Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can. Neil Gaiman (See also: writing quotes) My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style. More love, less hate.”. “Take responsibility of your own happiness, never put it in other people’s hands.”. “It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.”. “Respect other people's feelings.

Quotes In English And Hindi
Quotes In English Language
Quotes In English About Life
Quotes In English Bill Of Rights
Quotes In English And Arabic
Filipino Quotes In English
Quotes In English Images

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

My shots lyrics. “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 c

Quotes In English