Find Inspiration Quickly With 100 Hand-Picked Short Quotes

Short Inspirational Quotes for Dawn Starters

1. “Every morning is a beautiful morning.” — Terri Guillemets
2. “Every morning a new sun greets us, and our new life begins.” — Marty Rubin
3. “The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep.” — Rumi
4. “Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.” — Meister Eckhart
5. “I drink cup of sunlight every morning to brighten myself.”― Debasish Mridha
6. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” — Mark Twain
7. “With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
8. “There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.” — Bernard Williams
9. “I wake up every morning with a great desire to live joyfully.” — Anna Howard Shaw
10. “Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.” — Meister Eckhart

Short Motivational Quotes for Workday Wins

1. “If you hit the target every time, it's too near or too big.” — Tom Hirshfield.
2. “Done is better than perfect.” — Sheryl Sandberg“
3. “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” — Bill Gates
4. “The biggest risk is not taking any risk.” — Mark Zuckerberg
5. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” — Peter Drucker
6. “The value of achievement lies in the achieving.“ — Albert Einstein
7. “Excellence isn't a skill. It is an attitude.” — Ralph Marston
8. “My best successes came on the heels of failure.” — Barbara Corcoran
9. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” — Walt Disney
10. “Believe you can, and you’re halfway there.” — Theodore Roosevelt

Short Positive Quotes to Spark Daily Joy

1. “Happiness isn't by chance but by choice.” — Jim Rohn
2. “Try to be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud” — Maya Angelou
3. You have to be willing to get happy about nothing.” ―Andy Warhol
4. “Whoever is happy will make others happy.” — Anne Frank
5. “Happiness depends upon ourselves.” — Aristotle
6. “The only joy in the world is to begin.” — Cesare Pavese
7. “Happiness is a warm puppy.” ― Charles M. Schulz
8. “You must be the best judge of your own happiness.” ― Jane Austen
9. “A flower blossoms for its own joy.” ― Oscar Wilde
10. “Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.” — Dalai Lama

Short Love Quotes Worth Whispering

1. “I love you. You complete me.” — Jerry Maguire (Jerry Maguire,1996)
2. “I'm hopelessly devoted to you.” — Sandy (Grease,1978)
3. “You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you.” — Mr.Darcy (Pride and Prejudice,2005)
4. “I like myself better when I’m with you.” — Morrie Schwartz (Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom,1997)
5. “I love you. I knew it the minute I met you.” — Pat Solitano Jr. (Silver Linings Playbook,2012)
6. “You are, and always have been, my dream.” ― Noah Calhoun (The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks,1996)
7. “You are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.” — E.E. Cummings (The poem [you are my sun, my moon, and my stars...], 1952)
8. “All that you are is all that I'll ever need.” — Ed Sheeran (“Tenerife Sea” from the album x,2014)
9. “You are my today and all of my tomorrows.” — Leo Christopher
10. “You are my greatest adventure.” — Ellie (Up,2009)

Deep Short Quotes for Mindful Moments

1. “Wherever you are, be there totally.” — Eckhart Tolle
2. “Look past your thoughts, so you may drink the pure nectar of This Moment.” — Rumi
3. “Be happy in the moment. That is enough.” — Mother Teresa
4. “The first and best victory is to conquer self.” — Plato
5. “Be where you are; otherwise you will miss your life.” — Siddhartha Gautama
6. “Do it or not. There is no try.” — Yoda
7. “Life is a dance. Mindfulness is witnessing that dance.” — Amit Ray
8. “Paradise is not a place, it’s a state of consciousness.” — Sri Chinmoy
9. “Awareness is the greatest agent for change.” — Eckhart Tolle
10. “Our life is what our thoughts make it.” — Marcus Aurelius

Short Quotes About Life and Time

1. “Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.” — William Penn, Fruits of Solitude
2. “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” — Marthe Troly-Curtin
3. “You may delay, but time will not.” — Benjamin Franklin
4. “Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments.” — Rose Kennedy
5. “Forever is composed of nows.” — Emily Dickinson
6. “I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.” — Golda Meir
7. “You can have it all. Just not all at once.” — Oprah Winfrey
8. “Tough times never last, but tough people do.” — Robert H. Schuller
9. “The way we spend our time defines who we are.” — Jonathan Estrin
10. “Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life.” — Robin S. Sharma

Short Funny Quotes for Quick Laughs

1. “I like my money where I can see it: hanging in my closet.” — Carrie Bradshaw (Sex and the City)
2. “A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.” — Steve Martin
3. “If you can’t be kind, at least be vague.” ― Judith Martin
4. “Age is something that doesn’t matter, unless you are a cheese.” ― Luis Buñuel
5. “Accept who you are. Unless you’re a serial killer.” — Ellen DeGeneres
6. “I'm not insane. My mother had me tested.” — Sheldon Cooper (The Big Bang Theory)
7. “True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.” — Edna Buchanan
8. “I’m in shape. Round is a shape.” — George Carlin
9. “Best friend’ isn’t a person — it’s a tier.” — Mindy Kaling
10. “When in doubt, look intelligent.” — Garrison Keillor

Short Courage Quotes for Brave-Heart Boosters

1. “Change is opportunity in disguise.” — Erin Brockovich
2. “We are the change that we seek.” — Barack Obama
3. “Change takes courage.” — Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez
4. “All we have to do is wake up and change.” — Greta Thunberg
5. “One man with courage is a majority.” — Thomas Jefferson
6. “Fate loves the fearless.” — James Russell Lowell
7. “Courage is grace under pressure.” — Ernest Hemingway
8. “He who is brave is free.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca
9. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” — Theodore Roosevelt
10. “If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.” — H.G. Wells

Short Quotes to Overcome Failure

1. “Success is not a good teacher. Failure makes you humble.” — Shah Rukh Khan
2. “Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.” — Lance Armstrong
3. “I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.” — Neal Shusterman
4. “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” — Albert Einstein
5. “Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.” — C.S. Lewis
6. “We are all failures - at least the best of us are.” — J.M. Barrie
7. “Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.” — Drew Houston
8. “If you can dream it, you can achieve it.” — Zig Ziglar
9. “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” — Robert F. Kennedy
10. “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.” — Henry Ford

Short Quotes For When You’re Heartbroken

1. “I think about you. But I don't say it anymore.” — Marguerite Duras (Hiroshima Mon Amour)
2. “You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.” — Henny Youngman
3.  “I gave you the best of me.” — Nicholas Sparks (The Best of Me)
4. “Loving you was like going to war; I never came back the same.” — Warsan Shire
5. “Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality.” — Emily Dickinson
6. “I know so many last words. But I will never know hers.” — Miles “Pudge” Halter (Looking for Alaska by John Green, 2005)
7. “I was too young to know how to love her.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)
8. “It is the heart that has been pierced that feels the most.” — Jocelyn Murray
9.  “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” ― Maya Angelou (I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,1969)
10. “You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.” ― Katniss Everdeen (The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins,2008)

Short Quotes for The Journey of Self-Love

1. “You are your best thing.” – Toni Morrison
2. “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” — Oscar Wilde
3. “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” — William James
4. “Self-confidence is contagious.”―Stephen Richards
5. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”— George Bernard Shaw
6. “Find out who you are and do it on purpose.” — Dolly Parton
7. “Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.”—Marilyn Monroe
8. “You is kind. You is smart. You is important” — Kathryn Stockett
9. “You change the world by being yourself.” — Yoko Ono
10. “Do your thing and don’t care if they like it.” — Tina Fey

Iconic Short Quotes From Movies, Sitcoms, and Pop Culture Moments

1. “As if!” — Cher Horowitz (Clueless, 1995)
2. “We were on a break!” — Ross Geller (Friends, 1994-2004)
3. “Mommy?.... Mamacita.” — Nicolas Vansteenberghe (Love Island USA Season 7)
4. “You're doing amazing, Sweetie.” — Kris Jenner (Keeping Up with the Kardashians Season 1)
5. “Sorry to this man.” — Keke Palmer
6. “On Wednesdays, we wear pink.” — Regina George (Mean Girls,2004)
7. “Nobody puts Baby in a corner.” — Johnny Castle (Dirty Dancing, 1987)
8. “We’re very working, working class.” — Victoria Beckham (Beckham,2023)
9. “I’m your daddy.” — Pedro Pascal
10. “Oh my God, my Shayla” —  Tyrese Gibson