Deep Quotes
Deep quotes can have an unsettling effect on readers. They make you really think.
What’s the meaning of life? What is love all about? How do you define happiness and a life well lived? These are all important questions.
Perhaps a review of the thoughts below will provide some insights or at least get you thinking. Some people spend their entire lives contemplating these issues.
Reviewing the list below should only take about 5 minutes. Enjoy!
Best Deep Quotes About Life
1.) Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
John W. Gardner
2.) If you don’t follow your heart, you might spend the rest of your life wishing you had.
Brigitte Nicole
3.) As I look back on my life, I realize that every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being re-directed to something better.
Steve Maraboli
4.) Having a soft heart in a cruel world is courage, not weakness.
Katherine Henson
5.) To say that a work of art is good but incomprehensible to the majority of men is the same as saying of some kind of food that is very good but that most people can’t eat it.
Leo Tolstoy
6.) I don’t understand why when we destroy something created by man, we call it vandalism, but when we destroy something created by nature, we call it progress.
Ed Begley, Jr.
7.) Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Good Deep Quotes
8.) Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Soren Kierkegaard
9.) A man is what he thinks about all day long.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
10.) To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
Bertrand Russell
11.) What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
Aristotle
12.) Courage is knowing what not to fear.
Plato
13.) Every man is a fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
Elbert Hubbard
14.) I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Booker T. Washington
Meaning of Life Sayings
15.) Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
Hippocrates
16.) The meaning of life is to give life a meaning.
Viktor E. Frankl
17.) The fullness of life is only accessible in the present moment.
Eckhart Tolle
18.) To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
19.) Our greatest achievement in life is being happy with the little things that probably mean nothing to others.
Hermann J Steinherr
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Meaningful Life Quotes
20.) A true test of character isn’t how you are on your best days but how you act on your worst days.
Unknown
21.) You make mistakes. Mistakes don’t make you.
Trish Marmo
22.) It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
23.) Who are you when no one is watching?
Unknown
24.) The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
25.) We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Albert Einstein
26.) The worst kind of sadness is not being able to explain why.
Unknown
27.) To do two things at once is to do neither.
Publilius Syrus
28.) You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark Twain
29.) I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.
Corazon Aquino
Thinking Deep Quotes
30.) A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are made for.
John Augustus Shedd
31.) Learn as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow.
Mahatma Gandhi
32.) Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
Confucius
33.) The more I see, the less I know for sure.
John Lennon
34.) Sometimes you face difficulties not because you’re doing something wrong but because you’re doing something right.
Joel Osteen
35.) You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.
Buddha
36.) Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?
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37.) There are three classes of people: Those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Philosophy of Life
38.) Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.
Chinese Proverb
39.) What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
Robert H. Schuller
40.) This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can’t see how deep it is.
Dennis Rodman
41.) Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
William Penn
42.) Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
43.) There is a greater gift than the trust of others, and that is to trust in one’s self.
Jennifer Worth
44.) You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
45.) The only thing in life achieved without effort is a failure.
Unknown
46.) The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places.
Will Rogers
47.) Dead people receive more flowers than living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude.
Anne Frank
Thoughts that Matter
48.) No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.
Carl Jung
49.) Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
Martin Heidegger
50.) To be strong is to understand weakness.
Tablo
51.) Failure is not the opposite of success; it’s part of success.
Arianna Huffington
52.) In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert Einstein
53.) Happiness is not a station you arrive at but a manner of traveling.
Margaret B. Runbeck
54.) In the circle of life, there is no top, no corner, and no straight lines.
Mike Dolan
55.) Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.
Unknown
56.) The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
Epicurus
57.) The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
Martin Heidegger
Short Deep Quotes
58.) You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
André Gide
59.) Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Robert F. Kennedy
60.) Change your thoughts, and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale
61.) I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
Socrates
62.) Learn from yesterday. Live for today. Hope for tomorrow.
Albert Einstein
63.) When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche
64.) A meaningful silence is always better than meaningless words.
Unknown
65.) You have to fight through some bad days to earn the best days of your life.
Unknown
66.) If you want something you never had, you have to do something you have never done.
Thomas Jefferson
67.) Genius is 10% inspiration, 90% perspiration.
Thomas Edison
What does deep mean?
“Deep” refers to something extending far below the surface. So, in this context, deep quotes are sayings that make you think a little harder than most.
Motivational Deep Quotes
68.) Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
Helen Keller
69.) Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
Plato
70.) Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
Jean-Paul Sartre
71.) Sometimes, your heart needs more time to accept what your mind already knows.
Unknown
72.) It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
Frederick Douglass
73.) Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Buddha
74.) Everything you can imagine is real.
Pablo Picasso
75.) What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us. What we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
Albert Pike
76.) Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at will change.
Wayne Dyer
77.) Don’t be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
Grace Hansen
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Inspirational Deep Quotes
78.) There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
Plato
79.) If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.
Jean-Paul Sartre
80.) You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you.
Mary Tyler Moore
81.) Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage.
Brené Brown
82.) It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
Charles Darwin
83.) Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.
Henry Van Dyke
84.) Have patience with all things, but first with yourself.
Saint Frances de Sales
85.) Mistakes are part of the dues that one pays for a full life.
Sophia Loren
86.) There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.
Henry Ford
87.) The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle
Beautiful Quotes About Life
88.) Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.
Friedrich Nietzsche
89.) As you start to walk out on the way, the way appears.
Rumi
90.) A friend to all is a friend to none.
Aristotle
91.) The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves and wiser people so full of doubts.
Bertrand Russell
92.) The quieter you become, the more you can hear.
Ram Dass
93.) And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln
94.) Tell me, and I will forget. Show me, and I will remember. Involve me, and I will understand.
Confucius
95.) Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein
96.) The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise man grows it under his feet.
James Oppenheim
97.) Don’t be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
Arthur Miller
What is Happiness?
98.) Happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.
Henry David Thoreau
99.) The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.
Kahlil Gibran
100.) Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
J.R.R. Tolkien
101.) Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
Robert Schuller
102.) It’s easier to build up a child than repair an adult.
Unknown
103.) Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
Albert Einstein
104.) If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
Booker T. Washington
Positive Quotes
105.) A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
Maya Angelou
106.) The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.
Oprah Winfrey
107.) It’s your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don’t take yourself too seriously, pretty soon you can find the humor in our everyday lives. And sometimes, it can be a lifesaver.
Betty White
108.) Love your family, work super hard, live your passion.
Gary Vaynerchuk
109.) The time is always right to do what is right.
Martin Luther King Jr.
110.) Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.
Michelle Obama
111.) Success is not final; failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill
112.) I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
Thomas Jefferson
Inspiring
113.) We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
Joseph Campbell
114.) Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground.
Theodore Roosevelt
115.) The two most important days of your life are the day that you’re born and the day that you find out why.
Mark Twain
116.) I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.
Marie Curie
117.) The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
Walt Disney
118.) You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
Zig Ziglar
119.) Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world.
B.B. King
120.) Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela
121.) The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain!
Dolly Parton
122.) Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for.
Jennifer Lopez
Profound Deep Quotes
123.) If you can’t yet do great things, do small things in a great way.
Napoleon Hill
124.) Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.
Oprah Winfrey
125.) Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama
126.) The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
Epicurus
127.) No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed.
Billie Jean King
128.) Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.
Michael Jordan
129.) I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.
Mother Teresa
130.) Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence.
Vince Lombardi
By Michael O’Halloran
Michael O’Halloran founded Greeting Card Poet in 2014 and has worked as its publisher and editor ever since. He has co-authored four books on kids’ trivia and four on coaching. Previously, Michael was the president of Magnetic Poetry. He has invented and brought to market over 75 new gift and toy products, most of which involve wordplay. Mike is married and a father of four daughters.
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