104 Best One-Line Quotes for Every Moment
Sometimes one line is all you need to say it best, so we have put together a list of the best one-line quotes for your next post.
And if you’re looking for short sayings for captions or daily inspiration, we also have you covered.
Now go ahead and browse through to find your favorite.
Short One-Line Quotes

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” – Oscar Wilde
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” – Haruki Murakami
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” – Plato
“That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.” – Emily Dickinson
“Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.” – C.S. Lewis
“Life is tough my darling, but so are you.” – Stephanie Bennett Henry
“Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself.” – Mark Twain
“Self-awareness and self-love matter. Who we are is how we lead.” – Brene Brown
“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.” – Virginia Woolf
“The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.” – George Eliot
“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.” – Jack Kerouac
“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.” – Maya Angelou
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” – Alice Walker
“If I waited for perfection, I would never write a word.” – Margaret Atwood
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” – Anne Frank
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle
“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.” – Dorothy Parker
“I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.” – Blaise Pascal
“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.” – Anaïs Nin
“The difference between the ‘almost right’ word and the ‘right’ word is really a large matter … ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.” – Mark Twain
“Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.” – Anton Chekhov
“Address the people you seek, and them only.” – Claude C. Hopkins
“There’s nothing to stop a man from writing unless that man stops himself.” – Charles Bukowski
“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.” – Oscar Wilde
“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.” – Charlotte Brontë
“There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty.” – Jane Austen
“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.” – Stephen King
“The secret of all effective advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships.” – Leo Burnett
“A sunset is the sun’s fiery kiss to the night.” – Crystal Woods
“No one has ever found themselves without being a little lost.” – Sai Pradeep
“The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.” – Zeno
“Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.” – Edgar Allan Poe
“You must do the things you think you cannot do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“We love the things we love for what they are.” – Robert Frost
“The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration.” – Claude Monet
“You are your choices.” – Seneca
“Sunsets are proof that no matter what happens, every day can end beautifully.” – Kristen Butler
“Meet me where the sky touches the sea.” – Jennifer Donnelly
“Nothing endures but change.” – Heraclitus
“Life is short, and it is here to be lived.” – Kate Winslet
“And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.” – Confucius
“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” – Lao Tzu
“It is not length of life, but depth of life.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The love that comes from friendship is the underlying facet of a happy life.” – Chelsea Handler
“Sunset is the opening music of the night.” – Mehmet Murat ildan
“The only joy in the world is to begin.” – Cesare Pavese
“We love because it’s the only true adventure.” – Nikki Giovanni
“If you are positive, you’ll see opportunities instead of obstacles.” – Widad Akrawi
“Be happy. It really annoys negative people.” – Ricky Gervais
“Grow old along with me; the best is yet to be.” – Robert Browning
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe
“Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets.” – Dr. Seuss
“Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory.” – Ed Viesturs
“When you’re positive, good things happen.” – Deep Roy
“It’s almost always possible to be honest and positive.” – Naval Ravikant
“No pressure, no diamonds.” – Thomas Carlyle
“You go in with a positive attitude and stay there.” – Shelley Long
“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.” – Aristotle
“Tell yourself how much you love yourself.” – Don Miguel Ruiz
“Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.” – Samuel Beckett
“Life is short it is up to you to make it sweet.” – Sarah Louise
“Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.” – Kahlil Gibran
“When things go wrong, don’t go with them.” – Elvis Presley
“Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.” – Gary Snyder
“Things don’t have to change the world to be important.” – Steve Jobs
“If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.” – Laura Ingalls Wilder
“Never go too long without watching a sunset.” – Atticus
“Learn to love yourself enough to be happy in your own company.” – Samantha Camargo
“By discovering nature, you discover yourself.” – Maxime Lagacé
“The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.” – William Hazlitt
“Say something positive, and you’ll see something positive.” – Jim Thompson
“The most wasted of days is one without laughter.” – E. E. Cummings
“I dwell in possibility.” – Emily Dickinson
“Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.” – Charles Dickens
“Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.” – Margaret Mead
“Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.” – Bill Watterson
“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” – Aristotle
“Everything looks cute when it’s small.” – Cynthia Rawley
“In the book of life, the answers aren’t in the back.” – Charlie Brown
“Colors are the smiles of nature.” – Leigh Hunt
“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” – Aristotle
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” – Lao Tzu
“The constant happiness is curiosity.” – Alice Munro
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Hiking is the only slightly less ugly stepsister of running.” – Lindy Hughes
“You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.” – Mark Twain
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius
“Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.” – Roger Miller
“Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated.” – Confucius
“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” – Napoleon Hill
“You can choose to not let little things upset you.” – Joel Osteen
“Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.” – Erol Ozan
“Enjoy every moment you have. Because in life, there are no rewinds, only flashbacks.” – Anmol Andore
“A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.” – Elbert Hubbard
“Whatever you are, be a good one.” – Abraham Lincoln
“Softly the evening came with the sunset.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.” – Albert Einstein
“Every moment is a fresh beginning.” – T.S. Eliot
“Turn every life situation into a positive one.” – Rhonda Byrne
“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Happiness is a state of mind. It’s just according to the way you look at things.” – Walt Disney
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