Best 100 Short Motivational Quotes That Will Motivate Yourself

Short Motivational Quotes

What is it about Short Motivational Quotes that make them so endearing? Every driven person eventually figures out that there’s a whole lot of feel-good time wasters out there that consume our attention because they feel like work, and browsing endless lists of motivational quotes is no exception. And yet, there’s hidden value in finding a concise expression that perfectly captures one of our own beliefs.

So, let’s dive into what is motivation, how to motivate yourself, and the motivational quotes of the day that’ll get you back on track. These Short Motivational Quotes will give you the jumpstart your day needs, so don’t forget to bookmark this page. 

Please enjoy this list of Best 50 Short Motivational Quotes. Discover one liners, simple thoughts and wise sayings to start your day. Enjoy!

1. You do not find the happy life. You make it

Camilla Eyring Kimball

2. The best way out is always through.

Robert Frost

3. If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

Frederick Douglass

4. More is lost by indecision than wrong decision.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

5. The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

Henry Ford

6. The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Mark Twain

7. Whatever you are, be a good one.

Abraham Lincoln

8. Impossible is just an opinion.

Paulo Coelho

9. Hold the vision, trust the process.

Unknown

10. Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama XIV

11. Do one thing every day that scares you.

Eleanor Roosevelt

12. Leaders can let you fail and yet not let you be a failure.

Stanley McChrystal

13. It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.

Lou Holtz

14. In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

15. Work hard in silence, let your success be the noise.

Frank Ocean

16. Never stop doing your best just because someone doesn’t give you credit.

Kamari aka Lyrikal

17. Be positive! Negativity doesn’t get you anywhere.

Peter W. Murphy

18. No greater gift there is, than a generous heart.

Yoda

19. Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Les Brown

20. There can be glory in failure and despair in success.

Abraham Lincoln

21. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

Joel Osteen

22. Do something worth remembering.

Elvis Presley

24. The future depends on what you do today.

Gandhi

25. Never let success get to your head and never let failure get to your heart.

Drake

26. If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.

Erica Jong

27. If it makes you nervous, you’re doing it right.

Childish Gambino

28. I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life.

Louise Hay

29. People’s passion and desire for authenticity is strong.

Constance Wu

30. No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed.

Billie Jean King

31. Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.

Michael Jordan

32. Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.

Hafez

33. Make each day your masterpiece.

John Wooden

34. Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.

Jim Rohn

35. Life changes very quickly, in a very positive way, if you let it.

Lindsey Vonn

36. Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

Helen Keller

37. Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

Truman Capote

38. Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

Confucius

39. Dream big and dare to fail.

Norman Vaughan

40. Don’t tell people your plans. Show them your results.

Unknown

41. Take the risk or lose the chance.

Unknown

42. Good things happen to those who hustle.

Unknown

43. Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

Arthur Ashe

44. I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Audre Lorde

45. You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

Maya Angelou

46. Go to your desire and don’t hang around here.

Jack Kerouac

47. Some people want it to happen, some people wish it would happen, others make it happen.

Michael Jordan

48. Make it work.

Tim Gunn

49. Life is short. Don’t be lazy.

Sophia Amoruso

50. Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Unknown

51. “More is lost by indecision than wrong decision.”

Marcus Tullius Cicero

52. “If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.”

Thomas Aquinas

53. “You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, and there’s still going to be somebody who hates peaches.”

Dita Von Teese

54. “Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.”

Cormac McCarthy

55. “The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.”

Arthur C. Clarke

56. “Worry is a misuse of imagination.”

Unknown

57. “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.”

Maya Angelou

58. “Turn your wounds into wisdom.”

Oprah

59. “We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.”

Helen Keller

60. “There is nothing impossible to they who will try.”

Alexander the Great

61. “The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.”

Michael Altshuler

62.  “Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.”

Gordon B. Hinckley

63. “One finds limits by pushing them.”

Herbert A. Simon

64. “Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.”

Charles R. Swindoll

65. “Success is a journey not a destination.”

Ben Sweetland

66. “What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”

Zig Ziglar

67. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.”

Nelson Mandela

68. “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”

Maya Angelou

69. “Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.”

Leo Buscaglia

70. “When the going gets tough, the tough get going.”

Joe Kennedy

71. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.”

Abraham Lincoln

72. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.”

Ayn Rand

73. “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”

Herman Melville

74. “Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.”

Suzy Kassem

75. “Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you.”

Walt Whitman

76. “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.”

Henry Ford

77. “Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions.”

Dalai Lama

78. “Folks are usually about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”

Abraham Lincoln

79. “Don’t waste your energy trying to change opinions … do your thing, and don’t care if they like it.”

Tina Fey

80. “Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.”

Bryce Courtenay

81. “The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.”

William Jennings Bryan

82. “If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.”

Vincent van Gogh

83. “One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.”

Arthur Ashe

84. “It is confidence in our bodies, minds, and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures.”

Oprah Winfrey

85. “Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.”

Abraham Lincoln

86. “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.”

Stephen Hawking

87. “Leaders can let you fail and yet not let you be a failure.”

Stanley McChrystal

88. “The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.”

Henry Ford

89. “If you’re going through hell keep going.”

Winston Churchill

90. “The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”

Anonymous

91. “Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument.”

Anonymous

92. “What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.”

Oscar Wilde

93. “I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”

Thomas Jefferson

94. “When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”

Paulo Coelho

95. “Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better.”

Jim Rohn

96. “Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.”

Dale Carnegie

97. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act. But a habit.”

Aristotle

98. “I got my own back.”

Maya Angelou

99. “Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.”

Thomas Edison

100. “Very often, a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.”

A.C. Benson

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