If you think you can’t, then you probably can. As a unique individual, you are capable of reaching great heights with your own power and ability. So stop at nothing and keep the fire burning with these 157 powerful quotes.
Powerful Quotes
1. 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
2. Everything is within your power, and your power is within you. – Janice Trachtman
3. Once you start recognizing the truth of your story, finish the story. It happened but you’re still here, you’re still capable, powerful, you’re not your circumstance. It happened and you made it through. You’re still fully equipped with every single tool you need to fulfill your purpose. – Steve Maraboli
4. I am powerful in my love for myself. The truth of my being is I love myself exactly as I am. I honor my empowered heart. – Amy Leigh Mercree
5. All limitations are self-imposed. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
6. Everything you can imagine is real. – Pablo Picasso
7. Be so good they can’t ignore you. – Steve Martin
8. Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today. – James Dean
9. I don’t need it to be easy, I need it to be worth it. – Lil Wayne
10. Strive for greatness. – Lebron James
11. Hope in the shadow of fear is the world’s most powerful motivator. – Neal Shusterman
12. 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
13. I have nothing to lose but something to gain. – Eminem
14. Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody. – Stephen Chbosky
15. Rise above the storm, and you will find the sunshine. – Mario Fernandez
16. Good is not enough. You’ve got to be great. – Simon Cowell
17. Watch what you say, and whatever you say, practice it. – Soyen Shaku
18. Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out. – John Wooden
19. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
20. Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground. – Theodore Roosevelt
21. The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. – Mark Twain
22. 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
23. A tiger doesn’t lose sleep over the opinion of sheep. – Shahir Zag
24. Somewhere in the world someone is training when you are not. When you race him, he will win. – Tom Fleming
25. 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
26. If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door. – Milton Berle
27. 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
28. 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
29. Be like the flower that gives fragrance even to the hand that crushes it. – Ali Ibn Abi Talib
30. Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. – Henry Ford
31. The greatest mistake you can ever make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one. – Ellen Hubbard
32. 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
33. 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
34. Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength. – Napoleon Bonaparte
35. It is never too late to be what you might have been. – George Eliot
36. I don’t know what frightens me more, the power that crushes us, or our endless ability to endure it. – Gregory David Roberts
37. Today I do what others won’t, so that tomorrow I can accomplish what others don’t. – Jerry Rice
38. If you want to shine like the sun, first burn like the sun. – APJ Abdul Kalam
39. Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced. – James Baldwin
40. You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore. – William Faulkner
41. Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can? – Sun Tzu
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
43. Normality is a paved road: it’s comfortable to walk but no flowers grow. – Vincent van Gogh
44. People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things. – Edmund Hillary
45. A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
46. If you are not taking responsibility for your state of consciousness, you are not taking responsibility for life. – Eckhart Tolle
47. If an egg is broken by an outside force, life ends. If broken by an inside force, life begins. Great things always begin from the inside. – Jim Kwik
48. Desire, burning desire, is basic to achieving anything beyond the ordinary. – Joseph B. Wirthlin
49. 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
50. No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn’t trying. – Tony Robbins
51. No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible. – Voltaire
52. No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history. – William Hazlitt
53. It has been said that a person may have ten years of experience, or one year of experience repeated ten times. – Yukiso Yamamoto
54. To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die. – François de La Rochefoucauld
55. 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
56. Be not afraid of greatness; some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them. – William Shakespeare
57. Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. – Og Mandino
58. True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful. – Paul Sweeney
59. When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you’ll find a way to get it. – Jim Rohn
60. It always seems impossible until it’s done. – Nelson Mandela
61. Without passion, you don’t have energy. Without energy, you have nothing. – Warren Buffett
62. You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great. – Zig Ziglar
63. Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. – Winston Churchill
64. Work like there is someone working 24 hours a day to take it all away from you. – Mark Cuban
65. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose. – Wayne Dyer
66. Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny. – C.S. Lewis
67. Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. – Dale Carnegie
68. Believe in yourself, take on your challenges, dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You got to keep going. – Chantal Sutherland
69. Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do. – Pele
70. Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve. – Napoleon Hill
71. I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us. – Veronica Roth
72. But if I’m it, the last of my kind, the last page of human history, like hell I’m going to let the story end this way. I may be the last one, but I am the one still standing. I am the one turning to face the faceless hunter in the woods on an abandoned highway. I am the one not running but facing. Because if I am the last one, then I am humanity. And if this is humanity’s last war, then I am the battlefield. – Rick Yancey
73. But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword. – Rick Riordan
74. Kneel or bleed. – Victoria Aveyard
75. What we think, we become. – Buddha
76. Everybody is equally weak on the inside, just that some present their ruins as new castles and become kings. – Simona Panova
77. The problem isn’t that I think so highly of myself. It is just that you think so little of yourself. Live life BIG, BOLD and OUT LOUD! – Shannon L. Alder
78. Don’t wish…DO! Don’t try…BE! Don’t think…KNOW! And above all: Bless a stranger with a small, yet powerful, random act of kindness. You feel me? – T.F. Hodge
79. Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists. – Criss Jami
80. Tough times never last but tough people do. – Robert H. Schuller
81. There are only two most powerful situations- being so small that you have nothing to lose and being so big that you don’t care what you lose! – Jasleen Kaur Gumber
82. You only feel powerless because your fear has given your power to the object of your fear. Once you realise this, you can claim it back. – Kamand Kojouri
83. The illumination of a great star is potent and powerful enough to make other stars around it great. – Ikechukwu Izuakor
84. There is no institution more powerful than the institution of the mind – your mind. – Naide P Obiang
85. 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. At least, that’s what always worked for me. – Hillary Rodham Clinton
86. Have enough courage to start and enough heart to finish. – Jessica N. S. Yourko
87. I get so caught up in praying for a way ‘around’ things that I completely miss the fact that God has already ‘removed’ those things. And it is then that I realize that I had imposed my weakness on God’s strength. – Craig D. Lounsbrough
88. Confidence is a powerful incentive, it’s deliriously intoxicating. – Carlos Wallace
89. Never underestimate the power of weapons. A novice with a powerful weapon is deadlier than a warrior with a stick. – Shon Mehta
90. You don’t need luck. You are powerful, clever, and fearless. – Shannon Hale
91. “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
92. It’s not your thoughts but it’s your beliefs that create your reality. So by investing in yourself, you have set a very powerful framework in motion, by believing in yourself and creating your own reality. – Adimulam Vijaya Bhaskar Rao
93. …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
94. You can become great through the power of time. – Sunday Adelaja
95. I lost all I had known and gained a life I was yet to know. – Nikki Rowe
96. Knowledge is strength. Ignorance is the kiss of death. – Suzy Kassem
97. Our struggle has inspired oppressed people the world over, because if former slaves can make the most powerful nation face itself, there’s a chance for everyone else. In a twist, our rage becomes hope for others. – Mychal Denzel Smith
98. They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds. – Dinos Christianopoulos
99. 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
100. What can be more powerful than looking at people around you and understanding that by being kind, loving and helpful towards them, you are also being kind, loving and helpful towards yourself. – Dee Waldeck
101. I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death. – Robert Fulghum
102. Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy – your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself. – Annie Leibovitz
103. Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
104. Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A ‘you can do it’ when things are tough. – Richard M. DeVos
105. Fear is a powerful beast. But we can learn to ride it. – Justine Musk
106. Learning lessons is a little like reaching maturity. You’re not suddenly more happy, wealthy, or powerful, but you understand the world around you better, and you’re at peace with yourself. Learning life’s lessons is not about making your life perfect, but about seeing life as it was meant to be. – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
107. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. – Leo Tolstoy
108. The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. – Ferdinand Foch
109. It’s not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you. – Tyler Perry
110. The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient’s hopes are the physician’s secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription. – Norman Cousins
111. Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me. – Walt Whitman
112. I truly believe the intention of creating positive change is so important to the collective consciousness. When you have a group of people that have the intention and the capacity, talent, and intelligence to actualize those intentions, then you have something really powerful. – Jimmy Chin
113. The dreams and passions stored within hearts are powerful keys which can unlock a wealth of potential. – John C. Maxwell
114. Education is and will be the most powerful tool for individual and social change, and we must do all that it takes to facilitate it. – Shiv Nadar
115. The basis for all human relationships and where we derive our greatest strength and power, trust is single handedly the most powerful source of positive energy and, once in place, unlocks a freedom and peace to explore. – Angela Ahrendts
116. We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends. – Mary McLeod Bethune
117. Make treating yourself a priority and always remember your life is happening now. Don’t put off all your dreams and pleasures to another day. In any balanced personal definition of success there has to be a powerful element of living life in the present. – Mireille Guiliano
118. There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow. – Orison Swett Marden
119. Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals. – Martha Beck
120. Ideas are powerful because they allow us to see the world as it could be, rather than what it is. – Jason Silva
121. Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities. – Ralph Marston
122. Truth is powerful and it prevails. – Sojourner Truth
123. One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity. – Edward de Bono
124. It’s amazing what we’ve been through already in our lives no matter what our age. Think of what we’ve seen, people we’ve met, our relationships, experiences, and accomplishments. Reflection is a powerful tool. – Tara Stiles
125. There’s no more powerful lesson than knowing that your setbacks will one day help you succeed. – Reshma Saujani
126. We should all do what we can in our daily lives to remember that we are glorious and powerful. – Tracee Ellis Ross
127. The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man… It is more powerful than external circumstances. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
128. I think there’s something really powerful about being yourself. – Boy George
129. People don’t even realize the power the mind has over the body in the way you perceive things. Change your thoughts, change your reality. Words are powerful – every thought and every word we think has an effect on the body. – Miranda Kerr
130. There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again. – Cat Stevens
131. Some people get what they want because they grab the power and swing it, and some people don’t. – Dan Groat
132. Somewhere inside you, I hope you know who you are. I hope you know what you are. I hope you know that you’re powerful. We need you. – Danielle Paige
133. No, the magic doesn’t wear off at midnight. It’s much more powerful than that. It comes from you. You wanted something, and so it came to be. – Emily Croy Barker
134. When you remain present to the goal at hand, you become ready to receive a powerful gift. – Andra Brynna Goeglein
135. Ocean is not supposed to be scared of the drops. – Amit Kalantri
136. Your words, your thoughts, your imagination: powerful tools. Remember that and use them wisely. – Donald L. Hicks
137. One moment of pain is worth a lifetime of glory. – Louis Zamperini
138. See failure as an opportunity to try again with a relatively powerful approach, skill, knowledge and conviction. Redefine yourself. – Israelmore Ayivor
139. If they hadn’t told me I was ugly, I never would have searched for my beauty. And if they hadn’t tried to break me down, I wouldn’t know that I’m unbreakable. – Gabourney Sidibe
140. Ordinary men wonder why those of only average intelligence so often rise to the highest levels of power, while highly intelligent people generally do not. They fail to understand that reaching the highest levels of power has nothing to do with admired attributes such as intelligence and competence. The predominant characteristic of those who rise to the highest levels of power is a total disregard for the consequences – including death – that will befall thousands, or hundreds of thousands, or millions of human beings if it is deemed necessary to attain his (or her) goals. Generally speaking, it is this total disregard for humanity that has distinguished ‘rulers’ throughout history. – Dave Champion
141. The battle for our lives, and the lives of our children, our husbands, our friends, our families, and our nation, is waged on our knees. – Stormie Omartian
142. Don’t underestimate the power of being underestimated. – Tim Fargo
143. Never underestimate the hidden power of one very determined person. There is nothing more powerful than determination and persistence. – Ziad K. Abdelnour
144. There are two different kinds of people in the world. There are people who instinctively look for every chance to be a “victim” and those who look for every chance to rise above—regardless of where they are in life and what’s happening around them. There are people who realize their ability to create (greatly influence) reality toward a positive direction for themselves and those around them, and unfortunately those who use this power we all have for destructive purposes for themselves and others—many times without even knowing what they’re doing or the power they have inside themselves. We are all powerful individuals. Let’s use that power to create something beautiful! – Christopher Hawke
145. If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought. – Peace Pilgrim
146. Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. – Neale Donald Walsch
147. It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed. – Ram Dass
148. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. – Helen Keller
149. If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. – Henry David Thoreau
150. If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one. – Dolly Parton
151. You know, a heart can be broken, but it keeps on beating, just the same. – Fannie Flagg
152. Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof. – Alice Walker
153. You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space. – Johnny Cash
154. The secret to getting ahead is getting started. – Mark Twain
155. I’ve got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live? – Tennessee Williams
156. Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships. – Zora Neale Hurston
157. This idea that we are our own saviors, our own heroes. That’s hard, but also incredibly uplifting. – Reese Witherspoon
