Muhammad Ali Inspiring Quotes: A Powerful Collection to Motivate and Empower

"If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it – then I can achieve it."

- Muhammad Ali

"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. The hands can't hit what the eyes can't see."

- Muhammad Ali

"What you’re thinking is what you’re becoming."

- Muhammad Ali

"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing."

- Muhammad Ali

"If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it - then I can achieve it."

- Muhammad Ali

"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

"Don't count the days, make the days count."

- Muhammad Ali

"The man with no imagination has no wings."

- Muhammad Ali

"Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill."

- Muhammad Ali

"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee."

- Muhammad Ali

"Often it isn't the mountains ahead that wear you out, it's the little pebble in your shoe."

- Muhammad Ali

"The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up."

- Muhammad Ali

"I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest."

- Muhammad Ali

"It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen."

- Muhammad Ali

"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

"I never thought of losing, but now that it’s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life."

- Muhammad Ali

"Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them – a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill."

- Muhammad Ali

"Inside or a ring or out, ain’t nothing wrong with going down. It’s staying down that’s wrong."

- Muhammad Ali

"Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even."

- Muhammad Ali

"Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth."

- Muhammad Ali

"To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are."

- Muhammad Ali

"I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was."

- Muhammad Ali

"Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong."

- Muhammad Ali

"It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself."

- Muhammad Ali

"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life"

- Muhammad Ali

"What you're thinking is what you're becoming."

- Muhammad Ali

"The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights."

- Muhammad Ali

"If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it — then I can achieve it."

- Muhammad Ali

"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life."

- Muhammad Ali

"I’m the greatest, I’m a bad man, and I’m pretty!"

- Muhammad Ali

"I am America. I am the part you won’t recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me."

- Muhammad Ali

"It’s hard to be humble when you’re as great as I am."

- Muhammad Ali

"I’m young, handsome, fast, pretty, and can’t possibly be beat!"

- Muhammad Ali

"I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want."

- Muhammad Ali

"You lose nothing when you fight for a cause… In my mind the losers are those who don’t have a cause they care about."

- Muhammad Ali

"I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world."

- Muhammad Ali

"I try not to speak about all the charities and people I help, because I believe we can only be truly generous when we expect nothing in return."

- Muhammad Ali

"I’ve made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven’t lived in vain."

- Muhammad Ali

"Silence is golden when you can’t think of an answer."

- Muhammad Ali

"Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn’t matter which color does the hating. It’s just plain wrong."

- Muhammad Ali

"Throughout my life, I never sought retribution against those who hurt me because I believe in forgiveness. I have practiced forgiving, just as I want to be forgiven."

- Muhammad Ali

"I’ve wrestled with alligators, I’ve tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning And throw thunder in jail. You know I’m bad. just last week, I murdered a rock, Injured a stone, Hospitalized a brick. I’m so mean, I make medicine sick."

- Muhammad Ali

"Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights? No I’m not going 10,000 miles from home to help murder and burn another poor nation simply to continue the domination of white slave masters of the darker people the world over. This is the day when such evils must come to an end. I have been warned that to take such a stand would cost me millions of dollars. But I have said it once and I will say it again. The real enemy of my people is here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those who are fighting for their own justice, freedom and equality. If I thought the war was going to bring freedom and equality to 22 million of my people they wouldn’t have to draft me, I’d join tomorrow. I have nothing to lose by standing up for my beliefs. So I’ll go to jail, so what? We’ve been in jail for 400 years."

- Muhammad Ali

"You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about."

- Muhammad Ali

"It's hard to be humble when you're as great as I am."

- Muhammad Ali

"Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing."

- Muhammad Ali

"It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe."

- Muhammad Ali

"Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights?"

- Muhammad Ali

"A man who views the world the same at 50 as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life."

- Muhammad Ali

"A man who has no imagination has no wings."

- Muhammad Ali

"If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you."

- Muhammad Ali

"My principles are more important than the money or my title."

- Muhammad Ali

"Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong."

- Muhammad Ali

"Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything."

- Muhammad Ali

"The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life."

- Muhammad Ali

"Think well of all, be patient with all, and try to find the good in all."

- Muhammad Ali

"To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich."

- Muhammad Ali

"Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change."

- Muhammad Ali

"I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me."

- Muhammad Ali

"The Service you do for others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth."

- Muhammad Ali

"I’ve wrestled with alligators,  I’ve tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning and thrown thunder in jail.  You know I’m bad. Just last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalized a brick. I’m so mean, I make medicine sick!"

- Muhammad Ali

"At home I am a nice guy: but I don’t want the world to know. Humble people, I’ve found, don’t get very far."

- Muhammad Ali

"I didn’t want to submit to the army and then, on the Day of Judgment, have God say to me, ‘Why did you do that?’ This life is a trial, and you realize that what you do is going to be written down for Judgment Day."

- Muhammad Ali

"Allah’s the Arabic term for God. Stand up for God, fight for God, work for God and do the right thing, and go the right way, things will end up in your corner."

- Muhammad Ali

"Everything I do now, I do to please Allah…Being a true Muslim is the most important thing in the world to me. It means more to me than being black or being American."

- Muhammad Ali

"I'm a fighter. I believe in the eye-for-an-eye business. I'm no cheek turner. I got no respect for a man who won't hit back. You kill my dog, you better hide your cat."

- Muhammad Ali

"It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up."

- Muhammad Ali

"If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, then they can sure make something out of you."

- Muhammad Ali

"I’m no leader; I’m a little, humble follower."

- Muhammad Ali

"The name Muhammad is the most common name in the world. In all the countries around the world – Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon – there are more Muhammads than anything else. When I joined the Nation of Islam and became a Muslim, they gave me the most famous name because I was the champ."

- Muhammad Ali

"Terrorists are not following Islam. Killing people and blowing up people and dropping bombs in places and all this is not the way to spread the word of Islam. So people realize now that all Muslims are not terrorists."

- Muhammad Ali

"I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace."

- Muhammad Ali

"Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer."

- Muhammad Ali