What are short motivational phrases?

It is common for many people to feel moments of discouragement when facing some challenging situations in life. Several times they end up losing the will to get out of bed and have no disposition to work and live with total joy and confidence.

At this time, motivational quotes, which are usually quotes from world-renowned people such as great thinkers, poets and businessmen, appear to help you overcome the challenges present in your life. A motivational quote is a great life lesson.

We have selected, one by one, the 260 best short motivational phrases for life, work, hard times and phrases for status and photos, so you can feel motivated and empower yourself. Check them out below and make use of the phrases in your daily life!

Short motivational phrases for life

To get you started, check out the selection of the best short motivational phrases to take to life and get motivation for love, for joy, for having faith and for getting determination and success.

Short love motivational phrases

1. "Wherever you go, go with all your heart" - Confucius

2. "There are only two days in the year when nothing can be done: one is called yesterday and the other tomorrow. Therefore, today is the right day to love, believe, do and, above all, live." - Dalai Lama

3. "Believe in love. If you love it, you wait. Love is patient" - Caio Fernando Abreu

4. "Give the one you love: wings to fly, roots to return and reasons to stay" - Dalai Lama

5. "No matter the question, love is the answer" - Author unknown

6. "Everything makes sense, when the motivation is love... One day after another and the smoke that scared us, no longer tells us anything." - Amelia Mari Passos

7. "The essence of motivation is love in the reason that moves us" - Adimael Barbosa

8 - "Love is a force that transforms destiny" - Chico Xavier

9. "I have learned that people will forget what you said, they will forget what you did, but they will never forget how you made them feel."- Maya Angelou

10. "Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to strike."- Lord Byron

11. "Love in its essence is spiritual fire" - Seneca

12. "Love does not recognize barriers. It jumps over obstacles, over fences, penetrates walls to reach its destination full of hope" - Maya Angelou

13. "Love is of all passions the strongest, for it simultaneously attacks the head, the heart and the senses."- Lao Tzu

14. "Your task is not to seek love, but only to seek and find all the barriers within you that you have built against it."-Rumi

15. "At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet" - Plato

16. "Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a garden without sun when the flowers are dead."- Oscar Wilde

17. "The art of love is largely the art of persistence."- Albert Ellis

18. "I have decided to stand with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear."- Martin Luther King Jr.

19. "The love we give is the only love we keep."- Elbert Hubbard

20. "Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that.Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that."- Martin Luther King Jr.

Short motivational phrases of joy

21 - "The only free person is the one who is not afraid of ridicule" - Luís Fernando Veríssimo

22. "Happiness is not the absence of problems, but the ability to deal with them."- Steve Maraboli

23 - "If there is to be a crisis, let it be one of laughter" - Author unknown

24. "The healthiest response to life is joy."- Deepak Chopra

25. "Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there is so much to smile about."- Marilyn Monroe

26. "The most wasted of days is the one without laughter."- EE Cummings

27 - "Living is not waiting for the storm to pass, it is learning to dance in the rain" - Author unknown

28 - "To be a child is to believe that everything is possible. It is to be unforgettably happy with very little" - Gilberto dos Reis

29 - "Give a "Play" in life, a "Pause" in the good moments, a "Stop" in the bad moments and a "Repeat" in the joys of life" - Author unknown

30. "To do what you like is freedom. To like what you do is happiness."- Frank Tyger

31. "Stay close to anything that makes you happy to be alive."- Hafez

32. "Happiness often comes through a door you didn't know you'd left open."-John Barrymore

33. "Happiness is not by chance, but by choice."-Jim Rohn

34. "It's always fun to do the impossible."-Walt Disney

35 "Be a fool to remain sane" - Maxime Lagacé

Short motivational phrases for success

36. "It's only when you risk failure that you discover certain things."- Lupita Nyong'o

37. "To be great, sometimes you have to take huge risks."- Bill Gates

38 - "Failure is the motivational word for success" - André Guerreiro

39 - "Persistence is the path to success" - Charles Chaplin

40 - "Difficult roads always lead to beautiful destinations" - Zig Ziglar

41 - "My ambition has always been to make dreams come true" - Bill Gates

42 - "Motivation is a door that opens from the inside" - Mário Sergio Cortella

43 "Our failures are sometimes more fruitful than our successes" - Henry Ford

44 "We are not only responsible for what we do, but also for what we fail to do" - Moliere

45 "The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary" - Albert Einstein

46 "To be great, sometimes you have to take huge risks" - Bill Gates

47. "The difference between winning and losing is usually not giving up."- Walt Disney

48. "No pressure, no diamonds."- Thomas Carlyle

Short motivational phrases to have determination

49 "It does not matter how slowly you are going, as long as you do not stop" - Confucius

50 "Don't let yesterday occupy too much of today" - Will Rogers

51 - "Not knowing that it was impossible, he went and did it" - Jean Cocteau

52 "We are what we repeatedly do. Therefore, excellence is not an achievement, it is a habit."- Aristotle

53. i make difficulty my motivation" - Charlie Brown Jr.

54. "It's not about being perfect. It's about being hardworking."-Jillian Michaels

55 "You must fight more than one battle to become a winner" - Margaret Thatcher

56. "Of course, motivation is not permanent. taking a bath is not either; but it is something you should do regularly."- Zig Ziglar

57 "Believe that you can, so you are already halfway there" - Theodore Roosevelt

58. "In life a lot of people know what to do, but few actually do what they know they need to do.Knowing is not enough.You need to act."- Tony Robbins

59 "A master is not the one who always teaches, but the one who suddenly learns" - João Guimarães Rosa

60 "You can change without growing, but you can't grow without changing" - Larry Wilson

61. "Just one more round!" - Rocky Balboa

Short motivational phrases to have faith

62 "I don't know where I'm going, but I'm already on the way" - Carl Sandburg

63. "Even if my solution doesn't fall from the sky, my strength comes from there."- unknown author

64 - "Don't put limits on your dreams, put faith" - unknown author

65 "You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean will not be dirty."- Mahatma Gandhi

66 "Whoever opens the school door, closes the prison" - Victor Hugo

67 "I want, I can, I can do it. Nothing is out of my reach, nothing is impossible" - Author Unknown

68. "Don't give up, have faith and let time work for everything to get better!"- Unknown Author

69. "As long as there is faith, there will never be lack of strength."-Author Unknown

70 "Goals may give focus, but dreams give power" - John Maxwell

71. "Believing is the strength that allows us to climb the highest steps of life."- Unknown Author

72. "Abandon your pains, not hope for better days."-Author Unknown

73 "In prayer we recharge our strength, which the struggle comes and takes away from us" - Author unknown

74 "God calls process, what you say is delay" - Bill Jonhson

75 "Often, what you think is an abyss, is God teaching you how to progress, mature and fly."- Author unknown

76 "The world closes doors, but God opens ways" - unknown author

77 "The light that guides me is much stronger than the eyes that surround me" - Unknown author

Short motivational phrases to get out of the comfort zone

78. "Life begins at the end of your comfort zone."- Neale Donald Walsch.

79 "Teachers can open the door, but you must enter by yourself" - Chinese proverb

80 "Trying is the only way to know if it will work out" - unknown author

81 "The comfort of not acting right and at the right time will soon become a prison with high walls" - Paulo Vieira

82 "All progress happens outside the comfort zone."- Michael John Bobak

83. "The sooner you get out of your comfort zone, the sooner you'll realize it wasn't really that comfortable."- Eddie Harris

84 "Be encouraged, keep standing and know that everything will be all right" - Germany Kent

85 "Opportunities don't just happen, you create them" - Chris Grosser

86 "You can fly high, believe it!" - Author unknown

87 "Use positive thoughts to free yourself from the cage of anxieties and fears" - unknown author

88 "Before you want to change the world, you must change yourself" - Mahatma Gandhi

89 "Life will always offer you endless opportunities to start over" - unknown author

90 "New concepts do not circulate in square minds" - Author unknown

91 "Experience is a lantern hanging on the back that only illuminates the path already travelled" - Confucius

92 "It is easier to overcome a bad habit today than tomorrow" - Confucius

93 "You need to act for change, just wanting to be different is not enough."- Author unknown

Motivational phrases for hard days

For those times when a little help is needed to see the bright side of life again, to be optimistic, increase self-esteem and for other situations, see the motivational phrases selected below.

Short motivational phrases of overcoming

94 "You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore" - Christopher Columbus

95 "Some people will always throw stones in your way, it's up to you what you do with them. A wall or a bridge?" - unknown author

96 "Motivate yourself to go on, for you are the only one who understands your difficulties."- Author Unknown

97. "You are much more than what you are experiencing."- John Tew

98 - "Stones in the way? I keep them all. One day I'll build a castle" - Nemo Nox

99 "Courage is one step ahead of fear" - Coleman Young

100 "It is better to light the candle than to complain of the darkness" - Eleanor Roosevelt

101. "If you're reading this...congratulations, you're alive.If that's not a reason to smile, then I don't know what is."- Chad Sugg

102. "If you hear a voice saying 'don't do it', that means you must do it, above all. The voice will fall silent."- Vincent Van Gogh

Short motivational phrases of self-esteem

103 "You yourself, as much as anyone in the entire universe, deserve your love and care" - Buddha

104 - "Whatever your dream is, be crazy to believe that all this is possible. It is a lie that you are no good for anything. It is a lie that you can not, you can" - Flávio Augusto

105 "It is no use trying to help those who do not help themselves" - Confucius

106 "No one can hurt me without my permission" - Mahatma Gandhi

107 "Happiness is when what you think, what you say and what you do are in harmony" - Mahatma Gandhi

108. "Start where you are.Use what you have.Do what you can."-Arthur Ash

109 "The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you" - BB King

110 "It is never too late to be what you might have been" - George Eliot

111 "I have within me all the dreams of the world" - Fernando Pessoa

112 "Let there be no haste, but let there be no waste of time either" - José Saramago

113 - "Dream. Fight. Conquer. Anything is possible. You were born to win." - Andy Orlando

114 "Life has the color you paint it" - Mário Bonatti

115 - "Have you tried believing in yourself? Try it! You have no idea what you are capable of" - Rogério Stankevicz

116 "Beat yourself and you will have beaten your own opponent" - Japanese Proverb

117 "You are very powerful as long as you know how powerful you are" - Yogi Bhajan

118 "If you want to change the world, take up your pen and write" - Martin Luther

119. "In a world that wants women to whisper, I choose to shout."- Luvvie Ajayi

120. "I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me."- Tracee Ellis Ross

121. "Learn to embrace your own unique beauty, celebrate your unique gifts with confidence.Your imperfections are actually a gift."-Kerry Washington

122. "If you can dance and be free and be embarrassed, you can rule the world."- Amy Poehler

123. "What hurts today makes you stronger tomorrow."-Jay Cutler

Short motivational phrases of optimism

124 "Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a throw of luck" - Dalai Lama

125 "The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty" - Winston Churchill

126. "Dreams flourish in the lives of those who believe in them."-Author Unknown

127. "Everything you ever wanted is on the other side of fear."- George Addair

128. "Believe in yourself and there will come a day when others will have no choice but to believe with you."- Cynthia Kersey

129 - "Look - if it's not to be, it won't be. Believe me. This silly thing, this attempt of yours to go beyond" - Caio Fernando Abreu

130. "I have learned over the years that when the mind is ready, it diminishes fear."-Rosa Parks

131 "Do your part, everything happens in its own time, maybe your time hasn't arrived yet! And don't forget, when you change, people change around you" - Paulo Vieira

132 "Adversity awakens in us capacities which, under favourable circumstances, would have remained dormant."- Horace

Short motivational phrases for starting over

133. "For every game over there is a play again."- Unknown Author

134. "Abandon your sorrows, not hope for better days."-Author Unknown

135 "Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding on the twentieth."-Julie Andrews

136. "If we wait until we are ready, we will wait our whole lives."-Lemony Snicket

137. "A champion is not defined by their wins, but by how they can bounce back when they fall."-Serena Williams

138. "You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great."- Zig Ziglar

139 "The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago, the second best time is now." - Chinese proverb

140. "Only when we are lost do we begin to find ourselves."- Henry David Thoreau

141 "I am no longer accepting things I cannot change. I am changing things I cannot accept." - Angela Davis

142. "What is worth in life is not the starting point but the walk. Walking and sowing, in the end, you will have what to reap" - Cora Coralina.

143 "When the roots are deep there is no reason to fear the wind" - Chinese proverb

144. "It is never too late to be what you might have been."- George Eliot

145 "The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step" - Lao Tzu

Short motivational phrases for confidence

146 - "Victory comes to those who fight. The miracle comes to those who have faith. And the reward comes to those who trust" - Author unknown

147. "May the wind carry away all negative things" - Author unknown

148 - "There is time between sowing and harvesting. Be patient with life, it will adjust at the right time" - Author unknown

149 "It is part of healing the desire to be healed" - Seneca

150. "There are countless ways to build a list, but trust is what builds relationships."- .Hunter Boyle

151. "The body achieves what the mind believes."- Author Unknown

152 "Between you and your goal there is only one obstacle: you! Trust in your potential and conquer your place" - Author Unknown

153 "In the end everything works out, and if it didn't, it's because it hasn't come to an end yet" - Fernando Sabino

154. "One key to success is confidence. and one key to confidence is preparation."-Arthur Ashe, American tennis player

155 "The bravest of acts is still to think with one's own head" - Coco Chanel

156. "The best proof of love is trust." - Joyce Brothers

Phrases for status and motivational phrases for photos

In the mood to post a photo with friends but with no idea for a caption? Check out the following suggestions for phrases for status and phrases for photo with friends, family, couple, animals or for your travel photos.

Phrases for status and motivational phrases for friends photos

157 "Believe me, there are people who seek not beauty but heart" - Author unknown

158. "While some choose perfect people, I choose the ones that make me good."- Author unknown

159 "Good friends are like stars: we can't always see them, but we are sure they are always there."- Author unknown

160 "God created friendship because he knew that when love hurt, it would be the cure."- Author unknown

161 "Crises don't drive away friends, they just select them" - unknown author

162. "One of the best feelings in life is to be sure you can trust someone."- Author unknown

163 "In difficulty we know true friends" - Author unknown

164. "Love your parents, your life and your friends. Your parents, because they are unique. Your life, because it is too short. Your friends, because they are rare."- Author unknown

165 "People who give you a sincere and spontaneous smile when you think that everything is lost ... These are the real ones" - Author unknown

166 "Amazing people make ordinary places become extraordinary" - Daniel Duarte

167 - "He who walks alone may arrive more quickly, but he who walks in company will certainly go further" - Clarice Lispector

168 "A friend who understands your tears is far more valuable than one who only knows your smiles."- Author unknown

169 "Of the good things in my life, you are certainly the best!" - unknown author

170 - "Some friendships pass quickly, in the blink of an eye, others are made to last until you blink for the last time" - Pedro Bial

171. "Some people make your laugh a little louder, your smile a little brighter and your life a little better."- Mário Quintana

172. "Friendship is like a circle and like a circle it has no beginning or end." - Machado de Assis

173. "Friendship is a love that never dies" - Mário Quintana

174. "Life becomes a better journey when we meet people as crazy as we are."- Daniel Duarte

175 - "A friend called me to take care of his pain, I kept mine in my pocket and went" - Cecília Meireles

176 "Friendship is not about who came first or who came last. It's about who came and never left." - Tati Bernardi

Phrases for status and motivational phrases for family photos

177."'Ohana' means family. family means never to abandon or forget." - Lilo & Stitch

178. "Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory."-Dr. Seuss

179. "Two of the greatest gifts we can give our children are roots and wings."- Hodding Carter

180 "The greatest legacy we can leave our children are happy memories" - Og Mandino

181. "Traveling in the company of those we love is home on the move."- Leigh Hunt

182 "Give the one you love: wings to fly, roots to return and reasons to stay" - Dalai Lama.

183 "The family is not born ready; it is built little by little and it is the best laboratory of love" - Luis Fernando Veríssimo

184. "When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you unflinchingly are your family."-Jim Butcher

185. "If you go through a war at work, but have peace when you get home, you will be a happy human being" - Augusto Cury

186 "You do not choose your family. They are God's gift to you, just as you are to them" - Desmond Tutu

187. "Peace and harmony: behold the true wealth of a family" - Benjamin Franklin

188. "I support myself with the love of my family" - Maya Angelou

Phrases for status and motivational phrases for couple pictures

189 "Life has taught us that love does not consist in looking at one another, but in looking together in the same direction."- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

190 "What is essential is invisible to the eye" - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

191 "If I could choose again, I would choose you again" - unknown author

192 - "Alone, I am prose, next to you, poetry" - Marcelo Camelo

193. "If the sun doesn't come back tomorrow, I'll use your smile to brighten my day" - unknown author

194. "I wait for your smile like the night waits for the stars" - Tati Bernardi

195 "Love is just a word... until you find someone who gives it real meaning" - Paulo Coelho

196. "I want you to remember me. if you, only you, remember me, I don't care if the rest of the world forgets me."- Haruki Murakami

197 - "Speaking of longing, again I woke up thinking of you" - Marília Mendonça

198 - "Believe me, there are people who seek not beauty but heart" - Cazuza

199. "In the face of the vastness of time and the immensity of the universe, it is an immense pleasure for me to share a planet and a time with you."- Carl Sagan

200. "Indeed, the best gift you can give her is a lifetime of adventures."- Lewis Carroll

201. "Because at the precise moment in which we set out in search of Love, it too sets out to meet us. And saves us." - Paulo Coelho

Phrases for status and motivational phrases for pet photos

202 - "Happy are the dogs that by smell discover their friends" - Machado de Assis

203 "When I needed a hand, I found a paw" - Author unknown

204. "If having a soul means being able to feel love, loyalty, and gratitude, animals are better than many humans."-James Herriot

205 - "The happiest day of my life was when my dog adopted me" - unknown author

206 "Before having loved an animal, part of our soul remains unconscious" - Anatole France

207. "We know nothing about love if we have never really loved an animal."- Fred Wander

208. "If you spend time with animals, you run the risk of becoming a better person."- Oscar Wilde

209. "When you look into the eyes of a rescued animal, you can't help but fall in love."- Paul Shaffer

210 "It matters not whether animals are incapable of thinking or not. What matters is that they are capable of suffering."-Jeremy Bentham

211 "They are born knowing how to love in a way that we take a lifetime to learn" - unknown author

212 - "To respect animals is the duty of all; to love them is the privilege of few" - William Shakespeare

Status Quotes and Motivational Phrases for Travel Photos

213. "A journey is like a marriage.The sure way to be wrong is to think you control it."-John Steinbeck

214 "Love is the food of life, the journey is the dessert" - Author unknown

215 "A ship in port is safe, but that is not what ships are built for."-John A. Shedd

216. "The person who travels alone may begin today.The one who travels with others must wait until they are ready."- Henry David Thoreau

217. "Waking up alone in a strange city is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world."-Freya Stark

218. "To travel is to take a journey into yourself."- Danny Kaye

219 - "To travel is to change the clothes of the soul" - Mário Quintana

220 "Don't put your happiness in the hands of others waiting for them to accept to travel with you" - Elizabeth Werneck

221. "Not all who wander are lost."-J. R. R. Tolkien

222 "Once a year, go somewhere you have never been before" - Dalai Lama

223. "Traveling is not something you're good at. it's something you just do, like breathing."- Gayle Foreman

224. "Go see the world. It's more fantastic than any dream." - Ray Bradbury

225. "People don't make the journeys, the journeys make the people."-John Steinbeck

226. "Don't get me wrong, take me to Paris" - unknown author

Short motivational phrases for work

Another day at work and you need a motivation to start the day? Let's see some short motivational phrases to start and end the day well and not to be discouraged even in times when business does not happen the way we expected and wanted.

Short motivational phrases to start the day well

227. "Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day after day."- Robert Collier

To achieve what we want so much, may depend only on a small dose of courage" - Author unknown

228 "Before you say you can't do something, try it" - Sakichi Toyoda

229 - "When I open the window of my room each morning, it is as if I were opening the same book. On a new page..." - Mario Quintana

230 "If we want to progress, we must not repeat history, but make a new history" - Mahatma Gandhi

231 "Imagine a new story for your life and believe in it" - Paulo Coelho

232 - "A change always leaves steps for a new change" - Machiavelli

233. "Make a customer, not a sale."- Katherine Barchetti

234. "Don't find faults, find solutions. Everyone knows how to complain" - Henry Ford

Short motivational phrases to end the day well

235. "If people like you, they will listen to you, but if they trust you, they will do business with you."- Zig Ziglar

236. "Learn from the mistakes of others. You will not live long enough to be able to repeat them all."- Eleanor Roosevelt

237. "Many people think that "selling" is the same as "talking. "But the most effective salespeople know that listening is the most important part of their job."- Roy Bartell

238. "When you devalue what you do, the world devalues who you are."- Oprah Winfrey

239. "If they won't give you a seat at the table, take a folding chair."- Shirley Chisholm

240. "It is your attitude and not your aptitude that will determine your altitude."- Zig Ziglar

241. "Never chase money. you must chase success, because with success comes money."-Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones

242. "You never lose in business. you either win or you learn."- Melinda Emerson

Short motivational phrases for when work is unsuccessful

243. "We may encounter many defeats, but we must not allow ourselves to be defeated."- Maya Angelou

244. "It's great to celebrate success, but it's more important to learn from the lessons of failure."- Bill Gates

245 "Draw strength from your weakness" - Miguel de Cervantes

246. "I didn't fail! I just found 10,000 ways that don't work." - Thomas Edison

247. "Many of life's failures are of people who do not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."-Thomas Edison

248. "Don't be discouraged. sometimes it's the last key in the bunch that opens the lock."- Johnny De Carli

249 "Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill

250. "It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with the problems longer."- Albert Einstein

251. "Men achieve success when they realize that their failures are a preparation for their victories."- Ralph Waldo Emerson

252. "Let your hopes, not your pains, shape your future."- Robert H. Schiller

Short motivational phrases for teamwork

253 "If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go in a group" - African proverb

254. "The beauty of teamwork is always having someone to count on by your side."- Margaret Carty

255. "Any successful person knows that he is an important piece, but that he will not achieve anything alone" - Bernardinho

256. "In the long history of mankind, those who have learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed."- Charles Darwin

257. "Amazing things in business are never done by one person, but by a team."- Steve Jobs

258 - "I am part of a team, so when I win, it's not just me who wins. In a way, I finish the work of a huge group of people" - Ayrton Senna

259. "When everyone moves forward together, success occurs by itself."- Henry Ford

260 "With talent we win games, with teamwork and intelligence we win championships."- Michael Jordan

Why use motivational phrases?

As we could see, motivational phrases are quick and efficient ways to help in difficult times in life when an individual is not in a great mood and is tired and uninterested. They are great life lessons that motivate a person not to get discouraged and not to give up.

For this reason, take advantage that we have elected and selected all 260 best short motivational phrases and make use of them in your daily life. Listen with affection and wisdom the words of great celebrities, writers, entrepreneurs and thinkers who never gave up and have always been in search of joy and love.