Top 200 Inspirational Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.”

— Jim Rohn

152. “Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe.”

— Oprah Winfrey

153. “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”

— Rumi

154. “Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.”

— Bruce Lee

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

— William Shakespeare

156. “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”

— Marcus Aurelius

157. “Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”

— Marcus Aurelius

158. “If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.”

— Bruce Lee

159. “Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them – a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.”

— Muhammad Ali

160. “The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.”

— Neil Gaiman

161. “Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.”

— William Arthur Ward

162. “May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.”

— Nelson Mandela

163. “Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.”

— Rumi

164. “You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us. And the world will live as one.”

— John Lennon

165. “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

166. “Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.”

— Vince Lombardi

167. “Heaven on Earth is a choice you must make, not a place you must find.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

168. “If you love a flower, don’t pick it up. Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.”

— Osho

169. “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

170. “Your life only gets better when you get better.”

— Brian Tracy

171. “Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

172. “All birds find shelter during rain. But the eagle avoids the rain by flying above the clouds. Problems are common, but attitude makes the difference.”

— Abdul Kalam

173. “Always do what you are afraid to do.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

174. “However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.”

— Stephen Hawking

175. “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

176. “Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.”

— Jim Rohn

177. “Patience is not the ability to wait but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting.”

— Joyce Meyer

178. “The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.”

— Paulo Coelho

179. “Happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

180. “Your life only gets better when you get better, and you can improve yourself without limit. Learn something new every day.”

— Brian Tracy

181. “Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be; if you think yourself strong, you will be.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Oprah Winfrey

183. “Tough times never last, but tough people do.”

— Robert H. Schuller

184. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

185. “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

186. “To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.”

— Osho

187. “If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes – then learn how to do it later!”

— Richard Branson

188. “A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.”

— Daisaku Ikeda

189. “Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”

— Rumi

190. “Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.”

— Bruce Lee

191. “Champions keep playing until they get it right.”

— Billie Jean King

192. “The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.”

— Swami Vivekananda

193. “What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.”

— Mother Teresa

194. “Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.”

— Bruce Lee

195. “Experience life in all possible ways – good, bad, bitter-sweet, dark, light, summer, winter. Experience all the dualities. Don’t be afraid of experience, because the more experience you have, the more mature you become.”

— Osho

196. “When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.”

— Marcus Aurelius

197. “Today I will do what others won’t so tomorrow I can do what others can’t.”

— Jerry Rice

198. “Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.”

— Jim Rohn

199. “When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everyone will respect you.”

— Lao Tzu

200. “What you focus on grows. What you concentrate on is what you see more of in your life.”

— Robin S. Sharma