Explore Famous Quotes with Meaning for Inspiration, Growth & Insight

Explore a growing directory of famous quotes with meaning, each offering timeless insight, real-world relevance, and life lessons you can apply today. Whether you’re seeking clarity, motivation, or reflection, every quote is designed to help you think deeper, grow wiser, and live with greater intention. Use the filters by author, theme, or voice of influence to discover quotes that truly speak to your journey.

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“Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.”

  • Meditations, Book 7, Section 69

The people who are the most alive, driven, and fulfilled are those that seek to lead by a life of contribution and service to something greater than themselves.

  • Meditations, Book 7, Section 69

Put from you the belief that 'I have been wronged', and with it will go the feeling. Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.

  • Meditations, Book 7, Section 69

"Your share of matter, time, and fate is tiny."

  • Meditations, Book 7, Section 69

Nothing that goes on in anyone else's mind can harm you.

  • Meditations, Book 7, Section 69

Joy in the Thing people say; but in reality it is joy in itself by means of the thing."

  • Meditations, Book 7, Section 69

Give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and inward man be at one."

  • Meditations, Book 7, Section 69

Cities remain troubled until their leaders are philosophers."

  • Meditations, Book 7, Section 69

“Man is by nature a political animal.”

  • Meditations, Book 7, Section 69

"All men do all things, and the better they are the more they do them, in hope of the glorious fame of immortal virtue; for they desire the immortal."

  • Meditations, Book 7, Section 69

"The divine is beauty, wisdom, goodness, and the like; and by these the wing of the soul is nourished and grows apace."

  • Meditations, Book 7, Section 69

Success often gives an action the whole honest glamour of a good conscience; failure casts the shadow of remorse over the most estimable deed.

  • Meditations, Book 7, Section 69

“Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?”

  • Meditations, Book 7, Section 69

“We must not listen to those who advise us to think as mortal beings, but must live as if immortal.”

  • Meditations, Book 7, Section 69

You have to assemble your life yourself - action by action.

  • Meditations, Book 7, Section 69

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

  • Meditations, Book 7, Section 69
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On this page, you can use filters to narrow down quotes by theme (like Motivation, Love, or Success), by author (like Tony Robbins or Aristotle), or even by author type (such as Philosophers or Entrepreneurs).

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