Top 39 Short Positive Inspirational Quotes
Life can be quite an adventure, imagine you and I sitting down to share some thought-provoking quotes. These nuggets of wisdom are from thinkers who have figured out a thing or two about personal growth and self-discovery. Consider each quote as a friendly nudge, saying, "Hey, think about this." They may make you laugh, ponder, or perhaps even challenge your perspective.
“Be the change you want to see in the world” Mahatma Gandhi
"May you live all the days of your life." -Jonathan Swift
“I couldn’t change others until I changed Myself” -Nelson Mandela
”The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
”Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought” -Henri Bergson, French Philosopher
”Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people's thinking.” -Steve Jobs
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." -Helen Keller
”You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.” -John Lennon
”Do one thing every day that scares you.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
”Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
”Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” -Oscar Wilde
”Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” -Thomas A. Edison
“Everything can be taken from a man, but the last of the human freedoms: to choose one’s attitudes in any given set of circumstances.” –Viktor Frankl
"Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right." -Henry Ford
"The only impossible journey is the one you never begin." -Tony Robbins
“Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.” -Babe Ruth
“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.” –Carl Gustav Jung
“Vulnerability is not knowing victory of defeat, it’s understanding the necessity of both; it’s engaging. It’s being all in.” –Brene Brown
"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." -Abraham Lincoln
"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not." -Oscar Wilde
”Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” -Winston S. Churchill
"If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time." -Steve Jobs
"Believe you can and you're halfway there." -Theodore Roosevelt
"An unexamined life is not worth living." -Socrates
“It’s a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient” Daniel Kahnemen
"If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up." - J.M. Power
"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, ‘I'm possible!'" -Audrey Hepburn
"I didn't fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong." -Benjamin Franklin
“If you never change your mind, why have one?” Edward de Bono
“Grit is living life like its a marathon, and not a sprint” -Angela Duckworth
"Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning." -Gloria Steinem
"The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them." - Ernest Hemingway
"Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." -Winston Churchill
"I have a dream." - Martin Luther King Jr.
”A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” -Albert Einstein
“Once you start making the effort to ‘wake yourself up’—that is, be more mindful in your activities—you suddenly start appreciating life a lot more.” –Robert Biswas-Diener - psychologist
"When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are." -Oprah Winfrey
"What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others." -Pericles
Overall, inspirational quotes can be fun when used judiciously. They offer quick bursts of motivation and positivity, but their effectiveness ultimately depends on how they are integrated into one's life.
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