Powerful Quotes to Inspire and Guide Your Life

No matter what feelings you have, no matter how mixed your emotions are, and whatever events surround you or take you into their contexts, a few carefully chosen words can sum up what you feel. Short, wisely crafted sentences can express what’s hidden inside you, and a number of precious quotes shared by celebrities can reveal your inner struggles and break through what disturbs you and troubles your soul.

In the following context, “nadormagazine” has gathered for you (from today.com) some of the best short quotes that can serve as a motto or guide to hold your hand, stimulate your thoughts, and guide your steps in the battle of life. These quotes will inspire you and open new horizons you never imagined, or help you close old doors that troubled you but you never dared to approach.

Tell us your opinion about these quotes and share with us more quotes that have changed your thinking or inspired your happiness one day.

Useful Short Motivational Quotes

Inspirational Quotes

• "Don’t let making a living prevent you from making a life."

• "Never be limited by other people’s limited imaginations." — Dr. Mae C. Jemison

• "The only impossible journey is the one you never begin." — Tony Robbins

• "If you fell yesterday, stand up today." — H.G. Wells

• "Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going." — Sam Levenson

• "You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take." — Wayne Gretzky

• "I find that the harder I work, the luckier I get." — Thomas Jefferson

• "The only approval you need is your own." — Amanda Gorman

• "Never regret anything that made you smile." — Mark Twain

• "Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud." — Maya Angelou

• "Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier." — Colin Powell

• "The future is not the place to put your beautiful days." — Dave Matthews

• "Life is not about finding yourself, but about creating yourself." — George Bernard Shaw

• "The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am." — Dave Matthews

• "You can’t always get what you want." — Rolling Stones

• "Never stop believing in yourself." — Theodore Roosevelt

• "The love you take is equal to the love you make." — Carly Simon

• "Don’t let making a living prevent you from making a life." — John Wooden

• "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all." — Helen Keller

• "The greatest wealth is to live contentedly." — Plato

• "Let’s carry our books and pens; they are our strongest weapons." — Malala Yousafzai

• "There is always time to do the right thing." — Martin Luther King Jr.

• "Character is only measured by strength." — Booker T. Washington

• "Turn your wounds into wisdom." — Oprah Winfrey

• "Eighty percent of success is showing up." — Woody Allen

• "There is no courage without vulnerability." — Brené Brown

• "Rise above the storm, and you will find the sunshine." — Mario Fernandez

• "With each new day comes new strength and new thoughts." — Eleanor Roosevelt

Quotes That Open Your Eyes to the Right Path

• "If you give yourself priority, you will save yourself." — Gabrielle Union

• "Just stay on track and never look back." — Dolly Parton

• "You have to know when to hold ‘em and when to fold ‘em." — Kenny Rogers

• "The best way out is always through." — Robert Frost

• "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts." — Winston Churchill

• "For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

• "Doubt kills. To overcome it, you must know who you are and why you believe." — Jennifer Lopez

• "Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right." — Henry Ford

• "The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—that’s all that matters." — Audrey Hepburn

• "Life is not about having good cards, but about playing bad cards well." — Robert Louis Stevenson

• "Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist but in the ability to start over." — F. Scott Fitzgerald

• "Be the change you wish to see in the world." — Mahatma Gandhi

• "Don’t wait until the iron is hot to strike it; make it hot by striking." — William Butler Yeats

• "In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer." — Albert Camus

• "Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim." — Nora Ephron

• "It’s good to celebrate success, but more important to learn the lessons of failure." — Bill Gates

• "You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and falling." — Richard Branson

• "If offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask which seat. Just get on." — Sheryl Sandberg

• "Winning isn’t everything, but the desire to win is everything." — Vince Lombardi

• "You have within you everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you." — Brian Tracy

• "The life we live for others is the life worth living." — Albert Einstein

• "The only thing standing between you and your goal is the story you keep telling yourself why you can’t achieve it." — Jordan Belfort

• "Believe you can and you’re halfway there." — Theodore Roosevelt