41 Incredibly Powerful Quotes to Provide Inspiration and Encouragement

Along with good days, we all encounter bad days but sometimes all we need is one powerful quote to raise our spirits. Here are 41 powerful quotes that are not only inspirational but beautiful as well.

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41 Incredibly Powerful Quotes - "How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard." - Winnie the Pooh
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“How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” – Winnie the Pooh

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41 Incredibly Powerful Quotes - "The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now." - Chinese proverb
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“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” – Chinese proverb

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41 Incredibly Powerful Quotes - "The days are long, but the years are short." - Gretchen Rubin
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“The days are long, but the years are short.” – Gretchen Rubin

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41 Incredibly Powerful Quotes - "Comparison is the thief of joy." - Theodore Roosevelt
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“Comparison is the thief of joy.” – Theodore Roosevelt

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41 Incredibly Powerful Quotes - "At some point in your childhood, you and your friends went outside to play together for the last time, and nobody knew it." - Anonymous
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“At some point in your childhood, you and your friends went outside to play together for the last time, and nobody knew it.” – Anonymous

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41 Incredibly Powerful Quotes - "I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it." - Mark Twain
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Powerful Quotes: “I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.” – Mark Twain

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41 Incredibly Powerful Quotes - "Did they all live happily ever after? They did not. No one ever does, in spite of what the stories may say. They had their good days, as you do, and they had their bad days, and you know about those. They had their victories, as you do, and they had their defeats, and you know about those, too. There were times when they felt ashamed of themselves, knowing that they had not done their best, and there were times when they knew they had stood where their God had meant them to stand. All I’m trying to say is that they lived as well as they could, each and every one of them; some lived longer than others, but all lived well, and bravely, and I love them all, and am not ashamed of my love." - Stephen King
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Powerful Quotes: “Did they all live happily ever after? They did not. No one ever does, in spite of what the stories may say. They had their good days, as you do, and they had their bad days, and you know about those. They had their victories, as you do, and they had their defeats, and you know about those, too. There were times when they felt ashamed of themselves, knowing that they had not done their best, and there were times when they knew they had stood where their God had meant them to stand. All I’m trying to say is that they lived as well as they could, each and every one of them; some lived longer than others, but all lived well, and bravely, and I love them all, and am not ashamed of my love.” – Stephen King

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41 Incredibly Powerful Quotes - "Your value doesn’t decrease based on someone’s inability to see your worth." - Anonymous

“Your value doesn’t decrease based on someone’s inability to see your worth.” – Anonymous

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41 Incredibly Powerful Quotes - "Don’t set yourself on fire just to keep others warm." - Anonymous
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“Don’t set yourself on fire just to keep others warm.” – Anonymous

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41 Incredibly Powerful Quotes - "Don’t take criticism from someone you wouldn’t take advice from." - Anonymous
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“Don’t take criticism from someone you wouldn’t take advice from.” – Anonymous

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41 Incredibly Powerful Quotes - "Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." - Ferris Bueller

“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” – Ferris Bueller

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41 Incredibly Powerful Quotes - "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
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“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

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41 Incredibly Powerful Quotes - "To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die." - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.” – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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41 Incredibly Powerful Quotes - "People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things." - Edmund Hillary
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“People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.” – Edmund Hillary

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41 Incredibly Powerful Quotes - "Desire, burning desire, is basic to achieving anything beyond the ordinary." - A powerful quote by Joseph B. Wirthlin
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“Desire, burning desire, is basic to achieving anything beyond the ordinary.” – Joseph B. Wirthlin

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41 Incredibly Powerful Quotes - "Mediocrity will never do. You are capable of something better." - A powerful quote by Gordon B. Hinckley
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“Mediocrity will never do. You are capable of something better.” – Gordon B. Hinckley

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41 Incredibly Powerful Quotes - "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." - A powerful quote by William Faulkner
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“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

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"Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later." - A powerful quote by Og Mandino
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“Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.” – Og Mandino

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41 Incredibly Powerful Quotes - "Be not afraid of greatness; some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them." - A powerful quote by William Shakespeare
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“Be not afraid of greatness; some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.” – William Shakespeare

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41 Incredibly Powerful Quotes - "You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them." - A powerful quote by Michael Jordan
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“You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.” – Michael Jordan

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41 Incredibly Powerful Quotes - "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." - A powerful quote by Mary Kay Ash

“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

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41 Incredibly Powerful Quotes - "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." - A powerful quote by Gandhi
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“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Gandhi

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41 Incredibly Powerful Quotes - "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." - A powerful quote by Albert Einstein
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“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

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41 Incredibly Powerful Quotes - "A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing." - A powerful quote by George Bernhard Shaw
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“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” – George Bernhard Shaw

25) Powerful Quotes by Michel De Montaigne.

41 Incredibly Powerful Quotes - "He who fears he will suffer, already suffers because he fears." - Michel De Montaigne
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“He who fears he will suffer, already suffers because he fears.” – Michel De Montaigne

26) Powerful Quotes by Mother Theresa.

41 Incredibly Powerful Quotes - "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
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“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

27) Powerful Quotes by Stephen Covey.

41 Incredibly Powerful Quotes - "Love is a verb. Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb." - Stephen Covey
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“Love is a verb. Love – the feeling – is a fruit of love, the verb.” – Stephen Covey

28) Powerful Quotes by Confucius.

41 Incredibly Powerful Quotes - "Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated." - Confucius
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“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” – Confucius

29) Powerful Quotes by Mary Engelbreit.

41 Incredibly Powerful Quotes - "If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it." - Mary Engelbreit
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“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.” – Mary Engelbreit

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"In seeking happiness for others, you will find it in yourself." - Unknown
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“In seeking happiness for others, you will find it in yourself.” – Unknown

31) Powerful Quotes by Reinhold Niebuhr.

"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
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“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

32) Powerful Quotes by Napoleon Bonaparte.

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

33) Powerful Quotes by Anne Frank.

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

34) Powerful Quotes by Alexander the Great.

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

35) Powerful Quotes by Thomas Edison.

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

36) Powerful Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci.

"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
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“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

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"It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one." - George Washington
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Powerful Quotes: “It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.” – George Washington

38) Oh no! We’ve almost reached the end of our list of powerful quotes…

"A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits." - Richard Nixon
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Powerful Quotes: “A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.” – Richard Nixon

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"The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall." - Che Guevara
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Powerful Quotes: “The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.” – Che Guevara

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"A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines." - Benjamin Franklin
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Powerful Quotes: “A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.” – Benjamin Franklin

41) I hope you enjoyed reading these powerful quotes.

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

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