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It’s something that’s many of the wisest people in history have kept in mind over thousands of years.
And today I want to share some of that sharp and quick wisdom.
This is 201 short and inspirational quotes about life and on how to make it a good, happy, loving and successful one from the past 2400 years.
I hope these quotes will give you a boost when you need it the most.
[Note: the original version of this post contained 101 short quotes but it has now been updated with 100 additional quotes in a few new categories like, for example, short funny quotes.]Short and Meaningful Quotes about Happiness
“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.”
— Epictetus
“What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”
— Confucius
“The only joy in the world is to begin.”
— Cesare Pavese
“To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.”
— Albert Camus
“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
— Aristotle
“Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.”
— Dalai Lama
“It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.”
— Lucille Ball
“Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.”
— Dennis Waitley
“It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.”
— Seneca
“The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
“For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.”
— Seneca
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy.”
— Dr. Robert Anthony
“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
— Marthe Troly-Curtin
“Happiness is a state of activity.”
— Aristotle
“The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.”
— Epictetus
“There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.”
— Seneca
“Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.”
— Aesop
“It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”
— L.M. Montgomery
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
— Confucius
“Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.”
— Winnie the Pooh
“Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.”
— Benjamin Disraeli
“Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.”
— Albert Schweitzer
“Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.”
— Heraclitus
Short and Inspiring Quotes about Love
“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
— James Baldwin
“When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.”
— Blaise Pascal
“Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.”
— Khalil Gibran
“I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.”
— Roy Croft
“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
— Elbert Hubbard
“Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.”
— Euripides
“Love is a friendship set to music.”
— Joseph Campbell
“The more one judges, the less one loves.”
— Honore de Balzac
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.”
— Alfred Tennyson
“Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.”
— Andre Breton
“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”
— Morrie Schwartz
“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
– Buddha
“If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.”
— Lord Byron
“If I know what love is, it is because of you.”
— Herman Hesse
“The giving of love is an education in itself.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“Better to have lost and loved than never to have loved at all.”
— Ernest Hemingway
“The best proof of love is trust.”
— Joyce Brothers
“Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.”
— Leo Buscaglia
“Love is a better teacher than duty.”
— Albert Einstein
“Love does not dominate; it cultivates.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.' Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.'”
— Erich Fromm
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
— Robert A. Heinlein
“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
“A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.”
— Honore de Balzac
Short and Motivational Quotes about Success
“Action is the foundational key to all success.”
– Pablo Picasso
“Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.”
– Malcolm S. Forbes
“For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.”
– Harry F. Banks
“I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.”
– Florence Nightingale
“Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.”
– Oprah Winfrey
“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.”
– Erich Fromm
“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”
– Bruce Lee
“The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
“Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.”
– Richard Branson
“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.”
– Oscar Wilde
“Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”
– John R. Wooden
“Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.”
– Robert Kiyosaki
“Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.”
– Dalai Lama
“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”
– Stephen King
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”
– Samuel Beckett
African American Quotes About Life
“To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.”
– Mark Twain
“The road to success is always under construction.”
– Lily Tomlin
“Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.”
– Winston Churchill
“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.”
– Napoleon Hill
“Success is largely a matter of holding on after others have let go.”
– Unknown
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
– George Bernard Shaw
“Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.”
– Albert Einstein
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
– Arthur Ashe
“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.”
– Robert Collier
Short Self-Esteem Quotes to Help You to Feel Good About Yourself
“Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.”
– Maxwell Maltz
“Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own?”
– Brigham Young
“Loving yourself isn’t vanity. It’s sanity.”
– Katrina Mayer
“It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.”
– W.C. Fields
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.”
– Robert Hand
“A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.”
– Mark Twain
“Lighten up on yourself. No one is perfect. Gently accept your humanness.”
– Deborah Day
“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”
– Benjamin Spock
“One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.”
– Shannon L. Alder
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
“If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.”
– Charles Bukowski
“To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.”
– Robert Morley
“Beauty begins the moment you decided to be yourself.”
– Coco Chanel
“People who want the most approval get the least and the people who need approval the least get the most.”
– Wayne Dyer
“Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.”
– André Gide
“Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face.”
– Helen Keller
“The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.”
– Maya Angelou
“Your problem is you’re… too busy holding onto your unworthiness.”
– Ram Dass
“Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness.”
– Jean Vanier
“Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.”
– Malcolm S. Forbes
“There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
– Anaïs Nin
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
– George Eliot
Short Funny Quotes (When You Need a Quick Laugh)
“Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.”
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“I have never been hurt by what I have not said.”
– Calvin Coolidge
“I may be a living legend, but that sure don't help when I've got to change a flat tire.”
– Roy Orbison
“If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management.”
– Scott Adams
“I intend to live forever. So far, so good.”
– Steven Wright
“The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.”
– Oscar Wilde
“I haven’t spoken to my wife in years. I didn’t want to interrupt her.”
– Rodney Dangerfield
“Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.”
– Ethel Barrymore
“If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.”
– Steven Wright
“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”
– Albert Einstein
“You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.”
– H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“Here’s something to think about: How come you never see a headline like ‘Psychic Wins Lottery’?”
– Jay Leno
“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”
– Winston Churchill
“Never miss a good chance to shut up.”
– Will Rogers
“If you want your children to listen, try talking softly to someone else.”
– Ann Landers
“Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.”
– George Carlin
“Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.”
– Erma Bombeck
“I have a lot of growing up to do. I realized that the other day inside my fort.”
– Zach Galifianakis
“The best way to teach your kids about taxes is by eating 30 percent of their ice cream.”
– Bill Murray
“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.”
– Albert Einstein
“The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.”
–Tom Clancy
“Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.”
– Groucho Marx
“Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.”
– Oscar Wilde
“Don’t sweat the petty things and don’t pet the sweaty things.”
– George Carlin
“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.”
– Dalai Lama
“Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.”
– Josh Billings
“Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.”
– Charles M. Schulz
Short Quotes about Staying Strong When Times are Tough
“Love does not dominate; it cultivates.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“I like criticism. It makes you strong.”
– LeBron James
“We acquire the strength we have overcome.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
“Sometimes you don’t realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness.”
– Susan Gale
“Tough times never last, but tough people do.”
– Robert H. Schuller
“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”
– Henry Ford
“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“The more one judges, the less one loves.”
– Honore de Balzac
“Where there is no struggle, there is no strength”
– Oprah
“You can't really be strong until you can see a funny side to things.”
– Ken Kesey
“We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.”
– J.K. Rowling
“Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.”
– John Wooden
“Concentration is the secret of strength.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.”
– Og Mandino
”Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.”
– Richard Branson
“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott
“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.”
– Margaret Thatcher
“Stress is caused by being ‘here' but wanting to be ‘there.'
– Eckhart Tolle
“Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that’s what makes you strong.”
– Sarah Dessen
“The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.”
– R. G. Ingersoll
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
“Our strength grows out of our weaknesses”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.”
– Robert Schuller
“Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever.”
– Leo Buscaglia
Short and Inspiring Friendship Quotes
“Friends are people who know you really well and like you anyway.”
– Greg Tamblyn
“True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.”
– David Tyson
“Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.”’
– Socrates
“A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.”
– Arnold H. Glasgow
“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
– Linda Grayson
“A true friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else.”
– Len Wein
“What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”
– Confucius
“Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.”
– Charles Lamb
“Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.”
– Tennessee Williams
“There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.”
– Jim Henson
“A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.”
– Leo Buscaglia
“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
– Alice Walker
“If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.”
– Maxwell Maltz
“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”
– Abraham Lincoln
“A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.”
– Elbert Hubbard
“It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.”
– Epicurus
“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.”
– Woodrow T. Wilson
“The best time to make friends is before you need them.”
– Ethel Barrymore
“One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.”
– George Santayana
“A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.”
– Charles Darwin
“Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.”
— Miles Franklin
“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
– Walter Winchell
“A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.”
– Donna Roberts
“Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.”
– Ed Cunningham
“It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.”
– Marlene Dietrich
Short Inspirational Quotes for Work (to Help You Work Hard and Smart)
“Either you run the day or the day runs you.”
– Jim Rohn
“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
“The future depends on what you do today.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.”
– Dale Carnegie
“Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.”
– Seneca
“Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better.”
– Jim Rohn
“You will never plough a field if you only turn it over in your mind.”
– Irish Proverb
“It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.”
– Confucius
“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.”
– Stephen Covey
“Don't wait. The time will never be just right.”
– Napoleon Hill
“To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.”
– Eva Young
“If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend six hours sharpening my ax.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
– Confucius
“Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.”
– Dalai Lama
“Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.”
– Dale Carnegie
“Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work.”
– Joseph Barbara
“When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
– Paulo Coelho
“The best way out is always through.”
– Robert Frost
“Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right.”
– Henry Ford
“Think of many things; do one.”
– Portuguese proverb
What’s your favorite short quote about life? Feel free to share the best one(s) you have found in this article or in your life in the comments section below.
Life sometimes feels very long, and sometimes a day feels like seconds. It’s the days spent in joy and happiness that give us the hope and strength to see through another day. Seek inspiration from these Life Is Too Short Quotes, and unleash your inner longing to live a happier life.
Famous Life is Short Quotes
1. “Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.”
― Phillips Brooks
2. “Life is too short to work so hard.”
― Vivien Leigh
3. “Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.”
― Benjamin Disraeli
4. “Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it’s business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don’t love what you’re doing and you can’t give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You’ll be an old man before you know it.”
― Al Lopez
5. “Life is too short to harbor any hostilities towards anybody.”
― Peabo Bryson
6. “Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.”
― Gene Simmons
7. “Life is too short to do the things you don’t love doing.”
― Bruce Dickinson
8. “There’s not enough time to be disrespecting… Life is too short.”
― Mary J. Blige
9. “Life is too short not to experiment.”
― Jamelia
10. “The span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters.”
― Mary Astell
11. “Life is too short to live on low-fat everything.”
― Kristin Scott Thomas
12. “Life is too short to be a boring company.”
― Andrew Mason
13. “Life is too short to spend in negativity. So I have made a conscious effort to not be where I don’t want to be.”
― Hugh Dillon
14. “Life is too short for a long story.”
― Mary Wortley Montagu
15. “I believe that if you don’t derive a deep sense of purpose from what you do, if you don’t come radiantly alive several times a day, if you don’t feel deeply grateful at the tremendous good fortune that has been bestowed on you, then you are wasting your life. And life is too short to waste.”
― Srikumar Rao
16. “I have no time for the endless nostalgia: ‘Oh gosh I used to . . . ‘ Life is too short; I don’t have any time for sitting and saying I miss things. What’s the point? Go and do something else.”
― Kate Adie
17. “Life is too short to be doing work that doesn’t make you feel happy and fulfilled. I’d rather wait for the right project, as opposed to just taking whatever is handed to me.”
― Amanda Crew
18. “Life is too short to worry. Life to short to be sad. Life is too short to ponder on things you will never have. Life is too short for sadness. Life is too short for tears. Never count the day, never count the years. Life is too short for falling out. Life is too short for war. Life is a gift, don’t waste it. Life is so much more.”
― John F. Connor
19. “Life is too short to wake up with regrets. So love the people who treat you right. Forget about those who don’t. Believe everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said life would be easy, they just promised it would most likely be worth it.”
― Harvey MacKay
20. “There comes a time in your life when you have to let go of all the pointless drama and the people who create it and surround yourself with people who make you laugh so hard that you forget the bad and focus solely on the good. After all, life is too short to be anything but happy.”
― Karl Marx
21. “Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart.”
― Kevyn Aucoin
Life Quotes
1. “The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” — Dalai Lama
2. “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” — John Lennon
3. “Get busy living or get busy dying.” — Stephen King
4. “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” — Mae West
5. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”– Thomas A. Edison
6. “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”– Albert Einstein
7. “Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.”– Babe Ruth
8. “Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there.” — Will Smith
9. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.” – Steve Jobs
10. “Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.” — Seneca
11. “If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
12. “The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.”– Henry Ford
13. “In order to write about life first you must live it.”– Ernest Hemingway
14. “The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.”– Frank Sinatra
15. “Sing like no one’s listening, love like you’ve never been hurt, dance like nobody’s watching, and live like it’s heaven on earth.” – (Attributed to various sources)
16. “Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.” – Leo Burnett
17. “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”– Soren Kierkegaard
18. “The unexamined life is not worth living.” — Socrates
19. “Turn your wounds into wisdom.” — Oprah Winfrey
20. “The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.” —Dolly Parton
More Quotes and Sayings
“Life is too short to stress yourself with people who don’t even deserve to be an issue in your life.”
“Life is too short to be anything but happy. So kiss slowly, love deeply, forgive quickly. Take chances and never have regrets. Forget the past, but remember what it taught you.”
“Life is too short to spend time with people who suck the happiness out of you.”
“Life is too short to walk around angry! So be happy and sing it out loud!”
“Life is too short to be serious all the time. So, if you can’t laugh at yourself, call me … I’ll laugh at you.”
“Life is too short to hide your feelings. Don’t be afraid to say what you feel.”
“Life is too short. Grudges are a waste of perfect happiness. Laugh when you can, apologize when you should, and let go of what you can’t change. Love deeply and forgive quickly. Take chances. Give everything and have no regrets. Life is to short to be unhappy. You have to take the good with the bad, smile when you should, love what you got and always remember what you had. Always forgive but never forget. Learn from your mistakes but never regret. People change and things go wrong. But always remember life goes on.”
“Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.”
“Life is too short to start your day with broken pieces of yesterday, it will definitely destroy your wonderful today and ruin your great tomorrow!”
“Life is short. Break the rules, forgive quickly, kiss slowly, love truly, laugh uncontrollably, and never regret anything that made you smile.”
“Life is short, live it. Love is rare, grab it. Anger is bad, dump it. Fear is awful, face it. Memories are sweet, cherish them…”
Life Is Too Short – Quotes
“Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.”
– Phillips Brooks
“Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.”
– Stephen Vincent Benét
“Live every day as if it were going to be your last; for one day you’re sure to be right.”
– Harry Morant
“Don’t be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of.”
– Charles Richards
“Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.”
– Wayne Dyer
“As you grow older, you’ll find the only things you regret are the things you didn’t do.”
– Zachary Scott
“Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying.”
– Christian Gellert
“Life is too short to spend time with people who suck the happiness out of you.”
– Unknown
“We only have one life and one body to care of, and we better do it right. You never know what tomorrow may bring and so we better live this life the best we can and be grateful for everything we have.”
– Novak Djokovic
“Begin doing what you want to do now. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand, and melting like a snowflake.”
– Marie Ray
“Expect an early death – it will keep you busier.”
– Martin H. Fischer
“If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.”
– Larry McMurtry
“Life is too short to work so hard.”
– Vivien Leigh
“Life is too short to worry about anything. You had better enjoy it because the next day promises nothing.”
– Eric Davis
“Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.”– Benjamin Disraeli
“Let’s not allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. Remember ‘Life is too short to be little’” –
– Dale Carnegie
“I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.”
– John Burroughs
“There comes a time in your life when you have to let go of all the pointless drama and the people who create it and surround yourself with people who make you laugh so hard that you forget the bad and focus solely on the good. After all life is too short to be anything but happy.”
– Karl Marx
“Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Inspirational Quotes
1. “Do all the good you can, for all the people you can, in all the ways you can, as long as you can.” — Hillary Clinton
2. “Don’t settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something.” — Ashton Kutcher
3. “Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.” — Kevin Hart
4. “Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.” — Kobe Bryant
5. “I like criticism. It makes you strong.” — LeBron James
6. “You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.” ― George Clooney
7. “Life imposes things on you that you can’t control, but you still have the choice of how you’re going to live through this.” — Celine Dion
8. “Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met – obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.” — John F. Kennedy (JFK Quotes)
9. “Live for each second without hesitation.” — Elton John
10. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” — Albert Einstein
11. “Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated.” — Confucius
12. “Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” — Helen Keller
13. “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.” — Steve Jobs
14. “My mama always said, life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” — Forrest Gump (Forrest Gump Quotes)
15. “Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.”— Lao-Tze
16. “When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life or the life of another.” — Helen Keller
17. “The healthiest response to life is joy.” — Deepak Chopra
18. “Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.” — Lillian Dickson
19. “The best portion of a good man’s life is his little nameless, unencumbered acts of kindness and of love.” — Wordsworth
20. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.” ― Robert Frost
Quotes believe life
1. “Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.” — Charles Swindoll
2. “Keep calm and carry on.” — Winston Churchill
3. “Maybe that’s what life is… a wink of the eye and winking stars.” — Jack Kerouac
4. “Life is a flower of which love is the honey.” — Victor Hugo
5. “Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about.” — Marilyn Monroe
6. “Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.” — Buddha
7. “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.” — Dr. Seuss
8. “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” — Mark Twain
9. “Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.” — Stephen Hawking
10. “Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
111. “The greatest pleasure of life is love.” — Euripides
12. “Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.” — Grandma Moses
13. “Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.” — Benjamin Franklin
14. “Life is about making an impact, not making an income.” — Kevin Kruse
15. “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan
16. “Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” – Babe Ruth
17. “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” – Mark Twain
18. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anais Nin
Positive Quotes About Life
19. “When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.” – John Lennon
20. “Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” – Les Brown
Life Is Short quotes
1. “I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.” —Neil Armstrong
2. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” —Mahatma Gandhi
3. “If you live long enough, you’ll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you’ll be a better person.” —Bill Clinton
4. “Life is short, and it is here to be lived.” —Kate Winslet
5. “The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.” —Frank Lloyd Wright
6. “Every moment is a fresh beginning.” —T.S. Eliot
7. “When you cease to dream you cease to live.” —Malcolm Forbes
8. “If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine.” —Morris West
9. “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” —Dr. Seuss
10. “If you can do what you do best and be happy, you’re further along in life than most people.” —Leonardo DiCaprio
11. “We should remember that just as a positive outlook on life can promote good health, so can everyday acts of kindness.” —Hillary Clinton
Native American Quotes About Life's Journey
12. “Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.” —Mary Kay Ash
13. “It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” —J. K. Rowling
14. “If you’re not stubborn, you’ll give up on experiments too soon. And if you’re not flexible, you’ll pound your head against the wall and you won’t see a different solution to a problem you’re trying to solve.” —Jeff Bezos
Famous American Quotes About Life
15. “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” — Abraham Lincoln
16. “You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.” —Michael Jordan
17. “Identity is a prison you can never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it, but to try to understand it, and use it as a foundation to grow.” —Jay-Z
18. “There are no mistakes, only opportunities.” —Tina Fey
19. “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.” —Warren Buffett
20. “As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.” —Audrey Hepburn
Quotes About Life Lessons
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