Fquotes About Life
'Taking responsibility - practicing 100 percent responsibility every day - is about seeing. “Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Positive Life Quotes Quotes tagged as 'positive-life' Showing 1-30 of 357 “Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. “You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever. Connections are made with the heart, not the tongue.” ― C. Life Quotes Quotes tagged as 'life' Showing 1-30 of 62,145 “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle.
Whether you need something to share with your child, your partner, or a friend, this list has the perfect love quote.
As we near the end of January, all the stores are covered in blush, pink, red, and white — it seems Valentine's 'month' is coming up on us quick. And whether you're single, partnered, married, and/or have kids, Valentine's Day is the day to show how much you love all the folks in your life. Having a few quotes about love for everyone in your life, from children, to partners, to siblings, can make it easy to share the love this holiday. Honestly, everyone needs to feel this kind of love every day, now more than ever.
Whether you're looking for inspo to write in a card, or need a quote for something creative like a print or a work of art, this list will have you covered for everyone in your life.
Love Quotes For Your Children
- 'I could make up a song to say 'I love you, I care.' And I would sing right along, 'Cause I love you, I care. 'Cause making something is one way to say 'I love you.' I could even bake a special cake, 'Cause I love you, I really love you. And even if it got smushed, I'd still love it 'cause it was from you. 'Cause making something is one way to say, 'Oh, I love you.' — Fred Rogers
- 'My love for you is taller than the sky and wider than the galaxy.' — Unknown
- 'I love you stronger than iron and softer than feathers.' — Unknown
- 'There are many ways to say I love you. Just by being there when things are sad and scary. Just by being there, being there. Being there to say, I love you.' — Fred Rogers
- 'You are the best thing I've done with my life.' — Unknown
- 'I love my children beyond all reason. They’re my joy, even when they’re wild with kid energy.' — Christopher Meloni
- 'Butterflies have wings, so they can fly. Fish have gills, so they can swim. Bunnies have four legs, so they can run. I have a heart, so I can love you.' — Unknown
- 'To my child: I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.' — Unknown
- 'Wherever you go, my love is with you.' — Unknown
- 'A child may outgrow your lap, but they will never outgrow your heart.' — Unknown
- 'No work is more important than my love for you.' — Unknown
- 'Playing with you is the happiest moment of my day.' — Unknown
- 'A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world.' — Agatha Christie
- 'There are thousands of children in the world, and I was lucky enough to get you.' — Unknown
- 'It's you I like, not the clothes you wear, not the way you do your hair, but it's you I like. It's you I like, every part of you, your skin, your thoughts, your feelings, whether old or new, it's you I like.' — Fred Rogers
Love Quotes For Him
- 'Take my hand, take my whole life, too, for I can't help falling in love with you.' — Elvis Presley
- 'Look at the stars, look how they shine for you and everything you do...' — Coldplay
- 'I hope you don't mind that I put down in words how wonderful life is while you're in the world.' — Elton John
- 'I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.' — Ben Folds
- 'But I ... I love it when you read to me, and you, you can read me anything.' — The Magnetic Fields
Love Quotes For Her
- 'Cause all of me loves all of you, love your curves and all your edges, all your perfect imperfections.' — John Legend
- 'Not enough for me? You're everything.' — Jim Halpert, The Office
- 'Man, oh, man, you're my best friend. I scream it to the nothingness. There ain't nothing that I need. Home, let me come home, home is wherever I'm with you.' — Edward Sharpe
- 'Plan A was marrying her a long time ago. Pretty much the day I met her.' — Jim Halpert, The Office
- 'And where was I before the day that I first saw your lovely face? Now I see it everyday and I know that I am ... the luckiest.' — Ben Folds
- 'I love you and I like you.' — Leslie Knope and Ben Wyatt, Parks and Recreation
- 'There's only ... one thing that will make you give up on everything you thought you knew, every rational calculation ... it's love, Dwight.' — Jim Halpert, The Office
Love Quotes For Grandparents
- “A grandparent is a little bit parent, a little bit teacher, and a little bit best friend.” — Unknown
- “Grandpas always have time for you when everyone else is too busy.” — Unknown
- “Grandparents, like heroes, are as necessary to a child’s growth as vitamins.” — Joyce Allston
- “You are the sun, Grandma, you are the sun in my life.” — Kitty Tsui
- “Grandparents are the best kind of grownups.” — Unknown
- “Grandparents hold our tiny hands for just a little while, but our hearts forever.” — Unknown
- “The best place to be when you're sad is your grandparent's lap.” — Unknown
- Surely, two of the most satisfying experiences in life must be those of being a grandchild or a grandparent.' — Donald A. Norberg
Love Quotes For A Sibling
- “There’s no other love like the love for a brother. There’s no other love like the love from a brother.” — Terri Guillemets
- “Brother and sister, together as friends, ready to face whatever life sends. Joy and laughter or tears and strife, holding hands tightly as we dance through life.” — Suzie Huitt
- “Half the time when brothers wrestle, it’s just an excuse to hug each other.” — James Patterson
- “Having lots of siblings is like having built-in best friends.” — Kim Kardashian
- “If you have a brother or sister, tell them you love them every day — that’s the most beautiful thing. I told my sister how much I loved her every day. That’s the only reason I’m OK right now.” — Amaury Nolasco
- “To have a loving relationship with a sister is not simply to have a buddy or a confident… it is to have a soulmate for life.” — Victoria Secunda
- “Siblings — the definition that comprises love, strife, competition and forever friends.” — Byron Pulsifer
- “Brothers and sisters separated by distance, joined by love.” — Chuck Danes
Love Quotes From Movies
- 'If you're a bird, I'm a bird.' — The Notebook
- 'I could die right now, Clem. I'm just... happy. I've never felt that before. I'm just exactly where I want to be.' — Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- 'The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love, and be loved in return.' — Moulin Rouge
- 'Love is passion, obsession, someone you can’t live without. If you don’t start with that, what are you going to end up with?' — Meet Joe Black
- 'I wish I had done everything on earth with you.' — The Great Gatsby
- 'It doesn’t matter if the guy is perfect or the girl is perfect, as long as they are perfect for each other.' — Good Will Hunting
- 'You make me want to be a better man.' — As Good As It Gets
- 'I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough ...' — The Notebook
- 'Love is not a feeling, Mr. Burns. It’s an ability.' — Dan in Real Life
- 'I knew I’d never be able to remember what Nina wore that day. But I also knew I’d never forget the way she looked.' — Father of the Bride
- 'I can't see anything I don't like about you.' — Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Love Quotes From Books
- 'I am here and I am looking at her. And she is so beautiful. I can see it. This one moment when you know you’re not a sad story. You are alive, and you stand up and see the lights on the buildings and everything that makes you wonder.' — The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky
- 'In times of grief and sorrow I will hold you and rock you and take your grief and make it my own. When you cry, I cry and when you hurt, I hurt. And together we will try to hold back the floods to tears and despair and make it through the potholed street of life.' — The Notebook, Nicholas Sparks
- 'It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.' — The Fault In Our Stars, John Green
- 'I love you. I am who I am because of you. You are every reason, every hope, and every dream I've ever had, and no matter what happens to us in the future, every day we are together is the greatest day of my life. I will always be yours.' — The Notebook, Nicholas Sparks
- 'As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.' — The Fault In Our Stars, John Green
- 'Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. — The Kindly Ones, Neil Gaiman
- 'I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep, your eyes close.' — 100 Love Sonnets, Pablo Neruda
Love Quotes From Television
- 'Maybe I do believe it, all this ‘meant to be’ stuff. Why not believe it, really? Who doesn’t want more romance in their life? Maybe it’s just up to us to make it happen. To show up and be meant for each other.' — Grey's Anatomy, Meredith Grey
- 'Actually, there is a word for that. It’s love. I’m in love with her, OK? If you’re looking for the word that means caring for someone beyond all rationality and wanting them to have everything they want no matter how much it destroys you, it's love! And when you love someone, you just don’t stop. Ever.' — How I Met Your Mother, Ted Mosby
- 'When I was growing up, I didn’t have a normal mom and dad or a regular family like everybody else. And I always knew that something was missing. But now I’m standing here today knowing that I have everything that I’m ever gonna need. You are my family.' — Friends, Phoebe Buffay
- 'You climb up here with me, it’s one less minute you haven’t lived.' — Gilmore Girls, Logan Huntzberger
- 'No listen, I woke up this morning and I realized that I studied and taught the great literature all my life. And those stories are replete with characters that let opportunities slip by, but what I teach is more than literature, it's lessons in life. If I don't follow these tenets, I'm not the man I thought I was, the man I want to be.' — Gilmore Girls, Max Medina
- 'Don't let anyone tell you you're not powerful. You're the most powerful woman I know.' — Gossip Girl, Chuck Bass
- 'You know you're right for someone when they force you to be the best version of yourself.' — The Mindy Project, Danny Castellano
Sometimes you don’t have to use many words to get your point across.
In fact, keeping it short and simple can make what you’re saying extra powerful and memorable.
This is of course nothing new.
It’s something that’s many of the wisest people in history have kept in mind over thousands of years.
And today I want to share some of that sharp and quick wisdom.
This is 201 short and inspirational quotes about life and on how to make it a good, happy, loving and successful one from the past 2400 years.
I hope these quotes will give you a boost when you need it the most.
[Note: the original version of this post contained 101 short quotes but it has now been updated with 100 additional quotes in a few new categories like, for example, short funny quotes.]Short and Meaningful Quotes about Happiness
“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.”
— Epictetus
“What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”
— Confucius
“The only joy in the world is to begin.”
— Cesare Pavese
“To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.”
— Albert Camus
“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
— Aristotle
“Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.”
— Dalai Lama
“It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.”
— Lucille Ball
“Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.”
— Dennis Waitley
“It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.”
— Seneca
“The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
“For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.”
— Seneca
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy.”
— Dr. Robert Anthony
“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
— Marthe Troly-Curtin
“Happiness is a state of activity.”
— Aristotle
“The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.”
— Epictetus
“There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.”
— Seneca
“Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.”
— Aesop
“It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”
— L.M. Montgomery
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
— Confucius
“Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.”
— Winnie the Pooh
“Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.”
— Benjamin Disraeli
“Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.”
— Albert Schweitzer
“Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.”
— Heraclitus
Short and Inspiring Quotes about Love
“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
— James Baldwin
“When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.”
— Blaise Pascal
“Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.”
— Khalil Gibran
“I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.”
— Roy Croft
“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
— Elbert Hubbard
“Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.”
— Euripides
“Love is a friendship set to music.”
— Joseph Campbell
“The more one judges, the less one loves.”
— Honore de Balzac
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.”
— Alfred Tennyson
“Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.”
— Andre Breton
“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”
— Morrie Schwartz
“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
– Buddha
“If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.”
— Lord Byron
“If I know what love is, it is because of you.”
— Herman Hesse
“The giving of love is an education in itself.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“Better to have lost and loved than never to have loved at all.”
— Ernest Hemingway
“The best proof of love is trust.”
— Joyce Brothers
“Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.”
— Leo Buscaglia
“Love is a better teacher than duty.”
— Albert Einstein
“Love does not dominate; it cultivates.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.' Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.'”
— Erich Fromm
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
— Robert A. Heinlein
“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
“A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.”
— Honore de Balzac
Short and Motivational Quotes about Success
“Action is the foundational key to all success.”
– Pablo Picasso
“Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.”
– Malcolm S. Forbes
“For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.”
– Harry F. Banks
“I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.”
– Florence Nightingale
“Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.”
– Oprah Winfrey
“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.”
– Erich Fromm
“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”
– Bruce Lee
“The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
“Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.”
– Richard Branson
“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.”
– Oscar Wilde
“Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”
– John R. Wooden
“Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.”
– Robert Kiyosaki
“Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.”
– Dalai Lama
“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”
– Stephen King
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”
– Samuel Beckett
“To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.”
– Mark Twain
“The road to success is always under construction.”
– Lily Tomlin
“Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.”
– Winston Churchill
“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.”
– Napoleon Hill
“Success is largely a matter of holding on after others have let go.”
– Unknown
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
– George Bernard Shaw
“Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.”
– Albert Einstein
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
– Arthur Ashe
“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.”
– Robert Collier
Short Self-Esteem Quotes to Help You to Feel Good About Yourself
“Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.”
– Maxwell Maltz
“Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own?”
– Brigham Young
“Loving yourself isn’t vanity. It’s sanity.”
– Katrina Mayer
“It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.”
– W.C. Fields
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.”
– Robert Hand
“A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.”
– Mark Twain
“Lighten up on yourself. No one is perfect. Gently accept your humanness.”
– Deborah Day
“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”
– Benjamin Spock
“One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.”
– Shannon L. Alder
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
“If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.”
– Charles Bukowski
“To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.”
– Robert Morley
“Beauty begins the moment you decided to be yourself.”
– Coco Chanel
“People who want the most approval get the least and the people who need approval the least get the most.”
– Wayne Dyer
“Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.”
– André Gide
“Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face.”
– Helen Keller
“The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.”
– Maya Angelou
“Your problem is you’re… too busy holding onto your unworthiness.”
– Ram Dass
“Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness.”
– Jean Vanier
“Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.”
– Malcolm S. Forbes
“There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
– Anaïs Nin
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
– George Eliot
Short Funny Quotes (When You Need a Quick Laugh)
“Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.”
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“I have never been hurt by what I have not said.”
– Calvin Coolidge
“I may be a living legend, but that sure don't help when I've got to change a flat tire.”
– Roy Orbison
“If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management.”
– Scott Adams
“I intend to live forever. So far, so good.”
– Steven Wright
“The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.”
– Oscar Wilde
“I haven’t spoken to my wife in years. I didn’t want to interrupt her.”
– Rodney Dangerfield
“Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.”
– Ethel Barrymore
“If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.”
– Steven Wright
“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”
– Albert Einstein
“You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.”
– H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“Here’s something to think about: How come you never see a headline like ‘Psychic Wins Lottery’?”
– Jay Leno
“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”
– Winston Churchill
Quotes About Life Being Hard
“Never miss a good chance to shut up.”
– Will Rogers
“If you want your children to listen, try talking softly to someone else.”
– Ann Landers
“Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.”
– George Carlin
“Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.”
– Erma Bombeck
“I have a lot of growing up to do. I realized that the other day inside my fort.”
– Zach Galifianakis
“The best way to teach your kids about taxes is by eating 30 percent of their ice cream.”
– Bill Murray
“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.”
– Albert Einstein
“The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.”
–Tom Clancy
“Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.”
– Groucho Marx
“Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.”
– Oscar Wilde
“Don’t sweat the petty things and don’t pet the sweaty things.”
– George Carlin
“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.”
– Dalai Lama
“Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.”
– Josh Billings
“Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.”
– Charles M. Schulz
Short Quotes about Staying Strong When Times are Tough
“Love does not dominate; it cultivates.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“I like criticism. It makes you strong.”
– LeBron James
“We acquire the strength we have overcome.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
“Sometimes you don’t realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness.”
– Susan Gale
“Tough times never last, but tough people do.”
– Robert H. Schuller
“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”
– Henry Ford
“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“The more one judges, the less one loves.”
– Honore de Balzac
“Where there is no struggle, there is no strength”
– Oprah
“You can't really be strong until you can see a funny side to things.”
– Ken Kesey
“We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.”
– J.K. Rowling
“Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.”
– John Wooden
“Concentration is the secret of strength.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotes About Life In Spanish
“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.”
– Og Mandino
”Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.”
– Richard Branson
“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott
“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.”
– Margaret Thatcher
“Stress is caused by being ‘here' but wanting to be ‘there.'
– Eckhart Tolle
“Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that’s what makes you strong.”
– Sarah Dessen
“The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.”
– R. G. Ingersoll
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
“Our strength grows out of our weaknesses”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.”
– Robert Schuller
“Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever.”
– Leo Buscaglia
Short and Inspiring Friendship Quotes
“Friends are people who know you really well and like you anyway.”
– Greg Tamblyn
“True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.”
– David Tyson
“Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.”’
– Socrates
“A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.”
– Arnold H. Glasgow
“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
– Linda Grayson
“A true friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else.”
– Len Wein
“What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”
– Confucius
“Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.”
– Charles Lamb
“Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.”
– Tennessee Williams
“There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.”
– Jim Henson
“A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.”
– Leo Buscaglia
“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
– Alice Walker
“If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.”
– Maxwell Maltz
“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”
– Abraham Lincoln
“A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.”
– Elbert Hubbard
“It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.”
– Epicurus
“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.”
– Woodrow T. Wilson
“The best time to make friends is before you need them.”
– Ethel Barrymore
“One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.”
– George Santayana
“A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.”
– Charles Darwin
“Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.”
— Miles Franklin
“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
– Walter Winchell
“A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.”
– Donna Roberts
“Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.”
– Ed Cunningham
“It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.”
– Marlene Dietrich
Short Inspirational Quotes for Work (to Help You Work Hard and Smart)
“Either you run the day or the day runs you.”
– Jim Rohn
“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Quotes About Life Lessons
“The future depends on what you do today.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.”
– Dale Carnegie
“Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.”
– Seneca
“Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better.”
– Jim Rohn
“You will never plough a field if you only turn it over in your mind.”
– Irish Proverb
“It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.”
– Confucius
“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.”
– Stephen Covey
“Don't wait. The time will never be just right.”
– Napoleon Hill
“To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.”
– Eva Young
“If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend six hours sharpening my ax.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
– Confucius
“Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.”
– Dalai Lama
“Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.”
– Dale Carnegie
“Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work.”
– Joseph Barbara
“When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
– Paulo Coelho
“The best way out is always through.”
– Robert Frost
“Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right.”
– Henry Ford
“Think of many things; do one.”
– Portuguese proverb
What’s your favorite short quote about life? Feel free to share the best one(s) you have found in this article or in your life in the comments section below.