Short Quotes about Life - Short Inspirational Quotes

Some of the most inspirational quotes are very short. Let this collection of short quotes and sayings inspire and motivate you.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller

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Dance lightly with life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Live life to the fullest.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Life is a long lesson in humility.
- James M. Barrie

Be true to thyself.
- rephrasing of Shakespeare's famous quote

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
- John Lennon

Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin

Life is defined more by its risks than by its samenesses.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Life is a choice.
- Anonymous

Choose your Habits, Choose your Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
- William James

Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare

Follow your own star.
- Anonymous

We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle

Know thyself.
- Socrates

Count Your Blessings.
- Og Mandino

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius

Choose the World You See.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Attitude is everything.
- Charles Swindoll

Let Today be a Thanksgiving.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Joy blooms where minds and hearts are open.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Anything Is Possible.
- Anonymous

He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates

Joy is a Choice - but Not an Easy Choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Reach for the stars.
- Anonymous

Gather strength from life's storms.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Short Quotes to Live By

Never give up.
- Anonymous

Don't sweat the small stuff.
- Richard Carlson

Live with passion.
- Anthony Robbins

Don't dream it, be it.
- Rocky Horror Picture Show

Be gentle first with yourself.
- Lama Yeshe

Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare

Courage doesn't always roar.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Another Sunrise, Another New Beginning
-Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Put on your own oxygen mask first.
- Airline companies

Just Do it!
- Nike ad

Celebrate endings - for they precede new beginnings.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Do it Now!
- Napoleon Hill

A flower is a weed seen through joyful eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Whatever it takes!
- Anonymous

Keep the Faith.
- Anonymous

Another Sunrise, Another New Beginning
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Practice makes perfect.
- Anonymous

To change who you are, change who you think you are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Believe in yourself.
- Anonymous

Set Life's Rhythm with Your Heart-Drum
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It's never too late.
- Anonymous

Better late than never.
- Anonymous

See beauty in the familiar.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Seize the day.
- Anonymous

Soar - it's your natural state.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Be Here Now.
- Ram Dass

Stay Alert, and doors will open.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

No pain, No gain.
- Anonymous

Actions speak louder than words.
- Anonymous

Choose the World You See, and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Experience is the best teacher.
- Anonymous

Follow Your Dreams.
- Anonymous

I think therefore I am.
- Rene Descartes

Life just happens - enjoy it anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Hope springs eternal.
- Alexander Pope

This too, shall pass.
- Bible

Short Love Quotes

Love conquers all.
- Virgil

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Live Well, Love Much, Laugh Often.
- Anonymous

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
- Victor Hugo

Where there is great love there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather

Short Funny Quotes

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
- Anonymous

Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde

Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
- Dalai Lama

Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.
- Will Rogers

A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde

Humor is reason gone mad.
- Groucho Marx

I can resist everything except temptation.
- Oscar Wilde

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
- Benjamin Franklin

A true friend stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde

Marriage is the chief cause of divorce.
- Groucho Marx

The light at the end of the tunnel may be an oncoming train.
- Anonymous

Life is Too Short Quotes

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
- Mark Twain

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
- Truman Capote

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
- Woody Allen

Short Sayings

The buck stops here.
- Harry Truman

Live Your Dreams.
- Les Brown

Laughter is the best medicine.
- Anonymous

Hard work pays off.
- Anonymous

Roll with the punches.
- Anonymous

Life is.
- Anonymous

Gifts freely given are never obligations.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
- Anonymous

Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Be all you can be.
- US Army

Urgent? Why?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Many hands make light work.
- Anonymous

Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Strike while the iron is hot.
- Anonymous

Anger spells dANGER.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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