100 short powerful quotes guaranteed to inspire you today (2024)

If you’re looking for some short, powerful quotes, dear reader, then I have some gems for you today.

I guarantee that you will find quotes here to truly inspire you.

So, grab a coffee, take a few moments to read them all, and set yourself up for a day of action.

Short powerful quotes (1-10):

The unexamined life is not worth living. ~Socrates
Whatever you are, be a good one. ~Abraham Lincoln
There is nothing permanent except change. ~Heracl*tus
The more I see, the less I know for sure. ~John Lennon
The truth is rarely pure and never simple. ~Oscar Wilde

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. ~Mark Twain
Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened. ~Dr Seuss
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
Be the change that you wish to see in the world. ~Mahatma Gandhi
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. ~Lao Tzu

Short powerful quotes (11-20):

The way to get started is quit talking and begin doing. ~Walt Disney
There is nothing impossible to him who will try. ~Alexander the Great
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. ~Anne Frank
Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly. ~John F. Kennedy
The future belongs to the brave, not to the faint-hearted. ~Ronald Reagan
The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. ~St. Augustine
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. ~Albert Einstein
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. ~Amelia Earhart
Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. ~Winston Churchill
The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money. ~Margaret Thatcher

Short powerful quotes (21-30):

You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. ~Wayne Gretzky

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. ~Beverly Sills
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. ~Oscar Wilde
You must do the things you think you cannot do. ~Eleanor Roosevelt
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. ~Mae West
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. ~E.E. Cummings
We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone. ~Ronald Reagan
You have to dream before your dreams can come true. ~A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
The mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work unless it’s open. ~Frank Zappa
The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. ~Ferdinand Foch

Short powerful quotes (31-40):

The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have. ~Vince Lombardi
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. ~C.S. Lewis
You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with. ~Jim Rohn
We must not allow other people’s limited perceptions to define us. ~Virginia Satir
The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. ~Ayn Rand
You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated. ~Maya Angelou
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. ~Aristotle
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. ~Winston Churchill
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters. ~Audrey Hepburn

Short powerful quotes (41-50):

You have to be odd to be number one. ~Dr Seuss
Where there is love there is life. ~Mahatma Gandhi
Why fit in when you were born to stand out? ~Dr Seuss
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. ~Oscar Wilde
Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right. ~Henry Ford
Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life. ~Steve Jobs
Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans. ~John Lennon
Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game. ~Babe Ruth
You don’t have to be great to start, but you must start to be great. ~Zig Ziglar
It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up. ~Vince Lombardi

Short powerful quotes (51-60):

You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. ~Maya Angelou
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try. ~Beverly Sills
Life is ten percent what happens to you and 90% how you react to it. ~Charles R. Swindoll
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. ~Mahatma Gandhi
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. ~Edmund Burke
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. ~Alice Walker
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure. ~Paulo Coelho

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. ~Edith Wharton
You’re off to great places, today is your day. Your mountain is waiting, so get on your way. ~Dr Seuss
You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. ~Christopher Columbus

Short powerful quotes (61-70):

It is never too late to be what you might have been. ~George Eliot
If you don’t stand for something, you will fall for anything. ~Malcolm X
Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’! ~Audrey Hepburn
Don’t let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game. ~Babe Ruth
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision. ~Helen Keller
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. ~Oscar Wilde
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. ~African proverb
Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions. ~Dalai Lama
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. ~Maya Angelou

Short powerful quotes (71-80):

People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do. ~Rob Siltanen
Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen. ~Michael Jordan

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. ~Colin Powell
What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make. ~Jane Goodall
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty. ~Winston Churchill
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. ~Dr Seuss
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. ~Steve Jobs
The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude. ~Oprah Winfrey
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart. ~Helen Keller

Short powerful quotes (81-90):

Nothing will work unless you do. ~Maya Angelou
Other people succeed and so can you. ~Roy Sutton
Action is the foundational key to all success. ~Pablo Picasso
Energy and persistence conquer all things. ~Benjamin Franklin
The path to success is to take massive, determined action. ~Tony Robbins
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. ~Jim Rohn
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. ~Eleanor Roosevelt
When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
The greatest glory in living, lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. ~Nelson Mandela
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. ~Albert Einstein

Short powerful quotes (91-100):

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. ~Albert Einstein
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. ~Charles Darwin
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. ~Nelson Mandela
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. ~Vince Lombardi
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. ~Bertrand Russell
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. ~Helen Keller

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. ~Arnold Schwarzenegger

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