Top 200 Powerful Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it – always.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

102. “Still I’ll rise.”

— Maya Angelou

103. “The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude.”

— William James

104. “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”

— William James

105. “Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.”

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

106. “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

107. “You are responsible for your life. You can’t keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.”

— Oprah Winfrey

108. “Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.”

— Karl Marx

109. “Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

110. “For it is in giving that we receive.”

— Francis of Assisi

111. “Everything rises and falls on leadership.”

— John C. Maxwell

112. “The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred with dust and sweat; who strives valiantly; who errs and may fall again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

113. “Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

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

— Nelson Mandela

115. “My religion is kindness.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

116. “My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

117. “Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.”

— Frederick Douglass

118. “If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?”

— Vince Lombardi

119. “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”

— Frederick Douglass

120. “Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”

— Buddha

121. “The true measure of leadership is influence – nothing more, nothing less.”

— John C. Maxwell

122. “Truth never damages a cause that is just.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

123. “As a young citizen of India, armed with technology and love for my nation, I realize, a small aim is a crime.”

— Abdul Kalam

124. “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”

— Frederick Douglass

125. “Greatness begins beyond your comfort zone.”

— Robin S. Sharma

126. “Vulnerability is not about winning, and it’s not about losing. It’s about having the courage to show up and be seen.”

— Brené Brown

127. “The rest, is silence.”

— William Shakespeare

128. “If you can visualize it, if you can dream it, there’s some way to do it.”

— Walt Disney

129. “When you go deeply into the present, gratitude arises spontaneously, even if it’s just gratitude for breathing, gratitude for the aliveness that you feel in your body. Gratitude is there when you acknowledge the aliveness of the present moment.”

— Eckhart Tolle

130. “The most meaningful way to succeed is to help others succeed.”

— Adam Grant

131. “You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I’ll rise!”

— Maya Angelou

132. “Vision is a destination – a fixed point to which we focus all effort. Strategy is a route – an adaptable path to get us where we want to go.”

— Simon Sinek

133. “Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.”

— Desmond Tutu

134. “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”

— Voltaire

135. “Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them.”

— Les Brown

136. “Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

137. “Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.”

— Langston Hughes

138. “Model the behavior you wish more people would display. Lead first.”

— Robin S. Sharma

139. “If you know the why, you can live any how.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

140. “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”

— George Orwell

141. “Leadership is the capacity to influence others through inspiration motivated by passion, generated by vision, produced by a conviction, ignited by a purpose.”

— Myles Munroe

142. “Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow – that is patience. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”

— Leo Tolstoy

143. “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

— Thomas Jefferson

144. “Your mind is a powerful thing. When you filter it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change.”

— Buddha

145. “There is nothing more powerful than a changed mind.”

— Les Brown

146. “Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. It has the power to unite people in a way that little else does. It speaks to youth in a language they understand. Sport can create hope where once there was only despair.”

— Nelson Mandela

147. “If you want to shine like the sun, first burn like the sun.”

— Abdul Kalam

148. “Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

149. “An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

150. “Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.