Are you tired of using the same old words in your greeting cards year after year? Try inserting clever lines uttered by some of the greatest minds in the world to spice up your message. When used appropriately, quotations can add a powerful punch to your greetings and make your message stand out from the rest.
Below is a collection of short inspirational quotes about life which you can use to begin or end off your message with an upbeat tone. For ease of browsing, I’ve grouped the sayings into different categories. And if this list is still not enough to satisfy you, check out more quotes at 50 Inspirational Quotes about Life and 12 Healing Quotes to Better Health. Enjoy!
At a Glance
Secrets to Success
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
– Ebner G. Leterman -
When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.
– Louis Binstock -
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
– Peter Drucker -
The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.
– Benjamin Disraeli -
You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.
– Henry Ford -
Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
– Napoleon Hill -
Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.
– Michael Jordan -
People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.
– Mark Twain -
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
– Confucius -
Successful people have developed the habit of doing the things that less successful simply don’t like to do.
– Unknown -
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
– Aristotle -
Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.
– Rick Pitino -
If you’re going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.
– Donald Trump -
Shoot for the moon, Even if you miss it you will land among the stars.
– Les Brown -
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
– Benjamin Franklin -
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
– Anatole France -
Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.
– J.K. Rowling
Happiness
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Live in the sunshine. Swim the sea. Drink the wild air.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
– Albert Einstein -
Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.
– Napoleon Hill -
Exude happiness and you will feel it back a thousand times.
– Joan Lunden -
How many joys are crushed under foot because people look up at the sky and disregard what is at their feet?
– Catharina Elisabetha Goethe -
Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be.
– Eckhart Tolle -
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
– Benjamin Disraeli -
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.
– Albert Einstein -
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
– Mahatma Gandhi
Challenges & Trials
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If you can’t fight, and you can’t flee, flow.
– Robert Eliot -
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
– Confucius -
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it, is committing another mistake.
– Confucius -
Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.
– Bernice Johnson Reagon -
Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
– Rumi -
There is no failure except in no longer trying.
– Elbert Hubbard -
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
– John Wooden -
The darkest night is often the bridge to the brightest tomorrow.
– Jonathan Huie -
Obstacles are those frightening things that become visible when we take our eyes off our goals.
– Henry Ford -
Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.
– Napoleon Hill -
The true test in life does not occur when all is going well. The true test takes place when we are faced with challenges.
– Catherine Pulsifer -
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson -
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
– Duke Ellington -
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
– Winston Churchill -
Tough times never last, but tough people do.
– Dr. Robert Schuller -
Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
– Mark Twain -
Whenever anything negative happens to you, there is a deep lesson concealed within it, although you may not see it at the time.
– Eckhart Tolle
Be True to Yourself
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Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.
– Sydney J. Harris -
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
– Rumi -
Appear as you are. Be as you appear.
– Rumi -
If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.
– Barack Obama -
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
– Henry David Thoreau -
If you’re able to be yourself, then you have no competition. All you have to do is get closer and closer to that essence.
– Barbara Cook -
The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.
– Michael Althsuler -
It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.
– Arthur Calwell -
If you don’t understand yourself, you don’t understand anybody else.
– Nikki Giovanni -
I was once afraid of people saying, “Who does she think she is?” Now I have the courage to stand and say, “This is who I am.”
– Oprah Winfrey -
Nothing is more damaging to you than to do something that you believe is wrong.
– Abraham Hicks -
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
– Mother Teresa
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Great quotes, Wee!
“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” I love it!
Ha ha, I think so too. Makes a brilliant greetings for New Year cards!
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love these!
Thanks, Jen! Have a relaxing and enjoyable Christmas and New Year!
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