Short Inspirational Quotes

Short inspirational quotes to carry you through your days and nights. Keep these in your pocket on index cards and refer to them when you need strength, courage, or a reminder of your place in the world.

Put these on your mirror, or keep them in your car. Since they're short, these are easy to put on a chalk board, make into refrigerator magnets, or put on mugs. You can make posters out of them and place them on the wall, or put them on t shirts.

"Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well."
-Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield

"That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers."
-Francis Hutcheson, Inquiry Concerning Moral Good and Evil [1720], sec. 3

"Were I to invoke logic, however, logic clearly dictates that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few."
-Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan, Spoken by Leonard Nimoy as Captain Spock

"There is nothing permanent except change."
-Heraclitus

"Money grows on the tree of patience." or the often repeated variant: "Money grows on the tree of persistence."
-Japanese proverb

"Business is like the froth from an ox's mouth."
-Japanese proverb

"Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible."-George Orwell

Voltaire

Here are some select short inspirational quotes from Voltaire, the pen name of Francois Marie Arouet. Voltaire was a prolific and influential writer, and his thoughts took many literary forms.

"Change everything, except your loves."

"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him."

"Liberty of thought is the life of the soul."

"Work keeps us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and poverty."

"Common sense is not so common."

Sports

Quotes from the sports world.

"Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing."
-Saying [1953], often attributed to UCLA football coach Henry "Red" Sanders

"It ain't over till it's over."
-Saying, Yogi Berra, Comment on National League pennant race [1973]
Yogi Berra quotes

"Just do it."
-Nike Slogan

"The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win."
-Roger Bannister

"Just Win, Baby."
-Al Davis

Sports motivational quotes

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