Top 200 Powerful Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.”

— Bruce Lee

52. “My life is my message.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

53. “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

54. “Believing that you’re enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic.”

— Brené Brown

55. “Start small, think big. Don’t worry about too many things at once. Take a handful of simple things to begin with, and then progress to more complex ones. Think about not just tomorrow, but the future. Put a ding in the universe.”

— Steve Jobs

56. “It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

57. “To be or not to be that is the question.”

— William Shakespeare

58. “The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.”

— Plutarch

59. “Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.”

— Winston Churchill

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

— Tony Robbins

61. “The time is always right to do the right thing.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

62. “Set your mind on a definite goal and observe how quickly the world stands aside to let you pass.”

— Napoleon Hill

63. “I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

64. “Don’t be sad! Because God sends hope in the most desperate moments. Don’t forget, the heaviest rain comes out of the darkest clouds.”

— Rumi

65. “We shall never surrender.”

— Winston Churchill

66. “One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.”

— Tony Robbins

67. “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.”

— Winston Churchill

68. “Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.”

— Rumi

69. “A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

70. “I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.”

— Richard P. Feynman

71. “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

72. “Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

73. “Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.”

— Oscar Wilde

74. “We are all born with a divine fire in us. Our efforts should be to give wings to this fire and fill the world with the glow of its goodness.”

— Abdul Kalam

75. “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.”

— Rumi

76. “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

77. “Don’t ask for respect. Earn it.”

— Robin S. Sharma

78. “Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

79. “This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.”

— Neil Armstrong

80. “God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. Always, always, always, always, always do what you are afraid to do. Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

81. “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

82. “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

83. “The future starts today, not tomorrow.”

— Pope John Paul II

84. “The true value of a leader is not measured by the work they do. A leader’s true value is measured by the work they inspire others to do.”

— Simon Sinek

85. “Where focus goes, energy flows.”

— Tony Robbins

86. “I can be changed by what happens to me, but I refuse to be reduced by it.”

— Maya Angelou

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

— Tony Robbins

88. “Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

89. “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”

— Helen Keller

90. “Helping hands are better than Praying Lips.”

— Mother Teresa

91. “Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.”

— Rumi

92. “You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.”

— Oprah Winfrey

93. “Success is never on discount. Greatness is never on sale. Greatness is never half off. It’s all or nothing. It’s all day, every day. Greatness is never on discount.”

— Eric Thomas

94. “I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

95. “We are our choices.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

96. “I don’t mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom. It is a timeless spiritual truth: release attachment to outcomes, deep inside yourself, you’ll feel good no matter what.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

97. “We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.”

— Swami Vivekananda

98. “But still, like air, I’ll rise.”

— Maya Angelou

99. “Do the right thing because it is right.”

— Immanuel Kant

100. “Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome.”

— Charlie Munger