120 Powerful Quotes that Can Change You into a Better Person

Powerful Quotes always remind us of the important attitudes to be developed and maintained in day to day life for being a better person. Quotes have limited words, but carry huge meaning. Inspirational quotes inspire us to review our current living and work for betterment and self improvement. Continual improvement must be a goal for everyone to work on. But most of the people find it tough to motivate them to work towards positive change. Today, I am going to share with you Powerful Quotes that can change you into a better person.

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Powerful Quotes to be better person

1. “The best revenge is not to be like that.” ~ Marcus Aurelius

2. “It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.” ~ Epictetus

3. “The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” ~ Colin R. Davis

4. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” ~ Albert Einstein

5. “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

6. “Gratitude, compassion and kindness are pillars to make you a better person.” ~ Invajy

7. “Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.” ~ C.S. Lewis

8. “Lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at you.” ~ David Brinkley
9. “The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.” ~ Elbert Hubbard
10. “People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

Powerful Quotes

11. “Better to trip with the feet than with the tongue.” ~ Zeno
12. “The world was not big enough for Alexander the Great, but a coffin was.” ~ Juvenal
13. “To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often.” ~ Winston Churchill
14. “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
15. “To get something you never had, you have to do something you’ve never done.” ~ Invajy

16. “Winners don’t do different things, they do things differently” ~ Shiv Khera
17. “None can destroy iron, but its own rust can! Likewise no one can destroy us; but our own mindset can. ” ~ Ratan Tata
18. “By changing nothing, nothing changes.” ~ Tony Robbins
19. “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” ~ Zig Ziglar
20. “Kites rise high against the wind, not with it.” ~ Winston Churchil

Quotes to be a Better Person

21. “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” ~ Albert Einstein
22. “Running away from a problem only increases the distance from the solution.” ~ Invajy
23. “Are you here with the solution or are you part of the problem?” ~ Anonymous
24. “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” ~ Herman Melville
25. “I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure – It is: Try to please everybody.” ~ Herbert Bayard Swope
26. “Desire, burning desire, is basic to achieving anything beyond the ordinary.” ~ Joseph B. Wirthlin
27. “Fall seven times and stand up eight.” ~ Japanese Proverb
28. “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
29. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” ~  Thomas Edison
30. “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” ~ Vidal Sassoon

Powerful Women Quotes

Here are Powerful Quotes by Powerful Women to make you feel empowered

31. “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.” ~ Mother Teresa
32. “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
33. Nothing can dim the light that shines from within. ~ Maya Angelou
34. “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.”  ~  Mary Engelbreit
35. “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
36. “There is good in everything, if only we look for it.” ~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
37. “At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.” ~ Frida Kahlo
38. “Have no fear of perfection; you’ll never reach it.” ~ Marie Curie
39. “You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.” ~ Indira Gandhi
40. “Don’t ever make decisions based on fear. Make decisions based on hope and possibility. Make decisions based on what should happen, not what shouldn’t.” ~ Michelle Obama

Powerful Quotes to inspire you to be a better person

41. “Rise above the storm, and you will find the sunshine.” ~ Mario Fernandez
42. “When we give ourselves permission to fail, we, at the same time, give ourselves permission to excel.” ~ Eloise Ristad
43. “Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.” ~ Lance Armstrong
44. “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
45. “Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.”  ~ Stephen Covey
46. “To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.” ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
47. “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
48. “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” ~ Confucius
49. “People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.” ~ Edmund Hillary
50. “Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” ~ Joshua J. Marine

Be Better Quotes

51. “Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.” ~ William Faulkner
52. “Every morning, we get a chance to be different. A chance to change. A chance to be better.” ~ Alan Bonner
53. “Life brings continuous improvements. Learn and past and today be a better person than yesterday.” ~ Invajy
54. “There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.” ~ Aldous Huxley
55. “I am thankful for all those difficult people in my life, they have shown me exactly who I do not want to be.” ~ Anonymous
56. “There’s always room to be a better person. Always.” ~ Sonya Teclai
57. “You either get bitter or you get better. It’s that simple. You either take what has been dealt to you and allow it to make you a better person, or you allow it to tear you down. The choice does not belong to fate. It belongs to you.” ~ Josh Shipp
58. “There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.” ~ C. S. Lewis
59. “The goal is not to be perfect by the end. The goal is to be better today.” ~ Simon Sinek
60. “It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.” ~ Arthur Calwell

Powerful Deep Quotes

61. “When you have had a taste of excellence, you cannot go back to mediocrity.” ~ Maximillian Degenerez
62. “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
63. “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” ~ George Bernhard Shaw
64. “I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.” ~ Corazon Aquino
65. “The person who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The person who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever seen before.” ~ Albert Einstein
66. “Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody.” ~ Stephen Chbosky
67. “Good is not enough. You’ve got to be great.” ~ Simon Cowell
68. “We all have two lives. The second one starts when we realize we only have one.” ~ Confucius
69. “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.” ~ Bill Keane
70. “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

Powerful Quotes

71. “Kindness is a language that the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” ~ Mark Twain
72. “The idea is to die young as late as possible.” ~ Ashley Montagu
73. “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” ~ Milton Berle
74. “Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt
75. “Turn your wounds into wisdom.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
76. “One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it’s worth watching.” ~ Gerard Way
77. “Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.” ~ Antisthenes
78. “Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” ~ Henry Ford
79. “Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength.”  ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
80. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” ~ George Eliot

Quotes about being better

81. “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
82. “Big dreams create the magic that stir men’s souls to greatness.” ~ Bill McCartney
83. “You were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.” ~ Zig Ziglar
84. “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
85. “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” ~ Winston Churchill
86. “Don’t confuse comfort with happiness.” ~ Dean Karnazes
87. “If you want to shine like the sun, first burn like the sun.” ~ APJ Abdul Kalam
88. “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.” ~ William Faulkner
89. “Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively.” ~ Dalai Lama
90. “If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.” ~ Nicholas Nassim Taleb

Powerful Motivational Quotes

91. “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
92. “Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.” ~ Og Mandino
93. “Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.” ~ Ronald Dahl
94. “Mediocrity will never do. You are capable of something better.” ~ Gordon B. Hinckley
95. “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
96. “Be not afraid of greatness; some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.” ~ William Shakespeare
97. “You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.” ~ Michael Jordan
98. “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
99. “Always remember: Silence and Smile are two very powerful tools. Smile is the way to solve many problems. Silence is the way to avoid many problems.” ~ Paulo Coelho
100. “No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.” ~ William Hazlitt

Short Powerful Quotes

101. “He who fears he will suffer, already suffers because he fears.” ~ Michel De Montaigne
102. “Love is a verb. Love — the feeling — is a fruit of love, the verb.” ~ Stephen Covey
103. “Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.” ~ Viktor Frankl
104. “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” ~ Napoleon Hill
105. “’NO’ is a complete sentence” ~ Annie Lamott
106. “Change your thoughts and you change your world.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale
107. “Believe you can and you are halfway there .” ~  Theodore Roosevelt
108. “No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted” ~  Aesop
109. “Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud ” ~ Maya Angelou
110. “Boldness has genius, power and magic in it ” ~  W.H. Murray

Powerful Quotes to be Better

111. “May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.” ~ Nelson Mandela
112. “There is no substitute for hard work.” ~ Thomas Edison
113. “Happiness depends upon ourselves.”~ Aristotle
114. “The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the big facts.” ~ Paulo Coelho
115. “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’” ~ Martin Luther King Jr
116. “Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.” ~ Marcus Aureliusc
117. “The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it but that it is too low and we reach it.” ~
     Michelangelo
118. “And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.” ~ Steve Jobs
119. “Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend?” ~ Abraham Lincoln
120. “You don’t drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there.” ~ Edwin Louis Cole

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