Top 70 Short Deep Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “When you feel like quitting think about why you started.”

— Anonymous

Also featured in: Startup Quotes, Perseverance Quotes, Motivational Workout Quotes

2. “Make at least one definite move daily toward your goal.”

— Bruce Lee

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Perseverance Quotes, Goal Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Work

3. “Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”

— Confucius

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Interesting Quotes, Wise Quotes, Beautiful Quotes

4. “You are not your mind.”

— Eckhart Tolle

Also featured in: Deep Quotes About Life, Self-Realization Quotes, Awakening Quotes, Enlightenment Quotes

5. “You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.”

— Buddha

Also featured in: Deep Quotes About Life, Emotion Quotes, Wellness Quotes, Wisdom Quotes

6. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”

— George Eliot

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Self-Esteem Quotes, Short Positive Quotes, Positive Life Quotes, Self-Realization Quotes

7. “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Attitude Quotes, Life Lessons Quotes, Perspective Quotes

8. “We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.”

— Carl Sagan

Also featured in: Deep Quotes About Life, Interesting Quotes, Short Inspiring Quotes, Science Quotes

9. “When you talk you are only repeating something you already know. But, if you listen you may learn something new.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

Also featured in: Learning Quotes, Wisdom Quotes, Wise Quotes, Buddhist Quotes

10. “All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Also featured in: Fiction Quotes, Quotes About Writing, Truth Quotes

11. “Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Also featured in: Deep Quotes About Life, Intelligent Quotes, Achievement Quotes, Thought Provoking Quotes

12. “Be like the fountain that overflows, not like the cistern that merely contains.”

— Paulo Coelho

Also featured in: Creativity Quotes, Short Inspirational Quotes, Short Inspiring Quotes, Emotional Quotes

13. “Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Love Quotes, Spirituality Quotes, Sufism Quotes, Powerful Quotes

14. “I dwell in possibility.”

— Emily Dickinson

Also featured in: Creativity Quotes, Perspective Quotes, Positive Short Quotes, Quotes About Hope, Imagination Quotes

15. “Prevention is better than cure.”

— Desiderius Erasmus

Also featured in: Care Quotes, Wellness Quotes, Common Sense Quotes, Intelligent Quotes

16. “He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.”

— Lao Tzu

Also featured in: Deep Quotes About Life, Short Inspiring Quotes, Values Quotes, Appreciation Quotes

17. “Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.”

— Paulo Coelho

Also featured in: Short Inspiring Quotes, Emotional Quotes, Meaningful Quotes, Fiction Quotes

18. “When there is no desire, all things are at peace.”

— Lao Tzu

Also featured in: Harmony Quotes, Peace Quotes, Desire Quotes

19. “The power of now can only be realized now. It requires no time and effort. Effort means you’re trying hard to get somewhere, and so you are not present, welcoming this moment as it is.”

— Eckhart Tolle

Also featured in: Deep Quotes About Life, Awakening Quotes, Enlightenment Quotes, Wellness Quotes

20. “No man is your enemy, no man is your friend, every man is your teacher.”

— Florence Scovel Shinn

Also featured in: Learning Quotes, Human Nature Quotes, Spiritual Growth Quotes, Quotes About Humanity, Quotes About People

21. “If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.”

— Nikola Tesla

Also featured in: Energy Quotes

22. “Stop thinking, and end your problems.”

— Lao Tzu

Also featured in: Taoism Quotes

23. “Music is the strongest form of magic.”

— Marilyn Manson

Also featured in: Music Quotes, Performance Quotes, Artist Quotes

24. “If you don’t sacrifice for what you want, what you want becomes the sacrifice.”

— Anonymous

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Choices Quotes, Sacrifice Quotes

25. “Be self aware, rather than a repetitious robot.”

— Bruce Lee

Also featured in: Being Yourself Quotes, Individuality Quotes

26. “Study the past if you want to define the future.”

— Confucius

Also featured in: Famous Quotes, Study Quotes, Past Quotes

27. “Focus. Otherwise you will find life becomes a blur.”

— Anonymous

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Short Motivational Quotes, Short Inspiring Quotes, Thursday Motivational Quotes

28. “Creativity takes courage. ”

— Henri Matisse

Also featured in: Creativity Quotes, Friday Motivational Quotes, Good Morning Inspirational Quotes, Wednesday Motivational Quotes

29. “Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”

— Anton Chekhov

Also featured in: Interesting Quotes, Fiction Quotes, Quotes About Writing, Storytelling Quotes

30. “God is dead, God remains dead, and we have killed him.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Also featured in: Science Quotes, Existentialism Quotes, Philosophy Quotes

31. “One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

Also featured in: Self-Realization Quotes, Being Yourself Quotes, Mastery Quotes

32. “Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.”

— Ayn Rand

Also featured in: Integrity Quotes

33. “Legacy is greater than currency.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

Also featured in: Short Motivational Quotes, Impact Quotes, Legacy Quotes

34. “Without literature, life is hell.”

— Charles Bukowski

Also featured in: Deep Quotes About Life, Fiction Quotes, Depressing Quotes, Sad Quotes

35. “Pride makes us artificial; humility makes us real.”

— Thomas Merton

Also featured in: Short Quotes About Life, Short Quotes, Live Life Quotes, Humility Quotes

36. “A little learning is a dangerous thing.”

— Alexander Pope

Also featured in: Education Quotes, Learning Quotes, Knowledge Quotes, Intelligence Quotes

37. “To see things in the seed, that is genius.”

— Lao Tzu

Also featured in: Famous Quotes, Philosophy Quotes, Genius Quotes

38. “We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side.”

— Khalil Gibran

Also featured in: Deep Quotes About Life, Short Quotes About Life, Deep Quotes

39. “Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.”

— Hippocrates

Also featured in: Feel Better Quotes, Helping Others Quotes, Healing Quotes, Health Quotes

40. “To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life.”

— Osho

Also featured in: Suffering Quotes

41. “The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can’t supply is proof that Heaven must be our home.”

— C. S. Lewis

Also featured in: Christian Motivational Quotes, Sunday Inspirational Quotes, Longing Quotes

42. “Think higher, feel deeper.”

— Elie Wiesel

Also featured in: Meaning Quotes, Emotion Quotes, Quotes About Thinking, Humanism Quotes

43. “The axe always forgets. The tree always remembers.”

— Paulo Coelho

44. “Cooperation is always more powerful than competition.”

— Bob Proctor

Also featured in: Collaboration Quotes, Competition Quotes

45. “Less is more.”

— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

Also featured in: Short Quotes, Short Positive Quotes, Clever Quotes, Simplicity Quotes

46. “A belief system is nothing more than a thought you've thought over and over again.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

Also featured in: Mindset Quotes, Quotes About Thinking, Quotes About Believing

47. “The only way to permanently install a new habit is to direct so much energy toward it that the old one slips away like an unwelcome house guest.”

— Robin S. Sharma

Also featured in: Wellness Quotes, Tuesday Motivational Quotes, Energy Quotes

48. “That’s how you came here, like a star without a name. Move across the night sky with those anonymous lights.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Poetry Quotes, Deep Quotes, Different Quotes

49. “We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. ”

— Thomas Fuller

Also featured in: Short Quotes, Loss Quotes

50. “Forever is composed of nows.”

— Emily Dickinson

Also featured in: Time Quotes, Short Quotes About Life, Deep Quotes, Creative Quotes