Morning is here.

Maybe you feel a bit sluggish. Overwhelmed by the day in front of you. Or you just need a jolt of positive energy and motivation for work this morning.

To help you out with that I want to share 130 of the most powerful, motivational, funny and inspirational short good morning quotes.

I hope you’ll find something here to make this a positive morning and a happy and successful day.

Positive Short Good Morning Quotes to Start the Day Right

“Morning is an important time of day, because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have.”
– Lemony Snicket

“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

“Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.”
– Dalai Lama

“Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.”
– Buddha

“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”
– Marcus Aurelius

“I get up every morning and it’s going to be a great day. You never know when it’s going to be over so I refuse to have a bad day.”
– Paul Henderson

“Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.”
– Mark Twain

“Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you’ll start to see a big difference in your life.”
– Yoko Ono

“My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.”
– Cary Grant

“Everyone has highs and lows that they have to learn from, but every morning I start off with a good head on my shoulders, saying to myself, ‘It’s going to be a good day!’”
– Lindsay Lohan

“Waking up this morning, I smile. 24 brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh

“An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“Every day brings new choices.”
– Martha Beck

“Today is life – the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today.”
– Dale Carnegie

“Every morning brings new potential, but if you dwell on the misfortunes of the day before, you tend to overlook tremendous opportunities.”
– Harvey Mackay

“Now that your eyes are open, make the sun jealous with your burning passion to start the day. Make the sun jealous or stay in bed.”
– Malak El Halabi

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
– Anne Frank

“When a new day begins, dare to smile gratefully.”
– Steve Maraboli

“Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.”
– Ursula K. Le Guin

“The morning was full of sunlight and hope.”
– Kate Chopin

“I used to love night best, but the older I get, the more treasures and hope and joy I find in mornings.”
– Terri Guillemets

“The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep.”
– Rumi

Short and Motivational Good Morning Quotes for Work

“The secret to getting ahead is getting started.”
– Mark Twain

“Success isn’t always about ‘Greatness’, it’s about consistency. Consistent, hard work gains success. Greatness will come.”
– Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson

“Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.”
– Richard Whately

“Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.”
– Dale Carnegie

“The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.”
– George Horace Lorimer

“You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Think of many things; do one.”
– Portuguese proverb

“Focused, productive, successful mornings generate focused, productive, successful days – which inevitably create a successful life.”
– Hal Elrod

“In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“Great acts are made up of small deeds.”
– Lao Tzu

“The only thing worse than starting something and failing… is not starting something.”
– Seth Godin

“I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.”
– Wayne Huizenga

“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.”
– Napoleon Hill

“If you’re changing the world, you’re working on important things. You’re excited to get up in the morning.”
– Larry Page

“One key to success is to have lunch at the time of day most people have breakfast.”
– Robert Brault

“The sun has not caught me in bed in 50 years.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred.”
– Arthur Schopenhauer

“Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work.”
– Robert Orben

“A year from now you may wish you had started today.”
– Karen Lamb

Short Good Morning Quotes for Love (Romantic Messages for Her or Him)

“Just one look at you, and I know it’s gonna be a lovely day.”
– Bill Withers

“The best feeling in the world is to know that you belong to me and you are mine. Every morning that is all I need to know, and that itself is enough for me to have a good day.”
– Joseph Moran

“Every day, I want to sleep in your arms and wake up by your side in the mornings.”
– Jagdish Joghee

“Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.”
– Emily Dickinson

“Let me wake up next to you, have coffee in the morning and wander through the city with your hand in mine, and I’ll be happy for the rest of my little life.”
– Charlotte Eriksson

“The best love is the kind that awakens the soul; that makes us reach for more, that plants the fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. That’s what I hope to give you forever.”
– Nicholas Sparks

“When the sun came up… I couldn’t tell where heaven stopped and the Earth began.”
– Tom Hanks

“What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.”
– Sinclair Lewis

“You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love…I love…I love you. I never wish to be parted from you from this day on.”
– Mr Darcy (from the book Pride and Prejudice)

“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.”
– Khalil Gibran

“For each new morning, let there be flow of love. Let there be light of happiness in every direction.”
– Amit Ray

“Over everything, I choose you.”
– Marissa Meyer

“The next morning dawned bright and sweet, like ribbon candy.”
– Sarah Addison Allen

“In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.”
– Maya Angelou

Funny and Short Good Morning Quotes

“I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.”
– Benjamin Franklin

“Good morning is a contradiction of terms.”
– Jim Davis

“The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.”
– Robert Frost

“There should be a rule against people trying to be funny before the sun comes up.”
– Kristen Chandler

“There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.”
– Mindy Kaling

“Everyone wants me to be a morning person. I could be one, only if morning began after noon.”
– Tony Smite

“I have always disliked the morning, it is too responsible a time.”
– Janet Frame

“Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.”
– Glen Cook

“One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I’ll never know.”
– Groucho Marx

“Today’s goals: Coffee and kindness. Maybe two coffees, and then kindness.”
– Nanea Hoffman

“I like coffee because it gives me the illusion that I might be awake.”
– Lewis Black

“The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.”
– Dorothy Parker

“Sometimes I wake up and think I should start wearing a beret, but I don’t do it.”
– Mitch Hedburg

“Morning will come. It has no choice.”
– Marty Rubin

“I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.”
– Winston Churchill

“I need to get up; my coffee needs me.”
– Unknown

“Getting up early is the first step in the wrong direction.”
– Unknown

“Keep the dream alive: Hit the snooze button.”
– Punit Ghadge

“Progress isn’t made by early risers. It’s made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.”
– Robert Heinlein

“Even bad coffee is better than no coffee at all.”
– David Lynch

“Be the person that when your feet touch the floor in the morning the devil says, ‘Awe s***, they’re up.’”
– Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson

“Today is a new day. It’s a day you have never seen before and will never see again. Stop telling yourself the ‘same crap, different day’ lie!”
– Steve Maraboli

“True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.”
– Kurt Vonnegut

“The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.”
– Jean Kerr

Short, Deep and Beautiful Good Morning Quotes

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
– Confucius

“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”
– Maria Robinson

“No matter where you’re from, your dreams are valid.”
– Lupita Nyong’o

“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You realize that you control your own destiny.”
– Albert Ellis

“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”
– Anatole France

“Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.”
– Wayne Dyer

“If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.”
– Les Brown

“If one advances confidently in the direction of one’s dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.”
– Earl Nightingale

“To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.”
– Soren Kierkegaard

“Life is very interesting. In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.”
– Drew Barrymore

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
– Winston Churchill

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
– Albert Camus

“It is a serious thing – just to be alive – on this fresh morning – in this broken world.”
– Mary Oliver

“It is only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth – and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up – that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.”
– Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.”
– Kahlil Gibran

“There is a morning inside you waiting to burst open into light.”
– Rumi

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
– George Eliot

Short, Unique and Meaningful Good Morning Quotes

“When you do something beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle, and yet most of the audience still sleeps.”
– John Lennon

“I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I’m going to learn, I must do it by listening.”
– Larry King

“As we arise each morning, let us determine to respond with love and kindness to whatever might come our way.”
– Thomas S. Monson

“Start early to get ahead.”
– Mark Twain

“Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.”
– William Arthur Ward

“A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time.”
– Andrew Matthews

“If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.”
– Maxwell Maltz

“A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad.”
– Arnold H. Glasgow

“If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.”
– Zig Ziglar

“The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.”
– Dale Carnegie

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
– Buddha

“Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.”
– Wayne Dyer

“If life were predictable, it would cease to be life and be without flavor.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

“First thing every morning before you arise, say out loud, ‘I believe,’ three times.”
– Ovid

“Every morning, I wake up saying, ‘I’m still alive, a miracle.’ And so I keep on pushing.”
– Jim Carrey

“I like freedom. I wake up in the morning and say, ‘I don’t know, should I have a popsicle or a donut?’ You know, who knows?”
– Oscar Nunez

“The morning is good because we have seen the light, and life and peace.”
– Baal Shem Tov

“How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live ’em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give ’em.”
– Shel Silverstein

“The morning shines upon everyone the same. Its beauty comes from the fact that we all take in the same beauty.”
– Juansen Dizon

“Every morning a new sun greets us, and our new life begins.”
– Marty Rubin

“Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful.”
– Prince

“Wake up each day and live as if it were your last.”
– Hal Erod

“Rise above the storm, and you will find the sunshine.”
– Unknown

“Wake up every morning with the thought that something wonderful is about to happen.”
– Lisa Lieberman-Wang

“The world is new to us every morning – and every man should believe he is reborn each day.”
– Baal Shem Tov

“Every sunrise is an invitation for us to arise and brighten someone’s day.”
– Richelle E. Goodrich

“The morning is good because we remember that no matter what went wrong the previous days, we just got a perfect opportunity to rewrite history and do better.”
– Unknown

“Every morning is a fresh start. Wake up with a grateful heart.”
– Kristen Butler

Want more inspiration and motivation for your morning and day? Then check out these inspirational good morning quotes, the positive quotes for life in this post and the short happy quotes here. Plus, this one filled with hard work quotes and also this post with lots of hilarious work quotes.

Today is Friendship Day.

It’s a good time to take a pause and to appreciate those special people in your life that make it all so much more positive, fun and meaningful.

And to help you with that I want to share 125 of the most inspirational, hilarious, cute and deep quotes for Friendship Day.

Use one or a couple of them in a card, a text message, a group chat or for social media like Instagram to share the love and express your gratitude for how much your best friend and friends mean to you.

Inspirational Best Friend Quotes for Friendship Day

“The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.”
– Henry Ford

“A friend is someone who makes it easy to believe in yourself.”
– Heidi Wills

“Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.”
– Socrates

“Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God’s greatest gifts. It involves many things, but above all the power of going out of one’s self and appreciating what is noble and loving in another.”
– Thomas Hughes

“A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.”
– Leo Buscaglia

“Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.”
– Thomas J. Watson

“Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you; spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.”
– Amy Poehler

“Anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you.”
– Misty Copeland

“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.”
– Henri Nouwen

“In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.”
– Albert Schweitzer

“Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.”
– Maya Angelou

“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”
– Dale Carnegie

“The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.”
– Hubert H. Humphrey

“Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.”
– Francesco Guicciardini

“The best time to make friends is before you need them.”
– Ethel Barrymore

“Getting to know new people and gaining new friends is one of life’s greatest pleasures. So conquer your fears and get out there.”
– Tony Clark

“Each new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens up new doors inside of you.”
– Kate DiCamillo

“A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face.”
– Maya Angelou

“Don’t be afraid of new beginnings. Don’t shy away from new people, new energy, new surroundings. Embrace new chances at happiness.”
– Billy Chapata

“For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.”
– Audrey Hepburn

“If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.”
– Zig Ziglar

“The kindest way of helping yourself is to find a friend.”
– Ann Kaiser Stearns

“Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.”
– Mark Twain

“If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.”
– Maxwell Maltz

Happy Friendship Day Quotes Filled With Love and Gratitude

“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
– Marcel Proust

“A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.”
– Elbert Hubbard

“I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.”
– Robert Brault

“Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them.”
– Anna Taylor

“Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

“True friends are like diamonds – bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.”
– Nicole Richie

“There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.”
– Thomas Aquinas

“Friends are the siblings God never gave us.”
– Mencius

“Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.”
– Tennessee Williams

“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
– Helen Keller

“The love that comes from friendship is the underlying facet of a happy life.”
– Chelsea Handler

“Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.”
– Marcus Tullius Cicero

“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
– Walter Winchell

“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”
– Oprah Winfrey

“True friends are never apart, maybe in distance but never in heart.”
– Helen Keller

“The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.”
– Elisabeth Foley

“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”
– Elie Wiesel

“I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let’s face it, friends make life a lot more fun.”
– Charles R. Swindoll

“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.”
– Khalil Gibran

“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.”
– Khalil Gibran

“A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad.”
– Arnold H. Glasgow

“Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I’m glad for that.”
– Ally Condie

“When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.”
– Maria Shriver

“A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.”
– Donna Roberts

Funny Friendship Quotes to Share the Laughs on This Day

“A good friend will help you move. But a best friend will help you move a dead body.”
– Jim Hayes

“The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they’re OK, then it’s you.”
– Rita Mae Brown

“My friends and I are crazy. That’s the only thing that keeps us sane.”
– Matt Schucker

“The capacity for friendship is God’s way of apologizing for our families.”
– Jay McInerney

“Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend’s success.”
– Oscar Wilde

“I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell – you see, I have friends in both places.”
– Mark Twain

“A good friend will always stab you in the front.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Most of us don’t need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with.”
– Robert Brault

“‘Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.”
– Charles Lamb

“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
– Linda Grayson

“Friends make you smile – best friends make you giggle ’til you pee your pants.”
– Terri Guillemets

“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.”
– Bernard Meltzer

“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You can always tell a real friend: When you’ve made a fool of yourself, he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job.”
– Laurence J. Peter

“The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn’t exist.”
– Aaron Machado

“Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.”
– Samuel Butler

“One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends is that three out of four murders are committed by people who know the victim.”
– George Carlin

“There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.”
– Sylvia Plath

“Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn’t seem to crack. Women treat it like glass, and it goes to pieces.”
– Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“One sure way to lose another woman’s friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements.”
– Marcelene Cox

“It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.”
– Mark Twain

“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”
– Jane Austen

“You find out who your real friends are when you’re involved in a scandal.”
– Elizabeth Taylor

“The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.”
– Mark Twain

“When you’re in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, ‘Damn, that was fun.’”
– Groucho Marx

Cute, Deep and Meaningful Friendship Quotes

“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.’”
– C.S. Lewis

“The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing… not healing, not curing… that is a friend who cares.”
– Henri Nouwen

“There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.”
– Jim Henson

“If ever there is tomorrow when we’re not together… there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we’re apart… I’ll always be with you.”
– Winnie the Pooh

“Close friends are truly life’s treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves.”
– Vincent Van Gogh

“That’s when I realized what a true friend was. Someone who would always love you – the imperfect you, the confused you, the wrong you – because that is what people are supposed to do.”
– R. J. L.

“True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.”
– David Tyson

“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.”
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.”
– Muhammad Ali

“Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare – and precious as a pearl.”
– Tahar Ben Jelloun

“A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future and accepts you just the way you are.”
– Unknown

“Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.”
– Washington Irving

“A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.”
– William Shakespeare

“The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another’s little lapses.”
– David Storey

“True friends are always together in spirit.”
– L.M. Montgomery

“A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself – and especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is.”
– Jim Morrison

“Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship is always an act of recognition.”
– John O’Donohue

“She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.”
– Toni Morrison

“But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.”
– Ray Bradbury

“Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.”
– John Evelyn

“Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”
– Albert Camus

“Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life—and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.”
– Dean Koontz

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.”
– Alfred Tennyson

“Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.”
– Oscar Wilde

Short Friendship Day Quotes (Great for Your Instagram)

“The best mirror is an old friend.”
– George Herbert

“Time doesn’t take away from friendship, nor does separation.”
– Tennessee Williams

“Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.”
– Jean de La Fontaine

“Friends are the family you choose.”
– Jess C. Scott

“It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.”
– Marlene Dietrich

“Good friends are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you know they’re always there.”
– Unknown

“A good friend is like a four-leaf clover; hard to find and lucky to have.”
– Irish Proverb

“Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.”
– Ed Cunningham

“Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.”
– Anna Deavere Smith

“To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.”
– Dr. Seuss

“A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden.”
– Unknown

“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.”
– Woodrow T. Wilson

“No friendship is an accident.”
– O. Henry

“A sweet friendship refreshes the soul.”
– Proverbs 27:9

“Friendship’s the wine of life.”
– Edward Young

“Friends are relatives you make for yourself.”
– Eustache Deschamps

“Best friend isn’t a person; it’s a tier.”
– Mindy Kaling

“Friends should be like books, few, but hand-selected.”
– C.J. Langenhoven

“Awards become corroded. Friends gather no dust.”
– Jesse Owens

“A faithful friend loves to the end.”
– Unknown

“Some people go to priests. Others to poetry. I to my friends.”
– Virginia Woolf

“Life was meant for good friends and great adventures.”
– Unknown

“In the cookie of life, friends are chocolate chips.”
– Salman Rushdie

“Distance means so little when someone means so much.”
– Tom McNeal

“Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.”
– G. Randolph

Want more inspiration and timeless thoughts on friendship? Then have a look at these best friend quotes, the short friendship quotes in this post, the many meaningful friendship quotes here and this one with plenty of funny friendship quotes.

Thanksgiving is almost here.

A time to spend with loved ones. To eat delicious food, relax and have fun together.

And to take some time to reflect on what you can be grateful for (both small and bigger things in life).

So I thought this would be a good time to share 100 of the most inspirational, grateful and funny short Thanksgiving quotes.

Use them in a text or a group chat with friends. For your social media like Instagram or in your home on a letter board. Or in real life sometime during your Thanksgiving holiday.

Short and Inspirational Thanksgiving Quotes and Sayings

“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more.”
– Melody Beattie

“Thanksgiving creates abundance.”
– Ann Voskamp

“When we focus on our gratitude, the tide of disappointment goes out and the tide of love rushes in.”
– Kristin Armstrong

“Gratitude turns what we have into enough.”
– Aesop

“The heart that gives thanks is a happy one, for we cannot feel thankful and unhappy at the same time.”
– Douglas Wood

“Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.”
– W.T. Purkiser

“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.”
– Cicero

“Appreciation can change a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.”
– Margaret Cousins

“The more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.”
– Norman Vincent Peale

“When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.”
– Dalai Lama

“Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation.”
– Dalai Lama

“I am happy because I’m grateful. I choose to be grateful. That gratitude allows me to be happy.”
– Will Arnett

“Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.”
– William Arthur Ward

“When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.”
– Willie Nelson

“Give thanks for a little and you will find a lot.”
– Hausa Proverb

“The struggle ends when gratitude begins.”
– Neale Donald Walsch

“Be thankful for everything that happens in your life; it’s all an experience.”
– Roy T. Bennett

“The thankful heart opens our eyes to a multitude of blessings that continually surround us.”
– James E. Faust

“Be thankful for what you have. Your life is someone else’s fairy tale.”
– Wale Ayeni

Short Thanksgiving Quotes for Gratitude at Work

“No one who achieves success does so without the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.”
– Alfred North Whitehead

“We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.”
– John F. Kennedy

“Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.”
– Voltaire

“Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.”
– Randy Pausch

“A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness.”
– James E. Faust

“The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness.”
– Henri Frederic Amiel

“If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.”
– W. Clement Stone

“The real gift of gratitude is that the more grateful you are, the more present you become.”
– Robert Holden

“No gesture is too small when done with gratitude.”
– Oprah Winfrey

“When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears.”
– Tony Robbins

“Gratitude opens the door to the power, the wisdom, the creativity of the universe.”
– Deepak Chopra

“Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.”
– Lionel Hampton

“Gratitude will shift you to a higher frequency, and you will attract much better things.”
– Rhonda Byrne

“Gratitude is a powerful catalyst for happiness. It’s the spark that lights a fire of joy in your soul.”
– Amy Collette

“A moment of gratitude makes a difference in your attitude.”
– Bruce Wilkinson

“Thankfulness creates gratitude which generates contentment that causes peace.”
– Todd Stocker

“Gratitude changes everything.”
– Marian Wright Edelman

“Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more.”
– Oprah Winfrey

“Life is better when you’re thankful.”
– Joyce Meyer

Short and Funny Thanksgiving Quotes for Less Holiday Stress

“Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.”
– Kevin James

“The capacity for friendship is God’s way of apologizing for our families.”
– Jay McInerney

“I’m from Canada, so Thanksgiving to me is just Thursday with more food. And I’m thankful for that.”
– Howie Mandel

“A new survey found that 80 percent of men claim they help cook Thanksgiving dinner. Which makes sense, when you hear they consider saying ‘that smells good’ to be helping.”
– Jimmy Fallon

“Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread and pumpkin pie.”
– Jim Davis

“I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.”
– Erma Bombeck

“After a good dinner, one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.”
– Oscar Wilde

“You can tell you ate too much for Thanksgiving when you have to let your bathrobe out.”
– Jay Leno

“If you stand in the meat section at the grocery store long enough, you start to get mad at turkeys.”
– Mitch Hedberg

“I suppose I will die never knowing what pumpkin pie tastes like when you have room for it.”
– Robert Brault

“If there’s one thing I’ve learned over the eons, it’s that you can’t give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it.”
– Rick Riordan

“Cooking tip: Wrap turkey leftovers in aluminum foil and throw them out.”
– Nicole Hollander

“An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.”
– Irv Kupcinet

“Keep your friends close, but your relatives at a distance during Thanksgiving dinner.”
– David Letterman

“The only thing I like better than talking about food is eating.”
– John Walters

“My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.”
– Phyllis Diller

“I’m looking forward to seeing pie this Thanksgiving more than members of my own family.”
– Damien Fahey

“It’s not the minutes spent at the Thanksgiving table that put on weight, it’s the seconds.”
– Unknown

“Thanksgiving is a time to count your blessings, one by one, as each relative goes home.”
– Melanie White

“Every Thanksgiving I bring the champagne, because in my family we all know what our strengths are.”
– Gloria Fallon

“I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.”
– W.C. Fields

“Some family trees bear an enormous crop of nuts.”
– Wayne Huizenga

Short Thanksgiving Quotes for Family to Express Your Gratitude

“The most important thing in the world is family and love.”
– John Wooden

“Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.”
– Michael J. Fox

“That’s what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you’re not so lovable.”
– Deb Caletti

“Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.”
– Anthony Brandt

“I sustain myself with the love of family.”
– Maya Angelou

“What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering.”
– Robert Brault

“Home is people. Not a place.”
– Robin Hobb

“You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.”
– Desmond Tutu

“So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family.”
– Haniel Long

“Nothing is better than going home to family and eating good food and relaxing.”
– Irina Shayk

“This is part of what a family is about, not just love.”
– Mitch Albom

“It didn’t matter how big our house was; it mattered that there was love in it.”
– Peter Buffett

“Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.”
– Jane Howard

“Forever on Thanksgiving the heart will find the pathway home.”
– Wilbur D. Nesbit

“There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues are created.”
– Winston Churchill

“The turkey. The sweet potatoes. The stuffing. The pumpkin pie. Is there anything else we all can agree so vehemently about?”
– Nora Ephron

“Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.”
– William Shakespeare

“Thanksgiving is one of my favorite days of the year because it reminds us to give thanks and to count our blessings.”
– Joyce Giraud

“Grace isn’t a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It’s a way to live.”
– Jackie Windspear

Short Thanksgiving Quotes for Your Beloved Friends

“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
– Marcel Proust

“When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.”
– Maria Shriver

“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
– Walter Winchell

“Real friendship is when your friend comes over to your house on Thanksgiving and doesn’t judge you for eating pie straight from the tin.”
– Jim Harper

“I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Thanksgiving is a time to give, a time to love, and a time to reflect on the things that matter most in life.”
– Danielle Duckery

“To have friends who will always take you to higher ground is an incalculable blessing.”
– John Bytheway

“Friendship is the wine of life.”
– Edward Young

“If you have one true friend you have more than your share.”
– Thomas Fuller

“True friendship resists time, distance and silence.”
– Isabel Allende

“There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.”
– Thomas Aquinas

“I count myself in nothing else so happy as in a soul rememb’ring my good friends.”
– William Shakespeare

“Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

“Good friends are like pumpkin pie – sweet and always there when you need them.”
– Sandra Shea

“When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.”
– Maya Angelou

“Thanksgiving is a time of togetherness and gratitude.”
– Nigel Hamilton

“The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.”
– William Blake

“Thanksgiving is a joyous invitation to shower the world with love and gratitude.”
– Amy Leigh Mercree

“What I love about Thanksgiving is that it’s purely about getting together with friends or family and enjoying food.”
– Daniel Humm

“Thank you is the best prayer that anyone could say.”
– Alice Walker

Want more inspiration for your holiday? Then have a look at these inspirational Thanksgiving quotes, the funny quotes about Thanksgiving here and also this one with short Thanksgiving captions.

Like many of you I’ll be listening to Taylor Swift’s brand new album The Life of a Showgirl while working today.

So I thought this would be a good day to share 101 of the most inspirational, positive and empowering short Taylor Swift quotes.

I hope you’ll find something relatable here that makes you think. Something uplifting if you’re having a tough day.

And something to help you have a great week ahead.

Short and Inspirational Taylor Swift Quotes About Life

“No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.”

“Be yourself, chase your dreams, and just never say never.”

“In life you learn lessons. Sometimes you learn them the hard way and sometimes you learn them too late.”

“I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.”

“Never believe anyone who tells you that you don’t deserve what you want.”

“In life and love, you learn that there comes a time to let go and move on.”

“You are not the opinion of someone who doesn’t know you.”

“People are going to judge you anyway, so you might as well do what you want.”

“This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.”

“Life isn’t how to survive the storm, it’s about how to dance in the rain.”

“The lesson I’ve learned the most often in life is that you’re always going to know more in the future than you know now.”

“We don’t need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.”

“I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.”

“I never want to change so much that people can’t recognize me.”

“If they don’t like you for being yourself, be yourself even more.”

“Unique and different is the new generation of beautiful. You don’t have to be like everybody else.”

“I’ve always been a hugger. If we all hugged more, the world would be a better place.”

“If you’re lucky enough to be different, never change.”

“You can never forget the people who were always there for you from the beginning.”

“We’re just entertaining people, and it’s supposed to be fun.”

“People haven’t always been there for me but music always has.”

“Just be yourself, there is no one better.”

Short and Relatable Taylor Swift Quotes from Her Songs

“Gold was the color of the leaves when I showed you around Centennial Park.”
(“Invisible String” from Folklore)

“It takes everything in me just to get up each day, but it’s wonderful to see that you’re OK.”
(“Mr. Perfectly Fine (Taylor’s Version)” from Fearless (Taylor’s Version))

“I could build a castle out of all the bricks they threw at me.”
(“New Romantics” from 1989)

“I took a chance, I took a shot and you may think I’m bullet-proof, but I’m not. You took a swing, I took it hard. And down here from the ground I see who you are.”
(“Tell Me Why” from Fearless (Taylor’s Version))

“It’s hard to fight when the fight ain’t fair.”
(“Change” from Fearless (Taylor’s Version))

“So make the friendship bracelets, take the moment and taste it.”
(“You’re On Your Own, Kid” from Midnights)

“The way you walk, way you talk, way you say my name; it’s beautiful, wonderful, don’t you ever change.”
(“Hey Stephen” from Fearless (Taylor’s Version))

“I’ve loved you three summers now, honey, but I want ’em all.”
(“Lover” from Lover)

“Turns out freedom ain’t nothing but missing you.”
(“Back to December” from Speak Now (Taylor’s Version))

“I don’t let nobody see me wishin’ he was mine.”
(“I’d Lie” from Fearless (Taylor’s Version))

“I’m a mess, but I’m the mess that you wanted.”
(“Dancing With Our Hands Tied” from Reputation)

“Nothin’ lasts forever, but this is gettin’ good now.”
(“Wildest Dreams,” 1989 (Taylor’s Version))

“Please don’t ever become a stranger whose laugh I could recognize anywhere.”
(“New Year’s Day” from Reputation)

“Barefoot in the kitchen, sacred new beginnings, that became my religion, listen.”
(“Cornelia Street” from Lover)

“Sorry, I can’t see facts through all of my fury.”
(“Happiness” from Evermore)

“I could wait patiently, but I really wish you would.”
(“Sparks Fly” from Speak Now)

“I had a marvelous time ruining everything.”
(“The Last Great American Dynasty” from Folklore)

“Long were the nights when my days once revolved around you.”
(“Dear John” from Speak Now)

“I might be okay, but I’m not fine at all.”
(“All Too Well” from Red (Taylor’s Version))

“You drew stars around my scars but now I’m bleeding.”
(“Cardigan” from Folklore)

“From sprinkler splashes to fireplace ashes. I gave my blood, sweat, and tears for this. I hosted parties and starved my body. Like I’d be saved by a perfect kiss.”
(“You’re On Your Own, Kid” from Midnights)

“Back then we didn’t know we were built to fall apart.”
(“The Very First Night (Taylor’s Version)” from Red (Taylor’s Version))

Short and Motivational Taylor Swift Quotes for Success and Graduation

“Anytime someone tells me that I can’t do something, I want to do it more.”

“You can be accidentally successful for three or four years. Accidents happen. But careers take hard work.”

“I really like to explore the edges of what I’m allowed to do.”

“If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don’t stop, don’t put it down.”

“Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.”

“I love having a goal, feeling like I’m on a mission. I love trying to beat what I’ve done so far.”

“FEARLESS is getting back up and fighting for what you want over and over again even though every time you’ve tried before you’ve lost.”

“You have to not only live your life in spite of people who don’t understand you, you have to have more fun than they do.”

“If you’re being met with resistance, that probably means you’re doing something new.”

“If you’re experiencing turbulence or pressure, that probably means you’re rising.”

“Words are everything to me. Words can build me up and make me feel so good.”

“Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important things are valuable.”

“I’ve always known that writing was the main pillar holding up my career.”

“Your feelings are so important to write down, to capture, and to remember.”

“I’m so lucky that I get to write my own music and write my own stories.”

“All I think about are metaphors and cats.”

“I’m a songwriter. Everything affects me.”

“If something happens to me, you’re going to hear about it. I only know how to write songs about my life.”

“I feel like, as a songwriter, I can’t develop thick skin.”

“Creativity is getting inspiration and having that lightning bolt idea moment.”

“When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them.”

Short Taylor Swift Quotes on Love and Relationships

“When we’re falling in love or out of it, that’s when we most need a song that says how we feel.”

“My experiences in love have taught me difficult lessons.”

“I want to be the girl who, like, when she falls in love, it’s like a big deal and it’s a rare thing.”

“I think the perfection of love is that it’s not perfect.”

“Getting a great idea with songwriting is a lot like love. You don’t know why this one is different, but it is.”

“I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy.”

“I think who you are in school really sticks with you.”

“Being fearless isn’t being 100 percent not fearful; it’s being terrified but you jump anyway.”

“I haven’t had that one great love, which is good. I don’t want that to be in the past, I want it to be in the future.”

“We should love, not fall in love, because everything that falls, gets broken.”

“I’ve learned that you can’t predict love or plan for it.”

“To truly love is to have the courage to walk away and let the other person who wishes to be free go no matter how much it hurts.”

“Love will find you when you least expect it.”

“If somebody hurts you, it’s okay to cry a river, just remember to build a bridge and get over it.”

“I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.”

“There are two different categories of love. The first category is called a fairytale. The second category of love is called just another lesson.”

“If love is worth it, if it’s that good that it’s worth fighting for, then you know that it’s the right love.”

“I’m fascinated by love. I love studying it and watching it.”

“No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.”

Deep and a Bit Longer Taylor Swift Quotes

“I still think it’s important to be polite, but not at all costs. Not when you’re being pushed beyond your limits, and not when people are walking all over you.”

“There’s so much about Dolly Parton that every female artist should look to.”

“When I was a little girl I used to read fairy tales. In fairy tales you meet Prince Charming and he’s everything you ever wanted. In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is. Then you grow up and you realize that Prince Charming is not as easy to find as you thought. You realize the bad guy is not wearing a black cape and he’s not easy to spot; he’s really funny, and he makes you laugh, and he has perfect hair.”

“A lot of the best things I ever did creatively were things that I had to really fight – and I mean aggressively fight – to have happen.”

“The bigger your career gets, the more you struggle with the idea that a lot of people see you the same way they see an iPhone or a Starbucks.”

“When I listen to a song, I don’t say, ‘Oh my gosh, that vocal line she sang was the best thing I ever heard.’ I’m thinking, ‘That lyric just moves me.’”

“I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.”

“The bad stuff was really significant and damaging. But the good stuff will endure. The good lessons – you realize that you can’t just show your life to people.”

“Social media can be great, but it can also inundate your brain with images of what you aren’t, how you’re failing, or who is in a cooler locale than you at any given moment.”

“Grow a backbone, trust your gut, and know when to strike back. Be like a snake – only bite if someone steps on you.”

“A man writing about his feelings from a vulnerable place is brave; a woman writing about her feelings from a vulnerable place is oversharing or whining.”

“I’ve come to a realization that I need to be able to forgive myself for making the wrong choice, trusting the wrong person, or figuratively falling on my face in front of everyone.”

“Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum.”

“Real life is a funny thing, you know. In real life, saying the right thing at the right moment is beyond crucial.”

“I write a lot of songs about love and I think that’s because to me love seems like this huge complicated thing.”

“For too long, the projected opinions of strangers affected how I viewed my relationships.”

“Since I was 15 years old, if people criticized me for something, I changed it.”

“You don’t always get all the things in the bag that you selected from the delivery service, that is life. You get what you get, and you should be proud of what you’ve done with it.”

Want more helpful inspiration? Then check out these positive quotes for life, the short love quotes here and also this post with lots of relatable and positive breakup quotes.

I like short quotes that get right to the point.

So in today’s post I want to share 160 of the most powerful, meaningful and positive short quotes.

Ones that will give you a quick burst of inspiration to shift your mindset, renew your motivation, give you a laugh to release some stress or that will simply bring a smile to your face.

I hope you’ll find something helpful here for yourself and for the people you love.

Short and Positive Quotes About Life

“Today is life – the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today.”
– Dale Carnegie

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
– Albert Einstein

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.”
– Mark Twain

“If you want to be happy, be.”
– Leo Tolstoy

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
– Confucius

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anaïs Nin

“Happiness is a warm puppy.”
– Charles M. Schulz

“Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.”
– Dalai Lama

“Happiness is not a goal… it’s a by-product of a life well-lived.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

“The mere sense of living is joy enough.”
– Emily Dickinson

“Simplicity makes me happy.”
– Alicia Keys

“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”
– Anne Frank

“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it.”
– Lou Holtz

“There is more to life than increasing its speed.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.”
– Audrey Hepburn

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”
– Helen Keller

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy.”
– Milton Erickson

“The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.”
– William Morris

“Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.”
– Dalai Lama

“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”
– Robert Frost

“The fullness of life is only accessible in the present moment.”
– Eckhart Tolle

“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”
– Omar Khayyam

Short Quotes for Work and a Quick Boost of Motivation

“Every moment is a fresh beginning.”
– T.S. Eliot

“Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen.”
– Conan O’Brien

“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”
– Wayne Gretzky

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
– Arthur Ashe

“Work hard in silence, let success be your noise.”
– Frank Ocean

“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.”
– Sam Levenson

“Make each day your masterpiece.”
– John Wooden

“Dream big and dare to fail.”
– Norman Vaughan

“You must do the things you think you cannot do.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“Impossible is for the unwilling.”
– John Keats

“The future depends on what you do today.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“Believe you can, and you’re halfway there.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“Dreams don’t work unless you do.”
– John C. Maxwell

“Focus on being productive instead of busy.”
– Tim Ferriss

“Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.”
– Vince Lombardi

“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”
– Walt Disney

“Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.”
– Tim Notke

“It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.”
– Babe Ruth

“Build your own dreams or someone else will hire you to build theirs.”
– Farrah Gray

“What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.”
– Ralph Marston

“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.”
– Vidal Sassoon

“Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.”
– Henry Ford

“Nothing will work unless you do.”
– Maya Angelou

“Without labor, nothing prospers.”
– Sophocles

“All growth depends upon activity.”
– Calvin Coolidge

“I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.”
– Florence Nightingale

Short, Deep and Meaningful Quotes and Sayings

“If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”
– Jim Rohn

“It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.”
– Confucius

“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
– Marthe Troly-Curtin

“A ship is always safe at shore but that is not what it’s built for.”
– John A. Shedd

“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”
– Neale Donald Walsch

“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”
– Bruce Lee

“New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.”
– Lao Tzu

“The only joy in the world is to begin.”
– Cesare Pavese

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”
– Aesop

“Everything you want is on the other side of fear.”
– Jack Canfield

“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”
– Henry Ford

“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.”
– Dalai Lama

“Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.”
– Buddha

“Victory is sweetest when you’ve known defeat.”
– Malcolm S. Forbes

“A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.”
– Henrik Ibsen

“The best revenge is massive success.”
– Frank Sinatra

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”
– Oprah Winfrey

“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”
– Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.”
– Napoleon Hill

“Your problem is you’re… too busy holding onto your unworthiness.”
– Ram Dass

“For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.”
– Harry F. Banks

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill

“Stay hungry, stay foolish.”
– Steve Jobs

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

“Learn to let go. That is the key to happiness.”
– Buddha

Short and Funny Quotes for a Laugh and Less Stress

“Reality continues to ruin my life.”
– Bill Watterson

“I intend to live forever. So far, so good.”
– Steven Wright

“Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.”
– Erma Bombeck

“I have a lot of growing up to do. I realized that the other day inside my fort.”
– Zach Galifianakis

“If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.”
– Steven Wright

“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.”
– A. A. Milne

“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
– Steve Martin

“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”
– George Burns

“Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.”
– Charles M. Schulz

“Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.”
– Elbert Hubbard

“When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye.”
– Cathy Guisewite

“Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.”
– Stephen Hawking

“Rice is great when you’re hungry and you want 2000 of something.”
– Mitch Hedberg

“I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.”
– Lily Tomlin

“Don’t be so humble – you are not that great.”
– Golda Meir

“I like work. It fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”
– Jerome K. Jerome

“Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?”
– Edgar Bergen

“When in doubt, look intelligent.”
– Garrison Keillor

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas A. Edison

“Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow just as well.”
– Mark Twain

“No man goes before his time – unless the boss leaves early.”
– Groucho Marx

“Knowledge is like underwear. It is useful to have it, but not necessary to show it off.”
– Bill Murray

“I’m sick of following my dreams, man. I’m just going to ask where they’re going and hook up with ’em later.”
– Mitch Hedberg

“Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.”
– Terry Pratchett

“If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There’s no point in being a damn fool about it.”
– W. C. Fields

“Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.”
– Isaac Asimov

“Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.”
– Oscar Wilde

Short and Inspirational Quotes About Love and Relationships

“If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus one day, so I never have to live without you.”
– Ernest H. Shepard

“If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.”
– Haruki Murakami

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you…I could walk through my garden forever.”
– Alfred Lord Tennyson

“I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.”
– J.R.R. Tolkien

“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
– Emily Brontë

“For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love.”
– Carl Sagan

“I want all of you, forever, you and me, every day.”
– Nicholas Sparks

“I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect, and I loved you even more.”
– Angelita Lim

“In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.”
– Maya Angelou

“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.”
– Roy Croft

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
– Lao Tzu

“The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more.”
– Nicholas Sparks

“In your light, I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems.”
– Rumi

“I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow.”
– Leo Christopher

“I found the one my heart loves.”
– Song of Solomon 3:4

“Everything I do, I do it for you.”
– Bryan Adams

“I do love nothing in the world so well as you.”
– William Shakespeare

“I have for the first time found what I can truly love. I have found you.”
– Charlotte Brontë

“Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.”
– E.E. Cummings

“You are every reason, every hope and every dream I’ve ever had.”
– Nicholas Sparks

“I’ve tried so many times to think of a new way to say it, and it’s still I love you.”
– Zelda Fitzgerald

“You are the best thing that’s ever been mine.”
– Taylor Swift

“I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.”
– Elizabeth Barret Browning

“To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness.”
– Robert Brault

“A hundred hearts would be too few to carry all my love for you.”
– Henry Wadsworth

“For all the things my hands have held, the best by far is you.”
– Andrew McMahon

“You are my today and all of my tomorrows.”
– Leo Christopher

Short Quotes About Success and Living Your Best Life

“Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.”
– Zig Ziglar

“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.”
– Robert Collier

“Success is simple. Do what’s right, the right way, at the right time.”
– Arnold H. Glasgow

“Action is the foundational key to all success.”
– Pablo Picasso

“Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.”
– Winston Churchill

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”
– Herman Cain

“Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Follow effective actions with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.”
– Peter Drucker

“You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.”
– Albert Einstein

“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”
– Stephen King

“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“If you can’t do great things, do small things in a great way.”
– Napoleon Hill

“Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.”
– Erich Fromm

“The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.”
– Bruce Feirstein

“Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.”
– George Sheehan

“To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.”
– Mark Twain

“The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli

“Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.”
– Oprah Winfrey

“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”
– Winston Churchill

“The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.”
– Mark Caine

“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.”
– Conrad Hilton

“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

“Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.”
– George S. Patton

“Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.”
– Alexander Graham Bell

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
– Winston Churchill

Want more short and powerful inspiration? Then check out these short happy quotes, the short love quotes here and also this post filled with short and motivational work quotes.

It’s Monday morning. A new week lies ahead of you.

Do you feel tired? Unmotivated and wishing the weekend had one more day?

Or do you feel energized and ready to go?

No matter what kind of start you’re having to your Monday, today’s post can give you a boost and help you focus.

This is 120 of the funniest, most positive and motivational short Monday morning quotes.

I hope they’ll make the rest of your morning even better and help you to make this a great day and week in your life.

Short Monday Morning Quotes for a Great Day

“This is your Monday morning reminder that you can handle whatever this week throws at you.”
– Unknown

“I like sunrises, Mondays, and new seasons. God seems to be saying, ‘with me, you can always start afresh.’”
– Ada Lum

“Mondays are the start of the work week, which offer new beginnings 52 times a year!”
– David Dweck

“The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep.”
– Rumi

“Monday is for people with a mission.”
– Cristina Imre

“Your Monday morning thoughts set the tone for your whole week. See yourself getting stronger, and living a fulfilling, happier and healthier life.”
– Germany Kent

“The sun himself is weak when he first rises; and gathers strength and courage as the day goes on.”
– Charles Dickens

“Success is to wake up each morning and consciously decide that today will be the best day of your life.”
– Ken Poirot

“When Monday rolls around, have a short plan for the day. Don’t spend too much time thinking.”
– Rip Miller

“Morning is an important time of day, because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have.”
– Lemony Snicket

“Every morning is a revolution against the darkness.”
– Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.”
– Ursula K. Le Guin

“I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.”
– J. B. Priestley

“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”
– Marcus Aurelius

“Every morning starts a new page in your story. Make it a great one today.”
– Doe Zantamata

“Each day provides its own gifts.”
– Marcus Aurelius

“Do not say, ‘It is morning,’ and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.”
– Rabindranath Tagore

“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world.”
– E. B. White

“First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, ‘I believe,’ three times.”
– Ovid

“Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.”
– Hans Christian Andersen

“Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.”
– Dalai Lama

“Monday, Monday, so good to me; Monday morning, it was all I hoped it would be.”
– John Phillips

Short Monday Morning Quotes for Motivation at Work

“I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.”
– Estée Lauder

“The challenge of every Monday is to maintain the same vitality in each and every day of the week.”
– Byron Pulsifer

“Either you run the day, or the day runs you.”
– Jim Rohn

“Think of many things; do one.”
– Portuguese proverb

“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.”
– Napoleon Hill

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”
– Aristotle

“Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.”
– Zig Ziglar

“The future depends on what you do today.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.”
– Zig Ziglar

“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.”
– Ayn Rand

“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”
– Maya Angelou

“Everything you want is on the other side of fear.”
– Jack Canfield

“All happiness depends on courage and work.”
– Honoré de Balzac

“You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.

“Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.”
– Farrah Gray

“Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.”
– Joel Arthur Barker

“What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.”
– Ralph Marston

“Don’t count the days. Make the days count.”
– Muhammad Ali

“If you’re changing the world, you’re working on important things. You’re excited to get up in the morning.”
– Larry Page

“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”
– Steve Jobs

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
– Mark Twain

“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in, and day-out.”
– Robert Collier

“You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
– A. A. Milne

“Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.”
– Chris Grosser

Funny and Short Monday Morning Quotes for Less Stress

“May your coffee be strong and your Mondays be short.”
– Unknown

“The only good Monday is a Monday in bed.”
– Lee Horton

“I really need a day in between Sunday and Monday.”
– Unknown

“Candy is nature’s way of making up for Mondays.”
– Rebecca Gober

“Mondays are the potholes in the road of life.”
– Tom Wilson

“If each day is a gift, I’d like to know where to return Mondays!”
– John Wagner

“Good morning is a contradiction of terms.”
– Jim Davis

“Monday isn’t that bad to be honest. What makes it bad is living in it.”
– Unknown

“Everyday is Monday for me… right up until Friday.”
– Sandra Shea

“It’s just another manic Monday. I wish it was Sunday. ‘Cause that’s my fun day. I don’t have to run day.”
– Prince Rogers Nelson

“So. Monday. We meet again. We will never be friends – but maybe we can move past our mutual enmity toward a more positive partnership.”
– Julio Alexi Genao

“Mondays are a lot like getting fat. They make you feel sad, sometimes angry and there is not much scope for liking either fat or Mondays for any reason.”
– Garry Moll

“This has been such a Monday! I wish I stayed in bed, and I wish that yesterday had never happened.”
– Lisa Mantchev

“The awfulness of Monday mornings is the world’s greatest common denominator. To the millionaire and the coolie it is the same, because there can be nothing worse.”
– Kenneth Fearing

“Monday Morning Blues? Why not change the color of your Monday to yellow and brighten up the coming week?”
– Kanika Saxena

“I have to go to work on Mondays and yes everyone hates Mondays. But I look at it a little differently. I don’t have to work, I GET to work.”
– Dinky Manuel

“If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.”
– Olin Miller

“The Hamptons are filled with people who are winners Monday through Friday.”
– Jerry Della Femina

“The biggest thrill wasn’t in winning on Sunday but in meeting the payroll on Monday.”
– Art Rooney

“What about Monday? That could be our one day we look at things the same way, and wear funny shoes.”
– Kevin Dalton

“Okay, it’s Monday, but who said Mondays have to suck? Be a rebel and have a great day anyway.”
– Kimberly Jiménez

“In my life long study of human beings, I have found that no matter how hard they try, they have found no way yet to prevent the arrival of Monday morning.”
– Jeff Lindsay

“What do sharks do on Monday mornings? They get up and start biting. That’s me.”
– Gemma Collins

“There isn’t a Monday that would not cede its place to Tuesday.”
– Anton Chekhov

Short and Positive Monday Morning Quotes for a Great Week

“When life gives you Monday, dip it in glitter and sparkle all day.”
– Ella Woodward

“Every Monday you wake up is a day to make a change.”
– Irvine Welsh

“I know it’s Monday, but it’s also a new day, a new week, and in that lies a new opportunity for something special to happen.”
– Michael Ely

“For me, Monday represents a fresh start to the week. It is the day where the slate from the previous week is wiped clean.”
– Allen Smith

“Always believe that something wonderful is about to happen.”
– Sukhraj S. Dhillon

“Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.”
– Nido Qubein

“Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.”
– Colin Powell

“Learn from yesterday. Live for today. Hope for tomorrow.”
– Albert Einstein

“You are in control. Never allow your Monday to be manic.”
– Andrea L’Artiste

“Monday is a fresh start. It’s never too late to dig in and begin a new journey of success.”
– Unknown

“Monday is the day that opens up the week for many opportunities.”
– R.K. Narayan

“There are many opportunities in every single day, and Monday is the perfect day to seize them all.”
– Isabella Koldras

“This should be the spirit every Monday. Know that something good will always happen.”
– Gabriel García Márquez

“Monday, the start of a new week, with brand-new opportunities to enjoy all that life has to offer.”
– Audrey Carlan

“Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.”
– Paulo Coelho

“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“A small shift in perspective and everything falls into place.”
– Jessica Brody

“She stood in the storm and when the wind did not blow her away, she adjusted her sails.”
– Elizabeth Edwards

“It’s not the days in your life, but the life in your days that counts.”
– Brian White

“Don’t let mental blocks control you. Set yourself free. Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks.”
– Dr Roopleen

“As important as it is to have a plan for doing work, it is perhaps more important to have a plan for rest, relaxation, self-care, and sleep.”
– Akiroq Brost

“Wake up on Monday and start your day with a lot of awesomeness and you will get happiness back.”
– Jim Butcher

“Be the Sun that brightens up everyone’s morning.”
– Aakanksha Das

“I get up every morning and it’s going to be a great day. You never know when it’s going to be over, so I refuse to have a bad day.”
– Paul Henderson

Short and Inspirational Monday Morning Quotes to Share with Loved Ones

“Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’”
– Mary Anne Radmacher

“The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that is difficult.”
– Mme Du Deffand

“Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.”
– Les Brown

“You see things; and you say ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not?’”
– George Bernard Shaw

“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.”
– Maya Angelou

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
– Anne Frank

“Just say yes. Just say there’s nothing holding you back.”
– Zoe Sugg

“Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”
– Michael Jordan

“It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.”
– J.R.R. Tolkien

“Believe on Monday the way you believe on Sunday.”
– Rita Schiano

“Today’s accomplishments were yesterday’s impossibilities.”
– Robert H. Schuller

“Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.”
– Rosa Parks

“Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.”
– Jamie Paolinetti

“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“Don’t be intimidated by what you don’t know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.”
– Sara Blakely

“Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”
– Warren Buffett

“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.”
– Booker T. Washington

“If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.”
– Steve Jobs

“I’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning.”
– Miles Davis

“Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred.”
– Arthur Schopenhauer

“Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end, you are sure to succeed.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.”
– Margaret Thatcher

“I must break the routines and become a person who becomes productive every Monday. I must break the mindset of unhappiness and turn myself into a happy magnet for Mondays.”
– Leggy Saul

“When you meet a new day, take a deep breath and tell yourself, ‘I am new in this day.’”
– Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Want more help to make this a great day and week? Then check out these new week blessings, the positive Monday quotes in this post and also this one filled with funny Monday quotes.

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Senior year has begun.

It’s a fun and exciting time. But also sometimes a bittersweet time in life.

To help you make the most out of it and give you ideas for memorable sayings for your yearbook and Instagram I’d like to share 101 of the most meaningful, hilarious, inspirational and iconic short senior quotes.

Ones that will make you laugh and help your friends remember you as you were when they look at your yearbook page years from now. Ones that will help you when school or life feels tough or overwhelming.

And ones that will give you and your best friends a boost of postivity and new energy.

Short and Iconic Senior Quotes for the Yearbook

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”
– Steve Jobs

“Long story short, I survived.”
– Taylor Swift

“Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.”
– Dr. Seuss

“It’s not your job to be likable. It’s your job to be yourself.”
– Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.”
– Confucius

“Follow your heart, but take your brain with you.”
– Alfred Adler

“I don’t care what you think about me. I don’t think about you at all.”
– Coco Chanel

“Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.”
– Oscar Wilde

“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”
– Milton Berle

“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.”
– John Lennon

“I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.”
– W.C. Fields

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
– Terry Pratchett

“I’m not a businessman; I’m a business, man.”
– Jay-Z

“Life’s too mysterious to take too serious.”
– Mary Engelbreit

“Be so good that they can’t ignore you.”
– Steve Martin

“Do your thing and don’t care if they like it.”
– Tina Fey

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
– Oscar Wilde

“That’s hot.”
– Paris Hilton

“Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down, never gonna run around and hurt you.”
– Rick Astley

“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”
– William Shakespeare

Short and Inspirational Senior Year Quotes

“Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.”
– Kyle Chandler

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
– Arthur Ashe

“Kid, you’ll move mountains.”
– Dr. Seuss

“I’m not looking for a knight, I’m looking for a sword.”
– Rihanna

“The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs… one step at a time.”
– Joe Girard

“The highest result of education is tolerance.”
– Helen Keller

“Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead.”
– Nora Ephron

“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”
– Benjamin Franklin

“What we learn with pleasure we never forget.”
– Alfred Mercier

“The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.”
– Edward Koch

“There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”
– C.S. Lewis

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
– Peter Drucker

“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.”
– Vidal Sassoon

“Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.”
– James Dean

“I say if I’m beautiful. I say if I’m strong. You will not determine my story – I will.”
– Amy Schumer

“Anything is possible. Don’t allow anybody to project any stereotypes on you.”
– Doechii

“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
– Truman Capote

“You can only become truly accomplished at something you love.”
– Maya Angelou

“The road to success is always under construction.”
– Lily Tomlin

Cute, Short and Funny Senior Quotes Ideas

“My computer screen is brighter than my future.”
– Katia Perez

“I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.”
– Ankit Jain

“Education is important, but big biceps are importanter.”
– Hugh Vo

“If you like water, you already like 72% of me.”
– Alexandra Vu

“I want to thank me for believing in me.”
– Snoop Dogg

“Remember… The more you weigh the harder you are to kidnap. Stay safe… Eat cake.”
– Iyanna Morgan

“Ravioli, ravioli, give me the diplomioli.”
– Maximiliano Navarro

“It’s so hard being a single mom when you have no kids and are a male teenager.”
– Aaron

“Hannah Montana said nobody’s perfect, but here I am.”
– Alexander Gouon

“Don’t give up on your dreams. Keep sleeping.”
– Unknown

“I want to thank Google, Wikipedia, and whoever invented copy and paste. Thank you.”
– Stephanie Flores

“The ‘s’ is silent.”
– Pareekshit Ravi

“I am that Nigerian prince that keeps emailing you.”
– Segun Akigbogun

“Of course I dress well. I didn’t spend all that time in the closet for nothing.”
– Ian Longley

“I’ve been a Ho all my life.”
– Michelle Ho

“WE ARE NOT RELATED.”
– The Nguyens

“Why fall in love when you can fall asleep.”
– Jessica Enciso

“Always got them Girl Scout cookies, but I’m not no Girl Scout.”
– Unknown

“My stummy hurt.”
– Playboi Carti

“I used to be a straight A student, now I’m not even straight.”
– Martin Sanchez

“True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.”
– Kurt Vonnegut

“I wouldn’t want to belong to any club that would have me as a member.”
– Groucho Marx

“I finally learned how to right good.”
– Unknown

“When I die, I want the people I did group projects with to lower me into the ground so they can let me down one last time.”
– Unknown

Motivational and Short Senior Quotes for Graduation from High School

“Don’t sweat the petty things and don’t pet the sweaty things.”
– George Carlin

“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
– Stephen King

“Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.”
– Elbert Hubbard

“Do not let making a living prevent you from making a life.”
– John Wooden

“I’ve learned from the bad times and was humbled by the good.”
– Unknown

“It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.”
– Walt Disney

“If I can graduate with over 150 absences throughout high school, you can too.”
– Natalie Turk

“The world is waiting for us to graduate from ourselves.”
– Shannon L. Alder

“Character is a course, finish it.”
– Mac Canoza

“Remember to always be yourself, unless you suck. Then pretend to be someone else.”
– Mitchell Wieland

“Just about a month from now I’m set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.”
– Richard Halliburton

“You won’t be able to do this ten years from now – just leave everything behind and go.”
– Rachel Kapelke-Dale

“One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself.”
– Michelle Obama

“If you’re going to do something tonight that you’ll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.”
– Henny Youngman

“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”
– Gloria Steinem

“Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It’s already tomorrow in Australia.”
– Charles M. Schulz

“If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.”
– Frank Clark

“Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.”
– Al Bernstein

“I’m not sure what the future holds, but I do know that I’m going to be positive.”
– Bill Murray

“May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect.”
– Chuck Palahniuk

Short Senior Quotes from Movies and TV-shows

“You met me at a very strange time in my life.”
– The Narrator (Fight Club)

“When I’m sad, I stop being sad, and just be awesome instead. True story.”
– Barney Stinson (How I Met Your Mother)

“Goodbye everyone! I’ll remember you all in therapy.”
– Plankton (SpongeBob)

“All my life I’ve had one dream: to achieve my many goals.”
– Homer Simpson (The Simpsons)

“I am ready to face any challenges that might be foolish enough to face me.”
– Dwight Schrute (The Office)

“I’m in a glass case of emotion!”
– Ron Burgundy (Anchorman)

“You know what the happiest animal on Earth is? It’s a goldfish.”
– Ted Lasso (Ted Lasso)

“If I’m not back in five minutes, just wait longer.”
– Ace Ventura (Ace Ventura: Pet Detective)

“Mr. Stark, I don’t feel so good.”
– Peter Parker (Avengers: Infinity War)

“If I die, turn my tweets into a book.”
– Gina Linetti (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)

“Life is short. Drive fast and leave a sexy corpse. That’s one of my mottos.”
– Stanley Hudson (The Office)

“Hakuna matata.”
– The Lion King

“I’ll say this to you, my friend: Take it sleazy.”
– Michael (The Good Place)

“Gotta blast!”
– Jimmy Neutron

“I’ve done my waiting! 12 years of it! In Azkaban!”
– Sirius Black (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)

“It’s supposed to be hard. If it were easy, everyone would do it.”
– Jimmy Dugan (A League of Their Own)

“I’m not great at the advice. Can I interest you in a sarcastic comment?”
– Chandler Bing (Friends)

“‘You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.’ – Wayne Gretzky”
– Michael Scott (The Office)

“Were we supposed to have a quote?”
– Ann Paul Veal (Arrested Development)

Want more motivation and inspiration for your senior year and graduation ? Then check out these funny senior quotes for your yearbook, the top 35 senior quotes in this post, the funny graduation quotes here and also these short graduation quotes.

Senior year is here. And may feel like it’s just flying by.

So maybe you’ve started looking for that perfect quote for your yearbook or graduation.

In today’s post I’d like to help out with that by sharing 120 of the most iconic, inspirational, memorable and funny senior quotes.

I hope you’ll find something here that’ll make you laugh and help you reduce a bit of stress, something uplifting for when life feels bittersweet and something that’s a great fit or hilarious inspiration for your yearbook page, Instagram and group chats.

Funny and Iconic Senior Quotes for the Yearbook

“I want to thank Google, Wikipedia, and whoever invented copy and paste. Thank you.”
– Stephanie Flores

“If you like water, you already like 72% of me.”
– Alexandra Vu

“Education is important, but big biceps are importanter.”
– Hugh Vo

“My computer screen is brighter than my future.”
– Katia Perez

“When I die, I want the people I did group projects with to lower me into the ground so they can let me down one last time.”
– Jenna Allen

“I don’t always graduate, but when I do, it’s barely.”
– Hannah Goldsborough

“Goodbye everyone. I’ll remember you all in therapy.”
– Plankton (from SpongeBob)

“I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.”
– W.C. Fields

“Cheaters never win, but I just graduated.”
– Richard Gilot

“I’ve been a Ho all my life.”
– Michelle Ho

“A lot of girls didn’t like me this year, but their boyfriends did.”
– Stephany Esquivel

“I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.”
– Ankit Jain

“To all the teachers that never taught me a thing…”
– Julia Simsuangco

“If somebody ever asks you to do something, do it really bad, so you never have to do it again.”
– Joanna Clark

“Morgan is my girlfriend. – Nobody”
– Morgan Worley

“Don’t follow your dreams… Follow my twitter: @nerojordan”
– Jordan Nero

“I’ve learned to say here when the teacher hesitates while taking attendance.”
– Omotola Omotinugbon

“Ravioli, ravioli, give me the diplomioli.”
– Maximiliano Navarro

“It’s so hard being a single mom when you have no kids and are a male teenager.”
– Aaron

“I used to be a straight A student, now I’m not even straight.”
– Martin Sanchez

Short and Funny Senior Quotes Ideas

“Shoot for the moon; if you miss you will die in outer space, which is cool.”
– Katya Zamolodchikova

“Why fall in love when you can fall asleep.”
– Jessica Enciso

“If you ain’t talking money… I don’t want to talk.”
– Michael and Steven DiBlasi

“Hannah Montana said nobody’s perfect, but here I am.”
– Alexander Gouon

“If idiots could fly, this place would be an airport.”
– Daniel Jones

“WE ARE NOT RELATED.”
– The Nguyens

“The ‘s’ is silent.”
– Pareekshit Ravi

“Life is short. Drive fast and leave a sexy corpse. That’s one of my mottos.”
– Stanley Hudson (The Office)

“Waking up is the second hardest thing in the morning.”
– Connor Hart

“That’s hot.”
– Paris Hilton

“I want to thank me for believing in me.”
– Snoop Dogg

“Hakuna matata.”
– The Lion King

“Gotta blast!”
– Jimmy Neutron

“My stummy hurt.”
– Playboi Carti

“Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Remember… The more you weigh the harder you are to kidnap. Stay safe… Eat cake.”
– Iyanna Morgan

“Sam just stole my girl again. – Everyone”
– Samuel Teehee

“I am not Amith. I am a legend.”
– Amith M.

“Feeling so good. Looking so bad.”
– Rihanna

Hilarious Senior Quotes for Graduation from High School

“High school was easy. It was like riding a bike. Except the bike was on fire and the ground was on fire and everything was on fire because it was hell.”
– Randey Chung

“I spent 113,880 hours of my life for a paper and a handshake.”
– Anonymous

“If you’re seeing this quote in the yearbook, I got all four math credits. Trust me, that means you can too.”
– Gabriela Willis

“If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.”
– Muhammad Ali

“All three years of high school, I had my earphones on, and no one ever knew.”
– Amena Al-shugaa

“… was released from his four-year sentence.”
– Faizon Graham

“My senior project was to make a clone. A+”
– Unknown twins

“I’m actually not funny, I’m just really mean and people think I’m joking.”
– Alixandra Garcia

“The only reason I went to school all this time is to distract myself from the fact that I’ll never be Beyoncé.”
– McKenzie Ward

“When are our senior quotes due?”
– Jeffrey Goodwin

“I got kicked out of Hogwarts for using black magic.”
– Damenian Sparks

“You need a good pole to get high (pole vault).”
– Patrick Hughes

“Just because you’re trash doesn’t mean you can’t do great things. It’s called garbage can, not garbage cannot.”
– Unknown

“100 character limit for our senior quote? That seems unfair. We refuse to be constrained by these ru.”
– Aditya Tammana

“I was the Beyoncé in a school full of Michelles.”
– Jose Alvarez

“Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know if you’re gonna graduate.”
– Franco Citlalli

“I’m sorry, did my shoulders distract you from reading this quote?”
– Victoria DiPaolo

“Of course I dress well. I didn’t spend all that time in the closet for nothing.”
– Ian Longley

“See kids… I told you your mom was hot back in high school.”
– Paulyn Trinh

“Life is tough, but it’s a whole lot tougher if you’re stupid.”
– John Wayne

“I cheated on all my exams.”
– Roshan McGuinness

Cute, Unique and Funny Senior Quotes

“Follow your heart, but take your brain with you.”
– Alfred Adler

“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”
– Milton Berle

“Long story short, I survived.”
– Taylor Swift

“I wouldn’t want to belong to any club that would have me as a member.”
– Groucho Marx

“Remember to always be yourself, unless you suck. Then pretend to be someone else.”
– Mitchell Wieland

“I don’t care what you think about me. I don’t think about you at all.”
– Coco Chanel

“Flaws? Honey, it’s called character.”
– Unknown

“Don’t wait for the perfect moment. Take the moment and make it perfect.”
– Zoey Sayward

“Opinions are like mixtapes: I don’t want to hear yours.”
– Spencer Howard

“Be careful who you call crazy. Some of us think it’s a compliment.”
– Marilynn Dawson

“I am ready to face any challenges that might be foolish enough to face me.”
– Dwight Schrute (The Office)

“You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world and there’s still going to be someone who hates peaches.”
– Dita Von Teese

“When I’m sad, I stop being sad, and just be awesome instead. True story.”
– Barney Stinson (How I Met Your Mother)

“Do your thing and don’t care if they like it.”
– Tina Fey

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
– Oscar Wilde

“I did meet some of the most insufferable people, but they also met me.”
– Shane Madej

“Mr. Stark, I don’t feel so good.”
– Peter Parker (Avengers: Infinity War)

“I’m not a businessman; I’m a business, man.”
– Jay-Z

“No Met Gala, but I’m everybody mood board.”
– Tyler, The Creator

“If I die, turn my tweets into a book.”
– Gina Linetti (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)

More Inspirational and Less Funny Senior Year Quotes

“Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.”
– Dr. Seuss

“There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”
– C.S. Lewis

“The only thing you can do in this life is pursue your passions, celebrate your bloopers and never stop following your fear.”
– Grace Helbig

“The highest result of education is tolerance.”
– Helen Keller

“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

“You can only become truly accomplished at something you love.”
– Maya Angelou

“Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead.”
– Nora Ephron

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”
– Steve Jobs

“Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.”
– Malcolm X

“Do not let making a living prevent you from making a life.”
– John Wooden

“What we learn with pleasure we never forget.”
– Alfred Mercier

“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
– Truman Capote

“The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.”
– Edward Koch

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
– Arthur Ashe

“One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals.”
– Michelle Obama

“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”
– Benjamin Franklin

“You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.”
– Tom Brokaw

“Kid, you’ll move mountains.”
– Dr. Seuss

“Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.”
– James Dean

“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.”
– Confucius

Funny and Iconic Senior Quotes from Movies and TV-shows

“You know what the happiest animal on Earth is? It’s a goldfish. Y’know why? It’s got a 10-second memory. Be a goldfish.”
– Ted Lasso (Ted Lasso)

“Were we supposed to have a quote?”
– Ann Paul Veal (Arrested Development)

“I’m not great at the advice. Can I interest you in a sarcastic comment?”
– Chandler Bing (Friends)

“If I’m not back in five minutes, just wait longer.”
– Ace Ventura (Ace Ventura: Pet Detective)

“I’m in a glass case of emotion!”
– Ron Burgundy (Anchorman)

“Our goal is to go out like Willie Nelson, on a high.”
– Ted Lasso (Ted Lasso)

“Well, nobody’s perfect.”
– Osgood (Some Like It Hot)

“Snap out of it!”
– Loretta Castorini (Moonstruck)

“Attention campers, lunch has been canceled due to lack of hustle. Deal with it.”
– Tony Perkis (Heavyweights)

“I’ll say this to you, my friend, with all the love in my heart and all the wisdom of the universe: Take it sleazy.”
– Michael (The Good Place)

“Life’s a garden, dig it!”
– Joe Dirt

“I’ve done my waiting! 12 years of it! In Azkaban!”
– Sirius Black (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)

“It’s supposed to be hard. If it were easy, everyone would do it.”
– Jimmy Dugan (A League of Their Own)

“You met me at a very strange time in my life.”
– The Narrator (Fight Club)

“‘You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.’ – Wayne Gretzky”
– Michael Scott (The Office)

“All my life I’ve had one dream: to achieve my many goals.”
– Homer Simpson (The Simpsons)

“Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don’t they?”
– Dorothy (The Wizard of Oz)

“I don’t cause commotions. I am one.”
– Elphaba (Wicked)

“We really did have everything, didn’t we?”
– Randall (Don’t Look Up)

“I want to live my life so that I’ll be able to read an in-depth biography about myself in later years and not puke.”
– Paris Geller (Gilmore Girls)

Want more inspiration for your senior year and graduation? Then have a look at these top 35 senior quotes, the funny graduation quotes here and also these short and uplifting graduation quotes.

Change is constant. Whether across relationships, career, health, identity or the world around us, things are always changing. Sometimes we choose it. Other times, it barrels in without warning. Either way, change challenges us to adapt, grow, build resilience and keep moving forward. Quotes about change can help us consider the transitions. 

After all, facing change isn’t always easy. It can be disorienting and even overwhelming. That’s when the right words can matter most. They remind us that we’re not stuck. They can also speak into our lives that change, while hard, can also be powerful, freeing and positive. 

These quotes about change offer comfort, motivation and the occasional push when we need it. This collection includes powerful, uplifting change quotes, along with self-change quotes that reflect inner growth. Whether you’re adjusting to something new or working toward a fresh start, these words can help guide and strengthen you.

Powerful Quotes About Embracing Change in Life

When life doesn’t go as planned, we often resist. But embracing change can help us find peace and sometimes even unexpected joy. These quotes reflect on how life changes and how we can come to accept, adapt and move forward.

• “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them—that only creates sorrow.” —Lao Tzu
• “Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.” —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” —Maya Angelou
• “Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” —Jim Rohn
• “Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.” —Wayne W. Dyer
• “Words are where most change begins.” —Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance
• “True life is lived when tiny changes occur.” —Leo Tolstoy
• “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” —Albert Einstein
• “If you do not change direction, you might end up where you are heading.” —Lao Tzu
• “The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.” —Kakuzō Okakura, The Book of Tea

Related: If You Want to Change Your Life, Change What You Think

Inspirational Quotes About Change and Growth to Move in the Right Direction

Change isn’t just something that happens to us. It can be a starting point for growth. Whether you’re building a new habit, starting over or healing from loss, these quotes offer inspiration to keep going.

• “When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” —Viktor E. Frankl
• “I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.” —Georg C. Lichtenberg
• “Recognizing that you are not where you want to be is a starting point to begin changing your life.” —Deborah Day
• “Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” —Marilyn Monroe
• “The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is merely tenacity.” —Amelia Earhart
• “I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.” —Angela Davis
• “What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” —Jane Goodall
• “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude.” —Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning
• “Change is made of choices, and choices are made of character.” —Amanda Gorman
• “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” —Rumi

Related: Perseverance Quotes to Help You Find Strength

Motivational Sayings About Change to Spur Us to Action

Change often starts with discomfort. These motivational quotes are for those moments when you know it’s time to act, whether that’s leaving a job, having a hard conversation or choosing a different path in life.

• “If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.” —Henry Ford
• “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” —Socrates
• “By changing nothing, nothing changes.” —Tony Robbins
• “You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” —Martin Luther King, Jr.
• “They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” —Andy Warhol
• “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” —Robert F. Kennedy
• “Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.” —John F. Kennedy
• “The biggest risk is not taking any risk…. The only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.” —Mark Zuckerberg
• “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” —Wayne Gretzky
• “Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” —John Wooden

Short Phrases About Change to Shift to a More Positive Perspective

A shift in mindset can change everything. These short, uplifting sayings act like affirmations, helping us feel a little braver, calmer and more grounded when life feels uncertain.

• “Change feels risky until staying the same feels worse.”
• “Growth doesn’t shout. It whispers, then stretches you.”
• “You’re not starting over. You’re starting wiser.”
• “Fear resists change. Hope makes room for it.”
• “Change isn’t chaos. It’s a new shape waiting to be named.”
• “Let go of what you outgrew, not what you outloved.”
• “Some changes break you open so light can get in.”
• “You’re allowed to be scared and still move forward.”
• “Nothing changes if you wait for permission.”
• “Change rarely arrives with comfort. It arrives with truth.”

Famous Quotes About Change That Still Ring True Today

There’s a reason some sayings stick. These famous quotes about change have lasted through time for good reason because they’re clear, honest and speak to the core of what it means to move forward in life.

• “Change your thoughts and you change your world.” —Norman Vincent Peale
• “To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.” —Winston Churchill
• “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” —William James 
• “Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” —John F. Kennedy
• “Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” —George Bernard Shaw

Change Is Hard, but It Can Make Us Better

Change isn’t always welcome, but it is always possible. These positive quotes about change encourage optimism during hard transitions. If you’re facing something uncertain, start with one thought, one action, one step. Whether it’s a change you chose or one life handed you, you get to decide how you respond.

Think about the area of life where you’re resisting change right now. Could you take a small action today? Could you rethink the story you’re telling yourself about it?

Even if it’s hard, it might just be the thing that helps you grow.

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