125 Short Motivational Quotes for a Positive Mindset
Sometimes, a few powerful words are all you need to spark inspiration, so we’ve gathered all the best short motivational quotes for your next post.
And if you’re looking for quick and uplifting sayings to keep you motivated, we also have you covered.
Now go ahead and browse through to find your favorite.
Short Motivational Quotes
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“Never regret anything that made you smile.” – Mark Twain
“Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.” – Walt Whitman
“Every day that you open your eyes is a new day and another day to get it right.” – Jean Renee Porter
“In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.” – Albert Einstein
“It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.” – Paulo Coelho
“He that can have patience can have what he will.” – Benjamin Franklin
“Believe in yourself and all that you are.” – Christian D. Larson
“Persistence guarantees that results are inevitable.” – Paramahansa Yogananda
“Every new day begins with possibilities.” – Ronald Reagan
“You can be everything. You can be the infinite amount of things that people are.” – Kesha
“Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.” – Edwin Markham
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” – Milton Berle
“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.” – Albert Einstein
“No matter what you’re going through, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel.” – Demi Lovato
“Stay foolish to stay sane.” – Maxime Lagacé
“Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.” – Robert Frost
“Sadness flies away on the wings of time.” – Jean de La Fontaine
“Begin anywhere.” – John Cage
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw
“Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.” – Ayn Rand
“Whatever you do, do with all your might.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” – Franklin P. Jones
“My life is my message.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Have enough courage to start and enough heart to finish.” – Jessica N. S. Yourko
“Some people look for a beautiful place. Others make a place beautiful.” – Hazrat Inayat Khan
“Make each day your masterpiece.” – John Wooden
“I think having more Saturdays sounds great.” – Michael Crews
“I’d rather be optimistic and a fool, than pessimistic and right.” – Author unknown
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” – William Shakespeare
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you.” – Walt Whitman
“It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up.” – Vince Lombardi
“Things don’t have to change the world to be important.” – Steve Jobs
“Belief creates the actual fact.” – William James
“Yesterday you said tomorrow. Just do it.” – Nike
“True love stories never have endings.” – Richard Bach
“Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.” – W. P. Kinsella
“Have faith in yourself and in the future.” – Ted Kennedy
“We love the things we love for what they are.” – Robert Frost
“Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.” – Maya Angelou
“Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.” – Oprah Winfrey
“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.” – Francis Bacon
“People living deeply have no fear of death.” – Anais Nin
“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.” – Henry Ford
“A loving heart is the truest wisdom.” – Charles Dickens
“Never give up hope. All things are working for your good.” – Germany Kent
“It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.” – Edmund Hillary
“Dream big, stay positive, work hard, and enjoy the journey.” – Urijah Faber
“Tough times never last, but tough people do.” – Dr. Robert Schuller
“Men do less than they ought unless they do all they can.” – Thomas Carlyle
“Leave no stone unturned.” – Euripides
“You are enough just as you are.” – Meghan Markle
“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of others.” – Charles Dickens
“When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.” – Maya Angelou
“Change in all things is sweet.” – Aristotle
“Dream big and dare to fail.” – Norman Vaughan
“If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“Learn as if you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” – Truman Capote
“There can be glory in failure and despair in success.” – Abraham Lincoln
“When you finally learn your self-worth… you stop giving others discounts.” – Unknown
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius
“You can if you think you can.” – George Reeves
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” – Oscar Wilde
“Beginnings could happen more than once or in different ways.” – Rachel Joyce
“Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.” – Oprah Winfrey
“Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.” – John Barrymore
“Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.” – Winston Churchill
“The past is gone. Today is full of possibilities.” – Karen Casey
“Today is a new day, the first day of the rest of your life.” – Abbie Hoffman
“It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela
“New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.” – Lao Tzu
“There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.” – Augustine of Hippo
“The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.” – Elbert Hubbard
“Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still.” – Chinese Proverb
“Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.” – Maya Angelou
“Love is not love until love’s vulnerable.” – Theodore Roethke
“It isn’t where you came from. It’s where you’re going that counts.” – Ella Fitzgerald
“You can’t have everything. Where would you put it?” – Steven Wright
“Everything you can imagine is real.” – Pablo Picasso
“Never let your emotions overpower your intelligence.” – Drake
“You define your own life. Don’t let other people write your script.” – Oprah Winfrey
“Every morning is a chance at a new day.” – Marjorie Pay Hinckley
“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” – Aristotle
“You can choose to not let little things upset you.” – Joel Osteen
“Open your mind. Get up off the couch. Move.” – Anthony Bourdain
“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.” – Confucius
“Success usually comes to those who are too busy looking for it.” – Henry David Thoreau
“Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.” – Samuel Beckett
“The wisest mind has something yet to learn.” – George Santayana
“It’s a new day and requires new thinking.” – Nick Jonas
“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” – Herman Melville
“Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.” – Marge Piercy
“It can’t be Sunday every day. There are also Mondays and Tuesdays.” – George Weah
“Tough times never last but tough people do.” – Robert H. Schuller
“Goal setting is the secret to a compelling future.” – Tony Robbins
“Every noble work is at first impossible.” – Thomas Carlyle
“Stay hungry. Stay foolish.” – Steve Jobs
“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.” – Winston Churchill
“Don’t worry about the challenges. Get excited about the rewards of crushing them.” – Hiral Nagda
“Either you run the day or the day runs you.” – Jim Rohn
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – Malala Yousafzai
“Let’s forget the baggages of the past and make a new beginning.” – Shahbaz Sharif
“No pressure, no diamonds.” – Thomas Carlyle
“The magic in new beginnings is truly the most powerful of them all.” – Josiyah Martin
“When you change your thoughts, remember to also change your world.” – Norman Vincent Peale
“Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.” – Muhammad Ali
“If I know what love is, it is because of you.” – Hermann Hesse
“Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.” – Nikos Kazantzakis
“Today is a new day. Even if you were wrong yesterday, you can get it right today.” – Dwight Howard
“Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day, with no mistakes in it yet?” – L.M. Montgomery
“Love is shown more in deeds than in words.” – Saint Ignatius
“Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.” – Soren Kierkegaard
“Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” – Will Rogers
“The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.” – Tony Robbins
“If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.” – Bruce Lee
“Always do what you are afraid to do.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Beginnings could happen more than once or in different ways.” – Rachel Joyce
“If it matters to you, you’ll find a way.” – Charlie Gilkey
“Impossible is for the unwilling.” – John Keats
“I’m a slow walker, but I never walk back.” – Abraham Lincoln
“Sometimes painful endings bring the best new beginnings.” – Shae Ross
“Change before you have to.” – Jack Welch
“You can’t live an exceptional life by being “normal.”” – Nick Maley
