We’ve compiled the ultimate list of the best and most popular short quotes. There are 275 quotes and sayings covering love, life, success, failure and more. Some of them are really inspiring and motivational, others are just cute and funny. To make it more comfortable we’ve divided it into the following sections: Love quotes, Inspirational/Motivational, Life quotes, Cute and funny sayings.
Short Love Quotes
1. “Love is the only gold.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson
2. “If you want to be loved, be lovable.” – Ovid
3. “Love is my religion – I could die for it.” – John Keats
4. “Love is energy of life.” – Robert Browning
5. “A loving heart is the truest wisdom.” – Charles Dickens
6. “This love is silent.” – T. S. Eliot
7. “Friendship is love without his wings!” – Lord Byron
8. “Love is our true destiny.” – Thomas Merton
9. “Love is the answer, and you know that for sure.” – John Lennon
10. “In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.” – Paul McCartney
11. “True love stories never have endings.” – Richard Bach
12. “Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.” – Philip James Bailey
13. “If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.” – Benjamin Franklin
14. “Love is stronger than justice.” – Sting
15. “Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
16. “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” – William Shakespeare
17. “Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.” – Andre Breton
18. “The crime of loving is forgetting.” – Maurice Chevalier
19. “There is no sincerer love than the love of food.” – George Bernard Shaw
20. “Love is blind.” – Geoffrey Chaucer
21. “What force is more potent than love?” – Igor Stravinsky
22. “Love is the greatest gift that God has given us. It’s free.” – Taraji P. Henson
23. “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you.” – Jesus Christ
24. “Love is space and time measured by the heart.” – Marcel Proust
25. “Love does not dominate; it cultivates.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
26. “With our love, we could save the world.” – George Harrison
27. “Love is the greatest refreshment in life.” – Pablo Picasso
28. “Though lovers be lost love shall not.” – Dylan Thomas
29. “Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.” – Samuel Johnson
30. “Love is metaphysical gravity.” – R. Buckminster Fuller
31. “He is not a lover who does not love forever.” – Euripides
32. “Who so loves believes the impossible.” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
33. “Love is a game that two can play and both win.” – Eva Gabor
34. “Love is a friendship set to music.” – Joseph Campbell
35. “Love is the beauty of the soul.” – Saint Augustine
36. “Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.” – Samuel Richardson
37. “Who loves, raves.” – Lord Byron
38. “Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.” – H. L. Mencken
39. “Love in its essence is spiritual fire.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
40. “Love is the poetry of the senses.” – Honore de Balzac
41. “Love is love’s reward.” – John Dryden
42. “Take away love and our earth is a tomb.” – Robert Browning
43. “More than kisses, letters mingle souls.” – John Donne
44. “The first duty of love is to listen.” – Paul Tillich
45. “A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.” – Thomas Carlyle
46. “Fortune and love favor the brave.” – Ovid
47. “It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.” – Thomas Mann
48. “Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.” – William Law
49. “It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.” – Vladimir Nabokov
50. “Every love story is beautiful, but ours is my favorite.”
51. “There is no limit to the power of loving.” – John Morton
52. “People protect what they love.” – Jacques Yves Cousteau
53. “Love prefers twilight to daylight.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
54. “We accept the love we think we deserve.” – Stephen Chbosky
55. “Any time not spent on love is wasted.” – Torquato Tasso
56. “Love dies only when growth stops.” – Pearl S. Buck
57. “”Everything is clearer when you’re in love.” – John Lennon
58. “There are never enough I Love You’s.” – Lenny Bruce
59. “The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.” – Hubert H. Humphrey
60. “Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.” – Billie Holiday
61. “If I know what love is, it is because of you.” – Hermann Hesse
62. “Love has a tide!” – Helen Hunt Jackson
63. “”Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.” – Rumi
64. “Love, having no geography, knows no boundaries.” – Truman Capote
65. “Love is an energy which exists of itself.” – Thornton Wilder
66. “When love is not madness, it is not love.” – Pedro Calderon de la Barca
67. “Love is friendship set on fire.” – Jeremy Taylor
68. “We can only learn to love by loving.” – Iris Murdoch
69. “If you wished to be loved, love.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
70. “I love you. I am at rest with you. I have come home.” – Dorothy L. Sayers
71. “Passion is momentary; love is enduring.” – John Wooden
72. “Love is never wrong.” – Melissa Etheridge
73. “Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.” – Khalil Gibran
74. “Being in love with you makes every day an interesting one.”
75. “To love another person is to see the face of God.” – Victor Hugo
76. “Don’t forget to love yourself.” – Soren Kierkegaard
77. “Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.” – Theodor Adorno
78. “One must not trifle with love.” – Alfred de Musset
79. “We all need each other.” – Leo Buscaglia
80. “Great thoughts come from the heart.” – Luc de Clapiers
81. “Who, being loved, is poor?” – Oscar Wilde
82. “A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.” – George Herbert
83. “Self-love is the source of all our other loves.” – Pierre Corneille
84. “Speak low, if you speak love.” – William Shakespeare
85. “At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.” – Plato
86. “”The giving of love is an education in itself.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
87. “Love conquers all.” – Virgil
88. “”Where there is love there is life.” – Mahatma Gandhi
89. “Time doesn’t matter love is forever.”
90. “Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.”
91. “Give me love and work – these two only.” – William Morris
92. “Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.” – Duke Ellington
93. “The love we give away is the only love we keep.” – Elbert Hubbard
94. “Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you.” – Loretta Young
95. “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” – Aristotle
96. “Love is a better teacher than duty.” – Albert Einstein
97. “Love and desire are the spirit’s wings to great deeds.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
98. “Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest.” – Henry Van Dyke
99. “We are born of love; Love is our mother.” – Rumi
100. “Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.” – Tom Wolfe
101. “Love is a great beautifier.” – Louisa May Alcott
102. “Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.” – Aphra Behn
103. “”The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.” – Anais Nin
104. “Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.” – John Lennon
105. “At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
106. “Love has no age, no limit; and no death.” – John Galsworthy
107. “Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.” – Leo Buscaglia
108. “There is no remedy for love but to love more.” – Henry David Thoreau
109. “Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.” – H. L. Mencken
110. “Choose your love, love your choice.” – Thomas S. Monson
111. “We love because it’s the only true adventure.” – Nikki Giovanni
112. “Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.” – Thomas Fuller
113. “Absence – that common cure of love.” – Lord Byron
114. “Love is always being given where it is not required.” – E. M. Forster
115. “But love’s a malady without a cure.” – John Dryden
116. “Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.” – Samuel Lover
117. “Love is being stupid together.” – Paul Valery
118. “Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.” – James Thurber
Short Inspirational & Motivational Quotes
119. “The most effective way to do it, is to do it.” – Amelia Earhart
120. “Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.” – Benjamin Jowett
121. “Go big or go home.” – Eliza Dushku
122. “The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.” – Thomas Paine
123. “Do whatever you do intensely.” – Robert Henri
124. “You will never win if you never begin.” – Helen Rowland
125. “You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.” – Ted Turner
126. “Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.” – Carol Burnett
127. “If you think you can do it, you can.” – John Burroughs
128. “Get action. Seize the moment.” – Theodore Roosevelt
129. “Who seeks shall find.” – Sophocles
130. “When one must, one can.” – Charlotte Whitton
131. “Deserve your dream.” – Octavio Paz
132. “Reach for the stars.” – Christa McAuliffe
133. “Always do your best.” – Og Mandino
134. “It’s always too early to quit.” – Norman Vincent Peale
135. “You have to make it happen.” – Denis Diderot
136. “A will finds a way.” – Orison Swett Marden
137. “Either I will find a way, or I will make one.” – Philip Sidney
138. “Never give in and never give up.” – Hubert H. Humphrey
139. “I can, therefore I am.” – Simone Weil
140. “Good, better, best. Never let it rest.” – St. Jerome
141. “Well done is better than well said.” – Benjamin Franklin
142. “Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.” – Bo Jackson
143. “If not us, who? If not now, when?” – John F. Kennedy
144. “Don’t fight the problem, decide it.” – George C. Marshall
145. “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.” – Samuel Beckett
146. “Everything you can imagine is real.” – Pablo Picasso
147. “Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.” – Alfred A. Montapert
148. “Turn your wounds into wisdom.” – Oprah Winfrey
149. “He conquers who endures.” – Persius
150. “A goal is a dream with a deadline.” – Napoleon Hill
151. “Never complain and never explain.” – Benjamin Disraeli
152. “There’s a way to do it better – find it.” – Thomas A. Edison
153. “Don’t give up. Don’t lose hope. Don’t sell out.” – Christopher Reeve
154. “If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.” – H. G. Wells
155. “Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.” – W. Clement Stone
156. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela
157. “The more we do, the more we can do.” – William Hazlitt
158. “If you dream it, you can do it.” – Walt Disney
159. “Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.” – Wayne Dyer
160. “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill
161. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe
162. “Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.” – Robert H. Schuller
163. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
164. “What we think, we become.” – Buddha
165. “You must do the things you think you cannot do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
166. “There is nothing impossible to him who will try.” – Alexander the Great
167. “I dwell in possibility.” – Emily Dickinson
168. “Whoever is happy will make others happy too.” – Anne Frank
169. “In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.” – Nikos Kazantzakis
170. “Hope is a waking dream.” – Aristotle
171. “Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso
172. “Don’t regret the past, just learn from it.” – Ben Ipock
173. “The obstacle is the path.”
174. “Hope is the heartbeat of the soul.” – Michelle Horst
175. “Men are born to succeed, not fail.” – Henry David Thoreau
176. “With self-discipline most anything is possible.” – Theodore Roosevelt
177. “Out of difficulties grow miracles.” – Jean de la Bruyere
178. “The best way out is always through.” – Robert Frost
179. “My mind’s my kingdom.” – Francis Quarles
180. “Our ideals are our better selves.” – Amos Bronson Alcott
181. “Act like you expect to get into the end zone.’ – Christopher Morley
182. “Belief creates the actual fact.” – William James
183. “The power of imagination makes us infinite.” – John Muir
184. “Enthusiasm moves the world.” – Arthur Balfour
185. “Each day provides its own gifts.” – Marcus Aurelius
186. “When deeds speak, words are nothing.” – Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
187. “Today is the only day. Yesterday is gone.” – John Wooden
188. “We are here to make another world.” – W. Edwards Deming
189. “Light tomorrow with today!” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
190. “I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.” – Audre Lorde
191. “Success is 99 percent failure.” – Soichiro Honda
192. “There is no education like adversity.” – Disraeli
Short Life Quotes
193. “Life is like a roller coaster, live it, be happy, enjoy life.” – Avril Lavigne
194. “Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
195. “I want to live my life, not record it.” – Jackie Kennedy
196. “Life is growth.” – Morihei Ueshiba
197. “I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” – Robert Frost
198. “Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.” – Omar Khayyam
199. “The greatest pleasure of life is love.” – Euripides
200. “Memories are the best things in life, I think.” – Romy Schneider
201. “Every man dies. Not every man really lives.” – William Wallace
202. “Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.” – Henry David Thoreau
203. “You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.” – Joyce Meyer
204. “I love life because what more is there?” – Anthony Hopkins
205. “Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.” – Elbert Hubbard
206. “”Everything in life is luck.” – Donald Trump
207. “Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive.” – Matt Cameron
208. “The greatest gift of life is friendship.” – Hubert H. Humphrey
209. “Life must be lived as play.” – Plato
210. “Each day is the scholar of yesterday.” – Publilius Syrus
211. “Life is all about having a good time.” – Miley Cyrus
212. “Do the best you can, and don’t take life too serious.” – Will Rogers
213. “Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful.” – Isaac Asimov
214. “Nothing is perfect. Life is messy.” – Hugh Mackay
215. “I don’t want to earn my living; I want to live.” – Oscar Wilde
216. “All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
217. “Think big. Work hard”
218. “The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
219. “No man is a failure who is enjoying life.” – William Feather
220. “Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.” – Socrates
221. “Nothing is more precious than life…” – Peter Diamandis
222. “Life is short. Live passionately.”
223. “Kindness, I’ve discovered, is everything in life.” – Isaac Bashevis Singer
224. “To live is to change.” – John Henry Newman
225. “Life is too short for long-term grudges.” – Elon Musk
226. “”People living deeply have no fear of death.” – Anais Nin
227. “Life is a one time offer, use it well.”
228. “Our life is what our thoughts make it.” – Marcus Aurelius
229. “Whatever you are, be a good one.” – Abraham Lincoln
230. “Everything happens for a reason.”
231. “The good life is a process, not a state of being.” – Carl Rogers
232. “Life is about choices. Some we regret, some were proud of.” – Graham Brown
233. “Life is a lively process of becoming.” – Douglas MacArthur
234. “Try and fail, but never fail to try.” – Jared Leto
235. “Enjoy life. There’s plenty of time to be dead.”
236. “Education is the key to success in life.” – Solomon Ortiz
237. “Life is too short to worry about anything.” – Eric Davis
238. “Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw
239. “Being stylish is about enjoying your life.” – Tori Amos
240. “If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.” – W. Somerset Maugham
241. “Life is made up of marble and mud.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne
242. “No one really has a bad life. Just bad moments.” – Regina Brett
243. “We do not remember days, we remember moments.” – Cesare Pavese
244. “”Life is either a great adventure or nothing.” – Helen Keller
245. “The only disability in life is a bad attitude.” – Scott Hamilton
246. “The regret of my life is that I have not said ‘I love you’ often enough.” – Yoko Ono
247. “Life is a dream for the wise.” – Sholom Aleichem
248. “Life is a long lesson in humility.” – James M. Barrie
249. “”The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” – Dalai Lama
250. “Life is tough, but it’s tougher if you’re stupid.” – John Wayne
251. “Life is a song – sing it. Life is a game – play it.” – Sai Baba
252. “The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.” – Joseph Campbell
253. “”My life is my message.” – Mahatma Gandhi
254. “Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments.” – Rose Kennedy
255. “Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” – Mark Twain
256. “If you love life, don’t waste time.” – Bruce Lee
257. “”There is more to life than increasing its speed.” – Mahatma Gandhi
258. “Take a chance! All life is a chance.” – Dale Carnegie
Short Funny Quotes
259. “Some people are like clouds. When they go away, it’s a brighter day.”
260. “My wallet is like an onion, opening it makes me cry.”
261. “Don’t worry if plan A fails, there are 25 more letters in the alphabet.”
262. “I am on a seafood diet. I see food, and I eat it.”
263. “I’m not lazy, I’m just very relaxed.”
264. “Everybody wishes they could go to heaven but no one wants to die.”
265. “I enjoy long romantic walks to the fridge.”
266. “I’m not short! My height is just cute.”
267. “Lazy rule: can’t reach it. Don’t need it.”
268. “With great power comes great electricity bill.”
269. “Life is not a fairy tale. If you lose your shoe at midnight, you’re drunk.”
270. “Do you believe in love at first sight, or should I walk by again?”
271. “Who says nothing is impossible? I’ve been doing nothing for years.”
272. “The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.”
273. “People say you can’t live without love, but I think oxygen is more important.”
274. “The road to success is always under construction.”
275. “I am too lazy to be lazy.”
