Short Quotes

5248 Short quotes by 3398 unique authors

You have to believe in the long term plan you have but you need the short term goals to motivate and inspire you. — Roger Federer
We in this House are role models. People all over the world watch us and study us. When we fall short, they lose hope. When… — Newt Gingrich
She had nothing to wish otherwise, but that the days did not pass so swiftly. It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too short. — Jane Austen
It is true that Bible prayers in word and print are short, but the praying men of the Bible were with God through many a… — Edward McKendree Bounds
Life is short and we have scarcely begun to live when we are called to die. — Charles Spurgeon
Life is too short and the world too compassion-starved for you to keep subsisting in situations that drag you down and curtail your potential to… — Bill Hybels
Anxiety is the natural result when our hopes are centered in anything short of God and His will. — Billy Graham
Persecution, in short, is like the goldsmith's stamp on real silver and gold - it is one of the marks of a converted man. — J C Ryle
Follow your own particular dreams. We are handed a life by peers, parents and society, you can do that or follow your own dreams. Life… — Hugh Hefner
Life is too short to waste on the admiration of one man. — Unknown Author
In the isolation of his clear, cold intellect, the sceptic abides in a glacial and spectral universe. No glow from the affections lights up the… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Hypocrisy means deliberately pretending. None of us lives up to his ideals; none of us is all that he would like to be or all… — Warren W. Wiersbe
... the forces of power, particularly corporate power, are impatient with what is adequate for a coherent community. Because power gains so little from community… — Wes Jackson
Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life's too short to spend it trying to keep others happy. You can't please everyone. To fulfill your destiny, stay true to your heart. — Joel Osteen
My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. Music is everything to me short of breathing. Music also has a role to lift… — Allen Toussaint
The way to make better decisions is to make more of them. Then make sure you learn from each one, including those that don't seem… — Anthony Hopkins
It is my experience that the short path to the simple and precise English needed by a man of science lies thorough the tongues of… — Unknown Author
Willpower can produce short-term change, but it creates constant internal stress because you haven't dealt with the root cause. — Rick Warren
Openness by the leader paves the way for ownership by the people. Without ownership, changes will be short term. Changing people's habits and ways of… — John C. Maxwell
Great short stories and great jokes have a lot in common. Both depend on what communication-theorists sometimes called "exformation," which is a certain quantity of… — David Foster Wallace
These figures emphasize how soft people's commitment to God is. Americans are willing to expend some energy in religious activities such as attending church and… — George Barna
It might work in the short term, but it's not going to keep the people who hop from congregation to congregation. Church is about one's… — J. Gordon Melton
Often when works at a hard question, nothing good is accomplished at the first attack. Then one takes a rest, long or short, and sits… — Henri Poincare
The stakes are immense, the task colossal, the time is short. But we may hope - we must hope - that man's own creation, man's… — Albert Einstein

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