Inspiring Short Quotes to Motivate Your Day

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

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

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

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

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Opportunities don't happen. You create them.

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

The harder you work for something, the greater you'll feel when you achieve it.

Dream big and dare to fail.

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

It always seems impossible until it's done.

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

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

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

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

Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return.

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway.

Fearless is not the absence of fear. Fearless is having fear but choosing to act anyway.

The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.

Sometimes the most courageous thing is simply to breathe through the pain.

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Keep going. Everything you need will come to you at perfect time.

Strength does not come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming what you once thought you couldn’t.

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you’re tired of doing the hard work.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, but a lack of will.

Never give up on something that you can’t go a day without thinking about.

Great things take time. Keep pushing forward.

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 a journey, not a destination.

For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times if one only remembers to turn on the light.

Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.

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.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

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

Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.

Where there is love, there is life.

Love makes the world go round.

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

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

We love because it’s the only true adventure.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Love is not about how many days, months, or years you have been together. Love is about how much you love each other every single day.

In love, there are no mistakes—only lessons.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

True love stories never have endings.

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

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

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

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.

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

The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.

Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet.

Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your relationships.

Life becomes easier when you learn to accept the apology you never got.

All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.

Dream big, work hard, stay focused, and surround yourself with good people.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Dreams don’t work unless you do.

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

It’s never too late to wake up and live the life of your dreams.

Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed.

Dreams are today’s answers to tomorrow’s questions.

Chase your dreams, not people.

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

Dreams are illustrations… from the book your soul is writing about you.

Believe in your dreams and they may come true; believe in yourself and they will come true.

Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong.

The only way to grow is to step outside your comfort zone.

Personal growth begins at the end of your comfort zone.

Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together.

You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.

The moment you’re ready to quit is usually the moment right before the miracle happens.

Change is the end result of all true learning.

Growth is messy, but beautiful.

What we think, we become. What we feel, we attract. What we imagine, we create.

You grow through what you go through.

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

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

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

Your attitude determines your direction.

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

Every day may not be good, but there’s something good in every day.

Stay positive, work hard, make it happen.

The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.

Start each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart.

Positive mind, positive vibes, positive life.

Surround yourself with positive people who believe in your dreams.

Positivity is a choice. Choose it every day.

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.

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

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

True leadership stems from character, not position.

You don’t lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going with them to get there.

Leadership is action, not position.

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.