- PPF Points
- 2,100
So you wanna blast people with your favorite quotes every damn day, huh? Good on ya. Whether you’re a coach on a mission to motivate, a serial content-sharer, or just someone with a weird obsession with inspirational one-liners (hey, no judgment), setting up a Telegram bot to sling daily quotes is way easier than you probably think.
Forget fancy credentials—you don’t need to be some coding ninja to pull this off. I’m gonna break it down for you, step by step, so by the end, you’ll have a working bot and you’ll be flexing your motivational muscles to the world (well, at least your Telegram subs).
Why is this even cool?
Simple. Think about it:
You in? Sweet, grab your gear.
Stuff you’ll need:
Here’s What This Magical Bot Will Do:
Onwards.
Step 1: Make Your Bot (with @BotFather)
No mystery here. Just:
1. Open Telegram.
2. Find @BotFather and shoot him a text.
3. Do /start and then /newbot.
4. Give the bot a decent name—like “ZenQuotesBot” or something less lame.
5. Set up a username. Telegram’s picky, it has to end with “bot.” Like, “chill_quotes_bot.”
6. Copy that API token BotFather spits out. Tattoo it somewhere safe. You’ll need it soon.
Done. Halfway there. Well, kinda.
Step 2: Grab the Python Libraries
Time to make your bot come alive.
Open a terminal (or the code runner thingy on your cloud provider). Drop this in:
Easy. These do all the bot-heaving and daily-sending for you.
Step 3: Get Your Quotes Together
You can keep it super basic—a plain-old Python list works fine. Like:
Add more. Or go nuts and read from a file or some fancy API if you wanna show off.
Step 4: The Actual Code (Copy, Paste, Profit)
Here’s the full thing. Edit the BOT_TOKEN. You know the drill.
Paste that sucker into a file, swap in your token, run it, and boom: motivational magic. Got any questions? Just shout—this stuff is way more fun than it looks.
Now go, Coach, go!
Forget fancy credentials—you don’t need to be some coding ninja to pull this off. I’m gonna break it down for you, step by step, so by the end, you’ll have a working bot and you’ll be flexing your motivational muscles to the world (well, at least your Telegram subs).

Simple. Think about it:
- Spread a little daily spark to your people.
- Reel in followers who dig the good vibes.
- Engagement? Your subs will have no excuse to ghost you.
- Personal brand goes up. Way up.
- Costs a grand total of nothing. Yup. Free as they come.
You in? Sweet, grab your gear.

- Telegram account, obviously.
- A computer with internet—it’s 2024, who doesn’t have one?
- Python installed. If not, go grab it from python.org.
- Know how to open a terminal? Cool. Otherwise... copy-paste will do.
- Cloud hosting like PythonAnywhere or Replit if you want your bot running round the clock.

- Fire off a fresh quote to all subscribers every day.
- Let users sign up or leave whenever they want.
- Basically, do its thing with zero input from you.
- Cloud hosting means your machine’s not glued on 24/7.
Onwards.

No mystery here. Just:
1. Open Telegram.
2. Find @BotFather and shoot him a text.
3. Do /start and then /newbot.
4. Give the bot a decent name—like “ZenQuotesBot” or something less lame.
5. Set up a username. Telegram’s picky, it has to end with “bot.” Like, “chill_quotes_bot.”
6. Copy that API token BotFather spits out. Tattoo it somewhere safe. You’ll need it soon.
Done. Halfway there. Well, kinda.

Time to make your bot come alive.
Open a terminal (or the code runner thingy on your cloud provider). Drop this in:
Code:
pip install python-telegram-bot schedule
Easy. These do all the bot-heaving and daily-sending for you.

You can keep it super basic—a plain-old Python list works fine. Like:
Python:
quotes = [
"The best way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. — Walt Disney",
"Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today. — Will Rogers",
"It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up. — Vince Lombardi",
"If you are working on something exciting, it will keep you motivated. — Steve Jobs"
]

Here’s the full thing. Edit the BOT_TOKEN. You know the drill.
Python:
import random
import logging
from telegram import Update
from telegram.ext import ApplicationBuilder, CommandHandler, ContextTypes
import schedule
import time
import threading
# Replace with your own @BotFather token!
BOT_TOKEN = 'YOUR_BOT_TOKEN_HERE'
quotes = [
"The best way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. — Walt Disney",
"Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today. — Will Rogers",
"It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up. — Vince Lombardi",
"If you are working on something exciting, it will keep you motivated. — Steve Jobs"
]
# Keep track of people who subscribed
subscribers = set()
# Meh, logging if you need it
logging.basicConfig(
format='%(asctime)s - %(name)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s',
level=logging.INFO
)
# Commands for users
async def start(update: Update, context: ContextTypes.DEFAULT_TYPE):
chat_id = update.effective_chat.id
subscribers.add(chat_id)
await context.bot.send_message(chat_id=chat_id, text="✅ You’re now getting daily doses of wisdom!")
async def stop(update: Update, context: ContextTypes.DEFAULT_TYPE):
chat_id = update.effective_chat.id
subscribers.discard(chat_id)
await context.bot.send_message(chat_id=chat_id, text="❌ Daily quotes? Gone. Maybe next time.")
async def quote(update: Update, context: ContextTypes.DEFAULT_TYPE):
chat_id = update.effective_chat.id
q = random.choice(quotes)
await context.bot.send_message(chat_id=chat_id, text=q)
# Actually sends the daily quote — to everyone who signed up
def send_daily_quote(app):
q = random.choice(quotes)
for user_id in subscribers:
app.bot.send_message(chat_id=user_id, text=f"💡 Daily Quote:\n\n{q}")
def run_schedule(app):
schedule.every().day.at("08:00").do(lambda: send_daily_quote(app))
while True:
schedule.run_pending()
time.sleep(60)
# Main event
async def main():
app = ApplicationBuilder().token(BOT_TOKEN).build()
app.add_handler(CommandHandler("start", start))
app.add_handler(CommandHandler("stop", stop))
app.add_handler(CommandHandler("quote", quote))
# spin up the schedule in a background thread so quotes go out daily
t = threading.Thread(target=run_schedule, args=(app,))
t.daemon = True
t.start()
print("Bot is running. Hit Ctrl+C to stop.")
await app.run_polling()
if __name__ == '__main__':
import asyncio
asyncio.run(main())
Paste that sucker into a file, swap in your token, run it, and boom: motivational magic. Got any questions? Just shout—this stuff is way more fun than it looks.
Now go, Coach, go!