Top 78 Powerful Quotes

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Perhaps you are looking for inspiration. Don’t worry, we got you. Check out the top 78 powerful quotes to inspire you.

#78 – 70. Powerful Quotes

78. “Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.” – Khalil Gibran

77. “A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.” – Richard Nixon

76. “I pay no attention whatever to anybody’s praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.” – Mozart

75. “No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.” –  Isaac Newton

74. “Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.” —William Faulkner

73. “You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” – Marcus Aurelius

72. “I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.” — Corazon Aquino”

71. “Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

70. “Big dreams create the magic that stir men’s souls to greatness.” —Bill McCartney

#69 – 60. Powerful Quotes

69. “Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” – Mahatma Gandhi

68. “There is nothing impossible to him who will try.” –  Alexander the Great

67. “No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.” —William Hazlitt

66. “Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.” — Stephen Covey

65. “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” — George Bernhard Shaw

64. “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” — Confucius

63. “When you have had a taste of excellence, you cannot go back to mediocrity.” —Maximillian Degenerez

62. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela

61. “It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” – Charles Darwin

60. “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.” — Reinhold Niebuhr

#59 – 50. Powerful Quotes

59. “The only way that we can live is if we grow. The only way we can grow is if we change. The only way we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we are exposed is if we throw ourselves into the open.” — C. Joybell

58. “Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.” –  Sun Tzu

57. “I came, I saw, I conquered.” – Julius Caesar

56. “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” – Socrates

55. “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.” — Bill Keane

54. “I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.” – Anne Frank

53. “Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.” – William Shakespeare

52. “Whether you think you can, or think you can’t, you’re probably right.” – Henry Ford

51. “If we cannot see the possibility of greatness, how can we dream it?” —Lee Strasberg

50. “The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it’s a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free.” —Charles R. Swindoll

#49 – 40. Powerful Quotes

49. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” – Martin Luther King

48. “Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” — Joshua J. Marine”

47. “Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.” — Henry van Dyke

46. “One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.” – Sigmund Freud

45. “I think; therefore I am.” – René Descartes

44. “Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.” – Charlie Chaplin

43. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas Edison

42. “Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.” —Wilma Rudolph

41. “Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.” – Nikola Tesla

40. “Love is a verb. Love — the feeling — is a fruit of love, the verb.” — Stephen Covey

#39 – 30. Powerful Quotes

39. “One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.” –  Malala Yousafzai

38. “When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.” — Helen Keller

37. “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” — Albert Einstein

36. “It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.” – Leonardo da Vinci

35. “He who fears he will suffer, already suffers because he fears.” — Michel De Montaigne

34. “To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.” —Francois de La Rochefoucauld

33. “I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.” – Bruce Lee

32. “Desire, burning desire, is basic to achieving anything beyond the ordinary.” —Joseph B. Wirthlin

31. “Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.” —Theodore Roosevelt

30. “When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt.” – Henry J. Kaiser

#29 – 20. Powerful Quotes

29. “Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.” —Mary Kay Ash

28. “You were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.” —Zig Ziglar

27. “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.” — Mary Engelbreit

26. “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” – Aristotle

25. “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou

24. “Mediocrity will never do. You are capable of something better.” —Gordon B. Hinckley

23. “Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.” —Og Mandino

22. “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” — Gandhi

21. “Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” – John F. Kennedy

20. “One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.” – Jeanne d’Arc

#19 – 10. Powerful Quotes

19. “Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.” — Viktor Frankl

18. “The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.” – Michelangelo

17. “It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.” – George Washington

16. “Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please.” – Karl Marx

15. “We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty.” — Mother Theresa

14. “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

13. “Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.” —Dorothy Height

12. “You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.” —Michael Jordan

11. “Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.” — Sigmund Freud”

10. “People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.” —Edmund Hillary

#9 – 1. Powerful Quotes

9. “I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.” – Galileo Galilei

8. “A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.” – Benjamin Franklin

7. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston S. Churchill

6. “In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” – Albert Einstein

5. “You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.” – Malcolm X

4. “The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.” – Che Guevara

3. “Be not afraid of greatness; some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.” —William Shakespeare

2. “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” —Napoleon Hill

1.”Don’t gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold.” – Bob Marley

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