Apparently, this is the era of tweetable lines. Consumerism might have been incorporated in our lives as something almost indispensable, however when it comes to words, economy -in the sense of saving (money, time, etc.)- is always sought after. We constantly look for short quotes to tweet and share, a low number of characters forming a phrase that, ideally, could concentrate within itself all the wisdom we need at the moment.
We came up with this compilation of quotes suitable for posting on Twitter or any other social medium. Their words might say little, but they definitely mean a lot.
Table of Contents
- Best Short Quotes
- Short Love Quotes
- Short Inspirational Quotes
- Short Life Quotes
- Short Motivational Quotes
- Short Positive Quotes
- Short Happy Quotes
- Short Quotes about Strength
- Short Quotes about Change
- Funny Short Quotes
Best Short Quotes
- If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.
- Without music, life would be a mistake.
- If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand it yourself.
- Everything you can imagine is real.
- Not all those who wander are lost.
- The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
- Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
- An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.
- All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
- Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.
- Any fool can know. The point is to understand.
- Resist much, obey little.
- Fear cuts deeper than swords.
- Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
- All grown-ups were once children… but only few of them remember it.
- Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
- There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
- Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
- Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
- When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.
- It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
- Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
- Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
- Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
- Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
- The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.
- She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
- Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
- To err is human, to forgive, divine.
- Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
- The future depends on what you do today.
- The unfed mind devours itself.
- Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
- Freedom lies in being bold.
- He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.
- It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
- We are all born mad. Some remain so.
- There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
- No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.
- Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise.
- I am free and that is why I am lost.
Short Love Quotes
- Where there is love there is life.
- And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.
- We loved with a love that was more than love.
- One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.
- We accept the love we think we deserve.
- Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.
- Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.
- Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
- Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
- Caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
- It’s enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.
- One love, one heart, one destiny.
- Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.
- We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
- Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.
- Love is the absence of judgment.
- Who, being loved, is poor?
- When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.
- Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
- To love another person is to see the face of God.
Short Inspirational Quotes
- All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
- The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
- Be the change that you wish to see in the world.
- If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.
- We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
- Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
- Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
- Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
- One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
- The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
- None but ourselves can free our minds.
- War is what happens when language fails.
- What you seek is seeking you. Rumi
- Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
- The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
- If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
- Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
- Forever is composed of nows.
- If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?
- A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.
- There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.
- You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.
- Compassion is the basis of morality.
- I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
- Silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.
- There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.
- The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.
- Shut your eyes and see.
- A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
- Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
Short Life Quotes
- Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
- Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
- You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
- If you are going through hell, keep going.
- That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.
- In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
- It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
- I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.
- We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.
- Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
- Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.
- Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.
- Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
- Happiness [is] only real when shared.
- You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
- Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
- It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
Short Motivational Quotes
- Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
- Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’.
- Do one thing every day that scares you.
- Whatever you are, be a good one.
- Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t–you’re right.
- Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.
- The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
- You never fail until you stop trying.
- You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?
- It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
- Adventure is worthwhile in itself.
Short Positive Quotes
- Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
- Peace begins with a smile.
- Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.
- In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
- If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
- Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
- I’ve got nothing to do today but smile.
- Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
- Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.
- The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.
Short Happy Quotes
- The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
- A day without laughter is a day wasted.
- Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
- Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
- Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
- Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
- The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
- The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it’s all that matters.
- No medicine cures what happiness cannot.
- Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.
- With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?
- Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy.
- The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
- All happiness depends on courage and work.
- One must dare to be happy.
- Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. Omar Khayyam
Short Quotes about Strength
- It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
- It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
- That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
- A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it’s in hot water.
- We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.
- The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
- I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet. M
- He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.
- You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
- Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
Short Quotes about Change
- It is never too late to be what you might have been.
- It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.
- Why fit in when you were born to stand out?
- The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
- It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.
- No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
- There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
- Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
- Turn your wounds into wisdom.
- You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.
- I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.
- Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
- Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
- Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
- Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
Funny Short Quotes
- Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
- Humor is reason gone mad.
- I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
- A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
- I can resist anything except temptation.
- Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.
- I’m not afraid of death; I just don’t want to be there when it happens.
- The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.
- Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.
- Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
- Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
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