Just because a quote is meaningful or powerful doesn’t mean it has to be long and wordy, so we have put together a list of all the best short tiny quotes that say a lot for you to share. And if you’re looking for positive tiny quotes that have a big impact in a little package, we also have you covered.
Now go ahead and browse through to find your favorite.
Tiny Quotes that Say a Lot
“There never was a good war or a bad peace.” ― Benjamin Franklin
“I’m always doing things I can’t do. That’s how I get to do them.” — Pablo Picasso
“You are never too old to set another goal, or to dream a new dream.” ― C.S. Lewis
“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.” ― Immanuel Kant
“If youth knew; if age could.” — Sigmund Freud
“Never wish life were easier, wish that you were better.” — Jim Rohn
“Few people have the imagination for reality.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” ―Walt Disney
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” — Lao Tzu
“There is nothing impossible to him who will try.” — Alexander the Great
“Life is a flower of which love is the honey.” — Victor Hugo
“An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.” ― Mahatma Gandhi
“Forever is composed of nows.” ― Emily Dickinson
“If a black cat crosses your path, it signifies that the animal is going somewhere.” ― Groucho Marx
“Growth is the only evidence of life.” — John Henry Newman
“When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.” — Abraham Lincoln
“Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” — George Addair
“The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.” — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” — William James
“You’re only here for a short visit. Don’t hurry, don’t worry.” ― Walter Hagen
“It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.” — George Washington
“Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.” ― John Lennon
“Every man dies. Not every man really lives.” ― William Wallace
“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!” — Audrey Hepburn
“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.” — Oscar Wilde
“The only disability in life is a bad attitude.” ― Scott Hamilton
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” — Mahatma Gandhi
“Life is the childhood of our immortality.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air. ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The greatest pleasure of life is love.” — Euripides
“The time is always right to do what is right.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
“Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.” — Helen Keller
“Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.” — Theophrastus
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
“Enjoy life. There’s plenty of time to be dead.” — Hans Christian Andersen
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.” — Albert Einstein
“Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.” — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“It is not living that matters, but living rightly.” — Socrates
“To find yourself, think for yourself.” — Socrates
“There is no love sincerer than the love of food.” — George Bernard Shaw
“We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.” ― Marilyn Monroe
“Nothing is worth more than this day.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late. — Benjamin Franklin | Short Life Quotes
“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?” ― George Eliot
“Be where you are; otherwise you will miss your life.” — Buddha
“Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Life, if well lived, is long enough.” ― Seneca
“Miracles happen to those who believe in them.” — Bernard Berenson
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”― Oscar Wilde
“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” — Milton Berle
“There is nothing like a dream to create the future.” ― Victor Hugo
“Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.” ― Charles R. Swindoll
“Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.” — Paulo Coelho
“Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.” — Immanuel Kant
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” — Lao Tzu
“When you’re good to others, you’re best to yourself.” ― Benjamin Franklin
“If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.” — Napoleon Hill
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” ― Mahatma Gandhi
“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” — Maya Angelou
“Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.” — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“I never lose. I either win or learn.” — Nelson Mandela
“Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it.” ― Confucius
“Learning never exhausts the mind.” — Leonardo da Vinci
“Buy land, they’re not making it anymore.” — Mark Twain
“The world owes you nothing. It was here first.” — Mark Twain
“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” — Mark Twain
“I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.” — Oscar Wilde
“Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.” ― Oscar Wilde
“We do not remember days, we remember moments.” ― Cesare Pavese
“Sincerity is the way of Heaven.” ― Mencius
“If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.” — Jim Rohn
“Where there is love there is life.” ― Mahatma Gandhi
“But how could you live and have no story to tell?” ― Fyodor Dostoevsky
“There is more to life than increasing its speed.” — Mahatma Gandhi
“The great man is he who does not lose his child’s-heart.” ― Mencius
“It always seems impossible until it’s done.” — Nelson Mandela
“Slow and steady wins the race.” ― Aesop
“Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.” — Immanuel Kant
“Every man is the architect of his own fortune.” — Sallust
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” — Mae West
“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.” — Paulo Coelho
“To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.” — John Henry Newman
“Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.” — Benjamin Franklin
“Nothing will work unless you do.” ― Maya Angelou
“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” ― Albert Einstein
“You must do the things you think you cannot do.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.” — Oscar Wilde
“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” ― Confucius
“Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about.” ― Marilyn Monroe
“You do not find the happy life. You make it.” ― Camilla Eyring Kimball
“To be of use to the world is the only way to be happy.” ― Hans Christian Andersen
“A human life is a story told by God.” — Hans Christian Andersen
“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito” — Dalai Lama
“In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
“In union there is strength.” ― Aesop
“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.” — Buddha
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
“Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt
“Life is short, and it’s up to you to make it sweet.” — Sarah L. Delany
“Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.” — W. Clement Stone
“Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.” ― Boris Pasternak
“Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.” — Mark Twain
“To live is so startling, it leaves little time for anything else.” — Emily Dickinson
“Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.” ― John Lennon
“Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated.” — Confucius
“Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Every man’s happiness is his own responsibility.” — Abraham Lincoln
“We become what we think about” — Earl Nightingale
“Lost time is never found again.” ― Benjamin Franklin
“Whatever you are, be a good one.” — Abraham Lincoln
“Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.” ― Leonardo da Vinci
“The more one judges, the less one loves.” ― Honore de Balzac
“It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.” ― Confucius
“Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.” ― Hans Christian Andersen
“Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory.” — Dr. Seuss
“Reality continues to ruin my life.”― Bill Watterson
“Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.” ― Oscar Wilde
“As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“One’s real life is so often the life that one does not lead.” ― Oscar Wilde
“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” — Maya Angelou
“I am not young enough to know everything.” — Oscar Wilde
“Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.” — Boris Pasternak
“We should all start to live before we get too old.” — Marilyn Monroe
“Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.” ― Hafez
“Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.” — Mark Twain
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” ― Mark Twain
“The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.” ― Dolly Parton
“Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Never do to others what you would not like them to do to you.” ― Confucius
“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.” — Omar Khayyam
“Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.” — Stephen Hawking
“Doubt can only be removed by action.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“I did my best, and God did the rest.” ― Hattie McDaniel
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” ― Robert Frost
“I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.” — Mark Twain
“The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” — Dalai Lama
“An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.” ― Mahatma Gandhi
“One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry”. — Oscar Wilde
“The mind is everything. What you think you become.” — Buddha
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.” — Henry David Thoreau
“You may delay, but time will not.” — Benjamin Franklin
“An unexamined life is not worth living.” ― Socrates
“To travel is to live.” — Hans Christian Andersen
“The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.” ― E. E. Cummings
“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” — Theodore Roosevelt
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” — George Bernard Shaw
“It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.” — Napoleon Hill
“If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
“Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.” ― D. H. Lawrence
“In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
“Forever is composed of nows.” ― Emily Dickinson | Short Life Quotes
“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” — George Eliot
“From error to error one discovers the entire truth.” ― Sigmund Freud
“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.” — Charles Darwin
“It isn’t where you came from. It’s where you’re going that counts.” ― Ella Fitzgerald
“Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” — Mahatma Gandhi
“If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.” — Henry Ford
“It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.” — Walt Disney
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” — Anais Nin
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” — Oscar Wilde
“My life didn’t please me, so I created my life.” — Coco Chanel
“Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today.” — Abraham Lincoln
“Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.” — Mark Twain
“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.” — Lao Tzu
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” — Albert Einstein
“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.” —Joseph Campbell
“Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.” — Sophia Loren
“Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.” ― Confucius
“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.” — Albert Einstein
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“To live without hope is to cease to live.” ― Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.” ― W. Clement Stone
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About the Author
Laynni Locke
I am Laynni Locke, a Canadian writer, reader and traveller with a passion for sharing life’s moments on social media. Keeping friends and family in the loop of our lives though photos and videos has become an essential activity for most.
And it doesn’t matter if you are travelling, celebrating a special occasion or just appreciating day-to-day life, when you take that perfect photo you are going to need the perfect caption or quote before you share it. Which is why we started Routinely Shares, providing comprehensive lists of quotes and captions to cover every occasion, adventure or loved one.
With extensive experience as a travel writer, social media specialist and grant writer, I have made it my mission to curate the best and easiest to use lists for your next post.