249+ Short Inspirational Quotes to Fuel Your Day

   249+ Short Inspirational Quotes to Fuel Your Day

Read this collection of short inspirational quotes and let us know in the comment section which one will become your daily mantra.

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1. “There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror reflects it.” - Edith Wharton

 

2. “You do not find the happy life. You make it.” – Camilla Eyring Kimball

 

3. “The most wasted of days is one without laughter.” – E.E. Cummings

 

4. “Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.” – Hafez

 

5. “Make each day your masterpiece.” – John Wooden

 

6. “Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.” – John Barrymore

 

7. “Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.” – Jim Rohn

 

8. “Life changes very quickly, in a very positive way, if you let it.” – Lindsey Vonn

 

9. “Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.” – Helen Keller

 

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Short inspirational quotes about believing in yourself

 

10. “Impossible is for the unwilling.” – John Keats

 

11. “No pressure, no diamonds.” – Thomas Carlyle

 

12. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt

 

13. “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” – Truman Capote

 

14. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot

 

15. “When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go.” – Carol Burnett

 

16. “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi

 

17. “Stay foolish to stay sane.” – Maxime Lagacé

 

18. “Stay hungry. Stay foolish.” – Steve Jobs

 

19. “Whatever you are, be a good one.” – Abraham Lincoln 

 

20. “You must do the things you think you cannot do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

 

21. “Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” – Confucius

 

22. “Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.” – André Gide

 

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23. “Dream big and dare to fail.” – Norman Vaughan

 

24. “My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive.” – Maya Angelou

 

25. “You are enough just as you are.” – Meghan Markle

 

Short inspirational quotes about perseverance

 

26. “To be the best, you must be able to handle the worst.” – Wilson Kanadi

 

27. “No matter what you’re going through, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel.” – Demi Lovato

 

28. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein

 

29. “Every moment is a fresh beginning.” – T.S. Eliot 

 

30. “No guts, no story.” – Chris Brady

 

31. “Keep going. Be all in.” – Bryan Hutchinson

 

32. “Leave no stone unturned.” – Euripides

 

33. “Nothing is impossible. The word itself says “I’m possible!” – Audrey Hepburn

 

34. “It isn’t where you came from. It’s where you’re going that counts.” – Ella Fitzgerald

 

If you’re enjoying these quotes, make sure to read our collection of Ella Fitzgerald quotes from the iconic singer.

 

35. “If it matters to you, you’ll find a way.” – Charlie Gilkey

 

36. “Tough times never last, but tough people do.” – Dr. Robert Schuller

 

37. “Turn your wounds into wisdom.” – Oprah Winfrey 

 

38. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu

 

39. “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill

 

40. “Don’t wait, the time will never be just right.” – Napoleon Hill

 

41. “If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.” – Martin Luther King Jr. 

 

42. “Life is fragile. We’re not guaranteed a tomorrow so give it everything you’ve got.” – Tim Cook

 

43. “The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” – Michael Altshuler

 

Short inspirational quotes about helping people

 

44. “Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.” – Maya Angelou

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45. “Some people look for a beautiful place. Others make a place beautiful.” – Hazrat Inayat Khan

 

46. “Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.” – Isaac Asimov

 

47. “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” – Leonardo da Vinci

 

48. “We have a responsibility to help those around us and help others in need.” – Virginia Williams

 

49. “No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of others.” – Charles Dickens (see more Charles Dickens quotes)

 

50. “No one has ever become poor by giving.” – Anne Frank

 

Short inspirational quotes to encourage you

 

51. “Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.” – Samuel Beckett

 

52. “The only thing that can grow is the thing you give energy to.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you’re enjoying these quotes, make sure to read our collection of Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes on living a great life.

 

53. “Good things happen to those who hustle.” – Anaïs Nin

 

54. “No greater gift there is, than a generous heart.” – Yoda

 

55. “Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.” – Winston Churchill

 

56. “A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.” – Joseph Campbell

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57. “You can if you think you can.” – George Reeves

 

58. “Worrying is like paying a debt you don’t owe.” – Mark Twain

 

59. “The wisest mind has something yet to learn.” – George Santanaya

 

60. “Get to the point where you get allergic to average! You don’t think average!” – Eric Thomas

 

Short inspirational quotes that will open your mind

 

61. “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar Wilde

 

62. “Open your mind. Get up off the couch. Move.” – Anthony Bourdain

 

63. “You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.” – Rabindranath Tagore

 

64. “You never fail until you stop trying.” – Albert Einstein

 

65. “We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.” – Helen Keller

 

66. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

 

67. “Whatever you do, do with all your might.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero

 

68. “In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.” – Albert Einstein

 

69. “He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

 

70. “If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.” – Dolly Parton

 

If you’re enjoying these quotes, make sure to read our collection of Dolly Parton quotes from the iconic actress.

 

Short inspirational quotes to keep you moving forward

 

71. “Persistence guarantees that results are inevitable.” – Paramahansa Yogananda

 

72. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” –George Bernard Shaw

 

73. “Some days you just have to create your own sunshine.” – Unknown

 

74. “Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

 

75. “There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.” – Augustine of Hippo

 

76. “Always do what you are afraid to do.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

77. “Every noble work is at first impossible.” – Thomas Carlyle

 

78. “If you can dream it, you can do it.” – Walt Disney

 

79. “Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.” – Edwin Markham

 

80. “Rise above the storm and you will find the sunshine.” – Mario Fernández

 

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Short inspirational quotes to empower you

 

81. “Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.“ – Eleanor Roosevelt

 

82. “Take time to do what makes your soul happy.” – Unknown

 

83. “Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.“ – Lance Armstrong

 

84. “The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.” – William Blake

 

85. “When one door of happiness closes, another opens.“ – Helen Keller

 

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86. “Sadness flies away on the wings of time.” – Jean de La Fontaine

 

87. “It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.” – Edmund Hillary

 

88. “Begin anywhere.” – John Cage

 

89. “Have faith in yourself and in the future.” – Ted Kennedy

 

90. “Despite the forecast, live like it’s spring.” – Lily Pulitzer

 

Short inspirational quotes that will make your day

 

91. “Do it Now!” – Napoleon Hill

 

92. “The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.”- Elbert Hubbard

 

93. “No great thing is created suddenly.” —Epictetus

 

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94. “And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It is the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln

 

95. “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”—Confucius

 

96. “Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.” – Soren Kierkegaard

 

97. “I’d rather be optimistic and a fool, than pessimistic and right.” –Author unknown

 

98. “Courage is fear that has said its prayers.” – Dorothy Bernard

 

99. “Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.”– Jonathan Lockwood Huie

 

100. “Live your dreams.” – Les Brown

 

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101. “The true vocation of man is to find his way for himself.” – Hermann Hesse

 

102. “A life of sacrifice is the pinnacle of art, and is full of true joy.” –Mahatma Gandhi

 

103. “No wind favors he who has no destined port.” —Montaigne

 

104. “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” – Henry Davis Thoreau

 

105. “Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.” – Albert Einstein

 

106. “To know oneself, one should assert oneself.” –Albert Camus

 

107. “Men do less than they ought unless they do all they can.” – Thomas Carlyle

 

108. “People living deeply have no fear of death.” – Anais Nin

 

109. “A clever man commits no minor blunders.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

110. “Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still.” –Chinese Proverb

 

Short inspirational quotes about life and dreams

 

111. “If I’m gonna tell a real story, I’m gonna start with my name.” – Kendrick Lamar

 

112. “Wake up with determination. Go to bed with satisfaction.”

– George Horace Lorimer

 

113. “All limitations are self-imposed.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

 

114. “When you make a choice, you change the future.”– Deepak Chopra

 

115. “Determine your priorities and focus on them.” – Eileen McDargh

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116. “Words are your paintbrush, and your life is the canvas. You can paint whatever you want to paint.”― Miguel Ruiz

 

117. “Never let your emotions overpower your intelligence.” – Drake

 

118. “Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.”– Oprah Winfrey

 

119. “Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.” – Rumi

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120. “Always remember that you are unique  –  just like everybody else.” – Unknown

 

Quotes about inspiration for success

 

 

121. “If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.” – Mark Twain

 

122. “Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.”

– Walt Whitman

 

123. “Have enough courage to start and enough heart to finish.” – Jessica N. S. Yourko

 

124. “Above all, a person is their will.”– Unknown

 

125. “Be so good they can’t ignore you.” – Steve Martin

 

126. “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”– Milton Berle

 

127. “Don’t you know your imperfections is a blessing?” – Kendrick Lamar

 

128. “Who you are tomorrow begins with what you do today.”– Tim Fargo

 

129. “Happiness depends upon ourselves.” – Aristotle

 

130. “You can’t have everything. Where would you put it?” – Steven Wright

 

Short life quotes to brighten your day

 

131. “Tough times never last but tough people do.” – Robert H. Schiuller

 

132. “Magic always happens when you direct your inner powers to the object you want to change.”– Bangambiki Habyarimana

 

133. “I could agree with you but then we’d both be wrong.” – Harvey Specter

 

134. “The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.”– Tony Robbins

 

135. “Yesterday you said tomorrow. Just do it.” – Nike

 

136. “Those at the top of the mountain didn’t fall there.”– Marcus Washling

 

137. “There is no substitute for hard work.” – Thomas Edison

 

138. “Mostly, the world sees you the way you see yourself.”– Lisa Nichols

 

139. “The meaning of life is to give life meaning.” – Ken Hudgins

 

140. “The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs, one step at a time.” – Joe Girard

 

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Short inspirational quotes to uplift you

 

141. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” – Mahatma Gandhi

 

142. “We accept the love we think we deserve.” – Stephen Chbosky

 

143. “Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.” – Marilyn Monroe

 

144. “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” – Oscar Wilde

 

145. “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” – Maya Angelou

 

146. “Everything you can imagine is real.” – Pablo Picasso

 

147. “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt

 

148. “It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.” – Paulo Coelho

 

149. “Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama

 

150. “Life is too short to waste your time on people who don’t respect, appreciate, and value you.” – Roy T. Bennett

 

Short positive quotes to pump you up

 

151. “Never give up hope. All things are working for your good. One day, you’ll look back on everything you’ve been through and thank God for it.” – Germany Kent

 

152. “When in doubt, throw doubt out and have a little faith….” – E.A. Bucchianeri

 

153. “Don’t worry about the challenges. Get excited about the rewards of crushing them.” – Hiral Nagda

 

154. “Keep going. Is not as difficult as you feel it is. Don’t give up.” – Brandon Sanderson

 

155. “I may stumble. I may fall. I may cry. But I’ll NEVER give up! Tomorrow, I rise again.” – Steve Maraboli

 

156. “The most important thing is to keep going. The second most important thing is to choose the right direction.” – Maxime Lagacé

 

157. “Keep going like there’s a big rock rolling behind you. Never stop until you find ways to dodge it!” – I’m salmiah

 

158. “There are a thousand reasons to live this life, every one of them is sufficient.” – Marilynne Robinson

 

159. “If beautiful lilies bloom in ugly waters, you too can blossom in ugly situations.” – Matshona Dhliwayo

 

160. “Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what is still possible to do.” – Hillary Rodham Clinton

 

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Short inspirational quotes to inspire success

 

161. “Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.” – Lou Holtz

 

162. “Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.” – Henry Ford

 

163. “Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.” – Robert Breault

 

164. “Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.” – Christian D. Larson

 

165. “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius

 

166. “Dream big, stay positive, work hard, and enjoy the journey.” – Urijah Faber

 

167. “Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.” – John Heywood

 

168. “We go forward with our heads held high, but look back and remember where we come from.” – Michael Hudson

 

169. “Don’t get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.” – Dolly Parton

 

170. “As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

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Short inspirational quotes to brighten your day

 

171. “My life is my message.” – Mahatma Gandhi

 

172. “Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.” – Maya Angelou

 

173. “Never regret anything that made you smile.” – Mark Twain

 

174. “You receive from the world what you give to the world.” – Oprah Winfrey

 

175. “Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.” – Confucius

 

176. “In a gentle way, you can shake the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi

 

177. “Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.” – W. Clement Stone

 

178. “All progress takes place outside of your comfort zone.” – Michael John Bobak

 

179. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela

 

180. “What makes greatness is starting something that lives after you.” – Ralph Sockman

 

Short inspirational quotes and words of wisdom

 

181. “I don’t need it to be easy, I need it to be worth it.” – Lil Wayne

 

182. “In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” – Albert Einstein

 

183. “If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.” – Bruce Lee

 

184. “He that can have patience can have what he will.” – Benjamin Franklin

 

185. “Being miserable is a habit; being happy is a habit; and the choice is yours.” – Tom Hopkins

 

186. “Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.” – Muhammad Ali

 

187. “It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up.” – Vince Lombardi

 

188. “The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.” – Henry Ford

 

189. “Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.” – Oprah Winfrey

 

190. “Energy and initiative count as much as talent and luck.” – Will Peters

 

Short inspirational quotes for big life changes

 

191. “As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.“ –

Marianne Williamson

 

192. “Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you.”— Walt Whitman

 

193. “There is nothing impossible to they who will try.”— Alexander the Great

 

194. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”– Winston Churchill

 

195. “You define your own life. Don’t let other people write your script.”— Oprah Winfrey

 

196. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”— Malala Yousafzai

 

197. “Spread love everywhere you go.”— Mother Teresa

 

198. “You can be everything. You can be the infinite amount of things that people are.”— Kesha

 

199. “Belief creates the actual fact.”— William James

 

200. “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”— Aristotle

 

Other short positive quotes and sayings

 

201. “When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.” – Maya Angelou

 

202. “There can be glory in failure and despair in success.” – Abraham Lincoln

 

203. “A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.” – Francis Bacon

 

204. “None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing.” – Benjamin Franklin

 

205. “A man’s true wealth is the good he does in the world.” – Kahlil Gibran

 

206. “You can choose to not let little things upset you.” – Joel Osteen

 

207. “Positive anything is better than negative nothing.” – Elbert Hubbard

 

208. “If you want to see a rainbow you have to learn to see the rain.” – Paulo Coelho

 

209. “I’m a slow walker, but I never walk back.” – Abraham Lincoln

 

210. “You can’t live an exceptional life by being “normal.”” – Nick Maley

 

Short inspirational quotes about success and goals

211. “Learn as if you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow.” — Mahatma Gandhi

 

212. “Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” — Will Rogers

 

213.“When you change your thoughts, remember to also change your world.”—Norman Vincent Peale

 

214. “To know how much there is to know is the beginning of learning to live.” —Dorothy West

 

215. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy looking for it.” — Henry David Thoreau

 

216. “Goal setting is the secret to a compelling future.” — Tony Robbins

 

217. “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” — Herman Melville

 

218. “Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.” — Tony Robbins

 

219. “I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” —Estée Lauder

 

220. “Either you run the day or the day runs you.” — Jim Rohn

 

Short inspirational quotes for living your best life

221. “No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” — Aesop

 

222. “A place for everything, everything in its place.” — Benjamin Franklin

 

223. “Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.” — Octavia E. Butler

 

224. “We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.” — Ronald Reagan

 

225. “We know what we are, but know not what we may be.” — William Shakespeare

 

226. “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” — Aristotle Onassis

 

227. “Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, Or what’s a heaven for?” — Robert Browning

 

228. “If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.” — Isaac Newton

 

229. “We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.” — Joseph Campbell

 

230. “Two roads diverged in a wood and I—I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” — Robert Frost

 

Short inspirational quotes for work

231. “I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.” – Thomas Jefferson

 

232. “Everything should be made as simple as possible but not simpler.” —Albert Einstein

 

233. “Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right.” – Henry Ford

 

234. “The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it’s yours.” —Ayn Rand

 

235. “Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better.” – Jim Rohn

 

236. “The best way out is always through.” —Robert Frost

 

237. “Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.” – Dale Carnegie

 

238. “You will never plough a field if you only turn it over in your mind.” —Irish Proverb

 

239. “To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.” – Eva Young

 

240. “In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.” — Thomas Jefferson

 

Short inspirational quotes to propel you to succeed

241. “The mind is everything. What you think you become.”  – Buddha

 

242. “Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” – Babe Ruth

 

243. “I don’t walk away from things I think are unfinished.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger

 

244. “I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.” – Benjamin Franklin

 

245. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot

 

246. “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” – Alice Walker

 

247. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anais Nin

 

248. Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. – Les Brown

 

249. “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky

 

250. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt

 

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