Top 200 Inspirational Life Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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2. “Fall down seven times, get up eight.”

— Japanese Proverb

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3. “I Have a Dream”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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4. “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.”

— Marianne Williamson

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5. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

— Nelson Mandela

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6. “You were born to win, but to be a winner you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.”

— Zig Ziglar

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7. “The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.”

— Oprah Winfrey

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8. “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”

— Michael Jordan

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9. “Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do.”

— Oprah Winfrey

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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11. “You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be.”

— Napoleon Hill

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12. “You’ve got to follow your passion. You’ve got to figure out what it is you love – who you really are. And have the courage to do that. I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams.”

— Oprah Winfrey

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13. “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

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14. “Success is determined not by whether or not you face obstacles, but by your reaction to them. And if you look at these obstacles as a containing fence, they become your excuse for failure. If you look at them as a hurdle, each one strengthens you for the next.”

— Ben Carson

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15. “Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.”

— Jim Rohn

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16. “If you see it in your mind, you will hold it in your hand.”

— Bob Proctor

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17. “Some of you love sleep more than you love success. If you want to be successful, you gotta be willing to give up sleep. If you go to sleep, you might miss the opportunity to be successful.”

— Eric Thomas

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Persistence Quotes, Action Quotes, Hustle Quotes

18. “Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.”

— Abdul Kalam

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19. “All is well. Everything is working out for my highest good. Out of this situation only good will come. I am safe!”

— Louise Hay

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20. “But still, like air, I’ll rise.”

— Maya Angelou

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21. “You can be anything you want to be, if only you believe with sufficient conviction and act in accordance with your faith; for whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”

— Napoleon Hill

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22. “Keep exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep asking why. Don’t settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the power of your ideas, your imagination, your hard work to change the world.”

— Barack Obama

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23. “If you can’t figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. For your passion will lead you right into your purpose.”

— T.D. Jakes

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24. “Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.”

— Oprah Winfrey

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Attitude Quotes, Short Inspiring Quotes

25. “I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.”

— Edward Everett Hale

Also featured in: Changing the World Quotes, Self-Empowerment Quotes, Choices Quotes, Quotes About Trying

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

— Les Brown

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27. “There are no limits on what you can achieve with your life, except the limits you accept in your mind.”

— Brian Tracy

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28. “I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.”

— Maya Angelou

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29. “The big secret in life is that there is no secret. Whatever is your goal, you can get there if you are willing to work.”

— Oprah Winfrey

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30. “There are no mistakes in life, only lessons. There is no such thing as a negative experience, only opportunities to grow, learn and advance along the road of self-mastery. From struggle comes strength. Even pain can be a wonderful teacher.”

— Robin S. Sharma

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31. “The more you see yourself as what you'd like to become, and act as if what you want is already there, the more you'll activate those dormant forces that will collaborate to transform your dream into your reality.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

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32. “What you focus on expands, and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it.”

— Oprah Winfrey

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33. “No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.”

— Maya Angelou

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34. “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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35. “A goal is a dream with a deadline.”

— Napoleon Hill

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36. “Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow.”

— Mary Anne Radmacher

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37. “Don’t think about what can happen in a month. Don’t think about what can happen in a year. Just focus on the 24 hours in front of you and do what you can to get closer to where you want to be.”

— Eric Thomas

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Perseverance Quotes, Goal Quotes, Attitude Quotes

38. “All great achievements require time.”

— Maya Angelou

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39. “Do not wait. The time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.”

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Nelson Mandela

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41. “The future depends on what you do today.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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42. “When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this – you haven’t.”

— Thomas A. Edison

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43. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”

— Helen Keller

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44. “Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”

— J.K. Rowling

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45. “You cannot change your future, but you can change your habits, and surely your habits will change your future.”

— Abdul Kalam

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46. “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.”

— Allen Saunders

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47. “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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48. “What we do now echoes in eternity.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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49. “Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.”

— Elbert Hubbard

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50. “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

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