Part of the human experience is finding other people who can relate to us.
Some people need to know they’re not alone, while others need a little bit of encouragement to keep moving forward.
Sometimes we just need to be reminded that we are capable of more than it seems at this moment.
No matter what it is that you’re in need of, a powerful quote can go a long way.
Soak in a little inspiration from the leaders, inventors, actors, and world-changers to motivate and encourage you today.
If you want more great quotes about writing, check out this article: 13 most powerful quotes you’ll ever read about writing.
Powerful Quotes
- I start early and I stay late, day after day, year after year, it took me 17 years and 114 days to become an overnight success.” – Lionel Messi
- “Don’t practice until you get it right. Practice until you can’t get it wrong.” – Anonymous
- “May the best day of your past be the worst day of your future.” – Anonymous
- “A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.”– William G.T. Shedd
- ”A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
- “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
- If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said, ‘Faster horses’.” – Henry Ford.
- “A tiger doesn’t lose sleep over the opinion of sheep.” – Shahir Zag
- Kindness is a language that the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” – Mark Twain
- “The idea is to die young as late as possible.” – Ashley Montagu
- “Somewhere in the world someone is training when you are not. When you race him, he will win.” – Tom Fleming
- “If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.” – Bruce Lee
- “We choose to go to the moon and do these other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.” – John Fitzgerald Kennedy
- “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” – Milton Berle
- “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
- “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
- “There ain’t no problem that some other dude didn’t have 1,000 years ago.” – Will Smith
- “Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it’s OK to lose. I don’t. You have to be merciless.” – Magnus Carlsen
- “One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it’s worth watching.” – Gerard Way
- “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” – W.B. Yeats
- “Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.”– C.S. Lewis
- “People often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn’t have it in the beginning.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'” – Muhammad Ali
- “I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.” — Corazon Aquino
- “Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.” – Antisthenes
- “Be like the flower that gives fragrance even to the hand that crushes it.” – Ali Ibn Abi Talib
- “Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” – Henry Ford
- “The greatest mistake you can ever make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.” – Ellen Hubbard
- “Being realistic is the most common path to mediocrity.” – Will Smith
- “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.” – J.K. Rowling
- “Sometimes I want to ask God why He allows poverty, famine, and injustice when He could do something about it, but I’m afraid he might just ask me the same question.” – Abdu’l-Baha
- “Opportunity is missed by people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas Alva Edison
- “It has been said that a person may have ten years of experience, or one year of experience repeated ten times.” – Yukiso Yamamoto
- “Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.” – Steve Jobs
- “Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go and do that, because what the world needs is people that have come alive.” – Howard Thurman
- “As men grow old enough to look back on their lives, any pain they have does not come from the things at which they failed, but the things they never tried.” – Antwan McLean
- Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
- “If you don’t turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else’s story.” – Terry Pratchett
- “When you realize how perfect everything is, you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.” – Buddha
- “Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” – Albert Einstein
- “What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?” – Robert Schuller
- “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot
- “Talent is luck. The important thing in life is courage.” – Woody Allen
- “Not until we are lost, do we begin to find ourselves.” – Henry David Thoreau
- “Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.” – John Wooden
- “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” – Winston Churchill
- “I don’t know what frightens me more, the power that crushes us, or our endless ability to endure it.” – Gregory David Roberts
- ”Today I do what others won’t, so that tomorrow I can accomplish what others don’t.” – Jerry Rice
- “The most important things are the hardest to say because words diminish them.” – Stephen King
- “Don’t confuse comfort with happiness.” – Dean Karnazes
- “Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.” – Maori proverb
- “I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.” – Dudley Field Malone
- “If you want to shine like the sun, first burn like the sun.” – APJ Abdul Kalam
- “Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.” – James Baldwin
- “Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart.” – Ancient Indian Proverb
- “Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” — Joshua J. Marine
- “If you want happiness for an hour — take a nap. If you want happiness for a day — go fishing. If you want happiness for a year — inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a life time — help someone else.” — Chinese proverb
- “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.” – William Faulkner
- “Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.” — Viktor Frankl
- “Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?” – Sun Tzu
- “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
- “One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson
- “Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively.” – Dalai Lama
- “Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
- “Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.” – Roy L. Goodman
- “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
- “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.” — Bil Keane
- “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
- “Every moment is a fresh beginning.” – T.S Eliot
- “Normality is a paved road: it’s comfortable to walk but no flowers grow.” – Vincent van Gogh
- “Turn your wounds into wisdom.” – Oprah Winfrey
- “People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.” — Edmund Hillary
- “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” — Gandhi
- “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
- “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” — George Bernhard Shaw
- “He who fears he will suffer, already suffers because he fears.” — Michel De Montaigne
- “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
- “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
- “Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.” — Stephen Covey
- “Love is a verb. Love — the feeling — is a fruit of love, the verb.” — Stephen Covey
- “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” — Confucius
- “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.” — Mary Engelbreit
- “In seeking happiness for others, you will find it in yourself.” — Unknown
- “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
- “Silence is the most powerful scream.” – Anonymous
- “Many people are trying hard to be invincible, and most of the time they fail invisible, while few find their spotlight. But the remarkable person is one, who can be both invincible and invisible at the same time.” – Anthony Liccione
- “Any system that values profit over human life is a very dangerous one indeed.” – Suzy Kassem
- “You don’t need luck. You are powerful, clever, and fearless.” – Shannon Hale
- “We all have the power within us, to make something of ourselves, the thing is very few believe it.” – Nikki Rowe
- “You have a powerful army, Kublai, but the best force is one you do not have to use.” – Conn Iggulden
- “The most powerful creative state to bring your desires into reality is by bringing the conscious and subconscious into unison then keeping your heart and mind in perfect sync.” – Steven Redhead
- “I ran then, following the power, ran with joy and a wild, winging certainty, right into the hearth of everything I loved.” – Sherryl Jordan
- “A pure heart is a powerful heart.” – Dr. MaryAnn Diorio
- “It’s the ability to love anyone and anything that’s the most powerful force in the universe.” – Brownell Landrum
- “Some people get what they want because they grab the power and swing it, and some people don’t.” – Dan Groat
- “You can never be a giant if you do not challenge the powers much more powerful than you!” – Mehmet Murat ildan
- “The future will be better tomorrow.” – Dan Quayle
- “…the powerful are always lied to since the weak are always driven to panic.” – Louise Glück
- “A moment in time is the strangest and most powerful object in the known universe.” – Khalid Masood
- “The greatest force is the divine power within you.” – Lailah Gifty Akita
- “…Alexis de Tocqueville, the French writer, said that the powerful and the happy never go into exile. He was right.” – Jorge Ramos
- “I lost all I had known and gained a life I was yet to know.” – Nikki Rowe
- “Even though she was powerful enough to kill, she could also grow flowers.” – Becky Allen
- “Knowledge is strength. Ignorance is the kiss of death.” – Suzy Kassem
- “The power of a thing is not based on the power it actually possesses. Rather, it is much more about the power that we permit it to possess.” – Craig D. Lounsbrough
- “Your words are very powerful and what you say matters; keep them positive and powerful.” – Farshad Asl
- “Some women walk towards a better future. Others have chauffeurs.” – Ljupka Cvetanova
- “You will be influential and powerful in the field of your gift and talent.” – Sunday Adelaja
- “We rise by lifting others.” – Germany Kent
- “What is fear but that ‘thing’ that we believed to be as powerful as it pretended to be.” – Craig D. Lounsbrough
- “…the more things you know, or pretend to know, the more powerful you are. It doesn’t matter if things are true. What counts, remember, is to possess a secret.” – Umberto Eco
- “The most powerful power, you can possess is grace of prayer.” – Lailah Gifty Akita
- “We are powerful beyond measure, and we must stand powerfully in the face of injustice and hate. United.” – Scott Stabile
- “The illumination of a great star is potent and powerful enough to make other stars around it great.” – Ikechukwu Izuakor
- “Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted by reality.” – Bruce Lee
- “Never underestimate the power of weapons. A novice with a powerful weapon is deadlier than a warrior with a stick.” – Shon Mehta
- “’Being scared’ and ‘not being able to do it’ are two completely different things. Be clear on your choice of allowing fear to take control.” – Jennifer Ho
- “This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “You may kill me with your hatefulness, but like air I’ll rise.” – Maya Angelou
- “Our world needs more adults who question and challenge and hold the powerful accountable.” – L.R. Knost
- “True confidence stems from the knowledge that you are safe.” – Anonymous
- “I learned to love myself in order to love others…” – Michelle Knight
- “If you are powerful enough, you can bang a nail only at one stroke!” – Mehmet Murat ildan
- “You bear it by working hard to get ready. You bear it by having good people by your side. You bear it by not just hoping but knowing you can handle a lot, because you already have.” – Hillary Rodham Clinton
- “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Its that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?’ Actually, who are you not to be?” – Marianne Williamson
- “You are as powerful as you trust yourself.” – Meir Ezra
- “In darkness, you only need to see just as far as you headlights extend. As long as you keep going, it is enough.” – Alexandra Bracken
- “To find your perfect relationship you have to first learn to love your own company.” – Steven Aitchison
- “Maybe the greatest power of all is the power of restraint.” – Craig D. Lounsbrough
- “The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself. It is in this relationship that you set the standard for all others.” – Steve Maraboli
- “Don’t underestimate the power of a mind that is made up.” – Miya Yamanouchi
- “I have spoken; you have heard; you have the facts; judge.” – Aristotle
- “It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.” – Helen Keller
- “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
