Top 200 Powerful Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Dreams and dedication are a powerful combination.”

— William F. Longgood

152. “You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.”

— Winston Churchill

153. “Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.”

— Francis of Assisi

154. “I believe innovation is the most powerful force for change in the world.”

— Bill Gates

155. “Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

156. “You can do anything, but not everything.”

— David Allen

157. “When I dare to be powerful – to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”

— Audre Lorde

158. “I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

159. “Concentration is the root of all the higher abilities in man.”

— Bruce Lee

160. “Ultimately the greatest help is self-help.”

— Bruce Lee

161. “For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”

— Nelson Mandela

162. “Embrace the glorious mess that you are.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

163. “And when great souls die, after a period peace blooms, slowly and always irregularly. Spaces fill with a kind of soothing electric vibration. Our senses, restored, never to be the same, whisper to us. They existed. They existed. We can be. Be and be better. For they existed.”

— Maya Angelou

164. “Many people are passionate, but because of their limiting beliefs about who they are and what they can do, they never take actions that could make their dream a reality.”

— Tony Robbins

165. “There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.”

— Toni Morrison

166. “To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.”

— Nelson Mandela

167. “If you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to do something about it.”

— John Lewis

168. “Quantum physics tells us that nothing that is observed is unaffected by the observer. That statement, from science, holds an enormous and powerful insight. It means that everyone sees a different truth because everyone is creating what they see.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

169. “Don’t live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.”

— Wendy Wasserstein

170. “I am whole, perfect, strong, powerful, loving, harmonious, and happy.”

— Charles F. Haanel

171. “The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

172. “Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

173. “Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.”

— Tony Robbins

174. “We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.”

— Abraham Lincoln

175. “The way to overcome negative thoughts and destructive emotions is to develop opposing, positive emotions that are stronger and more powerful.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

176. “We have a choice. We can shape our future, or let events shape it for us. And if we want to succeed, we can’t fall back on the stale debates and old divides that won’t move us forward.”

— Barack Obama

177. “Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.”

— Tony Robbins

178. “There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

179. “Imagination is the most marvelous, miraculous, inconceivably powerful force the world has ever known.”

— Napoleon Hill

180. “Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

181. “Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light.”

— Bruce Lee

182. “Compound interest is the eighth natural wonder of the world and the most powerful thing I have ever encountered.”

— Albert Einstein

183. “To work with undaunted energy! What fear! Who is powerful enough to thwart you.”

— Swami Vivekananda

184. “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

185. “The question, O me! so sad, recurring – What good amid these, O me, O life? That you are here – that life exists and identity, that the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.”

— Walt Whitman

186. “To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.”

— Thomas Aquinas

187. “Just because Fate doesn’t deal you the right cards, it doesn’t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.”

— Les Brown

188. “Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible – it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.”

— Barbara De Angelis

189. “It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

190. “The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.”

— Winston Churchill

191. “Not finance. Not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and so rare.”

— Patrick Lencioni

192. “A woman’s heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.”

— Max Lucado

193. “Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

194. “Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.”

— Tony Robbins

195. “I suppose the one quality in an astronaut more powerful than any other is curiosity. They have to get some place nobody’s ever been.”

— John Glenn

196. “None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

197. “Forget about your competitors, just focus on your customers.”

— Jack Ma

198. “Be the CEO of your life.”

— Robin S. Sharma

199. “Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.”

— William Wordsworth

200. “No power on earth can stop an idea whose time has come.”

— Victor Hugo