Top 200 Powerful Motivational Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful.”

— Eric Thomas

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2. “I hated every minute of training, but I said, “Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.””

— Muhammad Ali

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3. “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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4. “The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.”

— Oprah Winfrey

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5. “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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6. “Without a struggle, there can be no progress.”

— Frederick Douglass

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7. “To be successful, you must be willing to do the things today others won’t do in order to have the things tomorrow others won’t have.”

— Les Brown

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8. “My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.”

— Maya Angelou

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9. “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

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10. “Discipline is the foundation upon which all success is built. Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure.”

— Jim Rohn

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11. “A dream written down with a date becomes a goal. A goal broken down into steps becomes a plan. A plan backed by action makes your dreams come true.”

— Greg Reid

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

— Zig Ziglar

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14. “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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15. “Do it, and then you will feel motivated to do it.”

— Zig Ziglar

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16. “Expect change. Analyze the landscape. Take the opportunities. Stop being the chess piece; become the player. It’s your move.”

— Tony Robbins

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17. “Go on bravely. Do not expect success in a day or a year. Always hold on to the highest. Be steady. Avoid jealousy and selfishness. Be obedient and eternally faithful to the cause of truth, humanity, and your country, and you will move the world.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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18. “You are free. You are powerful. You are good. You are love. You have value. You have purpose. All is well.”

— Esther Hicks

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

— Les Brown

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20. “If you want a thing bad enough to go out and fight for it, to work day and night for it, to give up your time, your peace and your sleep for it If all that you dream and scheme is about it and life seems useless and worthless without it; If you gladly sweat for, fret for and plan for it and lose all your terror of the opposition for it; If you simply go after that thing that you want with all of your capacity, strength and sagacity, faith, hope and confidence and stern for tenacity; If neither cold or poverty, famish or gout, sickness or pain of body and brain can keep you away from the thing that you want; If dogged and grim you be size and beget it, with the help of GOD you will get it.”

— Berton Braley

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

— Oprah Winfrey

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22. “Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there. Make motivation a habit and you will get there more quickly and have more fun on the trip.”

— Zig Ziglar

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

— Les Brown

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24. “You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don’t. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.”

— Rumi

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25. “We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.”

— Robin S. Sharma

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26. “Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”

— Will Rogers

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27. “Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.”

— Steve Jobs

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28. “Impossible is nothing.”

— Muhammad Ali

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29. “I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.”

— 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. “Let’s go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday.”

— Steve Jobs

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32. “Follow your heart and your intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

— Steve Jobs

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33. “There's no talent here, this is hard work. This is an obsession. Talent does not exist, we are all equal as human beings. You could be anyone if you put in the time. You will reach the top, and that is that. I am not talented, I am obsessed.”

— Conor McGregor

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34. “Be the CEO of your life.”

— Robin S. Sharma

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35. “All great achievements require time.”

— Maya Angelou

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36. “A dream is not what you see while sleeping; it is something that does not let you sleep.”

— Abdul Kalam

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37. “When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this – you haven’t.”

— Thomas A. Edison

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38. “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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39. “Sometimes life’s going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did.”

— Steve Jobs

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40. “Whatever you focus on is what you get.”

— Tony Robbins

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41. “Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.”

— Rumi

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42. “Hustle is the most important word – EVER.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

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43. “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

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44. “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.”

— Maya Angelou

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45. “You are what you believe yourself to be.”

— Paulo Coelho

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46. “If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, then they can sure make something out of you.”

— Muhammad Ali

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47. “I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.”

— Steve Jobs

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48. “You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.”

— Lou Holtz

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49. “Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember: the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.”

— Zig Ziglar

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50. “I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.”

— Michael Jordan

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