Top 200 Motivational Quotes About Life (2024 Update)

1. “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.”

— Reinhold Niebuhr

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

— Oprah Winfrey

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

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Dalai Lama XIV

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5. “You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.”

— John C. Maxwell

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6. “Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.”

— Brian Tracy

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7. “You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be.”

— Napoleon Hill

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8. “Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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9. “The life of your dreams, everything you would love to be, do or have, has always been closer to you than you knew, because the power to everything you want is inside you.”

— Rhonda Byrne

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10. “You will never ever be successful, until you turn your pain into greatness, until you allow your pain to push you from where you are to push you to where you need to be. Stop running from your pain and embrace your pain. Your pain is going to be a part of your prize, a part of your product. I challenge you to push yourself.”

— Eric Thomas

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11. “Live with passion!”

— Tony Robbins

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12. “You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”

— Maya Angelou

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13. “You’ve got to follow your passion. You’ve got to figure out what it is you love – who you really are. And have the courage to do that. I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams.”

— Oprah Winfrey

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14. “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”

— Mary Oliver

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15. “Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists. It is real. It is possible. It’s yours.”

— Ayn Rand

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16. “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

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17. “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

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18. “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

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19. “Live your best life!”

— Oprah Winfrey

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20. “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

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21. “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

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22. “There are no mistakes in life, only lessons. There is no such thing as a negative experience, only opportunities to grow, learn and advance along the road of self-mastery. From struggle comes strength. Even pain can be a wonderful teacher.”

— Robin S. Sharma

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

— Oprah Winfrey

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24. “Go after what you want as if your life depended on it. Because it does!”

— Les Brown

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25. “If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”

— Bruce Lee

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26. “Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.”

— Bruce Lee

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27. “Wherever you go, go with all your heart.”

— Confucius

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28. “Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.”

— Jim Rohn

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29. “No, I don’t ever give up. I’d have to be dead or completely incapacitated.”

— Elon Musk

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

— Richard Branson

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31. “Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy with what you have.”

— Zig Ziglar

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32. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”

— Robert Frost

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33. “Tell the world what you intend to do, but first show it.”

— Napoleon Hill

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34. “Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.”

— Henry Ford

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35. “Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what matters to me.”

— Steve Jobs

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36. “Look, if you had one shot, or one opportunity. To seize everything you ever wanted in one moment. Would you capture it or just let it slip?”

— Eminem

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37. “Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.”

— Napoleon Hill

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38. “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

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39. “When your desires are strong enough, you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.”

— Napoleon Hill

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40. “The real risk is doing nothing.”

— Denis Waitley

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41. “I used my pain to push me to greatness.”

— Eric Thomas

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42. “The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”

— Carl R. Rogers

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43. “To be interesting, be interested.”

— Dale Carnegie

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44. “Success is something you attract by the person you become.”

— Jim Rohn

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45. “You can't avoid pain, but you can choose to overcome it.”

— Paulo Coelho

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46. “Do not act as if you had a thousand years to live.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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47. “As long as you live, keep learning how to live.”

— Seneca

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48. “There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

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49. “The purpose of life is the life of purpose.”

— Robin S. Sharma

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50. “If you have infinite patience and perseverance, success is bound to come. No mistake in that.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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