135 Short Quotes About Life
You do not need always to use many words to say what you want to say. I put together these short quotes, which are memorable and influential.
Many short quotes are easy to remember, and we can relate to many of them because we feel it in our hearts.
You can use these short quotes on a mug, your Instagram, a t-shirt, or a note to someone you love.
Short Quotes
What we think, we become.
Buddha
Yesterday you said tomorrow. Just do it.
Nike
A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.
Elbert Hubbard
What consumes your mind controls your life
Unknown
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
William James
Whatever you do, do it well.
Walt Disney | Disney short quotes
If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.
Mark Twain
Every moment is a fresh beginning.
T.S Eliot
It hurt because it mattered.
John Green
The only joy in the world is to begin.
Cesare Pavese
When words fail, music speaks.
Shakespeare | Short quote by Shakespeare
Reality is wrong, dreams are for real.
Tupac
It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.
Lucille Ball
I could agree with you but then we’d both be wrong.
Harvey Specter
Love is a better teacher than duty.
Albert Einstein
Everything you can imagine is real.
Pablo Picasso
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Albert Camus
Never regret anything that made you smile.
Mark Twain
To live will be an awfully big adventure.
Peter Pan | Peter Pan short quotes
Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama | Short quote by Dalai Lama
Inspirational Short Quotes
Strive for greatness.
Lebron James
A happy soul is the best shield for a cruel world.
Atticus
Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.
Dennis Waitley
Change the game, don’t let the game change you.
Macklemore
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
Winnie the Pooh | Short quote by Winnie the Pooh
Embrace the glorious mess that you are.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Happiness is a state of activity.
Aristotle
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Robert H. Schiuller
Oh, the things you can find, if you don’t stay behind.
Dr. Seuss | Dr. Seuss short quote
Be so good they can’t ignore you.
Steve Martin
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Mahatma Gandhi | Gandhi short quotes
Change the world by being yourself.
Amy Poehler
Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.
Maya Angelou | short quotes by Maya Angelou
The time is always right to do what is right.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Short Happiness Quote
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Aristotle
I will remember and recover, not forgive and forget.
Unknown
I have nothing to lose but something to gain.
Eminem
There is no substitute for hard work.
Thomas Edison
One day the people that don’t even believe in you will tell everyone how they met you.
Johnny Depp
Die with memories, not dreams.
Unknown
Determine your priorities and focus on them.
Eileen McDargh
And still, I rise.
Maya Angelou
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
Rumi | short quote by Rumi
Turn your wounds into wisdom.
Oprah Winfrey
May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.
Nelson Mandela
The meaning of life is to give life meaning.
Ken Hudgins
Normality is a paved road: it’s comfortable to walk but no flowers grow.
Vincent van Gogh
What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
Confucius
It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
Seneca
Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
Marthe Troly-Curtin
Short Joy Quote
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
Albert Schweitzer
Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
Oprah Winfrey | Short quote by Oprah Winfrey
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Abraham Lincoln | Short quote by Abraham Lincoln
Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness.
Jean Vanier
To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.
Robert Morley
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
Dalai Lama
The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.
Bruce Lee
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The giving of love is an education in itself.
Eleanor Roosevelt
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Buddha
If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.
Benjamin Franklin
Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
Euripides
The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.
Epictetus
Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
Heraclitus
Short Love Quote
The more one judges, the less one loves.
Honore de Balzac
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
James Baldwin
Love is a friendship set to music.
Joseph Campbell
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
Arthur Schopenhauer
When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.
Blaise Pascal
Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
Morrie Schwartz
I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.
Roy Croft
Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever.
Leo Buscaglia
Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.’
Erich Fromm
Action is the foundational key to all success.
Pablo Picasso
Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.
Richard Branson | Short quote by Richard Branson
Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.
Albert Einstein
Loving yourself isn’t vanity. It’s sanity.
Katrina Mayer
The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.
Robert Hand
More Short Quotes
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Robert A. Heinlein
Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
Lord Byron
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
Khalil Gibran
Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy.
Dr. Robert Anthony
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
George Eliot
Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face.
Helen Keller
Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.
Maxwell Maltz
Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
John R. Wooden
Better to have lost and loved than never to have loved at all.
Ernest Hemingway
It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.
L.M. Montgomery
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
Seneca
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
Epictetus
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Samuel Beckett
Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own?
Brigham Young
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
Benjamin Spock
Your problem is you’re… too busy holding onto your unworthiness.
Ram Dass | Ram Dass short quotes
Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.
Robert Kiyosaki
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
Honore de Balzac
Short Success Quotes
I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.
Florence Nightingale
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
Harry F. Banks
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.
Robert Collier
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Benjamin Disraeli
The road to success is always under construction.
Lily Tomlin
Success is largely a matter of holding on after others have let go.
Unknown
Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.
Andre Breton
There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.
Seneca
To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.
Mark Twain
Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
Arthur Ashe
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
Mark Twain
People who want the most approval get the least and the people who need approval the least get the most.
Wayne Dyer
There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anaïs Nin
The best proof of love is trust.
Joyce Brothers
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin Disraeli
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Motivational Short Quotes
One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.
Shannon L. Alder
The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.
Maya Angelou
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.
Oscar Wilde
Victory is sweetest when you’ve known defeat.
Malcolm S. Forbes
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
Confucius
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
Malcolm S. Forbes
If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.
Charles Bukowski
It ain’t what they call you, it’s what you answer to.
W.C. Fields
Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.
Napoleon Hill
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
Erich Fromm
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
Herman Hesse
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.
Alfred Tennyson
The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.
Aesop
Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.
Stephen King
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lighten up on yourself. No one is perfect. Gently accept your humanness.
Deborah Day
Beauty begins the moment you decided to be yourself.
Coco Chanel
Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
André Gide