Toni Morrison

28. **"Growth begins at the end of your comfort zone."** – Neale Donald Walsch

29. **"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."** – Ralph Waldo Emerson

30. **"The biggest risk is not taking any risk."** – Mark Zuckerberg

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### **Happiness & Gratitude**

31. **"Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions."** – Dalai Lama

32. **"The purpose of our lives is to be happy."** – Dalai Lama

33. **"Gratitude turns what we have into enough."** – Aesop

34. **"Happiness depends upon ourselves."** – Aristotle

35. **"Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day."** – Henri Nouwen

36. **"The happiest people don’t have the best of everything, they make the best of everything."** – Unknown

37. **"Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more."** – Oprah Winfrey

38. **"Happiness is letting go of what you think your life is supposed to look like."** – Mandy Hale

39. **"Count your blessings, not your problems."** – Roy T. Bennett

40. **"The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate."** – Oprah Winfrey

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### **Love & Relationships**

41. **"Love is not about possession. It’s about appreciation."** – Osho

42. **"We accept the love we think we deserve."** – Stephen Chbosky

43. **"The best thing to hold onto in life is each other."** – Audrey Hepburn

44. **"Where there is love, there is life."** – Mahatma Gandhi

45. **"To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides."** – David Viscott

46. **"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person."** – Mignon McLaughlin

47. **"Love is friendship set on fire."** – Jeremy Taylor

48. **"If you want to be loved, be lovable."** – Ovid

49. **"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved."** – Victor Hugo

50. **"Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile."** – Franklin P. Jones

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### **Leadership & Influence**

51. **"A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way."** – John C. Maxwell

52. **"Leadership is not about being in charge. It’s about taking care of those in your charge."** – Simon Sinek

53. **"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

54. **"Do what you feel in your heart to be right—for you’ll be criticized anyway."** – Eleanor Roosevelt

55. **"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader."** – John Quincy Adams

56. **"Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality."** – Warren Bennis

57. **"The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers."** – Ralph Nader

58. **"A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit."** – Arnold Glasow

59. **"Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another."** – John C. Maxwell

60. **"The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes."** – Tony Blair

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### **Wisdom & Life Lessons**

61. **"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."** – Socrates

62. **"Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it."** – Charles R. Swindoll

63. **"In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years."** – Abraham Lincoln

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

65. **"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."** – Winston Churchill

66. **"The unexamined life is not worth living."** – Socrates

67. **"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated."** – Confucius

68. **"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate."** – Ralph Waldo Emerson

69. **"Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans."** – John Lennon

70. **"The best way to predict the future is to create it."** – Peter Drucker

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### **Courage & Fear**

71. **"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear."** – Mark Twain

72. **"Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision."** – Winston Churchill

73. **"Do one thing every day that scares you."** – Eleanor Roosevelt

74. **"Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear."** – George Addair

75. **"Fear has two meanings: Forget Everything And Run or Face Everything And Rise."** – Zig Ziglar

76. **"Bravery is being the only one who knows you’re afraid."** – Franklin P. Jones

77. **"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face."** – Eleanor Roosevelt

78. **"Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’"** – Mary Anne Radmacher

79. **"The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."** – Nelson Mandela

80. **"Fear is only as deep as the mind allows."** – Japanese Proverb

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### **Time & Productivity**

81. **"Lost time is never found again."** – Benjamin Franklin

82. **"Time is what we want most, but what we use worst."** – William Penn

83. **"Don’t count the days, make the days count."** – Muhammad Ali

84. **"You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it."** – Charles Buxton

85. **"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot."** – Michael Altshuler

86. **"Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence."** – Paul J. Meyer

87. **"Either you run the day, or the day runs you."** – Jim Rohn

88. **"The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities."** – Stephen Covey

89. **"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."** – Walt Disney

90. **"Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life."** – Steve Jobs

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### **Self-Discipline & Habits**

91. **"Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most."** – Abraham Lincoln

92. **"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."** – Aristotle

93. **"Small daily improvements are the key to staggering long-term results."** – John C. Maxwell

94. **"Motivation gets you going, but discipline keeps you growing."** – Jim Rohn

95. **"The chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken."** – Warren Buffett

96. **"Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day."** – Jim Rohn

97. **"You’ll never change your life until you change something you do daily."** – John C. Maxwell

98. **"The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself."** – Plato

99. **"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment."** – Jim Rohn

100. **"Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and far more rewarding."** – Harvey Mackay

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