Top 200 Short Inspirational Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

— Steve Jobs

Also featured in: Startup Quotes, Success Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Goal Quotes

2. “Don’t count the days, make the days count.”

— Muhammad Ali

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3. “Don’t just accept whatever comes your way in life. You were born to win; you were born for greatness; you were created to be a champion in life.”

— Joel Osteen

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4. “Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Focus Quotes, Goal Quotes, Interesting Quotes

5. “Where focus goes, energy flows.”

— Tony Robbins

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Focus Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Work

6. “Ignore the noise, focus on your work.”

— Anonymous

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Hard Work Quotes, Attitude Quotes, Action Quotes

7. “Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Perseverance Quotes, Persistence Quotes, Failure Quotes

8. “Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy with what you have.”

— Zig Ziglar

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Happiness Quotes, Attitude Quotes, Self-Esteem Quotes

9. “Don’t make excuses for why you can’t get it done. Focus on all the reasons why you must make it happen.”

— Ralph Marston

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

10. “A winner is a dreamer who never gives up.”

— Nelson Mandela

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Persistence Quotes, Goal Quotes, Action Quotes

11. “Energy and persistence conquer all things.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Also featured in: Perseverance Quotes, Persistence Quotes, Goal Quotes, Action Quotes

12. “Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.”

— Mary Tyler Moore

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Courage Quotes, Confidence Quotes, Failure Quotes

13. “In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart. ”

— Swami Vivekananda

Also featured in: Emotional Quotes, Passion Quotes, Wise Quotes

14. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”

— Helen Keller

Also featured in: Attitude Quotes, Action Quotes, Live Life Quotes, Inspirational Life Quotes

15. “Whatever you focus on is what you get.”

— Tony Robbins

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Goal Quotes, Positivity Quotes

16. “All good things are wild and free.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Also featured in: Wise Quotes, Freedom Quotes, Inspiring Quotes

17. “You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Confidence Quotes, Spiritual Growth Quotes

18. “Confidence and hard work are the best medicines to kill the disease called failure. They will make you a successful person.”

— Abdul Kalam

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Hard Work Quotes, Confidence Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes

19. “Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”

— Oscar Wilde

Also featured in: Interesting Quotes, Life Philosophy Quotes, Positive Short Quotes

20. “You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you’re not passionate enough from the start, you’ll never stick it out.”

— Steve Jobs

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21. “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Love Quotes, Love Life Quotes

22. “For your life to be great, your faith must be bigger than your fear.”

— Robin S. Sharma

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Interesting Quotes, Positive Life Quotes

23. “Our thoughts make us what we are.”

— Dale Carnegie

Also featured in: Personality Quotes, Inspirational Life Quotes, Life Lessons Quotes

24. “Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Also featured in: Goal Quotes, Interesting Quotes, Short Motivational Quotes

25. “Everybody says they’re trying to get their piece of the pie. They don’t realize that the world is a kitchen – you can make your own pie.”

— Terry Crews

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Motivational Quotes About Life, Empowerment Quotes, Self-Empowerment Quotes

26. “You have two choices, to control your mind or to let your mind control you.”

— Paulo Coelho

Also featured in: Empowerment Quotes, Quotes About Thinking, Philosophical Quotes

27. “To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.”

— Bruce Lee

Also featured in: Startup Quotes, Persistence Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Success

28. “I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.”

— Og Mandino

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Interesting Quotes, Deep Quotes

29. “The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.”

— Swami Vivekananda

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Quotes About Strength, Short Motivational Quotes, Live Life Quotes

30. “Just be yourself, there is no one better.”

— Taylor Swift

Also featured in: Happiness Quotes, Confidence Quotes, Self-Esteem Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Women

31. “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.”

— Chinese proverb

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32. “If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.”

— Maya Angelou

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Self-Esteem Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes, Self-Worth Quotes

33. “There are two types of pain you will go through in life, the pain of discipline and the pain of regret. Discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tonnes.”

— Jim Rohn

Also featured in: Business Quotes, Goal Quotes, Discipline Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Success

34. “Big people don't make people feel small.”

— Robin S. Sharma

Also featured in: Emotional Quotes, Empowerment Quotes, Sunday Inspirational Quotes

35. “Fight for your dreams, and your dreams will fight for you.”

— Paulo Coelho

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Persistence Quotes, Powerful Motivational Quotes

36. “Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.”

— Buddha

Also featured in: Meaningful Quotes, Wisdom Quotes, Life Philosophy Quotes

37. “Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.”

— Lou Holtz

Also featured in: Attitude Quotes, Empowering Quotes, Powerful Motivational Quotes, Winning Quotes

38. “You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.”

— Brian Tracy

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Attitude Quotes, Change Quotes

39. “Focus on the possibilities for success, not on the potential for failure.”

— Napoleon Hill

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Success Quotes, Focus Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Work

40. “To travel is to live.”

— Hans Christian Andersen

Also featured in: Short Quotes About Life, Live Life Quotes, Travel Quotes, Adventure Quotes

41. “The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.”

— Alan Watts

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

42. “Know thyself.”

— Socrates

Also featured in: Famous Quotes, Self-Realization Quotes, Personality Quotes

43. “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”

— Maya Angelou

Also featured in: Creativity Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Women, Short Inspiring Quotes

44. “The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers.”

— Brian Tracy

Also featured in: Positive Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Monday Quotes, Positive Motivational Quotes

45. “Why worry? If you’ve done the very best you can, worrying won’t make it any better.”

— Walt Disney

Also featured in: Positivity Quotes, Optimistic Quotes, Effort Quotes

46. “Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way.”

— Alan Watts

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Live Life Quotes, Enjoy Life Quotes

47. “We rise by lifting others.”

— Robert G. Ingersoll

Also featured in: Positivity Quotes, Care Quotes, Positive Short Quotes, Helping Others Quotes

48. “I used my pain to push me to greatness.”

— Eric Thomas

Also featured in: Perseverance Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Success, Empowering Quotes

49. “Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

Also featured in: Education Quotes, Short Inspiring Quotes, Inspirational Life Quotes

50. “Do your best and let God do the rest.”

— Ben Carson

Also featured in: Hard Work Quotes, Christian Quotes, Values Quotes, Effort Quotes