Top 200 Inspirational Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”

— Warren Buffett

52. “When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.”

— Paulo Coelho

53. “Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.”

— Jim Rohn

54. “I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.”

— William Ernest Henley

55. “The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”

— Confucius

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

— Michael Jordan

57. “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined.”

— Henry David Thoreau

58. “If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.”

— Peace Pilgrim

59. “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.”

— Stephen R. Covey

60. “I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.”

— Bruce Lee

61. “Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.”

— Carol Burnett

62. “It’s not over until you win.”

— Les Brown

63. “Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.”

— Jim Rohn

64. “In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. ”

— Bill Cosby

65. “It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.”

— Tony Robbins

66. “The most dangerous thing you can do in life is play it safe.”

— Casey Neistat

67. “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”

— Samuel Beckett

68. “Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.”

— John F. Kennedy

69. “Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up.”

— Dean Karnazes

70. “What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.”

— Tim Ferriss

71. “What you seek is seeking you.”

— Rumi

72. “Not all who wander are lost.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

73. “Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.”

— Paulo Coelho

74. “The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.”

— Oprah Winfrey

75. “The time is always right to do the right thing.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

76. “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”

— Paulo Coelho

77. “The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.”

— Dolly Parton

78. “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

79. “To bring anything into your life, imagine that it’s already there.”

— Richard Bach

80. “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

81. “You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and falling over.”

— Richard Branson

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

— Zig Ziglar

83. “Embrace the glorious mess that you are.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

84. “Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

85. “If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”

— Jim Rohn

86. “I don't measure a man’s success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.”

— George S. Patton Jr.

87. “The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.”

— Jim Rohn

88. “Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.”

— Tony Robbins

89. “Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.”

— Vince Lombardi

90. “Eighty percent of success is showing up.”

— Woody Allen

91. “Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.”

— Napoleon Hill

92. “The best way out is always through.”

— Robert Frost

93. “To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.”

— Steve Prefontaine

94. “The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.”

— Randy Pausch

95. “Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.”

— Judy Garland

96. “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

97. “I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.”

— Og Mandino

98. “Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.”

— Colin Powell

99. “Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

100. “Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.”

— Steve Jobs