The 180+ Best Short Quotes & Inspirational Sayings (Images)

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Short Quotes about: Get Well Soon

You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax – tomorrow you’ll be afraid to cough. ~ Pearl Williams

Warning: Humor may be hazardous to your illness. ~ Ellie Katz

To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

The best six doctors anywhere
And no one can deny it
Are sunshine, water, rest, and air
Exercise and diet.
These six will gladly you attend
If only you are willing
Your mind they’ll ease
Your will they’ll mend
And charge you not a shilling. ~ Nursery rhyme quoted by Wayne Fields, What the River Knows, 1990

Sleep, riches, and health to be truly enjoyed must be interrupted. ~ Johann Paul Friedrich Richter – Flower, Fruit, and Thorn

It is a mathematical fact that fifty percent of all doctors graduate in the bottom half of their class. ~ Author Unknown

I wonder why you can always read a doctor’s bill and you can never read his prescription. ~ Finley Peter Dunne

I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better. ~ Samuel Butler – The Way of All Flesh, 1903

I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do the operation on someone else, not you. ~ Bill Walton

Healing is freedom from worry.
Healing is to live and not to pretend to live.
Healing is gratitude.
Healing is balance.
Healing is letting go.
Healing is the energy of now. ~ Terri Guillemets

Happiness is your dentist telling you it won’t hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill. ~ Johnny Carson

Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place. ~ Susan Sontag – Illness as Metaphor, 1977

Enduring habits I hate…. Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche – The Gay Science, 1882

After two days in the hospital, I took a turn for the nurse. ~ W.C. Fields

Short Quotes about Boldness

Venus favors the bold. ~ Ovid

There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly. ~ Theodore Roosevelt

Put a grain of boldness into everything you do. ~ Baltasar Gracián – translated from Spanish

Moderation is a fatal thing; nothing succeeds like excess. ~ Oscar Wilde – A Woman of No Importance, 1894

It is better to be bold than too circumspect, because fortune is of a sex which likes not a tardy wooer and repulses all who are not ardent. ~ Machiavelli

If the light in your life has changed to yellow, I recommend you floor it. It’s safer than the alternative. ~ Jeb Dickerson – www.howtomatter.com

I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little the more, as I grow older. ~ Michel de Montaigne – translated

He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold. ~ Baltasar Gracián – translated from Spanish

Freedom lies in being bold. ~ Robert Frost

Few novels or plays could exist without at least one troublemaker in the group, and perhaps life couldn’t either. ~ Mignon McLaughlin – The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966

But the fruit that can fall without shaking
Indeed is too mellow for me. ~ Mary Wortley Montagu – The Answer

Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution. ~ Francis Bacon

Boldness is a mask for fear, however great. ~ John Dryden

Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold. ~ Edmund Spenser

Short Quotes about Appearance

You need not think
It’s vanity that makes me prink,
And take much care
To keep myself both fit and fair.
‘Tis not false pride or vain conceit
That keeps me trying to be neat,
But just the plain and simple truth
That I have held to since my youth
That this old frame in which I dwell
Is nothing more than the hotel
In which my Soul and Hopes must stay
Until I’m called to move away,
And for their dwelling-place I plan
To give them quite the best I can,
And keep the place up spick and span. ~ John Kendrick Bangs – (1862-1922), “An Explanation” (February Twenty-third), The Cheery Way: A Bit of Verse For Every Day, 1920

Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets. ~ Baltasar Gracián – translated from Spanish

There is no actual law that says that a person of inner beauty cannot also maintain an appearance. ~ Robert Brault – rbrault.blogspot.com

The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it. ~ Daniel Webster

The weirder you’re going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person. ~ P.J. O’Rourke

Sometimes I wonder — if I were drop-dead handsome, and every woman I met actually dropped dead, would I ever get tired of it? ~ Robert Brault – rbrault.blogspot.com

Pretty is the queen that rules our land, o’er
hard-working peasants known by Substance. ~ Carrie Latet

Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold. ~ Lord Chesterfield

Mirrors should think longer before they reflect. ~ Jean Cocteau

Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration. ~ Niccolo Machiavelli

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it. ~ Maurice Chevalier

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only. ~ Samuel Butler – Erewhon

It is only when the mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth. But we seem to have no other. ~ Ivy Compton-Burnett

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche – Human, All Too Human

Short Quotes about Patriot Day

While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil. ~ John Taylor

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace. ~ William Ewart Gladstone

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason. ~ Alfred North Whitehead

The real differences around the world today are not between Jews and Arabs; Protestants and Catholics; Muslims, Croats, and Serbs. The real differences are between those who embrace peace and those who would destroy it; between those who look to the future and those who cling to the past; between those who open their arms and those who are determined to clench their fists. ~ William J. Clinton – 1997

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca – Letters to Lucilius

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity. Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong. ~ James Bryce

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing. ~ Robert Ingersoll

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. ~ Mother Teresa

I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot. ~ Gary Hart

I couldn’t help but say to [Mr. Gorbachev], just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from another planet. [We’d] find out once and for all that we really are all human beings here on this earth together. ~ Ronald Reagan – 1985

God understands our prayers even when we can’t find the words to say them. ~ Author Unknown

God is closest to those with broken hearts. ~ Jewish Saying

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers. ~ François Fénelon

All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them. ~ Charles Dickens

…a final comfort that is small, but not cold: The heart is the only broken instrument that works. ~ T.E. Kalem

Short Quotes about Civil Disobedience

You’re not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it. ~ Malcolm X

No radical change on the plane of history is possible without crime. ~ Hermann Keyserling

Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one. ~ Chinese Proverb

Laws are only words written on paper, words that change on society’s whim and are interpreted differently daily by politicians, lawyers, judges, and policemen. Anyone who believes that all laws should always be obeyed would have made a fine slave catcher. Anyone who believes that all laws are applied equally, despite race, religion, or economic status, is a fool. ~ John J. Miller – And Hope to Die

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. ~ Edmund Burke – Second Speech on Conciliation, 1775

It is not a man’s duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous wrong; he may still properly have other concerns to engage him; but it is his duty, at least, to wash his hands of it, and, if he gives it no thought longer, not to give it practically his support. If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at least, that I do not pursue them sitting upon another man’s shoulders. ~ Henry David Thoreau – On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

It is necessary to distinguish between the virtue and the vice of obedience. ~ Lemuel K. Washburn – Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays, 1911

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong. ~ Voltaire

Integrity has no need of rules. ~ Albert Camus

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. ~ Louis D. Brandeis

I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not so desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. ~ Henry David Thoreau – Civil Disobedience, 1849

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. ~ Robert A. Heinlein – The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

Human history begins with man’s act of disobedience which is at the very same time the beginning of his freedom and development of his reason. ~ Erich Fromm – Psychoanalysis and Religion

Every actual state is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices. ~ George Bernard Shaw – Maxims for Revolutionists

As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever. ~ Clarence Darrow

Short Quotes about Boredom

When I get real bored, I like to drive downtown and get a great parking spot, then sit in my car and count how many people ask me if I’m leaving. ~ Steven Wright

The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war. ~ Norman Mailer

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. ~ Dorothy Parker – (Thanks, Kaitlin)

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. ~ Evelyn Waugh

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true. ~ William Inge

I am never bored anywhere: being bored is an insult to oneself. ~ Jules Renard

Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health; nothing is worse for your health than boredom. ~ Mignon McLaughlin – The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair. ~ C.C. Colton

Earth’s nothing more than a rotating ball of boredom. ~ Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, “What You Leave Behind,” 1999, written by Ira Steven Behr and Hans Beimler

Boredom: the desire for desires. ~ Leo Tolstoy

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. ~ Thomas Szasz

Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face. ~ Charlotte Whitton

Boredom is an emptiness filled with insistence. ~ Leo Stein

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it. ~ Bertrand Russell – The Conquest of Happiness

Boredom is a sickness the cure for which is work; pleasure is only a palliative. ~ Le Duc de Lévis – Mémoires

Boredom flourishes too, when you feel safe. It’s a symptom of security. ~ Eugene Ionesco

All man’s troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room. ~ Blaise Pascal – Pensées, 1670

Short Quotes For a Friend

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 most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. ~ Henry David Thoreau

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

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ~ Marcel Proust

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

If you’re alone, I’ll be your shadow. If you want to cry, I’ll be your shoulder. If you want a hug, I’ll be your pillow. If you need to be happy, I’ll be your smile. But anytime you need a friend, I’ll just be me. ~ Author Unknown

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art…. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. ~ C.S. Lewis

Friends can be said to “fall in like” with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love. ~ Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer. ~ Author Unknown

Friends are kisses blown to us by angels. ~ Author Unknown

Friends are family you choose for yourself. ~ Author Unknown

Constant use will not wear ragged the fabric of friendship. ~ Dorothy Parker

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. ~ Arnold Glasow

A true friend is one who thinks you are a good egg even if you are half-cracked. ~ Author Unknown

A real friend is someone who would feel loss if you jumped on a train, or in front of one. ~ Author Unknown

A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers. ~ Pam Brown

A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out. ~ Grace Pulpit

A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself. ~ Frances Ward Weller

Short Quotes about Complaining

You can overcome anything if you don’t bellyache. ~ Bernard M. Baruch

When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints. ~ Samuel Johnson

Untold suffering seldom is. ~ Franklin P. Jones

To make a criticism is a bit like complaining about the shape of the Pyramids. ~ Author Unknown

The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain. ~ Ronald Firbank

The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects. ~ Lord Jeffrey

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks. ~ Randall Jarrell

Sweat silently. Let’s have no squawking about a little expenditure of energy. ~ Martin H. Fischer

One’s life must seem extremely flat
With nothing whatever to grumble at! ~ W.S. Gilbert – Princess Ida; Or, Castle Adamant, 1884

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future. ~ Antoine Rivarol

Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity, and consume your own smoke with an extra draft of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaints. ~ William Osler

Instead of complaining that the rosebush is full of thorns, be happy that the thorn bush has roses. ~ Proverb

In trying to get our own way, we should remember that kisses are sweeter than whine. ~ Author Unknown

If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it. ~ Anthony J. D’Angelo – The College Blue Book

I will not be as those who spend the day in complaining of headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I personally believe we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain. ~ Jane Wagner

I can’t complain, but sometimes I still do. ~ Joe Walsh

Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious. ~ Og Mandino

Short Quotes about Cheerleading

You know you’re a cheerleader when you have to yell, kick, and scream to get what you want. ~ Author Unknown

There is no halftime for cheerleaders! ~ Author Unknown

The referees have always been blind, it’s our job to make them deaf. ~ Author Unknown

Simply because we do not run across goal lines, slam dunk basketballs, or hit home runs, doesn’t mean we can’t change the score. ~ Author Unknown

Players: A vital part of any sporting event, they entertain the crowd in the intervals between timeouts so the cheerleaders can take a well-earned break. ~ Author Unknown

It’s hard to be humble when you can jump, stunt, and tumble! ~ Author Unknown

In any other sport, if you miss the catch all you lose is the ball. ~ Author Unknown

I’m not a cheerleader. I’m an athletic supporter. ~ Author Unknown

If cheerleading got any easier, it would be called football. ~ Author Unknown

If cheerleaders are so easy, why aren’t you with one? ~ Author Unknown

I trade sweat for strength. I trade doubt for belief. I trade cheerleading for nothing. ~ Author Unknown

I don’t play the field – I rule the sidelines. ~ Author Unknown

Flying is the second best thrill to cheerleaders; being caught is the first. ~ Author Unknown

Cheerleading is more than a sport; it’s an attitude. ~ Author Unknown

Cheerleaders know that pyramids were not built in Egypt. ~ Author Unknown

Cheerleaders are simply a jump above the rest. ~ Author Unknown

Any man can hold a girl’s hand, but only the elite can hold her feet. ~ Author Unknown

A good cheerleader is not measured by the height of her jumps but by the span of her spirit. ~ Author Unknown

Short Quotes about: Bores

We often forgive those who bore us, but never those whom we bore. ~ Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld – Maxims

We all denounce bores, but while we do so, let us remember that there is nobody who isn’t a bore to somebody. ~ J.A. Spender

There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds. ~ James Russell Lowell

The worst thing about a bore is not that he won’t stop talking, but that he won’t let you stop listening. ~ Author Unknown

The only thing worse than being bored is being boring. ~ Jean Baudrillard

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. ~ H.L. Mencken

The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrational bipeds who hurt only themselves. ~ Maria Edgeworth – Thoughts on Bores

Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week. ~ William Dean Howells

Some people are so boring that they make you waste an entire day in five minutes. ~ Jules Renard

One out of three hundred and twelve Americans is a bore… and a healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people’s patience. ~ John Updike – Assorted Prose

Labor Day is a holiday honoring those who work for a living. Laborious Day is a lesser known holiday honoring those who cannot stop talking about their work. ~ Lemony Snicket

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself. ~ Gerald Brenan

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible. ~ Frank Moore Colby

Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything. ~ Don Marquis

Bore: A man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company. ~ Gian Vincenzo Gravina

Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen. ~ Ambrose Bierce – The Devil’s Dictionary

A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you. ~ Bert Leston Taylor – The So-Called Human Race

A bore is a fellow who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it. ~ Henry Ford

Short Quotes about: Being in Love

‘Twas not my lips you kissed But my soul ~ Judy Garland

True love is when you put someone on a pedestal, and they fall — but you are there to catch them. ~ Author Unknown

The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands. ~ Quoted by Alexandra Penney in Self

The love game is never called off on account of darkness. ~ Tom Masson

The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry – Southern Mail, 1929, translated from French by Curtis Cate

Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence. ~ David Byrne

Out of all the people I’ve ever met, you’re the one who makes me draw those silly little hearts on my papers. ~ Author Unknown

My heart beat so hard when I was near him, I feared he could hear my secret longing for him. ~ Terri Guillemets – 1988, journal

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. ~ William Shakespeare – Mid-Summer Night’s Dream, 1595

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. ~ Jean Anouilh

Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense. ~ Mark Overby

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry – Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from French by Lewis Galantière

I’m so in love, every time I look at you my soul gets dizzy. ~ Jaesse Tyler

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I. ~ Michel de Montaigne

If I had a single flower for every time I think of you, I could walk forever in my garden. ~ Claudia Adrienne Grandi

“He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.” ~ Leo Tolstoy

Even at midnight the sun was still bright, All because you kissed me goodnight! ~ Author Unknown

A kiss, when all is said, what is it? A rosy dot placed on the “i” in loving; ‘Tis a secret told to the mouth instead of to the ear. ~ Edmond Rostand