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Even short words of encouragement is enough to enlighten one's darkened minds and make things a little bit easier to handle. You might be searching for short motivational quotes, that's why I'm here to give you a set of the best short inspiring quotes. Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.
Sep 10, 2025
The first thing we see about a short story is its mystery. And in the best short stories, we return at the last to see mystery again
I love short stories - reading and writing them. The best short stories distill all the potency of a novel into a small but heady draught. They are perfect reading material for the bus or train or for a lunchtime break. Everything extraneous has been strained off by the author. The best short stories pack the heft of any novel, yet resonate like poetry.
I did a dance sequence in my second short film, which was my best short film, called 'Hairway to the Stars,' and I think Chris Wink, the founder of Blue Man Group, was in that. It's a black-and-white dance sequence. We were Glorious Food waiters together.
The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.
Youth is counted sweetest by those who are no longer young.
I don't want to earn my living, I want to live.
The trouble is you think you have time.
Who Was Jesus? Fingerprints of the Christ just might be the best short introduction to Biblical scholarship yet.
What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.
You have to be kind of clued into them, they are a world of their own, and most people find them disappointing because the best short stories are not constructed like novels.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.
Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Learn From Yesterday, Live for Today, hope for tomorrow.
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
Learn from yesterday, live for today.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
If you don t know where you are, a map won't help.
If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.
It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.
If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.
I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
If you don't know where you're going any road will do
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