Short Well Known Quotes That Inspire

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

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

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

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

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

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

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

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

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

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

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

Wake up with determination. Go to bed with satisfaction.

Do something today that your future self will thank you for.

Great things never come from comfort zones.

Dream it. Wish it. Do it.

Success doesn’t just come and find you, you have to go out and get it.

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

Dream bigger. Do better.

Your passion is waiting for your courage to catch up.

Done is better than perfect.

Everything you can imagine is real.

The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.

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

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

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

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

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

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

May you live all the days of your life.

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

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

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

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

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

Where there is love, there is life.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

All you need is love.

Love makes the world go round.

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

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times with the same person.

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

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

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

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

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 warm puppy.

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

Happiness lies within.

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

The key to being happy is knowing you have the power to choose what to accept and what to let go.

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

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

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Very little is needed to make a happy life.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.

Knowledge is power.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

The fool speaks, the wise man listens.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

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

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

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

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are.

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

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.

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.

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

I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.

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

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.

Opportunities don't happen. You create them.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

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

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

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

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

The trouble is, you think you have time.

Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once gone, never comes back.

Lost time is never found again.

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

Time is money.

Your relationship with time is the most important relationship you will ever have.

Time you enjoy wasting was not wasted.

The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it.

Take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Good friends are like stars. You don't always see them, but you know they're always there.

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.