Top 200 Positive Motivational Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “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

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2. “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”

— Thomas A. Edison

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3. “When you focus on problems, you get more problems. When you focus on possibilities, you have more opportunities.”

— Zig Ziglar

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4. “It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or how the doer of deeds might have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred with sweat and dust and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, if he wins, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

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5. “All powers are within you, you can do anything and everything.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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6. “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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7. “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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8. “Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

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9. “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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10. “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

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11. “Everything can be taken from a person but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

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12. “Practice makes perfect. After a long time of practicing, our work will become natural, skillful, swift, and steady.”

— Bruce Lee

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13. “Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire.”

— Oprah Winfrey

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14. “Repetition is the mother of learning, the father of action, which makes it the architect of accomplishment.”

— Zig Ziglar

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15. “Each person comes into this world with a specific destiny – he has something to fulfill, some message has to be delivered, some work has to be completed. You are not here accidentally – you are here meaningfully. There is a purpose behind you. The whole intends to do something through you.”

— Osho

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16. “You don’t need to be better than anyone else; you just need to be better than you used to be.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

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17. “Dream, dream, dream. Dreams transform into thoughts and thoughts result in action.”

— Abdul Kalam

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18. “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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19. “Your life is a reflection of your thoughts. If you change your thinking, you change your life.”

— Brian Tracy

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20. “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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21. “The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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

— Les Brown

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23. “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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24. “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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25. “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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26. “A positive mental attitude is the right mental attitude.”

— Napoleon Hill

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27. “No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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28. “What you focus on expands, and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it.”

— Oprah Winfrey

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29. “Learn something new. Try something different. Convince yourself that you have no limits.”

— Brian Tracy

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30. “I am grateful for being alive today. It is my joy and pleasure to live another wonderful day.”

— Louise Hay

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

— Brian Tracy

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32. “The way to get started is to quit talking and start doing.”

— Walt Disney

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33. “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”

— Bruce Lee

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34. “Do one thing at a time, and while doing it put your whole soul into it to the exclusion of all else.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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35. “Stay focused, ignore the distractions, and you will accomplish your goals much faster.”

— Joel Osteen

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36. “Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, that is how great spiritual giants are produced.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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37. “Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

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38. “All great achievements require time.”

— Maya Angelou

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39. “A winner is a dreamer who never gives up.”

— Nelson Mandela

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40. “Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.”

— Judy Garland

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41. “Learning never exhausts the mind.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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42. “Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.”

— Mary Tyler Moore

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43. “I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.”

— Elon Musk

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

— Brian Tracy

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45. “Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”

— J.K. Rowling

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46. “Happiness and confidence are the prettiest things you can wear.”

— Taylor Swift

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47. “Do what is easy and your life will be hard. Do what is hard and your life will become easy.”

— Les Brown

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48. “Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life. ”

— Swami Vivekananda

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49. “They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”

— Tom Bodett

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50. “Be like water, my friend.”

— Bruce Lee

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