Top 27 Powerful Quotes That Inspire Us And Teach Us

1. “As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.” ― Bill Gates

2. “To be successful, you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can’t just accept the ones you like.” ― Mike Gafka

3. “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” ― Mae West

4. “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.” ― John Quincy Adams

5. “But you have to do what you dream of doing even while you’re afraid.” ― Arianna Huffington

6. “People ask, ‘What’s the best role you’ve ever played?’ The next one.” ― Kevin Kline

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

8. “I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.” ― Charlotte Bronte

9. “The difference between winning and losing is most often not quitting.” ― Walt Disney

10. “If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” ― Jim Rohn

11. “Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.” ― Albert Einstein

12. “All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” ― Walt Disney

13. “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” ― Barack Obama

14. “Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.” ― George Bernard Shaw

15. “If you’re not stubborn, you’ll give up on experiments too soon. And if you’re not flexible, you’ll pound your head against the wall and you won’t see a different solution to a problem you’re trying to solve.” ― Jeff Bezos

16. “Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life — think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, and every part of your body be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.” ― Swami Vivekananda

17. “If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!” — Harv Eker

18. “The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.” ― Henry Ford

19. “Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.” ― Oprah Winfrey

20. “The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.” ― Mark Caine

21. “Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.” ― John Wooden

22. “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

23. “In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.” ― Jane Smiley

24. “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” ― Mark Twain

25. “Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.” ― Charles F. Kettering

26. “If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” ― Jim Rohn

27. “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” ― Vidal Sassoon

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