Top 200 Inspiring Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

102. “Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”

— Eckhart Tolle

103. “Dreams without goals, are just dreams and they ultimately fuel disappointment.”

— Denzel Washington

104. “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

105. “There is only one thing in life you can control: Your own effort.”

— Mark Cuban

106. “Success is never on discount. Greatness is never on sale. Greatness is never half off. It’s all or nothing. It’s all day, every day. Greatness is never on discount.”

— Eric Thomas

107. “It's never crowded along the extra mile.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

108. “This world is but a canvas for our imagination.”

— Henry David Thoreau

109. “We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing; those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind? We make our own destiny.”

— Swami Vivekananda

110. “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

111. “Everything you can imagine is real.”

— Pablo Picasso

112. “It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”

— Epictetus

113. “When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.”

— Napoleon Hill

114. “If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”

— Mother Teresa

115. “A good life is a collection of happy memories.”

— Denis Waitley

116. “Be happy in the moment, that’s enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.”

— Mother Teresa

117. “To Love is to reach God.”

— Rumi

118. “To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to leave the world a better place, to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived, this is to have succeeded.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

119. “It is better to aim high and miss than to aim low and hit.”

— Les Brown

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

— John C. Maxwell

121. “The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

122. “He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.”

— Muhammad Ali

123. “How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

124. “If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

125. “We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

126. “Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”

— Bertrand Russell

127. “If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”

— C. S. Lewis

128. “All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore love for love’s sake, because it is law of life, just as you breathe to live.”

— Swami Vivekananda

129. “We can have more than we've got because we can become more than we are.”

— Jim Rohn

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

— Confucius

131. “My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.”

— Maya Angelou

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

— John C. Maxwell

133. “You have two choices: You can make a living, or you can design a life.”

— Jim Rohn

134. “I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”

— C.G. Jung

135. “Your attitude determines your actions, and your actions determine your accomplishment.”

— John C. Maxwell

136. “The true value of a leader is not measured by the work they do. A leader’s true value is measured by the work they inspire others to do.”

— Simon Sinek

137. “Be phenomenal or be forgotten!”

— Eric Thomas

138. “Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.”

— Swami Vivekananda

139. “The key to SUCCESS is to START before you’re ready.”

— Marie Forleo

140. “A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.”

— John C. Maxwell

141. “It’s not over until you win.”

— Les Brown

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

— Audrey Hepburn

143. “Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.”

— Maya Angelou

144. “Life is a matter of choices, and every choice you make makes you.”

— John C. Maxwell

145. “There is no excuse for not trying.”

— Barack Obama

146. “Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.”

— Maya Angelou

147. “Whatever good things we build end up building us.”

— Jim Rohn

148. “If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.”

— Toni Morrison

149. “Doing as others told me, I was Blind. Coming when others called me, I was Lost. Then I left everyone, myself as well. Then I found Everyone, Myself as well.”

— Rumi

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

— Stephen R. Covey