Top 200 Short Inspirational Quotes

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

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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

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5. “Where focus goes, energy flows.”

— Tony Robbins

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

— Anonymous

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Zig Ziglar

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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

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

— Nelson Mandela

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11. “Energy and persistence conquer all things.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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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

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

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Helen Keller

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

— Tony Robbins

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

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Rumi

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

— Abdul Kalam

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

— Oscar Wilde

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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

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

— Robin S. Sharma

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

— Dale Carnegie

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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

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

— Paulo Coelho

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

— Bruce Lee

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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

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

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Taylor Swift

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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

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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

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

— Robin S. Sharma

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

— Paulo Coelho

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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

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

— Lou Holtz

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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

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

— Napoleon Hill

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40. “To travel is to live.”

— Hans Christian Andersen

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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

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

— Maya Angelou

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

— Brian Tracy

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

— Walt Disney

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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

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47. “We rise by lifting others.”

— Robert G. Ingersoll

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

— Eric Thomas

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

— Dalai Lama XIV

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

— Ben Carson

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