Top 200 Short Motivational Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.”

— Ovid

152. “Comfort is the enemy of achievement.”

— Farrah Gray

153. “Story is king. Everything else is slave to story.”

— Casey Neistat

154. “Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.”

— John Wooden

155. “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”

— J.K. Rowling

156. “Knowledge isn’t power, applied knowledge is power.”

— Eric Thomas

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

— David Allen

158. “The dream is free. The hustle is sold separately.”

— Tyrese Gibson

159. “Be that somebody.”

— Ukonwa Ojo

160. “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.”

— Steve Jobs

161. “Legacy is greater than currency.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

162. “Remember, your mind is your greatest asset, so be careful what you put into it.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

163. “The rich invest their money and spend what is left; the poor spend their money and invest what is left.”

— Jim Rohn

164. “Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.”

— Jim Rohn

165. “Once I made a decision, I never thought about it again.”

— Michael Jordan

166. “Great communication begins with connection.”

— Oprah Winfrey

167. “Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.”

— Coco Chanel

168. “I have absolutely no limits on what I intend to create.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

169. “If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing.”

— Coco Chanel

170. “Proactive people carry their own weather with them.”

— Stephen R. Covey

171. “You can suffer the pain of change or suffer remaining the way you are.”

— Joyce Meyer

172. “What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

173. “Conquer your mind and conquer the world.”

— Guru Nanak

174. “The highest result of education is tolerance.”

— Helen Keller

175. “I will take care of me for you, if you will take care of you for me. ”

— Jim Rohn

176. “Your customers dream of a happier and better life. Don’t move products. Instead, enrich lives.”

— Steve Jobs

177. “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

178. “What keeps life fascinating is the constant creativity of the soul.”

— Deepak Chopra

179. “Consistency is better than perfection. We can all be consistent – perfection is impossible.”

— Michael Hyatt

180. “Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don’t need to escape from.”

— Seth Godin

181. “If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.”

— Peter F. Drucker

182. “Your comfort zone is your danger zone.”

— Greg Plitt

183. “It is quality rather than quantity that matters.”

— Seneca

184. “Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.”

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

185. “Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

186. “You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.”

— Margaret Thatcher

187. “Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary.”

— Gerard Way

188. “If you only ever did the things you don’t want to do, you’d have everything you’ve ever wanted.”

— Mel Robbins

189. “Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is “timing” it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

190. “Leaders don’t create followers, they create more leaders.”

— Tom Peters

191. “The secret to success is constancy of purpose.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

192. “While a good leader sustains momentum, a great leader increases it.”

— John C. Maxwell

193. “Managers help people see themselves as they are; Leaders help people to see themselves better than they are.”

— Jim Rohn

194. “Don’t let your alarm clock be the only reason you wake up.”

— Ray Lewis

195. “Be courageous. It’s one of the only places left uncrowded.”

— Anita Roddick

196. “You make your own luck.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

197. “If at first you don’t succeed, try hard work.”

— William Feather

198. “Sometimes you just do things!”

— Scott Jurek

199. “Be a thermostat not a thermometer.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

200. “Don’t waste time looking for a better pencil: learn to write better.”

— Seth Godin