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Best Short Quotes
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.—Benjamin Disraeli
A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.—Elbert Hubbard
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.—Honore de Balzac
Action is the foundational key to all success.–Pablo Picasso
Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.–Stephen King
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.–Mark Twain
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.–Winston Churchill
A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.–Groucho Marx
Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.–Oscar Wilde
Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that’s what makes you strong.–Sarah Dessen
A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.–Arnold H. Glasgow
A true friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else.–Len Wein
A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.–Leo Buscaglia
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.–Elbert Hubbard
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.–Walter Winchell
A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.–Donna Roberts
A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.–Charles Darwin
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.–Socrates
Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.–André Gide
Beauty begins the moment you decided to be yourself.–Coco Chanel
Better to have lost and loved than never to have loved at all.—Ernest Hemingway
Concentration is the secret of strength.–Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever.—Leo Buscaglia
Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.–Oprah Winfrey
Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.–Richard Branson
Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.–John R. Wooden
Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.–Robert Kiyosaki
Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.–Napoleon Hill
Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.–Charles M. Schulz
Don’t sweat the petty things and don’t pet the sweaty things.–George Carlin
Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.–Richard Branson
Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?–Abraham Lincoln
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.–Robert Louis Stevenson
Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better.–Jim Rohn
Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.–Napoleon Hill
Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.–Dale Carnegie
Either you run the day or the day runs you.–Jim Rohn
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.–Albert Einstein
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.–Samuel Beckett
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.–Ed Cunningham
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.–Woodrow T. Wilson
Friends are people who know you really well and like you anyway.–Greg Tamblyn
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.–Og Mandino
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.–Henry Ford
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.–Josh Billings
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.–Harry F. Banks
Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.—Euripides
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.—Seneca
Good things happen to those who hustle.–Chuck Noll
Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness.–Jean Vanier
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.–Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work.–Joseph Barbara
Here’s something to think about: How come you never see a headline like ‘Psychic Wins Lottery’?–Jay Leno
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.—Albert Schweitzer
Happiness is a state of activity.—Aristotle
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.—Mahatma Gandhi
Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.—Dennis Waitley
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
It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.—Seneca
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
I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.—Roy Croft
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.—Alfred Tennyson
If I know what love is, it is because of you.—Herman Hesse
I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.–Florence Nightingale
If you can’t do great things, do small things in a great way.–Napoleon Hill
It ain’t what they call you, it’s what you answer to.–W.C. Fields
If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.–Charles Bukowski
I have never been hurt by what I have not said.–Calvin Coolidge
I may be a living legend, but that sure don’t help when I’ve got to change a flat tire.–Roy Orbison
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.–Abraham Lincoln
It is never too late to be what you might have been.–George Eliot
I intend to live forever. So far, so good.–Steven Wright
I haven’t spoken to my wife in years. I didn’t want to interrupt her.–Rodney Dangerfield
If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.–Steven Wright
If you want your children to listen, try talking softly to someone else.–Ann Landers
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.–Dalai Lama
I have a lot of growing up to do. I realized that the other day inside my fort.–Zach Galifianakis
I like criticism. It makes you strong.–LeBron James
I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.–Louisa May Alcott
If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.–Maxwell Maltz
It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.–Epicurus
It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.–Marlene Dietrich
It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.–Confucius
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.–Stephen Covey
If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend six hours sharpening my ax.–Abraham Lincoln
Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.—Erich Fromm
If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.—Benjamin Franklin
Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.–Dalai Lama
Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.–Dalai Lama
Lighten up on yourself. No one is perfect. Gently accept your humanness.–Deborah Day
Love does not dominate; it cultivates.–Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.–Tennessee Williams
Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.–Seneca
Love is a better teacher than duty.—Albert Einstein
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.—Robert A. Heinlein
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.–Neale Donald Walsch
Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.–Maxwell Maltz
Loving yourself isn’t vanity. It’s sanity.–Katrina Mayer
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.–George Bernard Shaw
Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.—Andre Breton
Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.—Lord Byron
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.—Khalil Gibran
Love is a friendship set to music.—Joseph Campbell
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.—James Baldwin
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.—Confucius
Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.–George Carlin
Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy.—Dr. Robert Anthony
Never miss a good chance to shut up.–Will Rogers
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.–Erma Bombeck
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.–Alice Walker
Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face.–Helen Keller
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.–Erich Fromm
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.–Eleanor Roosevelt
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.—Winnie the Pooh
One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.–George Santayana
One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.–Shannon L. Alder
Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.—Heraclitus
Our strength grows out of our weaknesses–Ralph Waldo Emerson
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.–Dale Carnegie
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.–Robert Schuller
People who want the most approval get the least and the people who need approval the least get the most.–Wayne Dyer
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.—Thich Nhat Hanh
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
Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.–Arthur Ashe
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.–Robert Collier
Stay hungry, stay foolish.–Steve Jobs
Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.–Winston Churchill
Success is largely a matter of holding on after others have let go.–Unknown
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.–Mahatma Gandhi
Sometimes you don’t realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness.–Susan Gale
Stress is caused by being ‘here’ but wanting to be ‘there.–Eckhart Tolle
Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.—Miles Franklin
Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.–John Wooden
The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.–R. G. Ingersoll
The only way out is in.—Junot Díaz
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.–Mahatma Gandhi
True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.–David Tyson
There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.–Linda Grayson
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.–Charles Lamb
There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.–Jim Henson
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.–Henry David Thoreau
The best time to make friends is before you need them.–Ethel Barrymore
The future depends on what you do today.–Mahatma Gandhi
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.–B. B. King
To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.–Eva Young
The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.–Confucius
The best way out is always through.–Robert Frost
Think of many things; do one.–Portuguese proverb
The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.–Maya Angelou
Your problem is you’re… too busy holding onto your unworthiness.–Ram Dass
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.–Malcolm S. Forbes
There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.–Anaïs Nin
The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management.–Scott Adams
The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.–Oscar Wilde
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.–Abraham Lincoln
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.–Albert Einstein
The best way to teach your kids about taxes is by eating 30 percent of their ice cream.–Bill Murray
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.–Tom Clancy
Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away.–Benjamin Franklin
Tough times never last, but tough people do.–Robert H. Schuller
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.–Friedrich Nietzsche
The more one judges, the less one loves.–Honore de Balzac
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.–Abraham Lincoln
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 comes.–Benjamin Disraeli
To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.–Mark Twain
The road to success is always under construction.–Lily Tomlin
Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.–Albert Einstein
The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.–Robert Hand
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.–Benjamin Spock
To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.–Robert Morley
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.—Epictetus
The only joy in the world is to begin.—Cesare Pavese
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.—Albert Camus
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.—Arthur Schopenhauer
Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.—Marthe Troly-Curtin
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
The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.—Aesop
The best thing in life aren’t things.—John Ruskin
The more one judges, the less one loves.—Honore de Balzac
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.—Morrie Schwartz
The giving of love is an education in itself.—Eleanor Roosevelt
The best proof of love is trust.—Joyce Brothers
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.—Gilbert K. Chesterton
Victory is sweetest when you’ve known defeat.–Malcolm S. Forbes
What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.—Confucius
When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.—Blaise Pascal
Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own?–Brigham Young
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.–Osca
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.–Ralph Waldo Emerson
Why fit in when you were born to stand out?-Dr. Seuss
We acquire the strength we have overcome.–Ralph Waldo Emerson
Where there is no struggle, there is no strength–Oprah
We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.–J.K. Rowling
When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.–Paulo Coelho
Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right.–Henry Ford
What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.–Confucius
You will never plough a field if you only turn it over in your mind.–Irish Proverb
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.–Margaret Thatcher
You can’t really be strong until you can see a funny side to things.–Ken Kesey
You can always tell when a man’s well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.–H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.–Ethel Barrymore
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.–Buddha