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Life confronts you with quite some challenges. It throws curveballs at you and drags you down. In fact, life can sometimes be so nasty that you simply don’t feel like getting back up to continue fighting for your dreams. Why bother with all the struggle when the next trouble and difficulties are already looming on the horizon? Aside from hope and motivation, humor is what will keep you going during such difficult times. Even more so, the combination of humor and a positive attitude can make a true difference in life. Having a humorous perspective can make unpleasant situations a lot more bearable. When you’re able to see things with a little humor, you’ll quickly develop the necessary courage and determination that prevent you from giving up. For this reason, we created the following collection of magnificently funny quotes about life. Enjoy!The beauty of humor lies in its ability to help you view your life in a much more positive light. Perhaps, you’ve even noticed how a little humor or a funny remark could almost instantly change your own and other people’s mood.

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
Douglas Adams

Isn’t it interesting how humor and fun are capable of quickly making bleak situations seem a lot more positive? They are also excellent tools for calming people down and handling heated situations. In fact, the right humorous word at the right time can work wonders.The following collection of funny quotes about life will lighten your mood.Life isn’t meant to be lived purely in an analytical and serious manner. Who would want to live such a cold and overly artificial – perhaps even robotlike – life? Individuals who have integrated humor into their lives do not only laugh more often. They also know that certain things in life simply do not be taken seriously. Even more so, if you can be humorous and laid-back about certain developments in your life, you’ll find it a lot easier to cope with them. What better way to develop a humorous perspective than by reading a couple of really funny quotes about life?

70 Brilliantly Funny Quotes about Life

Many of the following authors have encountered pretty difficult challenges in their own lives as well. Astonishingly enough, however, they all found unique and brilliant ways to humorously deal with these difficulties. As such, their humorous perspective has allowed them to approach heavy problems with a much lighter and more positive attitude. After all, when you’re not fearful and depressed, you’re a lot more likely to find solutions that help you to work yourself out of the trouble you’ve encountered.

Here are these truly funny quotes about life

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

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“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming ‘Wow! What a Ride!'”
Hunter S. Thompson

3.

“I’m sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It’s just been too intelligent to come here.”
Arthur C. Clarke

4.

“Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You’d have a chance at least. You could lie there thinking: Well, at least I’m not dead.”
Tom Stoppard

5.

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

6.

“Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren’t. I’m not surprised some people prefer books.”
Julian Barnes

7.

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

8.

“If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction – and ultimately, without a major resolution.”
Jasper Fforde

9.

“Life doesn’t imitate art, it imitates bad television.”
Woody Allen

10.

“If cats looked like frogs we’d realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That’s what people remember.”
Terry Pratchett

11.

“Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.”
Robert Benchley

12.

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

13.

“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
Allen Saunders

14.

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
Mark Twain

15.

“I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don’t even invite me.”
Dave Barry

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16.

“It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it’s called Life.”
Terry Pratchett

17.

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

18.

“All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.”
J.M. Barrie

19.

“I’m not afraid of death; I just don’t want to be there when it happens.”
Woody Allen

20.

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
Albert Einstein

21.

“If you don’t know where you’re going, any road’ll take you there”
George Harrison

22.

“The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache.”
Marjorie Pay Hinckley

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

24.

“Reality continues to ruin my life.”
Bill Watterson

25.

“The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of them.”
Bill Maher

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“Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.”
Mark Twain

27.

“A learning experience is one of those things that says, ‘You know that thing you just did? Don’t do that.”
Douglas Adams

28.

“If at first you don’t succeed then skydiving definitely isn’t for you.”
Steven Wright

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“If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?”
George Carlin

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

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“Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”
William Goldman

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“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.”
Isaac Asimov

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“No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it”
Fernando Pessoa

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“If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss Bank.”
Woody Allen

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“Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that’s where it should stay.”
Christopher Hitchens

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“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you’ve felt that way.”
Charles Bukowski

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“You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America’s Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn’t want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named ‘Bush’, ‘Dick’, and ‘Colin’. Need I say more?”
Chris Rock

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“When I was your age, television was called books.”
William Goldman

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“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”
Chuck Palahniuk

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“Sometimes you know you’ve got a chance with a girl because she wants to fight with you. If the world wasn’t so messed up, it wouldn’t be like that. If the world was normal, a girl being nice to you would be a good sign, but in the real world, it isn’t.”
Nick Hornby

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“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
Douglas Adams

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“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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“Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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“A hangover is the wrath of grapes.”
Dorothy Parker

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“If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.”
Woody Allen

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“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
Albert Einstein

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“I came from a real tough neighborhood. Once a guy pulled a knife on me. I knew he wasn’t a professional, the knife had butter on it.”
Rodney Dangerfield

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“To get back my youth, I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.”
Oscar Wilde

49.

“I’d rather be a rising ape than a falling angel.”
Terry Pratchett

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“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
Blaise Pascal

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“Hooray! Hooray! The end of the world has been postponed! „
Hergé

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“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”
Winston S. Churchill

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“This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.”
George V. Higgins

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“If you’re too open-minded; your brains will fall out.”
Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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“We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.”
Douglas Adams

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“Short cuts make long delays.”
J.R.R. Tolkien

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“When the postman rings twice, don’t answer it.”
Unknown

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“If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.”
George Carlin

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“When in doubt, ignore and be horribly unimpressed”
Laurell K. Hamilton

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“Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.”
Phyllis Diller

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“Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.”
Niels Bohr

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“If complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he’d be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armor and shouting ‘All gods are bastards!”
Terry Pratchett

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“When I ask how old your toddler is, I don’t need to hear ’27 months.’ ‘He’s two’ will do just fine. He’s not a cheese. And I didn’t really care in the first place.”
George Carlin

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“A word to the wise ain’t necessary, it’s the stupid ones who need advice.”
Bill Cosby

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“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.”
Jonathan Safran Foer

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“You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D’s in school. Well, guess what, I get F’s!!!”
Bill Watterson

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“The only way Bex would miss this would be if she were unconscious. And tied up. And in a concrete bunker. In Siberia.”
Ally Carter

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

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“I can’t decide whether I’m a good girl wrapped up in a bad girl, or if I’m a bad girl wrapped up in a good girl. And that’s how I know I’m a woman!”
C. JoyBell C.

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“Never miss a good chance to shut up.”
Will Rogers

I hope you enjoyed reading these funny quotes about life.Stay victorious!
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Sometimes you don’t have to use many words to get your point across.

In fact, keeping it short and simple can make what you’re saying extra powerful and memorable.

This is of course nothing new.

It’s something that’s many of the wisest people in history have kept in mind over thousands of years.

And today I want to share some of that sharp and quick wisdom.

This is 201 short and inspirational quotes about life and on how to make it a good, happy, loving and successful one from the past 2400 years.

I hope these quotes will give you a boost when you need it the most.

[Note: the original version of this post contained 101 short quotes but it has now been updated with 100 additional quotes in a few new categories like, for example, short funny quotes.]

Short and Meaningful Quotes about Happiness

“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.”
— Epictetus

“What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”
— Confucius

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

“To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.”
— Albert Camus

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
— Aristotle

“Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.”
— Dalai Lama

“It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.”
— Lucille Ball

“Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.”
— Dennis Waitley

“It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.”
— Seneca

“The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer

“For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.”
— Seneca

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

“Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy.”
— Dr. Robert Anthony

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

“Happiness is a state of activity.”
— Aristotle

“The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.”
— Epictetus

“There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.”
— Seneca

“Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt

“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh

“The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.”
— Aesop

“It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”
— L.M. Montgomery

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

“Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.”
— Winnie the Pooh

“Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.”
— Benjamin Disraeli

“Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.”
— Albert Schweitzer

“Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.”
— Heraclitus

Short and Inspiring Quotes about Love

“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
— James Baldwin

“When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.”
— Blaise Pascal

“Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.”
— Khalil Gibran

“I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.”
— Roy Croft

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
— Elbert Hubbard

“Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.”
— Euripides

“Love is a friendship set to music.”
— Joseph Campbell

“The more one judges, the less one loves.”
— Honore de Balzac

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

“Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.”
— Andre Breton

“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”
— Morrie Schwartz

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

“If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.”
— Benjamin Franklin

“Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.”
— Lord Byron

“If I know what love is, it is because of you.”
— Herman Hesse

“The giving of love is an education in itself.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt

“Better to have lost and loved than never to have loved at all.”
— Ernest Hemingway

“The best proof of love is trust.”
— Joyce Brothers

“Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.”
— Leo Buscaglia

“Love is a better teacher than duty.”
— Albert Einstein

“Love does not dominate; it cultivates.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.' Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.'”
— Erich Fromm

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
— Robert A. Heinlein

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

“A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.”
— Honore de Balzac

Short and Motivational Quotes about Success

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.”
– Richard Branson

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

“Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”
– John R. Wooden

“Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.”
– Robert Kiyosaki

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

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

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”
– Samuel Beckett

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

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

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

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

“Success is largely a matter of holding on after others have let go.”
– Unknown

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

“Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.”
– Albert Einstein

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

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

Short Self-Esteem Quotes to Help You to Feel Good About Yourself

“Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.”
– Maxwell Maltz

“Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own?”
– Brigham Young

“Loving yourself isn’t vanity. It’s sanity.”
– Katrina Mayer

“It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.”
– W.C. Fields

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.”
– Robert Hand

“A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.”
– Mark Twain

“Lighten up on yourself. No one is perfect. Gently accept your humanness.”
– Deborah Day

“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”
– Benjamin Spock

“One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.”
– Shannon L. Alder

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

“If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.”
– Charles Bukowski

“To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.”
– Robert Morley

“Beauty begins the moment you decided to be yourself.”
– Coco Chanel

“People who want the most approval get the least and the people who need approval the least get the most.”
– Wayne Dyer

“Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.”
– André Gide

“Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face.”
– Helen Keller

“The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.”
– Maya Angelou

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

“Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness.”
– Jean Vanier

“Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.”
– Malcolm S. Forbes

“There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
– Anaïs Nin

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

Short Funny Quotes (When You Need a Quick Laugh)

“Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.”
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“I have never been hurt by what I have not said.”
– Calvin Coolidge

“I may be a living legend, but that sure don't help when I've got to change a flat tire.”
– Roy Orbison

“If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management.”
– Scott Adams

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

“The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.”
– Oscar Wilde

“I haven’t spoken to my wife in years. I didn’t want to interrupt her.”
– Rodney Dangerfield

“Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.”
– Ethel Barrymore

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

“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”
– Albert Einstein

“You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.”
– H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“Here’s something to think about: How come you never see a headline like ‘Psychic Wins Lottery’?”
– Jay Leno

“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”
– Winston Churchill

“Never miss a good chance to shut up.”
– Will Rogers

“If you want your children to listen, try talking softly to someone else.”
– Ann Landers

“Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.”
– George Carlin

“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

“The best way to teach your kids about taxes is by eating 30 percent of their ice cream.”
– Bill Murray

“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.”
– Albert Einstein

“The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.”
Tom Clancy

“Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away.”
– Benjamin Franklin

“A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.”
– Groucho Marx

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

“Don’t sweat the petty things and don’t pet the sweaty things.”
– George Carlin

“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.”
– Dalai Lama

“Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.”
– Josh Billings

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

Short Quotes about Staying Strong When Times are Tough

“Love does not dominate; it cultivates.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I like criticism. It makes you strong.”
– LeBron James

“We acquire the strength we have overcome.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“Sometimes you don’t realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness.”
– Susan Gale

“Tough times never last, but tough people do.”
– Robert H. Schuller

“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”
– Henry Ford

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“The more one judges, the less one loves.”
– Honore de Balzac

“Where there is no struggle, there is no strength”
– Oprah

“You can't really be strong until you can see a funny side to things.”
– Ken Kesey

“We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.”
– J.K. Rowling

“Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.”
– John Wooden

“Concentration is the secret of strength.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.”
– Og Mandino

”Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.”
– Richard Branson

“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott

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

“Stress is caused by being ‘here' but wanting to be ‘there.'
– Eckhart Tolle

“Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that’s what makes you strong.”
– Sarah Dessen

“The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.”
– R. G. Ingersoll

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“Our strength grows out of our weaknesses”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.”
– Robert Schuller

“Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever.”
– Leo Buscaglia

Short and Inspiring Friendship Quotes

“Friends are people who know you really well and like you anyway.”
– Greg Tamblyn

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

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

“A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.”
– Arnold H. Glasgow

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

“A true friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else.”
– Len Wein

“What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”
– Confucius

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

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

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

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

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
– Alice Walker

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

“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”
– Abraham Lincoln

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

“It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.”
– Epicurus

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

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

“One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.”
– George Santayana

“A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.”
– Charles Darwin

“Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.”
— Miles Franklin

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

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

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

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

Short Inspirational Quotes for Work (to Help You Work Hard and Smart)

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

“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson

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

“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.”
– Dale Carnegie

“Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.”
– Seneca

“Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better.”
– Jim Rohn

“You will never plough a field if you only turn it over in your mind.”
– Irish Proverb

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

“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.”
– Stephen Covey

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

“To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.”
– Eva Young

“If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend six hours sharpening my ax.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
– Confucius

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

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

“Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work.”
– Joseph Barbara

“When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
– Paulo Coelho

“The best way out is always through.”
– Robert Frost

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right.”
– Henry Ford

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

What’s your favorite short quote about life? Feel free to share the best one(s) you have found in this article or in your life in the comments section below.