I like quotes that are short and sweet, but still make me think.
Especially when they get me out of a rut or negative mood, shift my perspective and rekindle my motivation.
So in today’s post I simply want to share 54 of my favorite short, deep and meaningful quotes that will give you a boost of energy and renew your motivation.
I hope you will find something useful here.
Short, deep and meaningful quotes for motivation
“If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”
–Jim Rohn
‘Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
–Arthur Ashe
“It doesn’t matter how slow you go, as long as you don’t stop.”
– Confucius
“Amateurs are waiting for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”
–Stefan King
“A ship is always safe on shore, but that is not what it is built for.”
– John A. Shedd
“Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your entire day.”
– Dalai Lama
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anaïs Nin
“Either you run the day, or the day runs you.”
–Jim Rohn
“Happiness is not something that is ready-made. It comes from your own actions.”
– Dalai Lama
“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”
– Neale Donald Walsch
“New beginnings are often disguised as a painful ending.”
– Lao Tzu
“The only joy in the world is to begin.”
– Cesare Pavese
“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”
– Aesop
“Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.”
–Dennis Waitley
“Everything you want is on the other side of fear.”
– Jack Canfield
“Don’t let what you can’t do interfere with what you can do.”
–John R. Houten
“The road to success is always under construction.”
– Lily Tomlin
“Just because it didn’t last forever doesn’t mean it wasn’t worth it.”
– Unknown
“The pleasure we rarely experience gives us the greatest joy.”
– Epictetus
“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
– Soren Kierkegaard
“Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
–George Bernard Shaw
“The only real mistake is the one we don’t learn from.”
–Henry Ford
“Success is largely a matter of holding on after others have let go.”
– Unknown
“Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.”
–Winston Churchill
“Action is the fundamental key to all success.”
–Pablo Picasso
“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.”
–Robert Collier
“What seems to us like bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.”
–Oscar Wilde
“Judge your success by what you had to give up to achieve it.”
– Dalai Lama
“There is more to life than increasing speed.”
–Mahatma Gandhi
“The fullness of life is only accessible in the present moment.”
– Eckhart Tolle
“Your job is to discover your world and then give yourself to it with all your heart.”
– Buddha
“Victory is the best when you have experienced defeat.”
– Malcolm S. Forbes
“A thousand words will not leave as deep an impression as one action.”
– Henrik Ibsen
“Good things happen to those who care.”
–Chuck Noll
“Our envy always outlasts the happiness of those we envy.”
– Heraclitus
“It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to mourn over it.”
–Seneca
“If you’re too busy to laugh, you’re too busy.”
– Proverb
“The best revenge is enormous success.”
– Frank Sinatra
“It’s not what they call you, it’s what you respond to.”
– Toilet fields
“I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse.”
–Florence Nightingale
“Most people would rather be sure they are miserable than risk being happy.”
–Dr. Robert Anthony
“Success comes in cans; failure in not being able to do.”
– Unknown
“The way to love something is to realize that it can be lost.”
–Gilbert K. Chesterton
“The best way to succeed in this world is to act on the advice you give to others.”
– Unknown
“Don’t wait. The time will never be exactly right.”
– Napoleon Hill
“Your problem is that you’re…too busy holding on to your unworthiness.”
– Ram Dass
“Don’t be ashamed of your failures, learn from them and start again.”
–Richard Branson
“Attitude is just as important as ability for success.”
– Harry F. Banks
“The successful warrior is the average man, with a laser-like focus.”
–Bruce Lee
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a living by what we give.”
–Winston Churchill
“Time you like to waste is not wasted time.”
– Marthe Troly-Curtin
“If you can’t do big things, do small things in a great way.”
– Napoleon Hill
“Stay hungry, stay foolish.”
–Steve Jobs
“A year from now you might wish you had started today.”
– Karen Lam
Want more thought-provoking and short quotes? Check out this post with short quotes and this one with deep quotes.
