Famous Short Quotes That Inspire

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.

It always seems impossible until it's done.

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

Dream big. Start small. Act now.

Great things never come from comfort zones.

Do it scared.

Be the change you wish to see in the world.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.

Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.

In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Everything you can imagine is real.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Where there is love, there is life.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

Love makes everything possible.

In love, there are no mistakes.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

A simple 'I love you' means more than money.

Love conquers all.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength.

Love is not about possession. It's about appreciation.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

Love is the flower you've got to let grow.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Opportunities don't happen. You create them.

Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.

Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.

Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.

There is no substitute for hard work.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

Success isn't owned. It's leased, and rent is due every day.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.

Knowledge is power.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

When the student is ready, the teacher appears.

Silence is a source of great strength.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.

To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.

Leadership is not about being in charge. It is about taking care of those in your charge.

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Become the kind of leader who would attract the followers you want to have.

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

Leaders think and act ethically.

A good leader inspires others with confidence in him; a great leader inspires them with confidence in themselves.

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

Leadership is action, not position.

Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.

The happiest people don’t have the best of everything, they make the best of everything.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.

Happiness is a direction, not a place.

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters.

Happiness is letting go of what you think your life should look like and celebrating it for everything that it is.

Happiness is not a destination, it's a way of life.

Good things take time.

Rome wasn't built in a day.

Patience is not the ability to wait, but how you act while you're waiting.

All things come to those who wait.

Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

With time and patience, the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.

Time heals almost everything. Give time, time.

Delay is better than disaster.

Time is the wisest counselor of all.

Every moment is a fresh beginning.

Lost time is never found again.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

Fortune favors the bold.

Fearless is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of it.

Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

Courage is grace under pressure.

Be brave enough to break your own rules.

What would you do if you were not afraid?

Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right.

Your mind is a powerful thing. When filled with positive thoughts, your life will start to change.

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

Look at everything as though seeing it for the first time.

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words.

A positive mind finds opportunity in everything.

Winners have simply developed the habit of doing things losers avoid.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.

Energy flows where attention goes.

Your attitude determines your direction.