Top 200 Short Inspiring Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “There are 86,400 seconds in a day. It’s up to you to decide what to do with them.”

— Jim Valvano

102. “No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”

— Charles Dickens

103. “Leave it better than you found it.”

— Robert Baden-Powell

104. “When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

105. “Ask nothing from your running, and you’ll get more than you ever imagined.”

— Christopher McDougall

106. “The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm.”

— John C. Maxwell

107. “Determination, with an optimistic attitude, is the key to success.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

108. “Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Lao Tzu

110. “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”

— Frederick Douglass

111. “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”

— Alice Walker

112. “Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.”

— J.K. Rowling

113. “I am not the richest, smartest or most talented person in the world, but I succeed because I keep going and going and going.”

— Sylvester Stallone

114. “The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.”

— Mark Twain

115. “You are the Universe expressing itself as a human for a little while.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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

— Paulo Coelho

117. “Let the world know why you’re here, and do it with passion.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

118. “Once your mindset changes, everything on the outside will change along with it.”

— Steve Maraboli

119. “Be aware that what you think, to a large extent, creates the emotions that you feel. See the link between your thinking and your emotions. Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.”

— Eckhart Tolle

120. “Big achievements come one small advantage at a time, one step at a time, one day at time.”

— Jim Rohn

121. “Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

122. “Start thinking happy thoughts and start being happy.”

— Rhonda Byrne

123. “We need silence to be able to touch souls.”

— Mother Teresa

124. “Observe your thoughts, don’t believe them.”

— Eckhart Tolle

125. “After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”

— Philip Pullman

126. “Happiness depends only on your mind. When the mind is free of past impressions and future cravings, happiness is there.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

127. “Life will pay any price you ask of it.”

— Tony Robbins

128. “The greater the struggle the more glorious the triumph.”

— Nick Vujicic

129. “When you learn, teach. When you get, give.”

— Maya Angelou

130. “Love is the bridge between you and everything.”

— Rumi

131. “Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

132. “Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

133. “Surround yourself with those who see greatness within you, even when you don’t see it yourself!”

— Zig Ziglar

134. “Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”

— Desmond Tutu

135. “Our own life has to be our message.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

136. “Let’s do something beautiful for God.”

— Mother Teresa

137. “That old law about ‘an eye for an eye’ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

138. “So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.”

— Christopher Reeve

139. “Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave ’til it gets to shore. You need more help than you know.”

— Rumi

140. “You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.”

— Maya Angelou

141. “I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

142. “Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place.”

— Rumi

143. “What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

144. “If you want to be sad, no one in the world can make you happy. But if you make up your mind to be happy, no one and nothing on earth can take that happiness from you.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

145. “Creativity is just connecting things.”

— Steve Jobs

146. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”

— Henry David Thoreau

147. “Ancient Rule of 21: if you do anything for 21 days in a row, it will be installed as a habit.”

— Robin S. Sharma

148. “Sometimes success isn't about making the right decision, it's more about making some decision.”

— Robin S. Sharma

149. “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”

— Bill Gates

150. “The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain – and the whole world is at your feet.”

— Swami Vivekananda