Top 200 Self-Empowerment Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Seven Steps to Success 1) Make a commitment to grow daily. 2) Value the process more than events. 3) Don't wait for inspiration. 4) Be willing to sacrifice pleasure for opportunity. 5) Dream big. 6) Plan your priorities. 7) Give up to go up.”

— John C. Maxwell

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Success Quotes, Goal Quotes, Discipline Quotes

2. “With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Happiness Quotes, Quotes About Strength, Change Quotes

3. “Visualize this thing you want. See it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blueprint and begin.”

— Robert Collier

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Focus Quotes, Manifestation Quotes, Mindset Quotes

4. “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

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Courage Quotes, Perseverance Quotes, Quotes About Strength, Confidence Quotes

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

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Positive Quotes, Success Quotes, Business Quotes

6. “The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.”

— Oprah Winfrey

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Happiness Quotes, Attitude Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Success

7. “Push yourself to do more and to experience more. Harness your energy to start expanding your dreams. Yes, expand your dreams. Don't accept a life of mediocrity when you hold such infinite potential within the fortress of your mind. Dare to tap into your greatness.”

— Robin S. Sharma

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Positive Quotes, Hard Work Quotes, Confidence Quotes

8. “The life of your dreams, everything you would love to be, do or have, has always been closer to you than you knew, because the power to everything you want is inside you.”

— Rhonda Byrne

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Goal Quotes, Feel Good Quotes, Happy Quotes, Positive Motivational Quotes

9. “You’ve got to follow your passion. You’ve got to figure out what it is you love – who you really are. And have the courage to do that. I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams.”

— Oprah Winfrey

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Positive Quotes, Courage Quotes, Goal Quotes

10. “Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our minds.”

— Bob Marley

Also featured in: Personal Responsibility Quotes, Empowerment Quotes, Mind Quotes

11. “Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Also featured in: Startup Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Persistence Quotes, Interesting Quotes

12. “Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.”

— Gail Devers

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Believe in Yourself Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Success, Meaning Quotes, Encouragement Quotes

13. “Don’t quit. You’re already in pain. You’re already hurt. Get a reward from it!”

— Eric Thomas

Also featured in: Perseverance Quotes, Hard Work Quotes, Short Motivational Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Success

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

— Oprah Winfrey

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Transformation Quotes, Impact Quotes, Life Philosophy Quotes

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

— Les Brown

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Self-Esteem Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Success

16. “How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours. Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you. If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Life Quotes, Meaningful Quotes

17. “There are no mistakes in life, only lessons. There is no such thing as a negative experience, only opportunities to grow, learn and advance along the road of self-mastery. From struggle comes strength. Even pain can be a wonderful teacher.”

— Robin S. Sharma

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Deep Quotes About Life, Positivity Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes

18. “You playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing enlightening about shrinking so others won’t feel insecure around you. As you let your own light shine, you indirectly give others permission to do the same.”

— Marianne Williamson

Also featured in: Self-Esteem Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Women, Motivational Monday Quotes, Changing the World Quotes, Mindset Quotes

19. “Everything you do is based on the choices you make. It’s not your parents, your past relationships, your job, the economy, the weather, an argument or your age that is to blame. You and only you are responsible for every decision and choice you make. Period.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Empowering Quotes, Motivational Quotes About Life, Accountability Quotes

20. “Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.”

— Golda Meir

Also featured in: Personality Quotes, Quotes About Believing, Being Yourself Quotes, Being Happy Quotes

21. “If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control – myself.”

— Stephen R. Covey

Also featured in: Reflection Quotes, Personal Responsibility Quotes, Personal Development Quotes

22. “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

Also featured in: Positivity Quotes, Optimistic Quotes, Powerful Motivational Quotes, Self-Realization Quotes

23. “A goal is a dream with a deadline.”

— Napoleon Hill

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Goal Quotes, Inspirational Life Quotes, Goal Setting Quotes

24. “I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.”

— Muhammad Ali

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Confidence Quotes, Self-Esteem Quotes, Empowering Quotes

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

— Elon Musk

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Inspirational Business Quotes, Powerful Motivational Quotes, Positive Motivation Quotes

26. “Be the CEO of your life.”

— Robin S. Sharma

Also featured in: Goal Quotes, Attitude Quotes, Action Quotes, Empowering Quotes

27. “Do not wait. The time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.”

— Napoleon Hill

Also featured in: Startup Quotes, Success Quotes, Goal Quotes, Hard Work Quotes

28. “Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life. ”

— Swami Vivekananda

Also featured in: Empowering Quotes, Positive Motivational Quotes, Wisdom Quotes

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Famous Quotes, Positive Motivational Quotes, Inspirational Life Quotes

30. “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

Also featured in: Goal Quotes, Self-Esteem Quotes, Positive Life Quotes, Short Positive Quotes

31. “You can not believe in God until you believe in yourself.”

— Swami Vivekananda

Also featured in: Believe in Yourself Quotes, Self-Worth Quotes, Empowerment Quotes

32. “To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.”

— Bruce Lee

Also featured in: Startup Quotes, Persistence Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Success, Short Inspirational Quotes

33. “He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.”

— Muhammad Ali

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Courage Quotes, Action Quotes, Powerful Motivational Quotes

34. “You’ve seen my descent, now watch my rising.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Transformation Quotes, Inspirational Life Quotes, Poetry Quotes, Positive Thinking Quotes

35. “What’s the ONE Thing you can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?”

— Gary W. Keller

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Action Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Success, Taking Action Quotes

36. “How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Motivational Monday Quotes, Life Lessons Quotes, Deep Quotes

37. “When your desires are strong enough, you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.”

— Napoleon Hill

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Prosperity Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Success, Motivational Quotes About Life

38. “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”

— Maya Angelou

Also featured in: Creativity Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Women, Short Inspiring Quotes, Short Inspirational Quotes

39. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.”

— Ayn Rand

Also featured in: Quotes About Strength, Goal Quotes, Confidence Quotes, Attitude Quotes, Empowering Quotes

40. “There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.”

— Nelson Mandela

Also featured in: Self-Esteem Quotes, Empowering Quotes, Opportunity Quotes, Life Philosophy Quotes

41. “If you haven't confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started. ”

— Marcus Garvey

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Confidence Quotes, Self-Esteem Quotes, Impact Quotes, Empowering Quotes

42. “When you are not pursuing your goal, you are literally committing spiritual suicide.”

— Les Brown

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Focus Quotes, Goal Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes

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

— Jim Rohn

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Discipline Quotes, Prosperity Quotes, Motivational Work Quotes

44. “Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.”

— W. Clement Stone

Also featured in: Goal Quotes, Confidence Quotes, Short Motivational Quotes, Motivational Monday Quotes, Powerful Motivational Quotes

45. “Daring greatly means the courage to be vulnerable. It means to show up and be seen. To ask for what you need. To talk about how you’re feeling. To have the hard conversations.”

— Brené Brown

Also featured in: Courage Quotes, Relationship Quotes, Psychology Quotes, Mental Health Quotes

46. “The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.”

— Swami Vivekananda

Also featured in: Confidence Quotes, Believe in Yourself Quotes, Short Inspiring Quotes, Short Inspirational Quotes

47. “The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.”

— John C. Maxwell

Also featured in: Attitude Quotes, Motivational Monday Quotes, Powerful Motivational Quotes

48. “If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don’t want to be. ”

— Dale Carnegie

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Change Quotes, Short Quotes About Life, Transformation Quotes

49. “Make time, not excuses.”

— Grant Cardone

Also featured in: Business Quotes, Time Quotes, Action Quotes, Powerful Motivational Quotes, Hustle Quotes

50. “If you want something, go get it. Period.”

— Chris Gardner

Also featured in: Startup Quotes, Persistence Quotes, Confidence Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Work, Powerful Motivational Quotes