Top 200 Inspiring Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours.”

— Les Brown

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

— Jim Rohn

153. “The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.”

— Stephen R. Covey

154. “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”

— Nelson Mandela

155. “If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.”

— Vincent van Gogh

156. “Most people fail, not because of lack of desire, but because of lack of commitment.”

— Vince Lombardi

157. “To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.”

— Winston Churchill

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

— Tim Ferriss

159. “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”

— Winston Churchill

160. “Either you run the day or the day runs you.”

— Jim Rohn

161. “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”

— Benjamin Franklin

162. “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

163. “No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

— Jim Rohn

165. “Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

166. “That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.”

— Steve Jobs

167. “Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together.”

— Marilyn Monroe

168. “This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.”

— Alan Watts

169. “First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.”

— Napoleon Hill

170. “We shall never surrender.”

— Winston Churchill

171. “The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”

— William Arthur Ward

172. “Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

173. “It’s not your job to like me – it’s mine.”

— Byron Katie

174. “Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.”

— Jim Rohn

175. “Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”

— Mark Twain

176. “When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

177. “You have to be unique, and different, and shine in your own way.”

— Lady Gaga

178. “Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.”

— Alan Watts

179. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

180. “Not all who wander are lost.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

182. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”

— Anaïs Nin

183. “How long should you try? Until.”

— Jim Rohn

184. “You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.”

— Pablo Neruda

185. “Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.”

— Colin Powell

186. “Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.”

— John C. Maxwell

187. “The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”

— Coco Chanel

188. “Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.”

— Rumi

189. “When someone shows you who they are believe them; the first time.”

— Maya Angelou

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

— Nelson Mandela

191. “Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.”

— Mother Teresa

192. “You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When you pour water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can drip and it can crash. Become like water, my friend.”

— Bruce Lee

193. “After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.”

— Nelson Mandela

194. “Each day provides its own gifts.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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

— Martin Luther King Jr.

196. “Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”

— Steve Jobs

197. “The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.”

— Alan Watts

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

— Woody Allen

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

— Abdul Kalam

200. “The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.”

— Theodore Roosevelt