It is ideal for thoughts to be kept short and simple in these complicated times. Surely, short words say a lot and can even have deep meaning. So if you prefer to express more using few words, then here are 340 short quotes for you to remember and share.
Short Quotes
1. Attitude is everything. – Charles Swindoll
2. Believe you can and you’re halfway there. – Theodore Roosevelt
3. Hope is a waking dream. – Aristotle
4. Action is the foundation key to all success. – Pablo Picasso
5. It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up. – Vince Lombardi
6. The obstacle is the path. – Zen Proverb
7. I can, therefore I am. – Simone Weil
8. Don’t regret the past, just learn from it. – Ben Ipo
9. It is never too late to be what you might have been. – George Eliot
10. To be the best, you must be able to handle the worst. – Wilson Kanadi
11. Every moment is a fresh beginning. – T.S. Eliot
12. Make each day your masterpiece. – John Wooden
13. Begin at the beginning, and go on till you come to the end: then stop. – Lewis Carroll
14. Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail. – Charles Kettering
15. Dream big and dare to fail. – Norman Vaughan
16. Don’t wait. The time will never be just right. – Napoleon Hill
17. Dance lightly with life. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie
18. Live life to the fullest. – Robert Louis Stevenson
19. This above all, to thine own self be true. – William Shakespeare
20. Know thyself. – Socrates
21. Change the world by being yourself. – Amy Poehler
22. All limitations are self-imposed. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
23. Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines. – Robert H. Schuller
24. Have enough courage to start and enough heart to finish. – Jessica N. S. Yourko
25. Oh, the things you can find, if you don’t stay behind. – Dr. Seuss
26. To live will be an awfully big adventure. – Peter Pan
27. Strive for greatness. – Lebron James
28. May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears. – Nelson Mandela
29. The meaning of life is to give life meaning. – Ken Hudgins
30. Love the life you live, and live the life you love. – Bob Marley
31. Where there is love there is life. – Mahatma Gandhi
32. No wind favors he who has no destined port. – Montaigne
33. Be here now. – Ram Dass
34. Live your dreams. – Les Brown
35. You can if you think you can. – George Reeves
36. Well done is better than well said. – Benjamin Franklin
37. Begin anywhere. – John Cage
38. It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. – Edmund Hillary
39. Have faith in yourself and in the future. – Ted Kennedy
40. Find out who you are and do it on purpose. – Dolly Parton
41. Make yourself proud. – Peter W. Smith
42. The only journey is the one within. – Rainer Maria Rilke
43. The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. – Orison Sweet Marden
44. If not us, who? If not now, when? – John F. Kennedy
45. Whatever you are, be a good one. – Abraham Lincoln
46. Turn your wounds into wisdom. – Oprah Winfrey
47. Wherever you go, go with all your heart. – Confucius
48. The best way out is always through. – Robert Frost
49. Hope is the heartbeat of the soul. – Michelle Horst
50. Impossible is for the unwilling. – John Keats
51. We become what we think about. – Earl Nightingale
52. Live what you love. – Jo Deurbrouck
53. All you need is love. – John Lennon
54. Love conquers all. – Virgil
55. Be gentle first with yourself. – Lama Yeshe
56. Live with passion. – Anthony Robbins
57. Don’t dream it, be it. – Rocky Horror Picture Show
58. No one knows what he can do until he tries. – Publilius Syrus
59. Thinking will not overcome fear but action will. – W. Clement Stone
60. The man who is successful is the man who is useful. – Bourke Cockran
61. Where there’s a will, there’s a way. – Old English Proverb
62. You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. – C.S. Lewis
63. You do not find the happy life. You make it. – Camilla Eyring Kimball
64. The most wasted of days is one without laughter. – E. E. Cummings
65. Never regret anything that made you smile. – Mark Twain
66. Every man dies. Not every man lives. – William Wallace
67. He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. – Friedrich Nietzsche
68. May you live every day of your life. – Jonathan Swift
69. Life is wasted on the living. – Douglas Adams
70. Just do it. – Nike
71. Flatter yourself critically. – Willis Goth Regier
72. If things go wrong, don’t go with them. – Roger Babson
73. Be there for others, but never leave yourself behind. – Dodinsky
74. Go forth on your path, as it exists only through your walking. – Augustine of Hippo
75. Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third. – Marge Piercy
76. We must not allow other people’s limited perceptions to define us. – Virginia Satir
77. Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. – Oscar Wilde
78. Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened. – Ludwig Jacobowski
79. Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present. – Bil Keane
80. Do your own thing on your own terms and get what you came here for. – Oliver James
81. Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are. – Kurt Cobain
82. Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. – Guillaume Apollinaire
83. It’s the moments that I stopped just to be, rather than do, that have given me true happiness. – Richard Branson
84. Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have. – Thomas Edison
85. Energy and initiative count as much as talent and luck. – Will Peters
86. Determination, motivation, and dedication are what you need for inspiration. – Danielle Duckery
87. Be positive! Negativity doesn’t get you anywhere. – Peter W. Murphy
88. All wounds heal with time. – Tahiri Veila
89. I enjoy every day, because I choose to. – Tony Clark
90. Positive anything is better than negative nothing. – Elbert Hubbard
91. The most important thing about getting somewhere is starting right where we are. – Bruce Barton
92. A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. – Francis Bacon
93. A man’s true wealth is the good he does in the world. – Kahlil Gibran
94. No greater gift there is, than a generous heart. – Yoda
95. The key to life is not accumulation. It’s contribution. – Stephen Covey
96. Whatever you appreciate and give thanks for will increase in your life. – Sanaya Roman
97. Every day is a good day. There is something to learn, care and celebrate. – Amit Ray
98. Live a day at a time and remember that tomorrow is another today. – Wilferd Peterson
99. I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. – Thomas Jefferson
100. Believing requires action. – James E. Faust
101. Encouragement to others is something everyone can give. – Joel Osteen
102. All human beings react positively to praise. – Jacquie McTaggart
103. You are and always have been worthy of love, care, trust and respect. – Natalie Lue
104. We are put on earth for a little space that we might learn to bear the beams of love. – William Blake
105. Make love your weapon to overcome any evil. – Michael Jackson
106. Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease. – Jimmy Carter
107. Reach out to warm another with your love. – John McLeod
108. A little less fight and a little more spark, close your mouth and open your heart. – Elvis Presley
109. Laughter is the fireworks of the soul. – Josh Billings
110. Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms – you’ll be able to use them better when you’re older. – Seneca
111. Chase your passion, not your pension. – Denis Waitley
112. Focus on your potential instead of your limitations. – Alan Loy McGinnis
113. Every single day has to be excellent. You gotta give it all you got! – Eric Thomas
114. Courage is grace under pressure. – Ernest Hemingway
115. Don’t push your weaknesses, play with your strengths. – Jennifer Lopez
116. In the middle of a difficulty lies opportunity. – Albert Einstein
117. Courage is found in unlikely places. – J. R. R. Tolkien
118. The undertaking of a new action brings new strength. – Richard L. Evans
119. You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you. – Mary Tyler Moore
120. Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations. – Faith Baldwin
121. Don’t be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin. – Grace Hansen
122. Do first things first, and second things not at all. – Peter Drucker
123. It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. – Mabel Newcomber
124. If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it. – Jonathan Winters
125. I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning to sail my ship. – Louisa May Alcott
126. Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. – Ben Spock
127. Be willing to be a beginner every single morning – Meister Eckhart
128. The really great man is the man who makes every man feel great. – G. K. Chesterton
129. Try and fail, but never fail to try. – Jared Leto
130. Life is trying things to see if they work. – Ray Bradbury
131. The best revenge is massive success. – Frank Sinatra
132. An obstacle is often a stepping stone. – Prescott Bush
133. Quitting is not the same as failing. – Seth Godin
134. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way. – General George Patton
135. Nobody rises to low expectations. – Calvin Lloyd
136. Change before you have to. – Jack Welch
137. The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. – Thomas Paine
138. In the end, everything is a gag. – Charlie Chaplin
139. Open your heart to the sky. Live. – Adam Gnade
140. If you’re going to have a story, have a big story. – Joseph Campbell
141. Your body was designed to contain a cosmic storm. – Nikita Gill
142. The sky is not the limit. Your mind is. – Lynette Simeone
143. Forget all the reasons it won’t work and believe the one reason that it will. – Anonymous
144. Don’t be pushed by your problems; be led by your dreams. – Joe Tichio
145. Happiness is a direction, not a place. – Sydney J. Harris
146. You are awesome, be you. – Jeremy Goldberg
147. Stop thinking you need a miracle. Realize that you are a miracle. – Mel Robbins
148. In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities. – Janos Arany
149. I moved onward, the only direction – Jay Z
150. Stay hungry. Stay foolish. – Steve Jobs
151. There is nobility in the struggle, you don’t have to win. – Sharon Pollock
152. And here you are living despite it all. – Rupi Kaur
153. One day or day one. You decide – Paulo Coelho
154. Don’t call it a dream. Call it a plan. – Unknown
155. Creativity takes courage. – Henri Matisse
156. Turn your fear around. The other side of it is strength. – C.M. Rayne
157. It is all I have lost, that has set me free. – Bianca Sparacino
158. Life is a series of thousands of tiny miracles. Notice them. – Vidhu Bhatnagar
159. What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? – Vincent Van Gogh
160. I’d rather regret the risks that didn’t work out than the chances I didn’t take at all. – Simone Biles
161. I paint what I see and not what others like to see. – Edouard Manet
162. Sometimes you have to choose between planting roots or growing wings. – Unknown
163. Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. – F. Scott Fitzgerald
164. It is not dishonest to strive to be better than you are. – Ben DeLaCreme
165. We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen. – D. H. Lawrence
166. Who is in control of your mind? You are. – Aubrey Marcus
167. You are almost there. A little courage and faith and that life will come. – Akif Kichloo
168. While you’re in your setback, life is preparing your comeback. – Tim Storey
169. I am stronger than I am broken. – Roxane Gay
170. Count your rainbows, not your thunderstorms. – Janice Thompson
171. You say you have no courage, but I see it in you. – Khaled Hosseini
172. Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great. – Fernando Flores
173. Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world. – Marianne Williamson
174. Now please, go be who you dream of. – Sammus
175. Learn to look for the good in every moment of your life. – Cheryl Ann McDowel
176. I’m still learning to love the parts of me that no one claps for. – Rudy Francisco
177. When one must, one can. – Yiddish Proverbs
178. Once you choose hope, anything’s possible. – Christopher Reeve
179. Throw your heart over the fence. The rest will follow. – Mac Anderson
180. Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. – Ella Fitzgerald
181. Go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is. – Frank Scully
182. You’re allowed to scream, you’re allowed to cry, but do not give up. – Quotemadness
183. Remember when you wanted what you currently have? – Omen
184. You don’t have to live forever, you just have to live – Natalie Babbitt
185. One step at a time, one day at a time, just today, just this day to get through. – Linda Sue Park
186. Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for. – David Starr Jordan
187. My motto is: more good times. – Jack Nicholson
188. Champions keep playing until they get it right. – Billie Jean King
189. Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise. – Victor Hugo
190. You can always become better. – Tiger Woods
191. Do more of what makes you happy and less of what doesn’t. – Cassey Ho
192. Life is meant to be fun, and joyous, and fulfilling. – Jim Henson
193. Live, and be happy, and make others so. – Mary Shelley
194. Tough love fills our souls with the truth. – Mila Vidanovic
195. You never need to apologize for how you chose to survive. – Clementine Von Radics
196. The reward of a thing done well is to have done it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
197. It’s risky not to take risks. – Brandon Steiner
198. Dreams don’t work unless you do. – John C. Maxwell
199. We tend to get what we expect. – Norman Vincent Peale
200. Yes, you can. End of story. – Miss Moore
201. You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do. – Henry Ford
202. Action will destroy your procrastination. – Og Mandino
203. I’ll go anywhere as long as it’s forward. – David Livingstone
204. To improve is to change. To be perfect is to change often. – Winston Churchill
205. The world hates change yet it is the only thing that has brought progress. – Charles F. Kettering
206. You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with. – Wayne Dyer
207. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle. – Plato
208. Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late – Benjamin Franklin
209. All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. – Adlai E. Stevenson
210. Playing it safe is the riskiest choice we can ever make. – Sarah Ban Breathnach
211. You will never find time for anything. You must make it. – Charles Buxton
212. Knowledge is proud she knows so much; wisdom is humble that she knows no more. – William Cowper
213. It is not what you gather but what you scatter that tells what kind of life you have lived. – Helen Walton
214. The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. – William James
215. What gets measured gets managed. – Peter Drucker
216. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece. – Ralph Charell
217. Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. – George Bernard Shaw
218. Whoever best describes a problem is the one most likely to solve it. – Dan Roam
219. We don’t see things as they are. We see them as we are. – Anais Nin
220. How do I know what I think until I hear what I say? – E. M. Forster
221. To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered. – John Ruskin
222. That which can be destroyed by the truth should be. – P. C. Hodgell
223. No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking. – Voltaire
224. Belief gets in the way of learning. – Robert Heinlein
225. Take care that no one hates you justly. – Publiius Syrus
226. Live to the point of tears – Albert Camus
227. Don’t count the days, make the days count. – Muhammad Ali
228. Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. – Thomas A. Edison
229. When you love life, life will love you back. – Jeffrey Gitomer
230. Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow. – Helen Keller
231. Find joy in everything you choose to do. – Chuck Palahniuk
232. Positive energy knows no boundaries. – Lu Wei
233. A good laugh is sunshine in the house. – William Makepeace Thackeray
234. Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. – Colin Powell
235. No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. – Aesop
236. Embrace the glorious mess that you are. – Elizabeth Gilbert
237. We are twice armed if we fight with faith. – Plato
238. Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. – Neale Donald Walsch
239. Great things never came from comfort zones. – Neil Strauss
240. Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. – T.S. Eliot
241. Not all those who wander are lost. – J. R. R. Tolkien
242. In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd. – Miguel de Cervantes
243. No guts, no story. – Chris Brady
244. Screw it, let’s do it. – Richard Branson
245. Keep going. Be all in. – Bryan Hutchinson
246. Leave no stone unturned. – Euripides
247. If it matters to you, you’ll find a way. – Charlie Gilkey
248. Whatever you do, do with all your might. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
249. Every noble work is at first impossible. – Thomas Carlyle
250. And still, I rise. – Maya Angelou
251. Let him that would move the world first move himself. – Socrates
252. So it goes. – Kurt Vonnegut
253. Life is not fair; get used to it. – Bill Gates
254. What’s coming will come and we’ll meet it when it does. – Hagrid
255. Above all things, reverence yourself. – Pythagoras
256. Happiness depends upon ourselves. – Aristotle
257. The less I needed, the better I felt. – Charles Bukowski
258. A happy soul is the best shield for a cruel world. – Atticus
259. Choose people who lift you up. – Michelle Obama
260. Friends are the siblings God never gave us. – Mencius
261. Count your blessings. – Og Mandino
262. ‘Enough’ is a feast. – Buddhist proverb
263. Kindness is wisdom. – Philip James Bailey
264. Do small things with great love. – Mother Teresa
265. For it is in giving that we receive. – Francis of Assisi
266. Beauty awakens the soul to act. – Dante Alighieri
267. Beauty is the promise of happiness. – Stendhal
268. Time eases all things. – Sophocles
269. Time brings all things to pass. – Aeschylus
270. Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today. – Will Rogers
271. Simplify, simplify. – Henry David Thoreau
272. Buy less, choose well. – Vivienne Westwood
273. Do more of what matters. – Anthony Ongaro
274. Simplicity is the soul of efficiency. – Austin Freeman
275. The need for less often result in a life of more. – Brian Gardner
276. No ego, no pain. – Chien-ju
277. I don’t mind what happens. – Jiddu Krishnamurti
278. He who is contented is rich. – Lao Tzu
279. Peace is every step. – Thich Nhat Hahn
280. There is no way to peace, peace is the way. – A.J. Muste
281. Remorse is the poison of life. – Charlotte Bronte
282. Courage doesn’t always roar. – Mary Anne Radmacher
283. One man with courage makes a majority. – Andrew Jackson
284. Persevere and get it done. – George Allen Sr
285. How long should you try? Until. – Jim Rohn
286. Our whole life is solving puzzles. – Erno Rubik
287. Life is short and progress is slow. – Gabriel Lippmann
288. Persevere in virtue and diligence. – Plautus
289. Perseverance, secret of all triumphs. – Victor Hugo
290. A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self. – Charles Dickens
291. Faith is the quiet cousin of courage. – Judith Hanson Lasater
292. Trust is the greatest intelligence. – Osho
293. As is our confidence, so is our capacity. – William Hazlitt
294. Be curious. Not judgmental. – Walt Whitman
295. Be groovy or leave, man. – Bob Dylan
296. Don’t worry, be happy. – Bobby McFerrin
297. What worries you, masters you. – John Locke
298. Stumbling is not falling. – Malcolm X
299. Life’s too short for regrets. – Nicholas Hoult
300. Courage, dear heart. – C.S. Lewis
301. There are no regrets in life, just lessons. – Jennifer Aniston
302. Regret for wasted time is more wasted time. – Mason Cooley
303. The fool wonders, the wise man asks. – Benjamin Disraeli
304. Seek the seeker. – Ramana Maharshi
305. No pressure, no diamonds. – Thomas Carlyle
306. If youth knew; if age could. – Sigmund Freud
307. Sadness flies away on the wings of time. – Jean de La Fontaine
308. Life is like the ocean, it goes up and down. – Vanessa Paradis
309. Life is too short not to experiment. – Jamelia
310. The best dreams happen when you’re awake. – Cherie Gilderbloom
311. Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. – Carl Sagan
312. Things do not happen. Things are made to happen. – John F. Kennedy
313. Either I will find a way, or I will make one – Philip Sidney
314. The harder I work, the luckier I get. – Gary Player
315. Out of difficulties grow miracles. – Jean de la Bruyere
316. It’s always too early to quit. – Norman Vincent Peale
317. Life is a constant process of dying. – Arthur Schopenhauer
318. My life is my argument. – Albert Schweitz
319. Don’t go through life, grow through life. – Eric Butterworth
320. A problem is a chance for you to do your best. – Duke Ellington
321. Life is largely a matter of expectation. – Homer
322. Life is accepting what is and working from that. – Gloria Naylor
323. What you seek is seeking you. – Rumi
324. Fortune and love favor the brave. – Ovid
325. Prayer is man’s greatest power. – W. Clement Stone
326. Unless you believe, you will not understand. – Augustine of Hippo
327. I believe life takes us where we need to be. – Sasha Alexander
328. I am a part of all that I have met. – Alfred Lord Tennyson
329. By daily dying I have come to be. – Theodore Roethke
330. The map is not the territory. – Alfred Korzybski
331. Tomorrow always comes, and today is never yesterday. – S. A. Sachs
332. You are in the perfect position to get there from here. – Abraham–Hicks
333. We become aware of the void as we fill it. – Antonio Porchia
334. I am changed forever by the realization of never. – Terri Guillemets
335. We have the ability to survive anything except ourselves. – Mike Dolan
336. We are spirits clad in veils. – Christopher P. Cranch
337. We are what we think – Buddha
338. Think and wonder, wonder and think. – Dr Seuss
339. There is only one way. Go into yourself. – Rainer Maria Rilke
340. My life is my message. – Mahatma Gandhi