410 Short Inspirational Quotes For All The Winners Out There

For a burst of inspiration, a little push you might need just to keep going at the same pace, or at a stronger and a faster one, check out these short inspirational quotes!

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Top Picks: 10 Short Inspirational Quotes

1. “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

2. “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere’s Fan

3. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” ― George Eliot

4. “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” ― Oscar Wilde

5. “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” ― Albert Einstein

6. “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

7. “Everything you can imagine is real.” ― Pablo Picasso

8. “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” ― Theodore Roosevelt

9. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” ― Winston S. Churchill

10. “Maybe everyone can live beyond what they’re capable of.” ― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

Short Inspiring Quotes

1. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” ― George Bernard Shaw

2. “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 which has been opened for us.” ― Helen Keller

3. “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” ― C.S. Lewis

4. “It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.” ― Lewis Carroll

5. “Well-behaved women seldom make history.” ― Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History

6. “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

7. “Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt

8. “I can’t give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.” ― Herbert Bayard Swope

9. “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” ― Margaret Mead

10. “Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!” ― Audrey Hepburn

11. “Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” ― Dalai Lama XIV

12. “Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.” ― Gustave Flaubert

13. “To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

14. “Peace begins with a smile …” ― Mother Teresa

15. “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” ― George Orwell, 1984

16. “Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art…. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.” ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

17. “I hope she’ll be a fool — that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

18. “If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.” ― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

19. “Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

20. “May you live every day of your life.” ― Jonathan Swift

21. “Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.” ― Roy T. Bennett

22. “What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.” ― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

23. “It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.” ― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People

24. “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

25. “I don’t trust people who don’t love themselves and tell me, ‘I love you.’ … There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.” ― Maya Angelou

26. “It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.” ― Roy T. Bennett

27. “The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence; the past is a place of learning, not a place of living.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

28. “Life becomes easier and more beautiful when we can see the good in other people.” ― Roy T. Bennett

29. “None but ourselves can free our minds.” ― Bob Marley

30. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt

31. “Do what is right, not what is easy nor what is popular.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

32. “If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

33. “Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storms, but to add color to my sunset sky.” ― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

34. “Happiness [is] only real when shared” ― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

35. “‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.” ― Voltaire

36. “Always find opportunities to make someone smile, and to offer random acts of kindness in everyday life.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

37. “A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.” ― John A. Shedd

38. “Better to be strong than pretty and useless.” ― Lilith Saintcrow, Strange Angels

39. “When people don’t express themselves, they die one piece at a time.” ― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

40. “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” ― Alice Walker

41. “Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” ― Will Rogers

42. “The important thing to you is not how many years in your life, but how much life in your years!” ― Edward J. Stieglitz

43. “For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.” ― Neil deGrasse Tyson

44. “Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.” ― Marilyn Monroe

45. “Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.” ― Moliere

46. “Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don’t.” ― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

47. “What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?” ― George Eliot

48. “Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.” ― Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign

49. “The only way that we can live, is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change. The only way that we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. Do it. Throw yourself.” ― C. JoyBell C.

50. “Try a little harder to be a little better.” ― Gordon B. Hinckley

51. “Do not set aside your happiness. Do not wait to be happy in the future. The best time to be happy is always now.” ― Roy T. Bennett

52. “Well, we all make mistakes, dear, so just put it behind you. We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.” ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

53. “I’ve known people that the world has thrown everything at to discourage them…to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and don’t ask quarters.” ― Horton Foote

54. “Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.” ― Rumi

55. “My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully, and yell for help if you need it.” ― Judy Blume

56. “If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.” ― Confucius

57. “However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?” ― Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni

58. “Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

59. “It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

60. “The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.” ― Maya Angelou

Short Inspirational Work Quotes

1. “It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.” ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

2. “What you’re supposed to do when you don’t like a thing is change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. Don’t complain.” ― Maya Angelou, Wouldn’t Take Nothing for My Journey Now

3. “You can’t live your life for other people. You’ve got to do what’s right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.” ― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

4. “But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.” ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

5. “Whatever you are, be a good one.” ― Abraham Lincoln

6. “Two wrongs don’t make a right, but they make a good excuse.” ― Thomas Szasz

7. “Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

8. “Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

9. “You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.” ― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

10. “Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?” ― L.M. Montgomery

11. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” ― Robert Louis Stevenson

12. “The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.” ― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

13. “People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.” ― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

14. “The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.” ― Bette Midler

15. “Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

16. “May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.” ― George Carlin

17. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” ― Confucius

18. “Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could.” ― Charles J. Sykes, Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good About Themselves But Can’t Read, Write or Add

19. “Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you’re wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn’t love you anymore.” ― Lady Gaga

20. “All happiness depends on courage and work.” ― Honoré de Balzac

21. “Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.” ― Gustave Flaubert

22. “The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.” ― Barack Obama

23. “This is the real secret of life — to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.” ― Alan Watts

24. “Out of clutter, find simplicity.” ― Albert Einstein

25. “Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

26. “We often miss opportunity because it’s dressed in overalls and looks like work” ― Thomas A. Edison

27. “Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. ” ― William James

28. “The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

30. “Hide not your talents, they for use were made,

What’s a sundial in the shade?” ― Benjamin Franklin

31. “Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it” ― Buddha

32. “I don’t like work–no man does–but I like what is in the work–the chance to find yourself. Your own reality–for yourself not for others–what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means.” ― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

33. “A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.” ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

34. “If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.” ― Plato, The Republic

35. “Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.” ― J.M. Barrie

36. “When he worked, he really worked. But when he played, he really PLAYED.” ― Dr. Seuss

37. “Work without love is slavery.” ― Mother Teresa

38. “If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.” ― Michelangelo Buonarroti

39. “There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.” ― Coco Chanel

40. “Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.” ― Aristotle

41. “The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity.” ― George Carlin

42. “Don’t mistake activity with achievement.” ― John Wooden

43. “Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life.” ― Confucius

44. “A person who has not done one half his day’s work by ten o’clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.” ― Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

45. “If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn’t anything you can’t do if you want to.” ― Jim Henson, It’s Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider

46. “Spending time with God is the key to our strength and success in all areas of life. Be sure that you never try to work God into your schedule, but always work your schedule around Him.” ― Joyce Meyer

47. “Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.” ― Anne Frank

48. “The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.” ― Émile Zola

49. “If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old” ― Peter Drucker

50. “Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.” ― Gordon B. Hinckley

51. “In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.” ― Tina Fey, Bossypants

52. “The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.” ― Jimmy Johnson

53. “It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.” ― John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire

54. “No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” ― Theodore Roosevelt

55. “When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.” ― Theodore Roosevelt

56. “There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.” ― Alain de Botton

57. “The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.” ― Phil Jackson

58. “I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.” ― Amelia Earhart

59. “When you work on something that only has the capacity to make you 5 dollars, it does not matter how much harder you work – the most you will make is 5 dollars.” ― Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability

60. “Our labor preserves us from three great evils — weariness, vice, and want.” ― Voltaire, Candide

Encouraging Short Quotes

1. “You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us. And the world will live as one.” ― John Lennon

2. “So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I’m still trying to figure out how that could be.” ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

3. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

4. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

5. “And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.” ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

6. “Listen to the mustn’ts, child. Listen to the don’ts. Listen to the shouldn’ts, the impossibles, the won’ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me… Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.” ― Shel Silverstein

7. “It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.” ― John Green, Paper Towns

8. “Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.” ― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

9. “If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.” ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

10. “Take responsibility of your own happiness, never put it in other people’s hands.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

11. “And, in the end

The love you take

is equal to the love you make.” ― Paul McCartney, The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics

12. “I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.” ― Agatha Christie

13. “Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.” ― Marilyn Monroe

14. “You cannot control the behavior of others, but you can always choose how you respond to it.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

15. “More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stress. More love, less hate.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

16. “But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.” ― Martin Luther King, Jr.

17. “Keep Going

Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

18. “A woman’s heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.” ― Max Lucado

19. “Don’t be afraid of your fears. They’re not there to scare you. They’re there to let you know that something is worth it.” ― C. JoyBell C.

20. “You never fail until you stop trying.” ― Albert Einstein

21. “Make improvements, not excuses. Seek respect, not attention.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

22. “I was smiling yesterday,I am smiling today and I will smile tomorrow.Simply because life is too short to cry for anything.” ― Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday

23. “All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.” ― St. Francis Of Assisi, The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi

24. “If you want to forget something or someone, never hate it, or never hate him/her. Everything and everyone that you hate is engraved upon your heart; if you want to let go of something, if you want to forget, you cannot hate.” ― C. JoyBell C.

25. “Start each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

26. “Hope

Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,

Whispering ‘it will be happier’…” ― Alfred Lord Tennyson

27. “Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.” ― Louis L’Amour

28. “You’re off to Great Places!

Today is your day!

Your mountain is waiting,

So… get on your way!” ― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!

29. “Follow your heart, listen to your inner voice, stop caring about what others think.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

30. “No amount of regretting can change the past, and no amount of worrying can change the future.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

31. “Dance, when you’re broken open. Dance, if you’ve torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you’re perfectly free.” ― Rumi

32. “You see things; you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not?” ― George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah

33. “We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.” ― Stephen Hawking

34. “I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, He will not ask, ‘How many good things have you done in your life?’ Rather, ‘How much love did you put into what you did?” ― Mother Teresa

35. “Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn’t exist and never shall. There is only now.” ― Christopher Paolini, Eldest

36. “The past has no power over the present moment.” ― Eckhart Tolle

37. “Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

38. “No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn’t know it.” ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

39. “There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.” ― Kazuo Ishiguro

40. “You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it.” ― Sarah Dessen, Keeping the Moon

41. “What’s the good of living if you don’t try a few things?” ― Charles M. Schulz

42. “Remember, darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good.” ― P.C. Cast, Betrayed

43. “When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.” ― Margaret Walker

44. “You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.” ― Roy T. Bennett

45. “Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life, but define yourself.” ― Harvey Fierstein

46. “please believe that things are good with me, and even when they’re not, they will be soon enough. And i will always believe the same about you.” ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

47. “I’ve been fighting to be who I am all my life. What’s the point of being who I am, if I can’t have the person who was worth all the fighting for?” ― Stephanie Lennox, I Don’t Remember You

48. “Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.” ― Norman Vincent Peale

49. “Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.” ― Pablo Picasso, Pablo Picasso: Metamorphoses of the Human Form : Graphic Works, 1895-1972

50. “Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.” ― Walt Whitman

51. “If you want to be happy, be.” ― Tolstoy Leo

52. “Help others without any reason and give without the expectation of receiving anything in return.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

53. “The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat.” ― Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

54. “Because,’ she said, ‘when you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave.” ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

55. “Life has no remote….get up and change it yourself!” ― Mark A. Cooper, Operation Einstein

56. “Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.” ― Albert Einstein

57. “Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.” ― Gustave Flaubert

58. “Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.” ― Maya Angelou

59. “The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.” ― George Washington Burnap, The Sphere and Duties of Woman: A Course of Lectures

60. “Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.

Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!” ― John Anster, The First Part Of Goethe’s Faust

Positive Short Inspirational Quotes

1. “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” ― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

2. “Hope is the thing with feathers

That perches in the soul

And sings the tune without the words

And never stops at all.” ― Emily Dickinson

3. “If you’re reading this…

Congratulations, you’re alive.

If that’s not something to smile about,

then I don’t know what is.” ― Chad Sugg, Monsters Under Your Head

4. “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” ― Albert Einstein

5. “Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

6. “Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding it.” ― Lloyd Alexander

7. “Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

8. “Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.” ― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

9. “You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching,

Love like you’ll never be hurt,

Sing like there’s nobody listening,

And live like it’s heaven on earth.” ― William W. Purkey

10. “Be mindful. Be grateful. Be positive. Be true. Be kind.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

11. “Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

12. “I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

(Popular misquote of “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”)” ― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

13. “If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.

14. “I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bit*h. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.” ― Maya Angelou

15. “Turn your wounds into wisdom.” ― Oprah Winfrey

16. “The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.” ― Kalu Ndukwe Kalu

17. “Treat everyone with politeness and kindness, not because they are nice, but because you are.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

18. “He is half of my soul, as the poets say.” ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

19. “Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals.

If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

20. “Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.” ― Albert Schweitzer

21. “Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.” ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

22. “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” ― Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning

23. “One love, one heart, one destiny.” ― Robert Marley

24. “Top 15 Things Money Can’t Buy
Time. Happiness. Inner Peace. Integrity. Love. Character. Manners. Health. Respect. Morals. Trust. Patience. Class. Common sense. Dignity.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

25. “Life is about accepting the challenges along the way, choosing to keep moving forward, and savoring the journey.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

26. “You is kind. You is smart. You is important.” ― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

27. “The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

28. “Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.” ― Steve Maraboli

29. “Great things happen to those who don’t stop believing, trying, learning, and being grateful.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

30. “‎Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning… Anyone can start over and make a new ending.” ― Chico Xavier

31. “Time doesn’t heal emotional pain, you need to learn how to let go.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

32. “Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” ― Mark Twain

33. “If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.” ― Dalai Lama XIV

34. “My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.” ― Abraham Lincoln

35. “Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

36. “Is ‘fat’ really the worst thing a human being can be? Is ‘fat’ worse than ‘vindictive’, ‘jealous’, ‘shallow’, ‘vain’, ‘boring’ or ‘cruel’? Not to me.” ― J.K. Rowling

37. “I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.” ― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

38. “To shine your brightest light is to be who you truly are.” ― Roy T. Bennett

39. “Sometimes you have to lose all you have to find out who you truly are.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

40. “Be thankful for everything that happens in your life; it’s all an experience.” ― Roy T. Bennett

41. “Do not let the memories of your past limit the potential of your future. There are no limits to what you can achieve on your journey through life, except in your mind.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

42. “There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.” ― Adrienne Rich

43. “In the end

these things matter most:

How well did you love?

How fully did you live?

How deeply did you let go?” ― Jack Kornfield, Buddha’s Little Instruction Book

44. “A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.” ― Charles Darwin, The Life & Letters of Charles Darwin

45. “I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.” ― Kurt Cobain

46. “Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.” ― Leo Tolstoy

47. “You are not rich until you have a rich heart.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

48. “Jane, be still; don’t struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation.”

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.” ― Charlotte Brontë , Jane Eyre

49. “We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.” ― Philip Pullman

50. “Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!” ― Maya Angelou

51. “A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.” ― Gilles Deleuze, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

52. “I just want you to know that you’re very special… and the only reason I’m telling you is that I don’t know if anyone else ever has.” ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

53. “You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone’s soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows that they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift.” ― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

54. “I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.” ― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

55. “I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.” ― Galileo Galilei

56. “Do no harm and leave the world a better place than you found it.” ― Patricia Cornwell

57. “It’s your life; you don’t need someone’s permission to live the life you want. Be brave to live from your heart.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

58. “Not being heard is no reason for silence.” ― Hugo, Victor, Les Misérables

59. “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

60. “We don’t make mistakes, just happy little accidents.” ― Bob Ross

Motivational Short Inspiring Quotes

1. “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.” ― Bill Keane

2. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” ― Thomas A. Edison

3. “The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.” ― Elie Wiesel

4. “When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it–always.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

5. “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..” ― John Milton, Paradise Lost

6. “Always do what you are afraid to do.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

7. “Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.” ― Arthur Schopenhauer

8. “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” ― Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World

9. “The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

10. “War is peace.

Freedom is slavery.

Ignorance is strength.” ― George Orwell, 1984

11. “Life is too short to waste your time on people who don’t respect, appreciate, and value you.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

12. “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

13. “When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

14. “Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

15. “It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

16. “Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.” ― Lance Armstrong Sally Jenkins, Every Second Counts

17. “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go…” ― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!

18. “The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word ‘crisis.’ One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger–but recognize the opportunity.” ― John F. Kennedy

19. “Stories never really end…even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don’t end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.” ― Cornelia Funke, Inkspell

20. “It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.” ― Walt Disney

21. “Be brave to stand for what you believe in even if you stand alone.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

22. “If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?” ― Rumi

23. “It’s not the face, but the expressions on it. It’s not the voice, but what you say. It’s not how you look in that body, but the thing you do with it. You are beautiful.” ― Stephenie Meyer, The Host

24. “What makes the desert beautiful,’ said the little prince, ‘is that somewhere it hides a well…” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

25. “You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?” ― Rumi

26. “Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

27. “Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes.” ― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

28. “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt

29. “Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.” ― Zig Ziglar

30. “Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.” ― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

31. “Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.” ― Paulo Coelho, Brida

32. “Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” ― Barack Obama

33. “Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

34. “Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that’s what makes you strong.” ― Sarah Dessen

35. “Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.” ― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

36. “Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.” ― Anne Frank

37. “The question is not what you look at, but what you see.” ― Henry David Thoreau

38. “Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength.” ― Napoleon Bonaparte

39. “If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.” ― Nora Roberts

40. “When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” ― Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning

41. “Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis.” ― Zig Ziglar, Raising Positive Kids in a Negative World

42. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. ” ― Walt Disney

43. “When someone tells me “no,” it doesn’t mean I can’t do it, it simply means I can’t do it with them.” ― Karen E. Quinones Miller

44. “When all is said and done, more is said than done.” ― Lou Holtz

45. “You’ll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with them.” ― Lou Holtz

46. “Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don’t just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won’t happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you’ll love it up here.” ― Donald Trump

47. “You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.” ― Lou Holtz

48. “Challenge and adversity are meant to help you know who you are. Storms hit your weakness, but unlock your true strength.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

49. “Gratitude builds a bridge to abundance.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

50. “All great achievements require time.” ― Maya Angelou

51. “When things do not go your way, remember that every challenge — every adversity — contains within it the seeds of opportunity and growth.” ― Roy T. Bennett

52. “Beliefs are choices. First you choose your beliefs. Then your beliefs affect your choices.” ― Roy T. Bennett

53. “When you take control of your attitude, you take control of your life.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

54. “Enthusiasm can help you find the new doors, but it takes passion to open them. If you have a strong purpose in life, you don’t have to be pushed. Your passion will drive you there.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

55. “You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.” ― Henry Ford

56. “Let go of something old that no longer serves you in order to make room for something new.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

57. “Life teaches us the right path is rarely the easy one.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

58. “Hope in the shadow of fear is the world’s most powerful motivator.” ― Neal Shusterman, Scythe

59. “The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance. The wise grows it under his feet.” ― James Oppenheim

60. “Be where you are, stop over-thinking, and focus on what you are doing.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

Short Inspirational Quotes That Provide Valuable Life Lessons

1. “Do not whine… Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.” ― Joan Didion, Blue Nights

2. “The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.” ― Steven Pressfield, The War of Art: Winning the Inner Creative Battle

3. “You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.” ― Terence McKenna

4. “Short cuts make long delays.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

5. “Focus on making yourself better, not on thinking that you are better.” ― Bohdi Sanders, The Secrets of Worldly Wisdom: Your Key to Unlocking Success

6. “Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.” ― Joseph Campbell

7. “Help someone, you earn a friend. Help someone too much, you make an enemy.” ― Erol Ozan

8. “You just can’t let life happen to you, you have to make life happen.” ― Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability

9. “I shall take the heart. […] For brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.” ― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

10. “If plan A doesn’t work, the alphabet has 25 more letters – 204 if you’re in Japan.” ― Claire Cook, Seven Year Switch

11. “In this life, when you deny someone an apology,

you will remember it at time you beg forgiveness.” ― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

12. “No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can’t go all the way around.” ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

13. “Don’t beat yourself up for not knowing the answers. You don’t always have to know who you are. You don’t have to have the big picture, or know where you’re heading. Sometimes, it’s enough just to know what you’re going to do next.” ― Sophie Kinsella, The Undomestic Goddess

14. “Haters and bullies are always cowards, you know. They like to pick on little guys.” ― Scylar Tyberius, Sebastian the Great

15. “The world is what YOU think of it, so think of it DIFFERENTLY and your life will change.” ― Paul Arden, Whatever You Think, Think the Opposite

16. “Never Say Never if you know you can do what you love don’t give up.” ― Justin Bieber

17. “You’ll tell yourself anything you have to, to pretend that you’re still the one in control.” ― Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart

18. “What gets measured gets improved.” ― Robin S. Sharma, The Greatness Guide: Powerful Secrets for Getting to World Class

19. “People are mostly layers of violence and tenderness wrapped like bulbs, and it is difficult to say what makes them onions or hyacinths.” ― Eudora Welty, Delta Wedding

20. “Do not get discouraged. Don’t shrug off your dreams because of the setbacks. Aspirations are not like perspiration, they will not evaporate unless you allow it.” ― C. Toni Graham

21. “You can take my life, but you’ll never break me.

So bring me your worst…

And I will definitely give you mine.” ― Sherrilyn Kenyon, No Mercy

22. “To be alive──is Power.” ― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

23. “If you are driven by fear, anger or pride nature will force you to compete. If you are guided by courage, awareness, tranquility and peace nature will serve you.” ― Amit Ray, Nonviolence: The Transforming Power

24. “Every fiction has its base in fact.” ― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

25. “Where there is life, there is hope.” ― Alyson Noel, Everlasting

26. “what’s right? If you want something, you have the right to take it. If you want to do something, you have the right to do it.” ― Bret Easton Ellis

27. “You can’t wait around for something to become good, it either is, or isn’t.” ― Toni Aleo, Empty Net

28. “[…]one should act as if the things he cherished the most were already lost or broken.” ― H.J. Brues, Yakuza Pride

29. “For under scrutiny you will find that even an open book can have a surprise scribbled in its margins.” ― Violet Haberdasher, The Secret Prince

30. “People look for greatness only in the extraordinary and completely overlook the wonder of the ordinary.” ― Ann Tatlock, Promises to Keep

31. “We are born to believe

We can’t change a thing

We can’t, and we never could.

But before you believe

The things you believe

You must understand

To be understood.” ― John C. O’Callaghan

32. “You see? This is why you don’t get mixed up in people’s lives. Because the living are messy and complicated, and things end up going to hell one way or another, every time.” ― Megan Crewe, Give Up the Ghost

33. “Taking personal accountability is a beautiful thing because it gives us complete control of our destinies.” ― Heather Schuck, The Working Mom Manifesto

34. “There is no tomorrow and there was no yesterday; if you truly want to accomplish your goals you must engulf yourself in today.” ― Noel DeJesus

35. “Progress is a natural result of staying focused on the process of doing anything.” ― Thomas M. Sterner, The Practicing Mind: Bringing Discipline and Focus into Your Life

36. “I knew it was foolhardy; men of experience say, “Four things do not come back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity,” ― Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others

37. “Believe in the wonderment of life, the magic of love, and the reality of death.” ― Carroll Bryant

38. “Look beyond yourself.” ― Michael J. Jackson, A Song for You: Reality

39. “None of us can undo what we’ve done, or relive a life already recorded. But, … there is no such thing as “too late” in life.” ― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

40. “What I was chasing in circles must have been the tail of the darkness inside me.” ― Haruki Murakami, After the Quake

41. “See the flower, how generously it distributes perfume and honey. When it’s work is done, it falls away quietly. Try to be like the flower, unassuming despite all it’s qualities.” ― A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

42. “Being safe doesn’t mean you won’t be sorry.” ― Katerina Stoykova Klemer

43. “When you have to do something, you have to do it. Putting it off only makes it worse. Believe me, I know.” ― Sarah Addison Allen, Garden Spells

44. “You throw a stone into a deep pond. Splash. The sound is big, and it reverberates throughout the surrounding area. What comes out of the pond after that? All we can do is stare at the pond, holding our breath.” ― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

45. “Because my life isn’t going to wait around while I figure out how to make it work.” ― Susane Colasanti, Take Me There

46. “My scars tell a story. They are a reminder of times when life tried to break me, but failed. They are markings of where the structure of my character was welded.” ― Steve Maraboli

47. “Want more credit for all you do and who you are? Be the one who gives credit to others.” ― Robin S Sharma

48. “Many times you will fail. That is the nature of the world, and the truth of life. But when you find your horse again, will go back or will you go forward?” ― Robert McCammon

49. “If someone wanted to have a grudge against me, or didn’t agree with my lifestyle, the way I breathed, the space I took up on this planet, they had an open door to ‘report’ to the powers that be.” ― Mark Alders

50. “Expect more, get less – and feel sadness; Or expect less, get more and feel – happiness” ― Vijay Dhameliya

51. “What will undo any boundary is the awareness that it is our vision, and not what we are viewing, that is limited.” ― James P. Carse, Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility

52. “You may forsake a person, a family, some location of the heart, but scars and memories cannot be discarded like used clothing.” ― Chris Fabry, A Marriage Carol

53. “Sometimes I tend to worry too much and at the end of all the preoccupation nothing goes wrong.” ― Ana Monnar

54. “Wouldn’t it be better to die doing something interesting than to drop dead in an office and the last thing you see is someone you don’t like?” ― Barbara Hillary

55. “Without living, how can you know? Without knowing, how can you speak?” ― J.E. Seanachaí

56. “Money isn’t everything, but it’s right up there with oxygen.” ― Rita Davenport

57. “Some things can be fixed. Some things are just too broken.” ― Susan Vaught, Trigger

58. “For each person I lost I found a new layer of grief to cover myself with, and each time I tried to bring something of their essence into my own being – be it unconditional love, kindness and piety.” ― A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

59. “I knew I was putting you under immense pressure when I rejected your work the other day. I set an impossible deadline – yet you have met it with work that I can only call outstanding. As your teacher, I had to push you to your limits so that you could recognize your own true potential.” ― A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

60. “Until you are clear nothing will be. The moment you are clear everything will be.” ― Rasheed Ogunlaru, Soul Trader

61. “Do I wither up and disappear, or do I make the best of my time left?” ― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

62. “It’s a tough life, she’d said. “It’s the little things that get us through the day.” ― Jeffery Deaver, Edge

63. “We only remember what we want to remember, not what happened” ― Lala Bohang, The Book of Forbidden Feelings

64. “If you do not have control over your mouth, you will not have control over your future.” ― Germany Kent

65. “There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.” ― Pat Conroy, My Losing Season: A Memoir

66. “It is the evening that questions thus from within me.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

67. “My story was not the story of a girl’s broken dreams: it was the story of a girl who couldn’t be broken.” ― Heather Schuck, The Working Mom Manifesto

68. “If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in the dark with a mosquito!” ― Wolfgang Reiber

69. “Resentments are like swallowing poison and waiting for the other person to die.” ― Brenda Wilhelmson, Diary of an Alcoholic Housewife

70. “Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.” ― Josh Billings

71. “The strength of every individual is the grace for great work.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

72. “A Dog can never brag about catching a cat that waited for him.” ― Tonny K. Brown

73. “I don’t appreciate people when they judge someone with their appearance but not their feelings. It feels like they want to rule that person for the rest of their life.” ― Kiran Arshad

74. “Be careful, especially if you are a good liar. You will lie to everyone .Lie about everything . You will end up lying to yourself. Don’t get too comfortable telling a lie.” ― De philosopher DJ Kyos

75. “Paper tigers quake with fear when a real tiger enters the room.” ― Beau Johnston

76. “People who don’t value you and who think you don’t matter you are very good in destroying you and destroying everything you have.” ― De philosopher DJ Kyos

77. “Everything you do has a consequence. Good, bad, indifferent, there is always a price to pay. The question is: who pays? Sometimes making the right choice means you might lose something that seems important at the time.” ― Sarah J. Schmitt, It’s a Wonderful Death

78. “Life is full of twists, turns, hiccups and brick walls. A delay in pursuing your purpose allows you to regroup, recharge and launch again. Treat it as a pause and not an end to capturing your dreams.” ― C. Toni Graham

79. “In the big scheme of things, a lot of stuff that we overthink about in life is simply irrelevant.” ― Germany Kent

80. “Some lessons have to be experienced before they can be understood.” ― Michael Batnick

81. “The greatest test you will ever face is mastering yourself.” ― Nitesh Verma

82. “All of us lose every day in so many ways, there are no exceptions. Losing does not reflect our values but how gracefully we handle failure does.” ― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

83. “Experience teaches what you truly must know.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita

84. “When you control the supply of anxiety, your anger struggles for fuel and eventually turns the flame off.” ― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

85. “Our reaction to the situation decides our happiness.” ― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

86. “As long as you are doing what you want, it’s not a waste of time.” ― Naval Ravikant

87. “Don’t spend your life making other people happy. Other people being happy is their problem.” ― Naval Ravikant

88. “In life you must choose If you will be the first one to do it in your family, In your hood, amongst your friends or you will be the only one to do It In your family, In your hood, amongst your friends . It Is all possible through you. You choose If you are the key or the gatekeeper.” ― De philosopher DJ Kyos

89. “The thing that is important usually is the thing that is not seen” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

90. “Knowledge isn’t power, applied knowledge is power.” ― Luminity

91. “People only hate the same things they do to others , When it is done to them.” ― De philosopher DJ Kyos

92. “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened” ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

93. “It’s clearly easier to get the snake out of the sack than it is to shove it back.” ― Mary Morris, All the Way to the Tigers

94. “Some choices aren’t ours to make. You were on a journey before we met. The world won’t let you abandon it easily.” ― Lisa Preziosi, The Ice Maiden’s Tale

95. “Don’t change your principles to make them fit into other person’s mold” ― Cinderella

96. “I learned that it is important to know not only what to hold on to and what to let go of, but what to go back for.” ― Graeme Simsion & Anne Buist, Two Steps Forward

97. “… I’m not running around blaming anybody. I’m doing the work.

Which is what, exactly?

Letting it hurt.” ― Ruta Sepetys, The Fountains of Silence

98. “The greater the man, the stronger the resistance.” ― Ken Poirot

99. “Everything is in excess except money, thereof, it should be well managed.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita

100. “How rich or poor we are…depends on whom and what we compare with.” ― Venu CV

Final Word

I hope that you have found the right chunk of inspiration you needed, while reading these short inspirational quotes.

Sometimes, all you need is a short sentence that contains one quality thought that will help you get that additional push. Keep moving forward, and continue being inspired and motivated!