Powerful Given Quotes to Inspire and Motivate

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Opportunities don't happen. You create them.

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

Your limitation—it's only your imagination.

Dream big, work hard, stay focused, and surround yourself with good people.

The harder you work for something, the greater you'll feel when you achieve it.

Great things never come from comfort zones.

Success doesn't just find you, you have to go out and get it.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

It always seems impossible until it's done.

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

Don't stop when you're tired. Stop when you're done.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift someone else up.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for himself.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

True wisdom comes not from knowledge, but understanding.

The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

Doubt is the origin of wisdom.

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

Where there is love, there is life.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

Love makes the world go round.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

In real love, you want the other person’s happiness even if you’re not part of it.

Love is not about how many days, months, or years you’ve been together. It’s about how much you love each other every single day.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

Love is an endless act of forgiveness.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Leadership is not about being in charge. It is about taking care of those in your charge.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

A great leader serves first, then leads as a servant.

Leaders think and act alike. Followers think alike but act differently.

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

You don’t lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.

I'm not arguing, I'm just explaining why I'm right.

I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure.

The early bird might get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

I’m not lazy, I’m just conserving energy for important tasks—like Netflix binges.

Common sense is like deodorant. The people who need it most never use it.

I didn’t lose my mind. I sold it on eBay.

I’m not short. I’m concentrated awesome.

I put the ‘pro’ in procrastination.

If at first you don’t succeed, redefine success.

I followed my heart, and it led me to the fridge.

I don’t need therapy. I just need a nap.

I’m not late. Everyone else is just early.

The only person you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday.

Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.

Invest in yourself. Your career is the engine of your wealth.

Growth begins where comfort ends.

Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground.

Small daily improvements lead to stunning results.

Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.

Friendship doubles your joy and halves your sorrow.

Good friends are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you know they’re always there.

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.

A true friend never gets in your way unless you are going down.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate.

Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude.

By living deeply in the present moment, you can make the whole life a moment.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

Resilience is knowing that you are the only one that has the power and the responsibility to pick yourself up.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Bravery is not the absence of fear but the triumph over it.

Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

Strength does not come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming what you once thought you couldn’t.

The human capacity for burden is like bamboo—far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.

Courage is grace under pressure.

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.