Top 200 Positive Motivational Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.”

— John C. Maxwell

52. “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

53. “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”

— Helen Keller

54. “You can have results or excuses. Not both.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

55. “Make today worth remembering.”

— Zig Ziglar

56. “You will never ‘find’ time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.”

— Charles Buxton

57. “Dream Big. Start small. Act now.”

— Robin S. Sharma

58. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.”

— John C. Maxwell

59. “Greatness begins beyond your comfort zone.”

— Robin S. Sharma

60. “Leadership is about empathy. It is about having the ability to relate to and connect with people for the purpose of inspiring and empowering their lives.”

— Oprah Winfrey

61. “Without your involvement you can’t succeed. With your involvement you can’t fail.”

— Abdul Kalam

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

— Jim Rohn

63. “I didn’t come here to be average.”

— Michael Jordan

64. “When was the last time you did something for the first time?”

— John C. Maxwell

65. “If a problem can be solved it will be. If it can not be solved there is no use worrying about it.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

66. “No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.”

— Regina Brett

67. “Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life.”

— Abdul Kalam

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

— Oprah Winfrey

69. “You want to have a future where you’re expecting things to be better, not one where you’re expecting things to be worse.”

— Elon Musk

70. “Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.”

— Howard Schultz

71. “Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy.”

— Robert Tew

72. “Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.”

— Lao Tzu

73. “Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.”

— Khalil Gibran

74. “What you focus on grows.”

— Esther Hicks

75. “Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.”

— Mary Anne Radmacher

76. “The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers.”

— Brian Tracy

77. “Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.”

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Barack Obama

79. “Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.”

— Stephen R. Covey

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

— Zig Ziglar

81. “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

82. “Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.”

— Michael Jordan

83. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

84. “Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary. We must not permit anything to stand between us and the book that could change our lives.”

— Jim Rohn

85. “Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.”

— Walt Whitman

86. “Trade your expectations for appreciation and the world changes instantly.”

— Tony Robbins

87. “Positive thinking can be contagious. Being surrounded by winners helps you develop into a winner.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

88. “Women and girls can do whatever they want. There is no limit to what we as women can accomplish.”

— Michelle Obama

89. “If you can change your mind, you can change your life.”

— William James

90. “Fall in love with the process, and the results will come.”

— Eric Thomas

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

— Jim Rohn

92. “Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”

— William Shakespeare

93. “Never settle for anything less than your best.”

— Brian Tracy

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

— Confucius

95. “If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.”

— Paulo Coelho

96. “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

97. “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”

— Mark Twain

98. “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”

— Dr. Seuss

99. “The man who thinks he can and the man who thinks he can’t are both right. Which one are you?”

— Henry Ford

100. “Daily ripples of excellence over time become a tsunami of success.”

— Robin S. Sharma