250 Short Quotes to Uplift Your Soul

Short Quotes and saying seem just a bunch of words but they carry deep meaning and force you to ponder. Discover the power of brevity with our collection of Short Quotes about Life. These quotes have made an insightful positive impact in my life and I’m sure they will make a difference in yours as well. These compact bursts of wisdom offer profound insights and a refreshing perspective, perfect for brightening your day and inspiring a positive outlook. Dive in and let these tiny treasures transform your mindset and energize your spirit!

Short Quotes

1. “Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” ~ Will Rogers

2. “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” ~ Winston Churchill

3. “Every man dies. Not every man lives.” ~ William Wallace

4. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” ~ Anais Nin

5. “Nothing is impossible. The word itself says “I’m possible!” ~ Audrey Hepburn

6. “We need much less than we think we need.” ~ Maya Angelou

7. “If things go wrong, don’t go with them.” ~ Roger Babson

8. “Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.” ~ Confucius

9. “There is no way to happiness – happiness is the way.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

10. “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” ~ Oscar Wilde

11. “Whatever you are, be a good one.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

12. “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” ~ Leonardo da Vinci

13. “Be so good they can’t ignore you.” ~ Steve Martin

14. “Don’t copy. Create.” ~ Joe Calloway

15. “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” ~ William James
16. “I never lose. I either win or learn.” ~ Nelson Mandela
17. “Positive anything is better than negative nothing.” ~ Elbert Hubbard
18. “Limit your ‘always’ and your ‘nevers’.” ~ Amy Poehler​​
19. “Creativity is intelligence having fun.” ~ Albert Einstein
20. “If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.” ~ Mark Twain

Short Inspirational Quotes

21. “There is no substitute for hard work.” ~ Thomas Edison
22. “Try to be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud.” ~ Maya Angelou
23. “Happiness depends upon ourselves.” ~ Aristotle
24. “Time moves in one direction, memory in another.” ~ William Gibson
25. “Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.” ~ Brian Littrell
26. “Every moment is a fresh beginning.” ~ T.S Eliot
27. “Never regret anything that made you smile.” ~ Mark Twain
28. “Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.” ~ James Dean
29. “All limitations are self-imposed.” ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
30. “Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.” ~ Robert H. Schiuller
31. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt
32. “What we think, we become.” ~ Buddha
33. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” ~ George Eliot
34. “Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.” ~ Jim Rohn
35. “Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.” ~ Helen Keller
36. “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
37. “If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr.
38. “The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” ~ Michael Altshuler
39. “Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.” ~ Dalai Lama
40. “Love yourself first and everything else falls into place.” ~ Lucille Ball

Very Short Quotes

41. “The best is yet to come.”
42. “One day at a time.”
43. “Search for soul in everything.”
44. “It’s Okay to Not Be Okay.”
45. “Make it Happen.”
46. “Be afraid and do it anyway.”
47. “Be wild for a while.”
48. “Mindset is everything.”
49. “No rain, no flowers.”
50. “Get lost in what you love.”
51. “Good things take time.”
52. “You are stronger than you think.”
53. “What’s stopping you?”
54. “Turn your pain into power.”
55. “Kindness always returns back.”
56. “Know your worth.”
57. “Be your own hero.”
58. “Escape the ordinary.”
59. “Eventually, everything connects.”
60. “Follow your heart.”
61. “This will make perfect sense one day.”
62. “When things change inside you, things change around you.”
63. “Things will always work out.”
64. “I am doing this for me.”
65. “What is coming is better than what is gone.”
66. “Do good and good will come to you.”
67. “You only limit in your mind.”
68. “Collecting smiles.”
69. “Imperfection is a form of freedom.”
70. “Trust the timing of your life.”

Inspirational Short Quotes

71. “Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” ~ Napoleon Hillf
72. “No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.” ~ Robin Williams
73. “Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.” ~ Charles R. Swindoll
74. “We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.” ~ Maya Angelou

75. “Failures are foundation stones of the Success Forts” ~ Invajy
76. “You become what you believe.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
77. “Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.” ~ Seneca
78. “The road to success is always under construction.” ~ Lily Tomlin

79. “Worry causes stress, but care causes concern.” ~ Chris Vail
80. “Achievements of today are the stepping stones for the future ones.” ~ Invajy
81. “If you can dream it, you can do it.” ~ Walt Disney
82. “Rise above the storm and you will find the sunshine.” ~ Mario Fernández
83. “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” ~ Milton Berle
84. “It hurt because it mattered.” ~ John Green
85. “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist.” ~ Oscar Wilde

Best Short Quotes

86. “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” ~ Albert Einstein
87. “Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.” ~ Suzy Kassem
88. “Despite the forecast, live like it’s spring.” ~ Lily Pulitzer
89. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” ~ Nelson Mandela
90. “When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.” ~ Maya Angelou
91. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” ~ George Addair
92. “If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.” ~ Charles Bukowski
93. “Never, never, never give up.” ~ Winston Churchill
94. “Either you run the day, or the day runs you.” ~ Jim Rohn
95. “The shortest answer is doing.” ~ Lord Herbert
96. “Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.” ~ Jimi Hendrix
97. “Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.” ~ Dr. Seuss
98. “In life you need either inspiration or desperation.” ~ Tony Robbins
99. “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
100. “Forget about style; worry about results.” ~ Bobby Orr

Quotes

101. “Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still.” ~ Chinese Proverb
102. “Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.” ~ John F. Kennedy
103. “Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.” ~ Lao Tzu
104. “Die with good memories, not with unfulfilled dreams.” ~ Invajy
105. “I don’t need it to be easy, I need it to be worth it.” ~ Lil Wayne
106. “Good things happen to those who hustle.” ~ Anais Nin
107. “The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” ~ Aristotle
108. “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
109. “To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.” ~ Mark Twain
110. “It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.” ~ Walt Disney
111. “A place for everything, everything in its place.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
112. “Aspire to inspire before you expire.” ~ Anonymous
113. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” ~ Lao Tzu
114. “In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” ~ Albert Einstein
115. “Goal setting is the secret to a compelling future.” ~ Tony Robbins
116. “Energy and initiative count as much as talent and luck.” ~ Will Peters
117. “Goals help you channel your energy into action.” ~ Les Brown
118. “The key to life is not accumulation. It’s contribution.” ~ Stephen Covey
119. “The most wasted of days is one without laughter.” ~E.E. Cummings
120. “Impossible is for the unwilling.” ~ John Keats

Deep Short Quotes

121. “No pressure, no diamonds.” ~ Thomas Carlyle
122. “Dream big and dare to fail.” ~ Norman Vaughan
123. “Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.” ~ Jim Rohn
124. “We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.” ~ Ronald Reagan
125. “Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right.” ~ Henry Ford
126. “Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better.” ~ Jim Rohn
127. “The best way out is always through.” ~ Robert Frost
128. “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” ~ Wayne Gretzky
129. “We will either find a way, or make one.” ~ Hannibal
130. “Addiction quitting is to stop feeding your addiction.” ~ Invajy
131. “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” ~ Herman Melville
132. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy looking for it.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
133. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” ~ Confucius
134. “I’m a slow walker, but I never walk back.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
135. “A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.” ~ Francis Bacon
136. “There can be glory in failure and despair in success.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
137. “Belief creates the actual fact.” ~ William James
138. “Spread love everywhere you go.” ~ Mother Teresa
139. “It’s not all over, till you have the courage to comeback.” ~ Invajy
140. “Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” ~ Gloria Steinem

Short Quotes about Life

141. “The unexamined life is not worth living.” ~ Socrates
142. “Life is a long lesson in humility.” ~ James M. Barrie
143. “Best things in life aren’t things.” ~ Mike Ness
144. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” ~ Helen Keller
145. “Failing to attempt is biggest failure of life.” ~ Invajy
146. “An unexamined life is not worth living.” ~ Socrates
147. “Today, you have 100% of your life left.” ~ Tom Landry
148. “There are no regrets in life, just lessons.” ~ Jennifer Aniston
149. “I would rather die of passion than of boredom.” ~ Vincent van Gogh
150. “You can’t live an exceptional life by being “normal.”” ~ Nick Maley
151. “Whenever life hammers you, bounce back with a smile.” ~ Invajy
152. “Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.” ~ Les Brown
153. “Life is either a great adventure or nothing.” ~ Helen Keller
154. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
155. “Be happy for this moment. This moment in your life.” ~ Omar Khayyam
156. “Life changes very quickly, in a very positive way, if you let it.” ~ Lindsey Vonn
157. “You do not find the happy life. You make it.” ~ Camilla Eyring Kimball
158. “Life becomes easier when you learn to accept the apology you never got.” ~ R. Brault
159. “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” ~  Confucius
160. “Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.” ~ Vince Lombardi

Motivational Short Quotes

161. “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” ~ Albert Einstein
162. “Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.” ~ W. Clement Stone
163. “There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.” ~ Roger Staubach
164. “Rule your mind or it will rule you.” ~ Horace
165. “A queen is not afraid to fail” ~ Oprah Winfrey
166. “Hard times always lead to something great.” ~ Betsey Johnson
167. “The triumph can’t be had without the struggle.” ~ Wilma Rudolph
168. “Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr.
169. “Spend time with yourself to discover your inner beauty.” ~ Invajy
170. “Nothing happens unless we first dream.” ~ Carl Sandburg
171. “Heaven never helps the man who will not help himself.” ~ Sophocles
172. “The present moment is all you ever have.” ~ Eckhart Tolle
173. “A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.” ~ Confucius
174. “I am the captain of my soul.” ~ Nelson Mandela
175. “What I know for sure is that what you give comes back to you.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
176. “The impossible exists only until we find a way to make it possible.” ~ Mike Horn
177. “Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.” ~ J. K. Rowling
178. “Fear of failure leads to failure.” ~ Paulo Coelho
179. “Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.” ~ Oscar Wilde
180. “You have not failed until you quit trying.” ~ Gordon B. Hinckley

Short Quotes for Daily Motivation

181. “We need fantasy to survive because reality is too difficult.” ~ Lady Gaga
182. “A dead end is just a good place to turn around.” ~ Naomi Judd
183. “The secret to getting ahead is getting started.” ~ Mark Twain
184. “More is lost by indecision than wrong decision.” ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
185. “It is your attitude, not your aptitude that determines your altitude.” ~ Zig Ziglar
186. “Nothing will work unless you do.” ~ Maya Angelou
187. “Failure is success if we learn from it.” ~ Malcolm Forbes
188. “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
189. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” ~ Steve Jobs
190. “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” ~ Frederick Douglass
191. “One today is worth two tomorrows.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
192. “To scale, do things that do not scale.” ~ Reid Hoffman
193. “If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.” ~ Margaret Fuller
194. “If you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously.” ~ Cate Blanchett
195. “Man is free at the instant he wants to be.” ~ Voltaire
196. “Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are.” ~ Kurt Cobain
197. “I knew all the rules but the rules did not know me.” ~ Eddie Vedder
198. “Opportunities multiply as they are seized.” ~ Sun Tzu
199. “You may delay, but time will not.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
200. “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

Positive Short Quotes

201. “Out of difficulties grow miracles.” ~ Jean de la Bruyere
202. “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” ~ Alan Kay
203. “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” ~ Frederick Douglass
204. “Good is the enemy of great.” ~ Jim Collins
205. “It’s not your job to like me, it’s mine.” ~ Byron Katie
206. “Don’t be afraid to do something big.” ~ Daphne Koller
207. “Someday is not a day of the week.” ~ Janet Dailey
208. “Who sows virtue reaps honor.” ~ Leonardo da Vinci
209. “If you see a bandwagon, it’s too late.” ~ James Goldsmith
210. “Every noble work is at first impossible.” ~ Thomas Carlyle
211. “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
212. “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” ~ Albert Einstein
213. “I have a dream.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr.
214. “Turn your wounds into wisdom.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
215. “All great achievements require time.” ~ Maya Angelou
216. “The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” ~ Dalai Lama
217. “Get busy living or get busy dying.” ~ Stephen King
218. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” ~ Arthur Ashe
219. “I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” ~ Estee Lauder
220. “Talk to yourself like someone you love.” ~ Brene Brown
221. “If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.” ~ Carlos Santana
222. “A dead end street is a good place to turn around.” ~ Naomi Judd
223. “When nothing goes right, go left.” ~ Anonymous
224. “He who is brave is free.” ~ Seneca
225. “You can totally do this.” ~ Anonymous
226. “Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” ~ Samuel Beckett
227. “No guts, no story.” ~ Chris Brady
228. “Boldness be my friend.” ~ William Shakespeare
229. “Keep going. Be all in.” ~ Bryan Hutchinson
230. “Leave no stone unturned.” ~ Euripides
231. “Broken crayons still color.” ~ Anonymous
232. “The past does not equal the future.” ~ Tony Robbins
233. “A goal is a dream with a deadline.” ~ Napoleon Hill
234. “The trouble is, you think you have time.” ~ Jack Kornfield
235. “With great power comes great responsibility.” ~ Stan Lee
236. “Courage is grace under pressure.” ~ Ernest Hemingway
237. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” ~ John D. Rockefeller
238. “Always remember, your focus determines your reality.” ~ George Lucas
239. “Everything you can imagine is real.” ~ Pablo Picasso
240. “Life is trying things to see if they work.” ~ Ray Bradbury
241. “Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.” ~ Charles Dickens
242. “Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.” ~ Hans Christian Andersen
243. “May you live all the days of your life.” ~ Jonathan Swift
244. “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” ~ Mae West
245. “Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.” ~ Albert Einstein
246. “The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.” ~ Tony Robbins
247. “Well done is better than well said.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
248. “Do one thing every day that scares you.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
249. “Life’s tough, but it’s tougher when you’re stupid.” ~ John Wayne
250. “The minute that you’re not learning I believe you’re dead.” ~ Jack Nicholson

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