Top 200 Encouraging Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.”

— John C. Maxwell

52. “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”

— Wayne Gretzky

53. “Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.”

— Brian Tracy

54. “Don’t dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward, toward finding the answer.”

— Denis Waitley

55. “Everything begins with an idea.”

— Earl Nightingale

56. “Be part of the solution, not part of the problem.”

— Stephen R. Covey

57. “The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.”

— C.G. Jung

58. “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

59. “The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.”

— Dale Carnegie

60. “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily.”

— Zig Ziglar

61. “If you start today to do the right thing, you are already a success even if it doesn’t show yet.”

— John C. Maxwell

62. “Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

— Steve Jobs

63. “Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.”

— Swami Vivekananda

64. “When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

65. “Make every day your masterpiece. ”

— John Wooden

66. “Trust yourself, no matter what anyone else thinks.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

67. “We’re all just walking each other home.”

— Ram Dass

68. “Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”

— Victor Hugo

69. “Beauty begins in the moment you decide to be yourself.”

— Coco Chanel

70. “Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!”

— Audrey Hepburn

71. “Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”

— Rumi

72. “Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

73. “If you can’t stop thinking about it, don’t stop working on it.”

— Michael Jordan

74. “What ever you do, do it well. Do it so well that when people see you do it they will want to come back and see you do it again and they will want to bring others and show them how well you do what you do.”

— Walt Disney

75. “If you want to change your life you have to raise your standards.”

— Tony Robbins

76. “When you do nothing you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.”

— Maya Angelou

77. “Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.”

— Seneca

78. “Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”

— Barack Obama

79. “You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.”

— Mary Pickford

80. “Peace begins with a smile.”

— Mother Teresa

81. “Energy and persistence conquer all things.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

83. “Where there is love there is life.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

84. “Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”

— A. A. Milne

85. “There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs.”

— Zig Ziglar

86. “I’ve found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances, be more active, show up more often.”

— Brian Tracy

87. “This morning did you wake up to an alarm clock or an opportunity clock?”

— Zig Ziglar

88. “Happy feelings will attract more happy circumstances.”

— Rhonda Byrne

89. “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.”

— Rumi

90. “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

91. “Set your mind on a definite goal and observe how quickly the world stands aside to let you pass.”

— Napoleon Hill

92. “It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or how the doer of deeds might have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred with sweat and dust and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, if he wins, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

93. “Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.”

— Tim Ferriss

94. “The youth of today are the leaders of tomorrow.”

— Nelson Mandela

95. “The starting point of all achievement is desire.”

— Napoleon Hill

96. “Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.”

— Earl Nightingale

97. “It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

98. “It’s not about the number of hours you practice, it’s about the number of hours your mind is present during the practice.”

— Kobe Bryant

99. “Don’t aspire to make a living, aspire to make a difference.”

— Denzel Washington

100. “Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.”

— Dalai Lama XIV