100+ Very Short Quotes About Life – Powerful, Inspiring & Shareable

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

The only way to live is to accept each minute as an eternity.

Do more of what makes you forget to check the time.

You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start now and change the ending.

Growth begins where comfort ends.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

To live will be an awfully big adventure.

Be the energy you want to attract.

Small progress is still progress.

You don’t find your purpose. You create it.

Rise up, start fresh, see the bright future ahead.

Success is the sum of small efforts repeated daily.

Dream big. Start small. Act now.

Your only limit is your mind.

Keep going. You’re closer than you think.

Believe you can, and you’re halfway there.

Action is the foundational key to success.

Make today so awesome yesterday gets jealous.

You were born to shine, not to hide.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Progress over perfection.

I’m not lazy, I’m on energy-saving mode.

Life is tough, but so am I—after coffee.

Adulting: where naps are illegal and responsibilities never sleep.

I didn’t fail—I just found 10,000 ways that won’t work… and I’m tired.

My bed is a magical place where I suddenly remember everything I was supposed to do.

I’m not arguing, I’m just explaining why I’m right.

Life is short. Smile while you still have teeth.

I followed my dreams… now I’m lost.

If at first you don’t succeed, redefine success.

I’m not late. Everyone else is just early.

My phone battery lasts longer than my relationships.

I’m not short. I’m concentrated awesome.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: his freedom to choose.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

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

We suffer more in imagination than in reality.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.

Doubt is the origin of wisdom.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Nothing in life is to be feared; it is only to be understood.

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

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

The best way out is always through.

Stars can't shine without darkness.

Hard times don’t last, but strong people do.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long at the closed door we miss the one that opened.

Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations.

Even the smallest light can conquer the deepest dark.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all the darkness.

The wound is the place where the light enters you.

Sometimes the bad things that happen in our lives put us directly on the path to the best things.

You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only option.

Less is more.

Breathe.

Just be.

Enough.

Let go.

Slow down.

Feel it.

This too shall pass.

Stay present.

Kindness matters.

One step at a time.

It is what it is.

Think positive, stay strong.

Your vibe attracts your tribe.

Good vibes only.

Today is a good day to have a good day.

Choose joy.

Smile—the world looks better that way.

Gratitude turns what we have into enough.

Focus on the good.

Radiate positivity.

Be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud.

Optimism is a happiness magnet.

No rain, no flowers.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

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

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

Where there is love, there is life.

Love makes a short absence long, and a long presence short.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

Family is not an important thing, it’s everything.

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

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.

Loyalty is rare—cherish it.

Connection is why we’re here.

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

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

The trouble is, you think you have time.

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today.

Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Life isn’t measured in years, but in moments that take your breath away.

We are dust and shadow.

So it goes.

This moment is your life.

Memento mori—remember you must die.

The days are long, but the decades are short.

Make peace with impermanence.

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

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

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

Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success.

Try. Fail. Learn. Repeat.

Every master was once a disaster.

You haven’t failed until you quit.

Fail fast, fix fast, learn fast.

The difference between success and failure is effort.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit the bottom.

Done is better than perfect.