Top 200 Empowering Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “All powers are within you, you can do anything and everything.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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2. “Yes We Can!”

— Barack Obama

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3. “Remember: we all get what we tolerate. So stop tolerating excuses within yourself, limiting beliefs of the past, or half-assed or fearful states.”

— Tony Robbins

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4. “You have something special, you have GREATNESS within you!”

— Les Brown

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5. “Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.”

— Les Brown

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6. “You have something special. You have greatness in you. You have the ability to do more than you can ever begin to imagine.”

— Les Brown

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7. “I am strong, I am invincible, I am woman.”

— Helen Reddy

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8. “Women and girls can do whatever they want. There is no limit to what we as women can accomplish.”

— Michelle Obama

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9. “We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.”

— Marianne Williamson

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10. “It always seems impossible until it's done.”

— Nelson Mandela

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11. “Whether you think you can or you can’t, you’re right.”

— Henry Ford

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12. “If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.”

— Jim Rohn

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13. “Stay focused, ignore the distractions, and you will accomplish your goals much faster.”

— Joel Osteen

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14. “I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.”

— Muhammad Ali

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15. “Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.”

— John C. Maxwell

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16. “It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”

— Paulo Coelho

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17. “There are no secrets to success: don’t waste time looking for them. Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty to those for whom you work, and persistence.”

— Colin Powell

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18. “It’s not what you are that holds you back, it’s what you think you are not.”

— Denis Waitley

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19. “Be the CEO of your life.”

— Robin S. Sharma

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20. “Follow your heart and your intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

— Steve Jobs

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21. “A winner is a dreamer who never gives up.”

— Nelson Mandela

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22. “Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”

— Dale Carnegie

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23. “Do what is easy and your life will be hard. Do what is hard and your life will become easy.”

— Les Brown

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24. “Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.”

— Napoleon Hill

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25. “You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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26. “Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.”

— Rumi

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27. “Confidence and hard work are the best medicines to kill the disease called failure. They will make you a successful person.”

— Abdul Kalam

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28. “Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life. ”

— Swami Vivekananda

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29. “It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”

— William Shakespeare

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30. “The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.”

— Bob Marley

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31. “Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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32. “Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, and others make it happen.”

— Michael Jordan

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33. “Learning gives creativity. Creativity leads to thinking. Thinking provides knowledge. Knowledge makes you great.”

— Abdul Kalam

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34. “Just be yourself, there is no one better.”

— Taylor Swift

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35. “Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.”

— Zig Ziglar

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36. “Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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37. “A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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38. “While there is life, there is hope.”

— Stephen Hawking

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39. “Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.”

— Zig Ziglar

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40. “When I say be creative I don’t mean that you should all go and become great painters and great poets. I simply mean let your life be a painting, let your life be a poem.”

— Osho

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Creativity Quotes, Motivational Monday Quotes

41. “Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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42. “Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.”

— Lou Holtz

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43. “To be successful, you must be willing to do the things today others won’t do in order to have the things tomorrow others won’t have.”

— Les Brown

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44. “Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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45. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.”

— Ayn Rand

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46. “There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.”

— Nelson Mandela

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47. “If you haven't confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started. ”

— Marcus Garvey

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48. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.”

— John C. Maxwell

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49. “The path to success is to take massive, determined action.”

— Tony Robbins

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50. “Set a goal to become a millionaire for what it makes of you to achieve it. Do it for the skills you have to learn and the person you have to become.”

— Jim Rohn

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