Top 200 Positive Inspirational Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “It always seems impossible until it's done.”

— Nelson Mandela

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2. “If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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3. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.”

— Steve Jobs

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4. “Seven Steps to Success 1) Make a commitment to grow daily. 2) Value the process more than events. 3) Don't wait for inspiration. 4) Be willing to sacrifice pleasure for opportunity. 5) Dream big. 6) Plan your priorities. 7) Give up to go up.”

— John C. Maxwell

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5. “With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

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6. “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.”

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Nelson Mandela

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8. “You were born to win, but to be a winner you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.”

— Zig Ziglar

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9. “Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”

— Mother Teresa

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10. “No matter how bad it is, or how bad it gets, I’m going to make it.”

— Les Brown

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11. “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

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12. “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

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13. “If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.”

— Maya Angelou

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14. “Push yourself to do more and to experience more. Harness your energy to start expanding your dreams. Yes, expand your dreams. Don't accept a life of mediocrity when you hold such infinite potential within the fortress of your mind. Dare to tap into your greatness.”

— Robin S. Sharma

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15. “Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.”

— Napoleon Hill

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16. “Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

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17. “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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18. “Yes We Can!”

— Barack Obama

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19. “In a growth mindset, challenges are exciting rather than threatening. So rather than thinking, oh, I’m going to reveal my weaknesses, you say, wow, here’s a chance to grow.”

— Carol S. Dweck

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20. “Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”

— Barack Obama

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21. “Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.”

— Mother Teresa

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22. “If you have a strong belief in yourself, in what you are doing and what you want to do, no adversity is too difficult to overcome.”

— Napoleon Hill

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23. “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

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24. “How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?”

— Seth Godin

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25. “Make your life a masterpiece; imagine no limitations on what you can be, have or do.”

— Brian Tracy

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26. “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

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27. “All is well. Everything is working out for my highest good. Out of this situation only good will come. I am safe!”

— Louise Hay

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28. “I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.”

— Audrey Hepburn

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29. “We can change the world and make it a better place. It is in your hands to make a difference.”

— Nelson Mandela

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30. “No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.”

— Taylor Swift

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

— Les Brown

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32. “When your every thought and your every action is directed to your ultimate life goals, you become unstoppable and assured of great success and happiness.”

— Robin S. Sharma

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33. “Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.”

— Mary Kay Ash

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34. “Don’t just accept whatever comes your way in life. You were born to win; you were born for greatness; you were created to be a champion in life.”

— Joel Osteen

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35. “Gratitude drives happiness. Happiness boosts Productivity. Productivity reveals mastery. And mastery inspires the world.”

— Robin S. Sharma

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36. “Be true to yourself. Make each day your masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day. Pray for guidance and give thanks for your blessings every day.”

— John Wooden

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37. “Goals. There's no telling what you can do when you get inspired by them. There's no telling what you can do when you believe in them. There's no telling what will happen when you act upon them.”

— Jim Rohn

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38. “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

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39. “I’m a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.”

— Mother Teresa

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40. “Bringing people together is what i call ‘ubuntu,’ which means ‘I am because we are.’ Far too often people think of themselves as just individuals, separated from one another, whereas you are connected and what you do affects the whole world. When you do well, it spreads out; it is for the whole of humanity.”

— Desmond Tutu

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41. “You weren’t an accident. You weren’t mass produced. You aren’t an assembly-line product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned on the earth by the Master Craftsman.”

— Max Lucado

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

— Francis of Assisi

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43. “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

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44. “Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. To these I commit my day.”

— Max Lucado

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45. “Greatness is not found in possessions, power, position, or prestige. It is discovered in goodness, humility, service, and character.”

— William Arthur Ward

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46. “I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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47. “Don’t you quit. You keep walking, you keep trying, there is help and happiness ahead. Some blessings come soon. Some come late. Some don’t come until heaven. But for those who embrace the gospel of Jesus Christ, they come. It will be alright in the end. Trust God and believe in Good Things to Come.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

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48. “Everything I need to know is revealed to me. Everything I need comes to me. All is well in my life.”

— Louise Hay

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49. “If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be.”

— Joseph Campbell

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50. “Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work.”

— William Arthur Ward

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