119 Short Inspirational Quotes for When You Need a Pick-Me-Up
Life can get tough, and a little motivation can go a long way.
That’s why we’ve curated a collection of the most inspiring short quotes to help boost your mood and energize your day.
Browse through our selection of short uplifting quotes, short quotes about happiness, and short quotes about success to find the perfect words to motivate your journey.
Our Favorite Short Inspirational Quotes
“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“The best dreams happen when you’re awake.” – Cherie Gilderbloom
“You can if you think you can.” – George Reeves
“Simple can be harder than complex.” – Steve Jobs
“Keep your face to the sunshine and you can never see the shadow.” – Helen Keller
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.” – Albert Einstein
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Do it with passion, or not at all.” – Rosa Nouchette Carey
“It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.” – Confucius
“I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison
“We become what we think about.” – Earl Nightingale
“Always keep your eyes open. Keep watching. Because whatever you see can inspire you.” – Grace Coddington
“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney
“Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.” – Jesus
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched — they must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
“Sometimes you can’t see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.” – Ellen DeGeneres
“Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” – Babe Ruth
“The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.” – Jimmy Johnson
“When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.” – Mary Kay Ash
“Every moment is a fresh beginning.” – T.S. Eliot
“It wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark.” – Howard Ruff
“I will not follow where the path may lead, but I will go where there is no path, and I will leave a trail.” – Muriel Strode
“The mind is everything. What you think you become.” – Buddha
“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” – Henry David Thoreau
“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” – Henry David Thoreau
“The grass is greener where you water it.” – Neil Barringham
“In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.” – Sid Caesar
“Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.” – Christopher Reeve
“Either you run the day, or the day runs you.” – Jim Rohn
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” – Mae West
“You cannot save people, you can just love them.” – Anais Nin
“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.” – Pablo Picasso
“If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.” – Seth Godin
“Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.” – Charles Swindoll
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.” – Charles Kettering
“Don’t count the days, make the days count.” – Muhammad Ali
“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” – John Wooden
“I never dream of success. I worked for it.” – Estee Lauder
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” – Napoleon Hill
“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” – Milton Berle
“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily.” – Zig Ziglar
“A journey of a thousand leagues begins beneath one’s feet.” – Lao Tzu
“Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” – Earl Nightingale
“You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Christopher Columbus
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot
“Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.” – Chris Grosser
“Light tomorrow with today.” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“Make each day your masterpiece.” – John Wooden
“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” – Edith Wharton
“Whatever you are, be a good one.” – Abraham Lincoln
“Nothing is impossible. The word itself says ‘I’m possible!’” – Audrey Hepburn
“Don’t wait, the time will never be just right.” – Napoleon Hill
“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of others.” – Charles Dickens
“You never fail until you stop trying.” – Albert Einstein
“There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.” – Augustine of Hippo
“Have faith in yourself and in the future.” – Ted Kennedy
“To know oneself, one should assert oneself.” –Albert Camus
“All limitations are self-imposed.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Mostly, the world sees you the way you see yourself.”– Lisa Nichols
“When in doubt, throw doubt out and have a little faith….” – E.A. Bucchianeri
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius
“In a gentle way, you can shake the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.” – Muhammad Ali
“You can be everything. You can be the infinite amount of things that people are.”— Kesha
“You can choose to not let little things upset you.” – Joel Osteen
“Life changes very quickly, in a very positive way, if you let it.” – Lindsey Vonn
“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive.” – Maya Angelou
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” –George Bernard Shaw
“The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.” – Elbert Hubbard
“And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It is the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”—Confucius
“Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.” – Soren Kierkegaard
“Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.”– Jonathan Lockwood Huie
“A life of sacrifice is the pinnacle of art, and is full of true joy.” –Mahatma Gandhi
“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.” – Albert Einstein
“The meaning of life is to give life meaning.” – Ken Hudgins
“Don’t get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.” – Dolly Parton
“My life is my message.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.” – Bruce Lee
“You define your own life. Don’t let other people write your script.”— Oprah Winfrey
“You can’t live an exceptional life by being ‘normal.’” – Nick Maley
“Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.” – Rumi
“We accept the love we think we deserve.” – Stephen Chbosky
“Spread love everywhere you go.”— Mother Teresa
“Love is not love until love’s vulnerable.” – Theodore Roethke
“We can only learn to love by loving.” – Iris Murdoch
“Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” – Franklin P. Jones
“If I know what love is, it is because of you.” – Hermann Hesse
“Loved you yesterday, love you still, always have, always will.” – Elaine Davis
“True love stories never have endings.” – Richard Bach
“We need not think alike to love alike.” – Francis David
“To love at all is to be vulnerable” – C.S. Lewis
“Love is an untamed force.” – Paulo Coelho
“Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.” – Ovid
“Love is never wrong.” – Melissa Etheridge
“All you need is love.” – Paul McCartney
“A loving heart is the truest wisdom.” – Charles Dickens
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” – William Shakespeare
“Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.” – Barbara De Angelis
“We love the things we love for what they are.” – Robert Frost
“A life lived in love will never be dull.” – Leo Buscaglia
“Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.” – Jim Rohn
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens.“ – Helen Keller
“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” – Aristotle
“Simplicity makes me happy.” – Alicia Keys
“Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama
“Being miserable is a habit; being happy is a habit; and the choice is yours.” – Tom Hopkins
“Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get” – W. P. Kinsella
“Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.” – Ayn Rand
“Happiness [is] only real when shared” – Jon Krakauer
“Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.” – Robert Frost
“No one has ever become poor by giving.” – Anne Frank
“Worrying is like paying a debt you don’t owe.” – Mark Twain
“We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.” – Helen Keller
“Always do what you are afraid to do.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
