Who has the time to read through long, wordy quotes? If you’re looking for something short and sweet, we gathered all the best short quotes for you to share. And if you’re looking for very short quotes for Instagram, we also have you covered.
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Short Quotes for Instagram
“You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.” ― Henny Youngman
“Tears are words the mouth can’t say nor can the heart bear.” – Joshua Wisenbaker
“Summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance.” ― Yoko Ono
“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” —Lao Tzu
“Nothing endures but change.” – Heraclitus
“We love because it’s the only true adventure.” – Nikki Giovanni
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” –Arthur Ashe
“You never fail until you stop trying.” – Albert Einstein
“One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.” – Rita Mae Brown
“Love is a game that two can play and both win.” – Eva Gabor
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” – Aristotle
“Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend?” – Abraham Lincoln
“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of others.” – Charles Dickens
“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” — Albert Camus
“When you’re in love it’s the most glorious two and a half days of your life.” – Richard Lewis
“Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.” – Barbara De Angelis
“Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.” – Margaret Mead
“Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.” — Lillian Dickson
“Mountains have a way of dealing with overconfidence.” – Hermann Buhl
“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.” – Winston Churchill
“Life is too short to be unhappy.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets.” – Dr. Suess
“Autumn is the antidote to stifling summer.” – Terri Guillemets
“Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television.” – David Letterman
“Do good, live in the most positive and joyful way possible every day.” – Roy T. Bennett
“If you want to be happy, be.” – Leo Tolstoy
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius
“Grow old along with me; the best is yet to be.” – Robert Browning
“This has been my life; I found it worth living.” – Bertrand Russell
“Love is not love until love’s vulnerable.” – Theodore Roethke
“Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Tough times never last but tough people do.” – Robert H. Schuller
“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” —Napoleon Hill
“Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.” — Paul Theroux
“The constant happiness is curiosity.” – Alice Munro
“I dwell in possibility.” —Emily Dickinson
“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.” – Helen Keller
“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” — Walter Winchell
“Meet me where the sky touches the sea.” – Jennifer Donnelly
“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” —Dr. Seuss
“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” – George Burns
“The most wasted of days is one without laughter.” —E. E. Cummings
“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“Love yourself more, you’ll never regret it.” – Ann Marie Molina
“Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Sunsets are proof that no matter what happens, every day can end beautifully.” – Kristen Butler
“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” – Aristotle
“Be happy. It really annoys negative people.” – Ricky Gervais
“And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.” – Confucius
“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” – Aristotle
“Life is short, and it is here to be lived.” —Kate Winslet
“If I know what love is, it is because of you.” – Hermann Hesse
“How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you.” – Rupi Kaur
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”- Robert Frost
”How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.” – Arnold H. Glasgow
“Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.” – Herman Hesse
“You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.” – Mark Twain
“Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.”. – Emily Brontë
“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” – Les Brown
“Tell yourself how much you love yourself.” – Don Miguel Ruiz
“We love the things we love for what they are.” – Robert Frost
“When you feel sad, it’s okay. It’s not the end of the world.” – Mac Miller
“What’s done is done.” – William Shakespeare
“We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.” – Helen Keller
“To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks.” —Bill Gates
“Give yourself the love you’re willing to give to others.” – Mahin Ismail
“Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.” – Samuel Beckett
“If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.” — Laura Ingalls Wilder
“Get busy living or get busy dying.” — Stephen King
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” – Pablo Picasso
“By discovering nature, you discover yourself.” — Maxime Lagacé
“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.” – Ernest Hemingway
“Winter is a time to slow.” — Kelsi Turner
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anaïs Nin
“Live for each second without hesitation.” — Elton John
“Summer brings sunshine, warm and flowering.” – Lailah Gifty Akita
“Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” – Franklin P. Jones
“Happiness is not a goal…it’s a by-product of a life well-lived.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“Happiness is a state of mind. It’s just according to the way you look at things.” – Walt Disney
“Autumn…the year’s last, loveliest smile.” — John Howard Bryant
“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” -Thomas Jefferson
“Don’t forget: Beautiful sunsets need cloudy skies” – Paulo Coelho
“Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.” – John Heywood
“It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.” – Edmund Hillary
“The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.” — Zeno
“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.” – Omar Khayyam
“Life is a first impression. You get one shot at it. Make it everlasting.” – J.R. Rim
“In winter we behold the charms of solemn majesty and naked grandeur.” — James Ellis
“Summertime and the livin’ is easy.” – Porgy and Bess
“Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.” — Edgar Allan Poe
“Courage doesn’t always roar.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
“Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.” – Roger Miller
“Love: a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.” – Ambrose Bierce
“Change before you have to.” – Jack Welch
“You can’t close your heart to things you don’t want to feel.” – Johnny Depp
“Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.” – Ovid
“Tis better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all.” – Alrded Lord Tennyson
“Simplicity makes me happy.” – Alicia Keys
“The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.” – William Hazlitt
“Sad things happen. They do. But we don’t need to live sad forever.” – Mattie Stepanek
“In the book of life, the answers aren’t in the back.” – Charlie Brown
“Just let me keep the last piece of my heart before you tear it all apart.”— Lykke Li
“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.” – Oscar Wilde
“Cute is when a person’s personality shines through their looks.” – Natalie Portman
“Challenges are what make life interesting.” – Joshua Marine
“I believe that nothing in life is unimportant every moment can be a beginning.” — John McLeod
“Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” — Forrest Gump
“If you are positive, you’ll see opportunities instead of obstacles.” – Widad Akrawi
“Spring is when life’s alive in everything.” – Christina Rossetti
“Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie.” – George Herbert
“Joy blooms where minds and hearts are open.” – Jonathan Lockwood Huie
“I don’t think you can define love.” – Harry Styles
“Be where you are; otherwise you will miss your life.” — Buddha
“You carry so much love in your heart. Give some to yourself.” – R.Z.
“Softly the evening came with the sunset.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” – Abraham Lincoln
“Every sunset is also a sunrise; it all depends on where you stand.” – Karl Schmidt
“Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.” – Muhammad Ali
“What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.” – Sinclair Lewis
“It’s always summer somewhere.” – Lily Pulitzer
“Respect yourself and others will respect you.” ―Confucius
“It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.” – Miguel de Unamuno
“If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.” – Vincent Van Gogh
“Positive energy knows no boundaries.” – Lu Wei
“It’s not just a sunset; it’s a moonrise too.” – P. C. Cast
“Be curious, not judgmental.” – Walt Whitman
“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.” – Oscar Wilde
“Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.” — Gary Snyder
“Keep going. Is not as difficult as you feel it is. Don’t give up.” – Brandon Sanderson
“Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” – Henry Ford
“To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.” – Albert Camus
“Things don’t have to change the world to be important.” – Steve Jobs
“Victory is sweetest when you’ve known defeat.” – Malcolm S. Forbes
“I just need you and some sunsets” – Atticus
“Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy.”- Regina Brett
“Say something positive, and you’ll see something positive.” —Jim Thompson
“No guts no glory.” – General Frederick Corbin Blesse
“Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.” – Babe Ruth
”I’m here. I love you.” – Elizabeth Gilbert
“Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.” – Kahlil Gibran
“By discovering nature, you discover yourself.” — Maxime Lagacé
“Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.” — Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” — Mae West
“Love yourself. Be clear on how you want to be treated. Know your worth. Always.” – Maryam Hasnaa
“It hurts to leave a light on for nobody.” — Graham Foust
“Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.
“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.” – Anne Bradstreet
“Nothing is impossible. The word itself says “I’m possible!” – Audrey Hepburn
“You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.” —Michael Jordan
“We can always be chasing the sun.” — Sara Bareilles
“Roll with the punches and enjoy every minute of it.” – Meghan Markle
“Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.” – James Dean
“It is not length of life, but depth of life.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I’d far rather be happy than right any day.” – Douglas Adams
“A sunset is the sun’s fiery kiss to the night.” – Crystal Woods
“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” – Confucius
“A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.” – Elbert Hubbard
“Have faith in yourself and in the future.” – Ted Kennedy
“The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.” – Bob Marley
“I love you simply, without problems or pride.” – Pablo Neruda
“Everything looks cute when it’s small.” – Cynthia Rawley
“If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.” – Charles Bukowski
“Turn every life situation into a positive one.” – Rhonda Byrne
“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.” – Ernest Hemingway
“How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.” – George Burns
“Don’t worry, Be Happy.” – Bobby McFerrin
“You must do the things you think you cannot do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“You choose the life you live.” – Kim Kiyosaki
“Summer is for surrendering; winter is for wondering.” — Debasish Mridha
“Love is sharing your popcorn.” – Charles Schultz
“All limitations are self-imposed.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
“A loving heart is the truest wisdom.” – Charles Dickens
“Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on It.” – Danny Kaye
“You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.” – Barbara De Angelis
“Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.” – Elbert Hubbard
“Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.” – Ellis Peters
“May you live all the days of your life.” -Jonathan Swift
“The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make It.” – Marcus Aurelius
“We do not remember days, we remember moments.” ― Cesare Pavese
“When things go wrong, don’t go with them.” — Elvis Presley
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” – Benjamin Franklin
“Enjoy the beauty of a sunset nature’s farewell kiss for the night.” – Sharon Rene
“We can only learn to love by loving.” – Iris Murdoch
“Every sunset is an opportunity to reset.” – Richie Norton
“When you’re positive, good things happen.” – Deep Roy
“You must do the things you think you cannot do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
“People have to remain positive and believe in those dreams. It’s really important.” – Kirsty Coventry
“If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.” – Charles Dickens
“A positive attitude awakens inner strength, energy, motivation, and initiative.” – Remez Sasson
“I want to be with you until my last page.” – A.R. Asher
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are.” – Gretel Ehrlich
“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“Nature, time and patience are the three great physicians.” – Chinese proverb
“Spring passes and one remembers one’s innocence.” – Yoko Ono
“If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.” – Frank A. Clark
“When you make a choice, you change the future.”– Deepak Chopra
“Sunset is the opening music of the night.”― Mehmet Murat ildan
“It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up.” – Vince Lombardi
“Learn to let go. That is the key to happiness.” – Buddha
“Every strength is also a weakness. The opposite is true as well.” – Neil Strauss
“Life is short it is up to you to make it sweet.” – Sarah Louise
“We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.” – Pierre Corneille
“Live and let live.” – Yiddish Proverb
“If the leaves are changing, I feel poetry in the air.” — Laura Jaworski
“Sunsets are loved because they vanish.” – Ray Bradbury
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.” – Marie Curie
“Live life to the fullest.” – Ernest Hemingway
“Learn to love yourself enough to be happy in your own company.” – Samantha Camargo
“Only in the darkness can you see the stars.” —Martin Luther King, Jr.
“You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated.” – Maya Angelou
“Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower.” – John Harrigan
“Whatever you are, be a good one.” – Abraham Lincoln
“No one has ever found themselves without being a little lost.” ―Sai Pradeep
“I believe you make your day. You make your life.” – Brad Pitt
“Thank goodness for the first snow.” — Candace Bushnell
“The only joy in the world is to begin.” – Cesare Pavese
“Self-love is necessary for a functional and successful life” – Angela C. Santomero
“And still I rise.” – Maya Angelou
“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” – Edith Wharton
“Mostly, the world sees you the way you see yourself.”– Lisa Nichols
“No sun outlasts its sunset, but will rise again and bring the dawn.” – Maya Angelou
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” – Lao Tzu
“Enjoy every moment you have. Because in life, there are no rewinds, only flashbacks.” –Anmol Andore
“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” – Lao Tzu
“If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.” – Johnny Carson
“Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.” – H. L. Mencken
“Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated.” — Confucius
“Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon” – Winnie the Pooh
“It’s sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.” – Henry Rollins
“Life is a summer, full of fun, at the beach, under the sun.” – Debasish Mridha
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” —Lao Tzu
“We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.” – Henry David Thoreau
“What we think, we become.” —Buddha
“Happiness is a state of activity.” – Aristotle
“Be mindful. Be grateful. Be positive. Be true. Be kind.” – Roy T. Bennett
“It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.” – Lucille Ball
“The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.” – Jim Rohn
“Determine your priorities and focus on them.” – Eileen McDargh
“Never go too long without watching a sunset.” – Atticus
“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love.” – Elie Wiesel
“Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.” —Erol Ozan
“Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory.” – Ed Viesturs
“When the going gets tough, the tough get going.” – Joe Kennedy
“We can truly love one another once we love who we are.” –Angela C. Santomero
“Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” – John Lennon
“Happiness [is] only real when shared” – Jon Krakauer
“Hiking is just walking where it’s okay to pee.” – Demetri Martin
“Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.” – William James
“Hiking is the only slightly less ugly stepsister of running.” – Lindy Hughes
“Do good and good will come to you.” —Adam Lowy
“You go in with a positive attitude and stay there.” – Shelley Long
“Wisdom begins in wonder.” – Socrates
“The wound is the place where the light enters you.” – Rumi
“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.” – Buddha
“That’s the secret to life… replace one worry with another…” – Charlie Brown
“Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.” – Benjamin Franklin
“The only way to have a friend is to be one.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Love yourself enough to set boundaries.” – Anna Taylor
“When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.” – Buddha
“Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn.” – Lewis Grizzard
“Spring is nature’s way of saying, ‘Let’s party!’” – Robin Williams
“Summertime is always the best of what might be.” ― Charles Bowden
“In order to carry a positive action, we must develop here a positive vision.” – Dalai Lama
“Man’s heart away from nature becomes hard.”— Standing Bear
“It is almost impossible to watch a sunset and not dream” – Bernard Williams
“Happiness is a warm puppy.” – Charles M. Schulz
“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.” — Aristotle
“To love at all is to be vulnerable” – C.S. Lewis
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” —Mahatma Gandhi
“You are your choices.” – Seneca
“I think if you just look at life in a positive way, positive things will happen.” – Jake Owen
“Sunsets are my escape into the reality I want to continuously live.” – Rachel Roy
“Colors are the smiles of nature.”— Leigh Hunt
“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” – Aristotle
“No pressure, no diamonds.” – Thomas Carlyle
“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.” – Pablo Neruda
“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” –Theodore Roosevelt
“Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.” – Albert Einstein
“Why do spring and summer have to go?” – Joe Wheeler
“Another fall, another turned page.” – Wallace Stegner
“Always wear cute pajamas to bed, you’ll never know who u will meet in your dreams.” – Joel Madden
“Could I have been anyone other than me?”― Dave Matthews
“Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.”- Sam Keen
“The mere sense of living is joy enough.” – Emily Dickinson
“Loved you yesterday, love you still, always have, always will.” – Elaine Davis
“It’s almost always possible to be honest and positive.” – Naval Ravikant
“A sunset paints the sky as if there were no tomorrow.” – Anthony T. Hincks
“It doesn’t hurt to feel sad from time to time.” – Willie Nelson
“Be positive with every idea surrounding your dreams.” – Israelmore Ayivor
“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.” – Pablo Neruda
“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.” — Elbert Hubbard
“The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are.” – Goldie Hawn
“The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration.” — Claude Monet
“You can choose to not let little things upset you.” – Joel Osteen
“Love me and I may be forced to love you.” – William Arthur Ward
“And all at once, summer collapsed into fall.” – Oscar Wilde
“Love is an untamed force.” – Paulo Coelho
“I love you. I am at rest with you. I have come home.” – Dorothy L. Sayers
“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.” – Seneca
“Love is like pi – natural, irrational, and very important.” – Lisa Hoffman
“Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.”– Oprah Winfrey
“Every moment is a fresh beginning.” —T.S. Eliot
“One has to be positive. When you’re positive, good things happen.” – Deep Roy
“Spring adds new life and new beauty to all that is.” – Jessica Harrelson
“You call it madness, but I call it love.” – Don Byas
“Sadness flies away on the wings of time.” – Jean de La Fontaine
“Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.” —Dalai Lama
“Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.” – Anna Deavere Smith
“Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.” –Harper Lee
“Nothing will work unless you do.” – Maya Angelou
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” — Mae West
“If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?” – Lily Tomlin
“We were together. I forget the rest.” – Walt Whitman
“The nicest thing about the rain is that it always stops. Eventually.” – Eeyore
“There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.” – Jim Henson
“The love that comes from friendship is the underlying facet of a happy life.” – Chelsea Handler
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” —Mahatma Gandhi
“The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.” – Al McGuire
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About the Author
Laynni Deir
I am Laynni Deir, writer and editor of Purely Lists. There are times when you are looking for inspiration or aren’t sure what to say and I am committed to providing lists of the best quotes, sayings, messages, puns or captions for any occasion. Whether you are looking for a positive quote, a message for a card, a fun saying for a letter board or caption for your next post or story, you will find the perfect option here.
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