Looking for a little burst of motivation to brighten your day?
These short inspirational quotes are the perfect reminder that even the smallest words can carry the biggest impact.
If you need encouragement to keep moving forward, reassurance in tough moments, or just a quick spark of positivity, these quotes will lift your spirits and remind you of your strength.
Short Inspirational Quotes
- Believe you can and you’re halfway there. — Theodore Roosevelt
- Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. — Arthur Ashe
- Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. — Theodore Roosevelt
- Don’t wait. The time will never be just right. — Napoleon Hill
- Dream big and dare to fail. — Norman Vaughan
- The best way out is always through. — Robert Frost
- Keep going. Everything you need will come to you at the perfect time.
- Don’t count the days, make the days count. — Muhammad Ali
- Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. — William James
- Believe in yourself and all that you are.
- Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you. — Walt Whitman
- A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. — Lao Tzu
- Turn your wounds into wisdom. — Oprah Winfrey
- What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals. — Zig Ziglar
- Keep going. Be all in.
- Every moment is a fresh beginning. — T.S. Eliot
- Believe in the power of yet.
- You are stronger than you think.
- Nothing will work unless you do. — Maya Angelou
- Progress, not perfection.
- Do one thing every day that scares you. — Eleanor Roosevelt
- Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. — George Addair
- You are enough just as you are. — Meghan Markle
- Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today. — Will Rogers
- Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. — Winston Churchill
- Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. — Henry David Thoreau
- When nothing goes right, go left.
- Life is tough, but so are you.
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- Believe in your infinite potential.
- Stay foolish to stay sane. — Maxime Lagacé
- If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door. — Milton Berle
- Do it with passion or not at all.
- The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Be the change you wish to see in the world. — Mahatma Gandhi
- Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde
- Stay positive, work hard, make it happen.
- Great things never came from comfort zones.
- Don’t stop until you’re proud.
- You can and you will.
- Every day is a second chance.
- The secret of getting ahead is getting started. — Mark Twain
- If you can dream it, you can do it. — Walt Disney
- Stars can’t shine without darkness.
- You have within you right now everything you need to deal with whatever the world throws at you. — Brian Tracy
- Push yourself, because no one else is going to do it for you.
- Stay hungry, stay foolish. — Steve Jobs
- You are capable of amazing things.
- Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. — Truman Capote
- Small steps every day.
- Don’t let small minds convince you that your dreams are too big.
- Fall seven times and stand up eight. — Japanese Proverb
- Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny. — C.S. Lewis
- Work hard in silence, let success be your noise.
- Do it scared.
- You didn’t come this far to only come this far.
- Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.
- Don’t wish for it, work for it.
- The future depends on what you do today. — Mahatma Gandhi
- Focus on the step in front of you, not the whole staircase.
- Light tomorrow with today. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Be a voice, not an echo.
- Don’t limit your challenges, challenge your limits.
- Keep moving forward.
- Be the energy you want to attract.
- Never stop learning, because life never stops teaching.
- Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive. — Hafez
- Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations.
- Success doesn’t come from what you do occasionally, it comes from what you do consistently.
- Be somebody who makes everybody feel like a somebody.
- You were born to be real, not perfect.
- Be stronger than your excuses.
- Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. — Dalai Lama
- Don’t stop until you’re proud.
- Let your faith be bigger than your fear.
- Great things take time.
- Mistakes are proof that you are trying.
- You only fail when you stop trying.
- With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. — Eleanor Roosevelt
- The comeback is always stronger than the setback.
- Difficulties in life don’t come to destroy you, they come to help you realize your hidden potential.
- What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Don’t let your struggle become your identity.
- Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion. — Muhammad Ali
- Don’t look back, you’re not going that way.
- The best way to predict the future is to create it. — Peter Drucker
- In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity. — Albert Einstein
- Every day may not be good, but there’s something good in every day.
- Make it happen. Shock everyone.
- Don’t be afraid to start over. It’s a new chance to rebuild what you want.
- It always seems impossible until it’s done. — Nelson Mandela
- Be the reason someone smiles today.
- Rise above the storm and you will find the sunshine. — Mario Fernández
- Believe more, doubt less.
- Go the extra mile, it’s never crowded.
- Don’t downgrade your dream just to fit your reality, upgrade your conviction to match your destiny.
- Be yourself. An original is worth more than a copy.
- The harder you work for something, the greater you’ll feel when you achieve it.
- Stay patient and trust your journey.
- Believe in miracles.
- Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. — Og Mandino