Top 200 Inspirational Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”

— Mother Teresa

102. “When you know better you do better.”

— Maya Angelou

103. “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

104. “Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

105. “You’ve got to find what you love.”

— Steve Jobs

106. “We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.”

— Swami Vivekananda

107. “Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

108. “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

109. “Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never – in nothing, great or small, large or petty – never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”

— Winston Churchill

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

— Les Brown

111. “Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”

— Leo Buscaglia

112. “A heart full of love and compassion is the main source of inner strength, willpower, happiness, and mental tranquility.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

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

— Maya Angelou

114. “Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. It has the power to unite people in a way that little else does. It speaks to youth in a language they understand. Sport can create hope where once there was only despair.”

— Nelson Mandela

115. “I plead with you – never, ever give up on hope, never doubt, never tire, and never become discouraged. Be not afraid.”

— Pope John Paul II

116. “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

117. “That old law about ‘an eye for an eye’ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

118. “Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.”

— Francis of Assisi

119. “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

120. “Where focus goes, energy flows.”

— Tony Robbins

121. “Failing forward is the ability to get back up after you’ve been knocked down, learn from your mistake, and move forward in a better direction.”

— John C. Maxwell

122. “Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.”

— Napoleon Hill

123. “Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.”

— Mary Anne Radmacher

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

— John C. Maxwell

125. “We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It’s easy to say “It’s not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem.” Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes.”

— Fred Rogers

126. “Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses.”

— Kobe Bryant

127. “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”

— Winston Churchill

128. “Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, that is how great spiritual giants are produced.”

— Swami Vivekananda

129. “Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.”

— Maya Angelou

130. “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

131. “A dream is not what you see while sleeping; it is something that does not let you sleep.”

— Abdul Kalam

132. “The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Rumi

134. “The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.”

— Ronald Reagan

135. “Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.”

— Mary Tyler Moore

136. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

137. “Small daily improvements over time create stunning results.”

— Robin S. Sharma

138. “If you want to shine like the sun, first burn like the sun.”

— Abdul Kalam

139. “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

140. “How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours. Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you. If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

141. “Sometimes you have to travel a long way to find what is near.”

— Paulo Coelho

142. “When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”

— Lao Tzu

143. “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”

— Socrates

144. “If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.”

— Paulo Coelho

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Nelson Mandela

147. “You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”

— Rumi

148. “A successful person finds the right place for himself. But a successful leader finds the right place for others. ”

— John C. Maxwell

149. “Everything is created twice, first in the mind and then in reality.”

— Robin S. Sharma

150. “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