If you’re looking for short and punchy quotes that make you think, you’re in the right place. These quotes can pull you out of a rut, shift your perspective, and reignite your motivation. Today, I 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 find something helpful 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 does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.”
– Confucius
“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”
– Stephen King
“A ship is always safe at shore but that is not what it’s built for.”
– John A. Shedd
“Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole 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 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 painful endings.”
– 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 cannot do interfere with what you can do.”
– John R. Wooden
“The road to success is always under construction.”
– Lily Tomlin
“Just because it didn’t last forever, doesn’t mean it wasn’t worth your while.”
– Unknown
“The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us the greatest delight.”
– Epictetus
“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
– Soren Kierkegaard
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
– George Bernard Shaw
“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”
– 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 foundational 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 as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.”
– Oscar Wilde
“Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.”
– Dalai Lama
“There is more to life than increasing its speed.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
“The fullness of life is only accessible in the present moment.”
– Eckhart Tolle
“Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.”
– Buddha
“Victory is sweetest when you’ve known defeat.”
– Malcolm S. Forbes
“A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.”
– Henrik Ibsen
“Good things happen to those who hustle.”
– Chuck Noll
“Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.”
– Heraclitus
“It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.”
– Seneca
“If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy.”
– Proverb
“The best revenge is massive success.”
– Frank Sinatra
“It ain’t what they call you, it’s what you answer to.”
– W.C. Fields
“I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.”
– Florence Nightingale
“Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy.”
– Dr. Robert Anthony
“Success comes in cans; failure in can’ts.”
– Unknown
“The way to love anything is to realize that it may 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 just right.”
– Napoleon Hill
“Your problem is you’re… too busy holding onto your unworthiness.”
– Ram Dass
“Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.”
– Richard Branson
“For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.”
– Harry F. Banks
“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”
– Bruce Lee
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
– Marthe Troly-Curtin
“If you can’t do great things, do small things in a great way.”
– Napoleon Hill
“Stay hungry, stay foolish.”
– Steve Jobs
“A year from now you may wish you had started today.”
– Karen Lamb
Want more thought provoking and short quotes? Have a look at this post with short quotes and this one with deep quotes.
