60 Greatest Short Inspirational Quotes | Best Quick Motivational Quotes (2024)

1. “In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.”– Albert Einstein 2. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw 3. “It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly.” – Mabel Newcomber 4. “If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it.” – Jonathan Winters 5.“I’m not afraid of storms, for I’mlearningto sail my ship.” – Louisa May Alcott 6. “Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.” – Ben Spock 7. “Compassion is language the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” – Mark Twain 8. “The greatest act of faith some days is to simply get up and face another day.” – Amy Gatliff 9. "Whatever you are, be a good one." – Abraham Lincoln 10. “If the mind thinks with a believing attitude one can do amazing things.” – Norman Vincent Peale 11.“Be willing to be a beginnerevery single morning” – Meister Eckhart 12. “The really great man is the man who makes every man feel great.” – G. K. Chesterton 13. “The degree of responsibility you take for your life determines how much change you can create in it.” – Celestine Chua 14. “A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circ*mstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.”– Hugh Downs 15. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”– C. S. Lewis 16. “If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.”– Thomas Edison 17. “Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”– Ralph Waldo Emerson 18. “Find out who you are and do it on purpose.” – Dolly Parton 19. “Most obstacles melt away when we make up our minds to walk boldly through them.” – Orison Swett Marden 20. “If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.” – Dolly Parton 21. “Begin anywhere.” – John Cage 22. “Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.”– Edwin Markham 23. “He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” – Friedrich Nietzsche 24. “Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.” – Ralph Emerson 25. “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.“ – Oscar Wilde 26. “Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway." – Eleanor Roosevelt 27. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.“ – Winston S. Churchill 28. “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.“ – John Milton 29. “Only in the darkness can you see the stars.“ – Martin Luther King Jr. 30. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.“ – Robert Louis Stevenson 31. “I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career.I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times, I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed." - Michael Jordan 32. "Stay hungry, stay foolish." - Steve Jobs 33. "The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.” -Joseph Campbell 34. "You become what you believe, not what you think or what you want." - Oprah Winfrey 35. “Be so good they can’t ignore you.”- Steve Martin 36 “Challenges are what makes life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” - Joshua J. Marine 37. “If I'm gonna tell areal story, I'm gonna start with my name.” – Kendrick Lamar 38. "Hate cannot drive out hate:only love can do that." – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 39. "The journey ofa thousand miles begins with one step." – Lao Tzu 40. "Thewisest mind has something yet to learn." – George Santanaya 41(A). "Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today." – James Dean 41B. "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” - Mahatma Gandhi 42. "Theonly thing that can grow is the thing you give energy to." – Ralph Waldo Emerson 43. “Your talent determines what you can do. Yourmotivation determines how much you're willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.” - Lou Holtz 44. “Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.” -Henry Ford 45. “The bad news is time flies. Thegood news is you're the pilot.” – Michael Altshuler 46. "Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will." - Suzy Kassem 47. "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving." - Albert Einstein 48. "What counts can't always be counted; what can be counted doesn't always count." - Albert Einstein 49. "If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things." – Albert Einstein 50. "Explore, Dream, Discover." – Mark Twain 51. "Never let youremotions overpower your intelligence." – Drake 52. "When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us." –Helen Keller 53. "Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still." – Chinese Proverb 54. "The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now." – Chinese Proverb 55. "Try to be a rainbow insomeone's cloud." – Maya Angelou 56. “Fall 7 times, stand up 8." - Japanese Proverb 57. "Theonly way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.” - Steve Jobs 58. "If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way." - Napoleon Hill 59. "Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve." – Napoleon Hill 60. "Tough times never last buttough people do." – Robert H. Schiuller FAQs References