If you’re here then someone you care about has a birthday coming up soon (or maybe even today).

No matter if that’s a family member, a beloved coworker or a dear friend, this post will help you to find the right words.

In it you’ll find 110 of the most meaningful, inspirational and love-filled happy birthday wishes, messages and quotes.

Use one or a couple of your favorites in a card, at a celebration or on social media like Instagram to make their special day a happy and a memorable one.

Happy Birthday Wishes and Messages for Family

I can’t count how many times you’ve made me smile over the years. Now it’s my turn to make you smile and make sure your birthday will be full of love and laughter.

You’re the kind of family member everyone wishes they had. Always there to listen and to help out. I’m so blessed to have you in my life.

Wishing you a year filled with so much joy and love. A year when all your dreams come true. Happy birthday!

Today is the beginning of a brand new chapter in your life, and I can’t wait to be with you through every page. Happy birthday, my beloved sister!

On your special day, I just want you to know how grateful I am to call you family. You make everyone around you a better and kinder person. Happy birthday!

Being a parent is no easy task, but year after year you have done it with such love and grace. Today is all about celebrating you. We can’t wait to give you a wonderful day, just like you’ve done for us more times than we can count!

To the person who taught me life’s most valuable lessons, both big and small – happy birthday! Your love, wisdom and guidance mean more than I can say.

You’ve always been my hero and my biggest supporter. I love you every day, but today is an extra special one because it’s your birthday!

I don’t say it nearly enough, but I love you more than words can express. I’m so lucky to be able to call you my brother. Happy birthday!

Happy birthday to the world’s greatest parent! A person this outstanding deserves a birthday celebration to match. So here is what’s happening today…

Today we celebrate all the hard work and love you’ve poured into everyone around you in life. From all of us, have a happy and wonderful birthday and thank you for everything!

You’re not only family – you’re my role model in so many ways. Happy birthday, big sister!

We were born into the same family and we’ve sure had our dustups, but I’m so thankful for the deep friendship we’ve built over the years. Cheers to you on your birthday!

The candles on your cake may be getting more crowded, but that just means more years of being such a wonderful spark of positivity in all our lives. Happy birthday!

Happy birthday to a fabulous brother! I honestly can’t picture my life without you. Now, let’s celebrate this one in style all day long!

A birthday is the universe’s way of reminding you that, yes, many years have passed but that your story still also has plenty of beautiful chapters left to write.

On your birthday, I hope you know just how deeply I love you.

Throughout my life, you’ve always set the example for how to live with thoughtfulness, a little bit of healthy recklessness and lots of laughter. Happy birthday and thank you for everything!

Happy birthday to you, my first best friend! I am so lucky to be able to go through life’s ups and downs with you by my side.

No matter how many miles apart we may be, our hearts will always remain close. Happy birthday to my other – and best – half!

From stealing my clothes to always having my back – there’s nobody quite like you. Happy birthday, and I wouldn’t trade you for anything!

Happy birthday to the person who has been my go-to companion since day one. Here’s to many, many more years of exhilarating adventures and shenanigans!

Happy Birthday Wishes for Coworkers

Happy birthday to one of the few people who actually makes coming to work every day completely worth it!

The best days at the office are when we eat cake in the middle of the afternoon – so thanks for having a birthday!

Calling a coworker family is usually a stretch to be honest, but not with you. I genuinely value having you around and all the support you’ve given me over the past few years. Happy birthday to a hardworking, caring and simply incredible colleague. Have a wonderful day!

I personally suggested we all deserved a company holiday to celebrate your greatness, but the higher-ups weren’t so keen on that. So I guess I’ll just say: happy birthday!

May this birthday celebration be a true reflection of all the help you have given the rest of us and your accomplishments. You deserve it!

My warmest birthday greetings to a truly outstanding individual. Our team simply and honestly wouldn’t be the same without you, and both you and I know it!

Happy birthday! May your day be full of gloriously error-free spreadsheets and reasonably tasty coffee pots.

Happy birthday to the person who holds this office together. Without you, we’d barely accomplish half of what we do.

Your birthday is a day for self-care. So take a break today and enjoy some well-deserved rest and relaxation.

A very happy birthday to the office comedian! You’ve kept the morale up more times than I can count in the past year and I truly appreciate that.

From all of us at work, happy birthday! We wish you the happiest of celebrations and a fantastic year ahead.

Simply, you make work feel a lot less like work. That’s a rare quality. Thanks for everything you do, and happy birthday!

Happy birthday! You are a tremendous asset to our team, and we can’t wait to see what you’ll achieve in the coming year.

Happy birthday to my favorite colleague! I can’t imagine getting through daily life in the office without our supportive and often hilarious chats.

Thanks for always being the one I can count on for meeting notes and keeping the order around here in general. I hope you get a much-deserved break today – happy birthday!

We all see how much hard work you’ve put in these past few months. Trust us, it hasn’t gone unnoticed. We’re so thankful to have you on the team. Happy birthday!

You deserve a vacation for all the shenanigans you put up with around here. Thanks for your patience, dedication and guidance both through tough times and slow periods. Happy birthday!

Happy birthday, work bestie! See you at happy hour soon!

Let’s all enjoy your birthday today with a great lunch in your favorite place. And it’s our treat, of course!

Because you were born, we all get to enjoy cake at work today! So thank you for this chocolate deliciousness and I hope you’ll have a fun birthday.

Work brought us together, but your sharp humor and contagious laugh made us friends. Happy birthday to my favorite person in the office!

Short and Sweet Birthday Wishes for Friends

Wishing you a birthday that’s just as beautiful, fun and magical as you are!

You’re simply the best. Wishing a big happy birthday to you, one of my dearest friends!

May the cake be delicious and the coming year be epic! Happy birthday, pal.

Happy birthday to someone who never fails to brighten my day. I hope you’re having the most lovely celebration!

Wishing you the happiest of birthdays – you deserve it all for so much kindness and love you put into our lives!

Happy birthday to an absolute angel. You’re a blessing to everyone lucky enough to know you!

Hey, today is the best day ever because it’s the day you were born! Happy birthday, my very best friend!

You bring joy to so many people, me included. Now, let’s have a great day of celebration and fun!

Happiest of birthdays to the person who makes life so much fun. Thank you for being you every day of the year!

Thinking of you on your special day, my friend. I hope it’s filled with lots of cake and everything else you’ve been wishing for!

Wishing you a happy birthday and a new chapter in your life full of love, laughter and pure joy.

Sending all my love on your special day. I’m so grateful you’re part of my life and that I get to be a part of yours!

Happy birthday to the best person I know. I’m thankful for you today and every single day!

May your birthday be full of joy, love and lots of fun. You deserve nothing but the very best!

Happy birthday to the funniest and wisest person I know! Here’s to a year filled with even more late night conversations and laughter.

I’m so proud of the person you’ve become, and I can’t wait to see where this year takes you. Happy birthday, my dear friend!

I’m so happy and grateful our paths crossed in this life. Wishing you a truly wonderful birthday, my partner in crime!

You may be another year older, but hey, to me you’re still as young at heart as the day I met you.

Another year of fun and friendship in the books – wishing you a very happy birthday and an incredible year ahead!

Happy birthday to someone who defines what a true friend is – honest, caring, loyal and incredibly kind (even when I’m not at my loveliest).

The most beautiful thing about getting older is that you finally learn which few things matter the most in life. And to me, one of those things is you.

Another year older? Sure. Another year and plenty wiser? Well, that’s maybe up for debate. Anyway, have an awesome birthday!

Cute and Meaningful Birthday Wishes and Quotes

“Birthdays are nature’s way of telling us to eat more cake.”
– Edward Morykwas

“Whatever with the past has gone, the best is always yet to come.”
– Lucy Larcom

“The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.”
– Oprah Winfrey

“You were born an original. Don’t die a copy.”
– John Mason

“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”
– John Lennon

“There are two great days in a person’s life – the day we are born, and the day we discover why.”
– William Barclay

“My life is better with every year of living it.”
– Rachel Maddow

“Today is the oldest you have been and the youngest you will ever be. Make the most of it!”
– Nicky Gumbel

“We turn not older with years but newer every day.”
– Emily Dickinson

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
– Les Brown

“Every birthday is a gift. Every day is a gift.”
– Aretha Franklin

“Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be.”
– Robert Browning

“With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.”
– William Shakespeare

“The way I see it, you should live every day like it’s your birthday.”
– Paris Hilton

“Your birthday is the beginning of your own personal new year. Your first birthday was a beginning, and each new birthday is a chance to begin again, to start over, to take a new grip on life.”
– Wilfred Peterson

“A birth-date is a reminder to celebrate the life as well as to update the life.”
– Amit Kalantri

“Your age isn’t you. Use today to feel your best, celebrate and be your very happiest.”
– M. Rivers

“A birthday is not a day to fear. It is a day to celebrate and look forward to the coming year.”
– Byron Pulsifer

“Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.”
– Booth Tarkington

“Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.”
– Brigitte Bardot

“Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wings of time.”
– Jean Paul Richter

“Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.”
– Plautus

Famous Birthday Quotes and Messages

“And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it don’t matter.”
– Satchel Paige

“The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.”
– Madeleine L’Engle

“Live not one’s life as though one had a thousand years, but live each day as the last.”
– Marcus Aurelius

“Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.”
– Fred Astaire

“The older you get the better you get, unless you are a banana.”
– Betty White

“You know you’re getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.”
– Bob Hope

“The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly and lie about your age.”
– Lucille Ball

“How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?”
– Satchel Paige

“Just remember, once you’re over the hill, you begin to pick up speed.”
– Charles Schulz

“Life is too short to be small.”
– Benjamin Disraeli

“We are always the same age inside.”
– Gertrude Stein

“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“It takes a long time to become young.”
– Pablo Picasso

“No wise man ever wished to be younger.”
– Jonathan Swift

“Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.”
– Kitty Collins

“From our birthday, until we die, is but the winking of an eye.”
– William Butler Yeats

“All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.”
– George Harrison

“Age is a high price to pay for maturity.”
– Tom Stoppard

“I intend to live forever. So far, so good.”
– Steven Wright

“Men are like wine: some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.”
– Pope John XXIII

“Wrinkles merely mark where smiles have been.”
– Mark Twain

Want more birthday quotes and messages? Then check out these inspirational birthday quotes, this one with lots of funny birthday sayings plus this post with short birthday quotes and messages.

If that’s the case for you, then today’s post will help you out.

In it you’ll find 160 of the most positive and motivational short success quotes.

Timeless words of wisdom to give you a jolt of positive energy. A new perspective on a tough situation you’re in.

And a renewed focus on what truly matters to you so you can keep moving forward towards your goals and dreams.

Short and Motivational Quotes for Success

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
– Mark Twain

“Action is the foundational key to all success.”
– Pablo Picasso

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
– Winston Churchill

“I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.”
– Florence Nightingale

“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”
– Walt Disney

“The best revenge is massive success.”
– Frank Sinatra

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
– Peter Drucker

“A goal without a plan is just a wish.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Success is simple. Do what’s right, the right way, at the right time.”
– Arnold H. Glasgow

“Victory is sweetest when you’ve known defeat.”
– Malcolm S. Forbes

“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.”
– Napoleon Hill

“Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.”
– George S. Patton

“Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.”
– Zig Ziglar

“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”
– Bruce Lee

“Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.”
– Alexander Graham Bell

“The road to success is always under construction.”
– Lily Tomlin

“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.”
– Robert Collier

“Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.”
– Winston Churchill

“To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.”
– Mark Twain

“It always seems impossible until it’s done.”
– Nelson Mandela

“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“Stay hungry, stay foolish.”
– Steve Jobs

“What we think, we become.”
– Buddha

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right.”
– Henry Ford

“Goals are dreams with deadlines.”
– Diana Scharf Hunt

“Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.”
– Jim Rohn

“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”
– Winston Churchill

“Believe you can, and you’re halfway there.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“Dream big. Start small. Act now.”
– Robin Sharma

“Success is not in what you have, but who you are.”
– Bo Bennett

Short Quotes for Motivation at Work

“Either you run the day or the day runs you.”
– Jim Rohn

“Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.”
– Dale Carnegie

“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“You will never plough a field if you only turn it over in your mind.”
– Irish Proverb

“I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison

“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson

“The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.”
– Stephen Covey

“Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better.”
– Jim Rohn

“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”
– Stephen King

“There is no traffic jam along the extra mile.”
– Roger Staubach

“The future depends on what you do today.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
– Confucius

“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.”
– Beverly Sills

“Stop being busy. Focus instead only on the few things that will truly move you forward”
– Joy Stevens

“It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.”
– Bruce Lee

“If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.”
– Olin Miller

“It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.”
– Confucius

“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.”
– Stephen Covey

“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”
– Steve Jobs

“You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.”
– Zig Ziglar

“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”
– Aristotle

“The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.”
– Elbert Hubbard

“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”
– Confucius

“Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.”
– Henry Ford

“Nothing will work unless you do.”
– Maya Angelou

“Without labor, nothing prospers.”
– Sophocles

“All growth depends upon activity.”
– Calvin Coolidge

“The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.”
– Harry Golden

“Focus on being productive instead of busy.”
– Tim Ferriss

Funny and Short Success Quotes for Less Stress

“Reality continues to ruin my life.”
– Bill Watterson

“I intend to live forever. So far, so good.”
– Steven Wright

“Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.”
– Erma Bombeck

“Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?”
– Edgar Bergen

“No man goes before his time – unless the boss leaves early.”
– Groucho Marx

“If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There’s no point in being a damn fool about it.”
– W. C. Fields

“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing; that’s why we recommend it daily.”
– Zig Ziglar

“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.”
– A. A. Milne

“Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.”
– Elbert Hubbard

“Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.”
– Stephen Hawking

“Don’t be so humble – you are not that great.”
– Golda Meir

“I like work. It fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”
– Jerome K. Jerome

“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
– Steve Martin

“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”
– George Burns

“Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.”
– Charles M. Schulz

“I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.”
– Lily Tomlin

“Knowledge is like underwear. It is useful to have it, but not necessary to show it off.”
– Bill Murray

“Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.”
– Oscar Wilde

“A diamond is merely a lump of coal that did well under pressure.”
– Henry Kissinger

“Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow just as well.”
– Mark Twain

Short Success Quotes on Making Your Dreams Real

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
– George Eliot

“The most effective way to do it is to do it.”
– Amelia Earhart

“Build your own dreams or someone else will hire you to build theirs.”
– Farrah Gray

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

“If you can dream it, you can do it.”
– Walt Disney

“Dreams don’t work unless you do.”
– John C. Maxwell

“Dream big and dare to fail.”
– Norman Vaughan

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
– Arthur Ashe

“Have a dream, sacrifice for it, and never ever rest in the middle.”
– Kobe Bryant

“Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.”
– Suzy Kassem

“Every great dream begins with a dreamer.”
– Harriet Tubman

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
– C.S. Lewis

“Be a practical dreamer backed by action.”
– Bruce Lee

“Show them what crazy dreams can do.”
– Nike

“Dream small or dream big. But most importantly, keep dreaming throughout your whole life.”
– Unknown

“The place between your comfort zone and your dream is where life takes place.”
– Helen Keller

“Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.”
– Albert Einstein

“You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.”
– Walt Disney

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Light tomorrow with today.”
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.”
– Tony Hsieh

“What you want exists. Don’t settle until you get it.”
– Jay Shetty

“A year from now you may wish you had started today.”
– Karen Lamb

Short Success Quotes and Sayings to Help You Deal With Failure

“Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.”
– Richard Branson

“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.”
– Margaret Thatcher

“Most great people have achieved their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.”
– Napoleon Hill

“Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I’ll show you someone who has never achieved much.”
– Joan Collins

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
– Samuel Beckett

“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
– Truman Capote

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
– Thomas Edison

“Failure defeats losers, but it inspires winners.”
– Robert Kiyosaki

“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Failure teaches. Failure builds character. Failure is, in a way, a friend.”
– Rip Miller

“Failure is success in progress.”
– Albert Einstein

“Failure gave me strength. Pain was my motivation.”
– Michael Jordan

“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”
– Henry Ford

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
– Confucius

“It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.”
– Babe Ruth

“Tough times never last, but tough people do.”
– Robert H. Schuller

“If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.”
– H.G. Wells

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not know how close they were when they gave up.”
– Thomas Edison

“Through perseverance, many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.”
– Benjamin Disraeli

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
– Herman Melville

“Never, never, never give up.”
– Winston Churchill

“Obstacles don’t have to stop you.”
– Michael Jordan

“A bend in the road is not the end of the road, unless you fail to make the turn.”
– Helen Keller

“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”
– Robert F. Kennedy

“The best way out is always through.”
– Robert Frost

Short Success Quotes to Give You a Jolt of Positive Energy

“Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.”
– Dalai Lama

“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”
– Neale Donald Walsch

“Every moment is a fresh beginning.”
– T.S. Eliot

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anaïs Nin

“Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen.”
– Conan O’Brien

“Everything worthwhile is uphill.”
– John C. Maxwell

“Simplicity makes me happy.”
– Alicia Keys

“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”
– Wayne Gretzky

“Make each day your masterpiece.”
– John Wooden

“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“Impossible is for the unwilling.”
– John Keats

“Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.”
– Dalai Lama

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”
– Helen Keller

“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”
– Omar Khayyam

“Be so good they can’t ignore you.”
– Steve Martin

“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.”
– Sam Levenson

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”
– Oprah Winfrey

“Win from within.”
– Usain Bolt

“Stop whining, start grinding.”
– Eric Thomas

“Be yourself. Think for yourself. Make this life what YOU want it to be. ”
– Rip Miller

“Nothing is given. Everything is earned.”
– LeBron James

“Conformity gets you nowhere.”
– Neil Strauss

“The mere sense of living is joy enough.”
– Emily Dickinson

“To grow you must suffer.”
– David Goggins

“Progress is the ultimate motivation.”
– Tony Robbins

“We rise by lifting others.”
– Robert Ingersoll

“Obstacles are the cost of greatness.”
– Robin Sharma

“All the power is within you. You can do anything.”
– Swami Vivekananda

“If you want something, go get it.”
– Sahil Bloom

“Today is life – the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today.”
– Dale Carnegie

Want more motivation to make your goals and dreams real? Then have a look at these positive success quotes, the short work quotes here and also this one with lots and lots of quotes about hope.

“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.”
Napoleon Hill

What makes dreams into reality?

I believe that perhaps the most important – and an often ignored – thing is simply taking action.

I used to be really bad at it when I was younger.

Back then I usually got stuck.

I got stuck in my dreams about what I wanted to do.

I got stuck in analysis paralysis due to my habit of overthinking things. I got stuck in procrastination and in pessimism.

Things have changed a lot since then though. I have added many new habits that help me to take much more action than I used to.

I hope this week’s article will help you to do the same.

1. Get your day off to a great start by doing the most important thing.

I first learned about this about 25 years ago when I used to sell computers.

The boss told us that if we took care of the most important task of the day – often one of the more difficult ones too – right away in the morning the rest of the day would be a lot easier and lighter.

He was right about that.

When that first and most important task is done you don’t have to worry about it. It won’t weigh down on your day. You feel good about yourself.

And you’ll have less inner resistance to taking action for the rest of the day.

2. Just take responsibility for your actions and the process.

I love this quote from the ancient Sanskrit Hindu scripture Bhagavad Gita:

“To action alone hast thou a right and never at all to its fruits; let not the fruits of action be thy motive; neither let there be in thee any attachment to inaction.”

Why?

Because every time I look at it or remind myself of it I feel a sort of freedom and relief.

This quote reminds me to understand that I cannot control the results of my action. I can’t control how someone reacts to what I say or what I do.

It reminds me that it usually works better for me to stay motivated to keep doing what I do if I do something I really like doing.

Basically, I do what I think is right and that is my responsibility. And then the rest (the possible results), well, that is not up to me to decide about or try to control.

I let it go.

Taking action becomes a so much lighter activity when you only have to take responsibility for doing what you think is right.

3. Don’t feel like doing it? Start small.

Getting the most important thing done first thing in your day and setting yourself up for an action-packed day sounds great in theory.

But in reality you will have unmotivated days.

Days when you feel emotionally low or when you are confronted with having to do something you don’t want to do.

That’s life. But no reason to let that sink your day into inaction and feeling sorry for yourself.

I have found that the best thing for these situations is to start very small. To just…

• Write for 1-2 minutes.
• Lift free weights for just a few repetitions.
• Spend 1 minute with getting started on something that scares me.

After that I have the choice to go do something else.

But I seldom do.

I just need an easy way to get started and then, when I am in motion, I usually continue taking action for a while longer.

4. Don’t hurt yourself.

This is a powerful motivator for me to grow and to become a better person.

If I don’t do what I deep down think is the right thing to do then I hurt myself and my self-esteem. What I do – or do not do – during my day sends powerful signals back to me about what kind of person I am.

There is no escaping yourself. And there is always a price to pay when you don’t do what you think is the right thing.

5. A reminder for focus.

If you don’t remind yourself often about what you need to focus on and why you are doing it then it is easy to let days slip away or to spend too much time on less important things.

So create a a simple reminder on a piece of paper. On it you can for example write down:

• Your top 3 priorities in life right now.
• Your most important goal or new habit for the next 30 days.
• A motto or quote you want to stay focused on and live by at this time in your life.

6. Stay accountable to the people in your life.

An accountability buddy can help you to stay on track and to keep taking action towards your goal or dream even when the initial enthusiasm has dissipated.

For example, many of you as readers help me to stay accountable to provide helpful content. I get feedback all the time about if I do things in a helpful or less helpful way. I get a ton of encouragement.

People closer to me in my life help me to stay accountable to for instance not eating too much unhealthy stuff, to working out and to not working too much.

Find someone in real life or online who wants to get in better shape too. Or start a business online. Motivate each other.

Keep each other accountable so you take action and take steps forward each week.

7. Cycle fully focused work and fully relaxing rest.

Get your kitchen timer or access the stop-watch function on your phone.

Set the timer for 45 minutes. During those minutes just work on your most important task/small step forward. Nothing else. No distractions.

After those 45 minutes are up, take a relaxing break.

Distract yourself on Facebook if you like. Or step away from your work space and take a short walk, stretch or go for an apple for the next 15 minutes.

By working these fully focused periods of time you’ll:

• Get more done and do work of higher quality.
• Be able to concentrate for a longer time in your day and week and get less tired.
• Train yourself to focus on one thing at time, instead of getting stuck in your mind between work and relaxation and building up friction and stress within.
• Be able to enjoy your rest periods without a guilty conscience.

45 minutes of work too much?

Try 25 minutes instead.

Procrastinating half-way into your 25 minute period?

Set the timer for 10 or 5 minutes and build up the time that you can fully focus on the work over the next few weeks and months.

8. Focus more on the how to and less on the what-ifs.

If your thoughts starts spinning as you are thinking about taking action then in your mind shout: STOP!

Don’t allow yourself to get stuck in the negative spiral of analysis paralysis.

Sure, it is smart to think before you act in many cases but overthinking things tends to become a way to try to control things you cannot control or to simply stay away from action because you are scared in some way.

After you have said stop to that train of thought open up your mind to what you CAN DO instead of all the things that could go wrong in the worst case scenario.

Ask yourself questions like:

• What is one small step I can take today to move forward towards my goal or out of this situation?
• What is one thing I can learn from this situation?

Write down the answers you come up with and take action on them.

9. People don’t care that much about what you do so don’t let that hold you back.

When I was younger I almost always let what people may have thought or said if I did something hold me back and I got stuck in inaction.

It was more of a self-centered than accurate belief.

In reality people have their own things going on in busy lives.

They think about the job, kids, a partner, the cat, a vacation, what to have for dinner and they worry about what you and other people may think about them.

You are probably not the main character in other people’s lives. Even if you are that in your own life.

A realization that can be a bit disappointing but something that can also can set you free from self-imposed bonds.

10. Tap into enthusiasm.

When you dream and when you get started with something new in life then the enthusiasm flows like a fountain.

A few weeks later it may have decreased quite a bit. Don’t let that lead you to quitting if you think this is something you want to continue doing.

Tap into enthusiasm in your surroundings instead.

• Let the enthusiasm of your accountability buddy flow of over to you and create a flow back to him or her by being enthusiastic about his or her goals and dreams.
• Listen to podcasts or audiobooks by inspiring people.
• Read blogs, websites and take courses that help you to get a dose of enthusiasm every week.
• Let the enthusiasm from friends, children or pets flow over to you.
• Listen to music and watch movies or Youtube-videos that increase your joy for life.

Bring the enthusiasm of the rest of the world into your life.

11. Add the fun.

Some tasks simply are boring or not much fun at all.

Then try this while you are doing them to add a bit of fun:

• Add some music that gives you energy and inspires you.
• Make it into a game where you compete with friend about who can finish something first or do the most amount of something in 10 or 30 minutes.

Change your perspective on what you are doing, lighten things up a bit and it tends to become quite a bit easier to take a lot of action on what you may have procrastinated on for some time.

12. Celebrate what you did today.

Take 2 minutes at the end of your day to think about, appreciate and celebrate what you have taken action on today. No matter how small the action may have been.

It will:

• Motivate you to get going tomorrow too.
• Increase your self-esteem over time.
• Make you feel good about yourself and that feeling will spread to the people in your life too.

And in today’s post I want to share 120 of the most inspirational, love-filled and positive short kindness quotes.

To give you motivation to be kind in small and bigger ways in your everyday life. To help you create a more positive world around you both at work and in your personal life.

And simply to make your day to day life a more joyful and enjoyable place to be.

Short and Inspirational Kindness Quotes

“Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.”
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.”
– Dalai Lama

“Always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.”
– J.M. Barrie

“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.”
– Lao Tzu

“If you can be anything in this world, be kind.”
– Caroline Flack

“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
– Mark Twain

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”
– Aesop

“Kindness gives birth to kindness.”
– Sophocles

“A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.”
– William Arthur Ward

“What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?”
– Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Kindness is always fashionable.”
– Amelia E. Barr

“Beauty lives with kindness.”
– William Shakespeare

“Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.”
– Robert G. Ingersoll

“How beautiful a day can be when kindness touches it!”
– George Elliston

“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
– Henry James

“The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty and truth.”
– Albert Einstein

“Kindness, I’ve discovered, is everything in life.”
– Isaac Bashevis Singer

“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”
– Mother Teresa

“Kindness is wisdom.”
– Philip James Bailey

“Be a little kinder than you have to.”
– E. Lockhart

Short Kindness Quotes for Work and Co-workers

“Kindness makes for much better teamwork.”
– John Wooden

“Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.”
– Blaise Pascal

“From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.”
– Arthur Ashe

“Take time to be kind and to say ‘thank you.'”
– Zig Ziglar

“Be kind to people on the way up – you’ll meet them again on your way down.”
– Jimmy Durante

“A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.”
– Thomas Carlyle

“Kindness is a passport that opens doors and fashions friends. It softens hearts and molds relationships that can last lifetimes.”
– Joseph B. Wirthlin

“The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“We can disagree and still be kind to each other.”
– Gary Vaynerchuk

“Candor is being direct in what you say. Kindness is being considerate in how you say it.”
– Adam Grant

“Mean girls go far in high school. Kind women go far in life.”
– Mandy Hale

“Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They’re underused.”
– Tommy Lee Jones

“Be nice to your co-workers. It feels nice and you’re more likely to get their help when you truly need it.”
– Unknown

“Being nice is a competitive advantage.”
– Anthony Pompliano

“It takes strength to be kind; it’s not a weakness.”
– Daniel Lubetzky

“Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.”
– Theodore Rubin

“Goodness is about character – integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.”
– Dennis Prager

“A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.”
– Dave Barry

“Our kindness may be the most persuasive argument for that which we believe.”
– Gordon B. Hinckley

“If you do something with acceptance and kindness, you can create a true friendship.”
– Dustin Lance Black

Short Kindness Quotes for a Positive World and Life

“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.”
– Dalai Lama

“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.”
– Mother Teresa

“Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.”
– Margaret Mead

“Together we can change the world, just one random act of kindness at a time.”
– Ron Hall

“In a gentle way, you can shake the world.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.”
– Paulo Coelho

“When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world.”
– Harold Kushner

“Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
– Desmond Tutu

“How do we change the world? One random act of kindness at a time.”
– Morgan Freeman

“Simple kindness may be the most vital key to the riddle of how human beings can live with each other in peace, and care properly for this planet we all share.”
– Bo Lozoff

“No one has ever become poor by giving.”
– Anne Frank

“As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency.”
– Caroline Kennedy

“Happiness is the new rich. Inner peace is the new success. Health is the new wealth. Kindness is the new cool.”
– Syed Balkhi

“Be kind, don’t judge, and have respect for others. If we can all do this, the world would be a better place.”
– Jasmine Guinness

“The best part of life is not just surviving, but thriving with passion and compassion and humor and style and generosity and kindness.”
– Maya Angelou

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”
– Edith Wharton

“One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.”
– John F. Kennedy

“Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations.”
– Paramahansa Yogananda

“Life is mostly froth and bubble. Two things stand like stone. Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in your own.”
– Adam Lindsay Gordon

“Kindness has no religion. Religions are like narrow tracks but kindness is like an open sky.”
– Amit Ray

Short Kindness Quotes for Kids

“Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen.”
– Conan O’Brien

“It is nice to be important, but it is more important to be nice.”
– John Templeton

“Always stop to think whether your fun may be the cause of another’s unhappiness.”
– Aesop

“Never be so kind, you forget to be clever. Never be so clever, you forget to be kind.”
– Taylor Swift

“When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they’ll remember and be kind to someone else. And it’ll become like a wildfire.”
– Whoopi Goldberg

“When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.”
– Abraham Joshua Heschel

“Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.”
– Jesse Jackson

“Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If you want to lift yourself up, lift someone else up.”
– Booker T. Washington

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
– Plato

“For it is in giving that we receive.”
– Francis of Assisi

“Be kind to unkind people. They need it the most.”
– Ashleigh Brilliant

“Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.”
– W.E.B. Du Bois

“Goodness is the only investment that never fails.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“The simple act of caring is heroic.”
– Edward Albert

“Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.”
– R.J. Palacio

“You’ve got to be kind.”
– Kurt Vonnegut

“Choose being kind over being right and you’ll be right every time.”
– Richard Carlson

“Believe in yourself. Do what you love. And most importantly, be kind to others, even if you don’t like them.”
– Stacy London

Short Quotes on Compassion and Acts of Kindness

“Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.”
– H. Jackson Brown Jr.

“If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway.”
– Kent M. Keith

“Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be kind. Always.”
– Brad Meltzer

“Sometimes it takes only one act of kindness and caring to change a person’s life.”
– Jackie Chan

“There is no small act of kindness. Every compassionate act makes large the world.”
– Mary Anne Radmacher

“The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.”
– Princess Diana

“The best portion of a good man’s life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.”
– William Wordsworth

“Remember there’s no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.”
– Scott Adams

“A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.”
– William John Bennett

“I have found that it is the small everyday deed of ordinary folks that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love.”
– J.R.R. Tolkien

“A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal.”
– Steve Maraboli

“Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.”
– Frank A. Clark

“I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now.”
– William Penn

“I’m a big believer in acts of kindness, no matter how small.”
– Liam Neeson

“Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change.”
– Bob Kerrey

“Having compassion starts and ends with having compassion for all those unwanted parts of ourselves.”
– Pema Chodron

“Kindness can transform someone’s dark moment with a blaze of light. You’ll never know how much your caring matters. Make a difference for another today.”
– Amy Leigh Mercree

“That is what compassion does. It challenges our assumptions, our sense of self-limitation, worthlessness, of not having a place in the world.”
– Sharon Salzberg

“I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.”
– Mother Teresa

Short Kindness Quotes on Love and Respect

“What we all have in common is an appreciation of kindness and compassion; all the religions have this. Love. We all lean towards love.”
– Richard Gere

“For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.”
– Audrey Hepburn

“Your acts of kindness are iridescent wings of divine love, which linger and continue to uplift others long after your sharing.”
– Rumi

“People shouldn’t have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty.”
– Maggie Stiefvater

“Real love means loving kindness and compassion, the kind of love that does not have any conditions.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh

“Treat everyone with politeness and kindness, not because they are nice, but because you are.”
– Roy T. Bennett

“Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.”
– Barbara De Angelis

“A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.”
– St. Basil

“You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can’t put a dollar sign on.”
– Dolly Parton

“Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.”
– Kahlil Gibran

“Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.”
– George Sand

“A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.”
– Joseph Joubert

“Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.”
– Samuel Johnson

“Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.”
– David Mitchell

“Kindness is like snow. It beautifies everything it covers.”
– Kahlil Gibran

“The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey.”
– Sarah Fielding

“I have understood that the most important things are tenderness and kindness. I can’t do without them.”
– Brigitte Bardot

“Extend yourself in kindness to other human beings wherever you can.”
– Oprah Winfrey

“Kindness and good nature unite men more effectually and with greater strength than any agreements whatsoever.”
– Thomas More

“The love, kindnesses, and value we have given authentically to others will be our remaining treasures at the end of life.”
– Steve Brunkhorst

Want more uplifting motivation? Then have a look at these quotes about change, the positive quotes about hope here and also this one with plenty of quotes about time that will make you think.

If you’re a daughter thinking about how to show your mom your love and appreciation on Mother’s Day then today’s post will help you out.

In it you’ll find 70 of the most powerful, heartfelt and funny Mother’s Day quotes from daughters from all over the world.

Use one of a few of your favorites on social media like Instagram, in a lovely card or in real life to celebrate your mom and to make her day an extra special one this year.

Mother’s Day Quotes from a Daughter to Show Love and Gratitude

“My Mother: She is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.”
– Jodi Picoult

“A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s.”
– Princess Diana

“My mother was my role model before I even knew what that word was.”
– Lisa Leslie

“To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.”
– Maya Angelou

“I would say that my mother is the single biggest role model in my life, but that term doesn’t seem to encompass enough when I use it about her. She was the love of my life.”
– Mindy Kaling

“A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dates all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.”
– Agatha Christie

“There’s no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.”
– Jill Churchill

“Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it’s the most exquisite love of all.”
– Maggie Gallagher

“Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.”
– Pearl S. Buck

“My mother has always been my emotional barometer and my guidance. I was lucky enough to get to have one woman who truly helped me through everything.”
– Emma Stone

“My mother always said I was beautiful, and I finally believed her at some point.”
– Lupita Nyong’o

“She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn’t take them along.”
– Margaret Culkin Banning

“As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is my blood, making sure it runs rich and strong. She is the beating of my heart.”
– Kristin Hannah

“I can only hope to be 10% of the mom mine was to me.”
– Charlize Theron

“Mothers are like glue. Even when you can’t see them, they’re still holding the family together.”
– Susan Gale

“Blessed is a mother that would give up part of her soul for her children’s happiness.”
– Shannon Alder

“Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.”
– George Eliot

“Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There’s no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving.”
– Gail Tsukiyama

Inspirational Mother’s Day Quotes from a Daughter to Honor Your Mom

“Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.”
– Elizabeth Stone

“Just because you become a mother, it doesn’t mean you lose who you are.”
– Beyoncé

“Motherhood has taught me the meaning of living in the moment and being at peace. Children don’t think about yesterday, and they don’t think about tomorrow. They just exist in the moment.”
– Jessalyn Gilsig

“Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn’t know you had.”
– Linda Wooten

“Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me.”
– Lady Gaga

“Motherhood is the biggest gamble in the world. It is the glorious life force. It’s huge and scary – it’s an act of infinite optimism.”
– Gilda Radner

“That’s the wonderful thing about mothers: You can because you must, and you just do.”
– Kate Winslet

“My mother sacrificed her dreams so I could dream.”
– Rupi Kaur

“I believe the choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is.”
– Oprah Winfrey

“Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.”
– Harriet Beecher Stowe

“When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.”
– Sophia Loren

“Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.”
– Barbara Kingsolver

“A good mother loves fiercely but ultimately brings up her children to thrive without her.”
– Erin Kelly

“There will be many times you will feel like you have failed. But in the eyes, heart, and mind of your child, you are supermom.”
– Stephanie Precourt

“Mothers have the ability to liberate by love or, by neglect, to imprison. They’re our first teachers; they are our first loves.”
– Maya Angelou

“That strong mother doesn’t tell her cub, ‘Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you.’ She says, ‘Toughen up, this is the reality we are living in.'”
– Lauryn Hill

“Having kids – the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, responsible human beings – is the biggest job anyone can embark on.”
– Maria Shriver

“A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.”
– Dorothy Canfield Fisher

“A warrior believes in an end she can’t see and fights for it. A warrior never gives up. A warrior fights for those weaker than herself. It sounds like motherhood to me.”
– Kristin Hannah

Short Happy Mother’s Day Quotes from a Daughter

“A mother’s love is more beautiful than any fresh flower.”
– Debasish Mridha

“There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother.”
– Sara Josepha Hale

“The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.”
– Elaine Heffner

“The world needs our mothers.”
– Liya Kebede

“Motherhood is heart-exploding, blissful hysteria.”
– Olivia Wilde

“Mothers possess a power beyond that of a king on his throne.”
– Mabel Hale

“Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.”
– Oprah Winfrey

“Hugs can do great amounts of good – especially for children.”
– Princess Diana

“A mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place.”
– Amy Tan

“Mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.”
– Emily Dickinson

“Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold.”
– Zelda Fitzgerald

“The loveliest masterpiece of the heart of God is the heart of a mother.”
– St. Therese of Lisieux

“The phrase ‘working mother’ is redundant.”
– Jane Sellman

“She taught me that fear is not an option.”
– Diane Von Furstenberg

“I tell my kids, ‘I am thinking about you every other minute of my day.'”
– Michelle Obama

“My mom smiled at me. Her smile kind of hugged me.”
– R.J. Palacio

Funny Happy Mother’s Day Quotes from a Daughter

“It’s not easy being a mother. If it were easy, fathers would do it.”
– Betty White

“Becoming a mom to me means you have accepted that for the next 16 years of your life, you will have a sticky purse.”
– Nia Vardalos

“I used to give my friends who have kids advice all the time, and they would look at me like I had three heads. And then, when I had two, I literally apologized to all my friends.”
– Jennifer Lopez

“Twelve years later the memories of those nights, of that sleep deprivation, still make me rock back and forth a little bit. You want to torture someone? Hand them an adorable baby they love who doesn’t sleep.”
– Shonda Rhimes

“When your children are teenagers, it’s important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.”
– Nora Ephron

“I always say if you aren’t yelling at your kids, you’re not spending enough time with them.”
– Reese Witherspoon

“I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them.”
– Phyllis Diller

“Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we’ve ever met.”
– Marguerite Duras

“Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy.”
– Tina Fey

“Sleep at this point is just a concept, something I’m looking forward to investigating in the future.”
– Amy Poehler

“The majority of my diet is made up of foods that my kids didn’t finish.”
– Carrie Underwood

“No one told me I would be coming home in diapers, too.”
– Chrissy Teigen

“Motherhood is basically finding activities for children in three-hour pockets of time for the rest of your life.”
– Mindy Kaling

“You know how once you have kids you never ever pee by yourself again? At least one of them is always in there with you at all times.”
– Jennifer Garner

“Children are like crazy, drunken small people in your house.”
– Julie Bowen

“If your kids are giving you a headache, follow the directions on the aspirin bottle, especially the part that says, ‘Keep away from children.'”
– Susan Savannah

“Why don’t kids understand that their nap is not for them but for us?”
– Alyson Hannigan

Want more positive and meaningful quotes for Mother’s Day? Then check out the best Mother’s Day quotes and wishes here, the funny Mothers’s day quotes and sayings in this post and also this one with lots of short but powerful Mother’s Day quotes.

It’s Mother’s Day (or it will be soon, depending on when you read this).

It’s a day when we pause for a bit and show the moms in our lives love and gratitude for all they do.

And to help you with that I’d like to share 110 of the best and most powerful Happy Mother’s Day quotes and wishes.

I hope you’ll find something heartwarming, funny or meaningful here to share in real life, in a card or a text or on social media like Facebook or Instagram to make this day an extra love-filled and memorable day for your mom.

The Best Happy Mother’s Day Quotes to Show Love

“Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it’s the most exquisite love of all.”
– Maggie Gallagher

“A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s.”
– Princess Diana

“A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dates all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.”
– Agatha Christie

“Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There’s no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving.”
– Gail Tsukiyama

“In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.”
– Maya Angelou

“Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.”
– Robert Browning

“A mother’s love is more beautiful than any fresh flower.”
– Debasish Mridha

“We are born of love; love is our mother.”
– Rumi

“All that I am, or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.”
– William Makepeace Thackeray

“No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother’s love.”
– Edwin Hubbell Chapin

“Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.”
– Erich Fromm

“The loveliest masterpiece of the heart of God is the heart of a mother.”
– St. Therese of Lisieux

“God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.”
– Rudyard Kipling

“A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.”
– Cardinal Mermillod

“There is an enduring tenderness in the love of a mother to a son that transcends all other affections of the heart.”
– Washington Irving

“A mother’s arms are made of tenderness, and children sleep soundly in them.”
– Victor Hugo

“When you are looking at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.”
– Charley Benetto

“The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.”
– Karl Lagerfeld

“I think in a lot of ways unconditional love is a myth. My mom’s the only reason I know it’s a real thing.”
– Conor Oberst

“Mother is the heartbeat in the home; and without her, there seems to be no heartthrob.”
– Leroy Brownlow

“Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world, a mother’s love is not.”
– James Joyce

“The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.”
– Honore de Balzac

“If I know what love is, it is because of you.”
– Hermann Hesse

“A mother’s love is everything. It is what brings a child into this world.”
– Jamie McGuire

The Best Short Mother’s Day Quotes and Wishes

“A mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place.”
– Amy Tan

“Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.”
– Harriet Beecher Stowe

“All I am I owe to my mother.”
– George Washington

“There is nothing as sincere as a mother’s kiss.”
– Saleem Sharma

“My mother is a walking miracle.”
– Leonardo DiCaprio

“I can imagine no heroism greater than motherhood.”
– Lance Conrad

“The world needs our mothers.”
– Liya Kebede

“A mother understands what a child does not say.”
– Jewish Proverb

“Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.”
– George Eliot

“A mother’s love liberates.”
– Maya Angelou

“Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.”
– Kahlil Gibran

“There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother.”
– Sara Josepha Hale

“Sons are the anchors of a mother’s life.”
– Sophocles

“Men are what their mothers made them.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I really learned it all from mothers.”
– Benjamin Spock

“The best place to cry is on a mother’s arms.”
– Jodi Picoult

“Sooner or later we all quote our mothers.”
– Bern Williams

“Mothers are the necessity of invention.”
– Bill Watterson

“Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing.”
– Ricki Lake

“Mothers possess a power beyond that of a king on his throne.”
– Mabel Hale

The Best Funny Mother’s Day Quotes for Moms

“You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.”
– Franklin P. Adams

“A perfect parent is a person with excellent child-rearing theories and no actual children.”
– Dave Barry

“It’s not easy being a mother. If it were, fathers would do it.”
– Dorothy (from the TV-show The Golden Girls)

“Having children is like living in a frat house. Nobody sleeps, everything’s broken, and there’s a lot of throwing up.”
– Ray Romano

“Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy.”
– Tina Fey

“When your children are teenagers, it’s important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.”
– Nora Ephron

“The quickest way for a parent to get a child’s attention is to sit down and look comfortable.”
– Lane Olinghouse

“The phrase ‘working mother’ is redundant.”
– Jane Sellman

“If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?”
– Milton Berle

“I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them.”
– Phyllis Diller

“My mother’s menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.”
– Buddy Hackett

“Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.”
– Sam Levenson

“A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.”
– Robert Frost

“Don’t forget Mother’s Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad’s Third Wife Day.”
– Jay Leno

“A suburban mother’s role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.”
– Peter De Vries

“When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they’re finished, I climb out.”
– Erma Bombeck

“Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.”
– Ambrose Bierce

“If your kids are giving you a headache, follow the directions on the aspirin bottle, especially the part that says, ‘Keep away from children.'”
– Susan Savannah

“The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.”
– Calvin Trillin

“A two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don’t have a top for it.”
– Jerry Seinfeld

“Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he’s buying.”
– Fran Lebowitz

“Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.”
– William Feather

“Mama does everything for the baby, who responds by saying ‘Da-da’ first.”
– Mignon McLaughlin

“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Children are like crazy, drunken small people in your house.”
– Julie Bowen

Cute and Deep Mother’s Day Quotes

“There are no perfect parents, and there are no perfect children, but there are plenty of perfect moments along the way.”
– Dave Willis

“For when a child is born, the mother also is born again.”
– Gilbert Parker

“My mom smiled at me. Her smile kind of hugged me.”
– R.J. Palacio

“Mother – that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.”
– T. Dewitt Talmage

“To a child’s ear, ‘mother’ is magic in any language.”
– Arlene Benedict

“It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.”
– Stevie Wonder

“But behind all your stories is always your mother’s story, because hers is where yours begins.”
– Mitch Albom

“Mothers are like glue. Even when you can’t see them, they’re still holding the family together.”
– Susan Gale

“As is the mother, so is her daughter.”
– Ezekiel 16:44

“To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.”
– Maya Angelou

“Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; a mother’s secret hope outlives them all.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes

“A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.”
– Honore de Balzac

“There is no velvet so soft as a mother’s lap, no rose as lovely as her smile, no path so flowery as that imprinted with her footsteps.”
– Archibald Thompson

“She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn’t take them along.”
– Margaret Culkin Banning

“A mother is your first friend, your best friend, your forever friend.”
– Amit Kalantri

“Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold.”
– Zelda Fitzgerald

“The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness.”
– Jessica Lange

“Motherhood is the biggest gamble in the world. It is the glorious life force. It’s huge and scary – it’s an act of infinite optimism.”
– Gilda Radner

“A mother is a mother still, the holiest thing alive.”
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart — a heart so large that everybody’s joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.”
– Mark Twain

“Throughout my life, my mom has been the person that I’ve always looked up to.”
– Mike Krzyzewski

“My mother was the one constant in my life.”
– Barack Obama

“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”
– David Viscott

The Best Happy Mother’s Day Quotes from a Daughter

“My Mother: She is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.”
– Jodi Picoult

“My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.”
– Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“My mom is definitely my rock.”
– Alicia Keys

“As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is my blood, making sure it runs rich and strong. She is the beating of my heart.”
– Kristin Hannah

“My mother has always been my emotional barometer and my guidance. I was lucky enough to get to have one woman who truly helped me through everything.”
– Emma Stone

“My mother was my role model before I even knew what that word was.”
– Lisa Leslie

“I can only hope to be 10% of the mom mine was to me.”
– Charlize Theron

“Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me.”
– Lady Gaga

“She always said I was beautiful, and I finally believed her at some point.”
– Lupita Nyong’o

“My mother sacrificed her dreams so I could dream.”
– Rupi Kaur

“I would say that my mother is the single biggest role model in my life, but that term doesn’t seem to encompass enough when I use it about her. She was the love of my life.”
– Mindy Kaling

“Great women raise great women who raise great women.”
– Jennifer Fujita

“When someone asks you where you come from, the answer is your mother.”
– Anna Quindlen

“My mother always used to say, the older you get, the better you get. Unless you’re a banana.”
– Betty White

“She taught me that fear is not an option.”
– Diane Von Furstenberg

“So much of who I am is because of who you are.”
– Mary Miro

Want more heartfelt inspiration for Mother’s Day? Then have a look at these short Mother’s Day quotes, the uplifting and inspirational Mother’s Day quotes and sayings here and also this one with plenty of positive and funny Mother’s Day quotes.

“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

“Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

Happiness.

When you think about it then you may often think of the future in some way.

The dream vacation coming up, the promotion you are working towards, the baby that is on the way or the sixth date with someone new in your life.

But happiness can also be found in the small things of a regular day.

So today look for it there. Take just a few minutes and apply one of the tips below and see how it brightens your day.

1. One minute of appreciation.

Take a minute, sit down and just reflect on what you appreciate and love about your partner.

Or a friend or family member. Or yourself.

This will fill you with gratitude and redirect your focus to the positive side of things.

2. Express your appreciation.

Tell the partner, family member or friend what you came up with.

It will brighten his or her day.

And as his or her face lights up with a big smile you’ll feel happier too because emotions are contagious.

3. Take 5 minutes to see how you can help someone out.

Offer some practical help, some good advice, look something up for him or her, be encouraging and supportive or just lend a listening ear.

4. Slow down for 3 minutes.

Walk and move slower for just these few minutes. Let your thoughts slow down.

Use the 3 minutes to enjoy what is happening all around you.

Truly take it in with all your senses.

There is much simple wonder we miss each day because we are so preoccupied with our thoughts and plans for the future.

After those 3 minutes are up, continue at the slower pace if you like.

5. Be the smile you want to see in your world.

Smile more towards the people you meet and you’ll get more smiles back.

You’ll feel better. They will too.

And they will probably smile more towards the other people they meet that day.

So don’t wait for other people to smile more, be the smile you want to see in your world instead.

6. Make someone else happy.

Don’t stop at just smiles.

• Give someone a big hug.
• Give him or her a small or a bigger gift of some kind.
• Cook their favorite food if they have had a bad day.

7. Start your day with setting a low bar for happiness.

As you open your eyes and wake up to a new day tell yourself:

“Today I will have a low bar for happiness”.

I have been using this one for quite some time now and it makes the regular day happier. I take fewer things for granted – like my food, the weather, the small gestures in my world and the small moments – and often pause to appreciate them more.

And it does not make me passive action-wise.

Instead it makes me feel more inspired, motivated and inner resistance decreases.

And so I get more of importance done.

8. Be the day you want to see.

Don’t wait for someone else to create the day you want to have.

Instead, get the ball rolling yourself.

Take action and take the first small step or steps forward:

• Set up a movie night when the rain is pouring down.
• Take a walk or a run in the early morning to get your energy levels for the day and week up.

9. Say yes to something new.

Something you haven’t eaten before. A new song or album. A new author or movie. A new sport. A new way to work or through your town.

By actively going outside of what is normal for you or your comfort zone you’ll discover new, wonderful things in life quite often.

This will bring happiness into your life and if you develop this habit then in my experience it will be easier to move outside of your comfort zone in bigger ways too.

10. Say no to a should.

The shoulds in life can really drag that happiness and energy down and make everything feel like heavy work.

But do you have to do all of those shoulds on your to-do list?

Or are you maybe stuck in a rut and are doing some of those things just out of old habit?

Ask yourself one of my favorite questions:

Will this matter in 5 years? Or even 5 weeks?

By zooming out like this you make it easier to see the true value of doing something.

To see it for what it really is.

And so your questioning makes it easier to simply relax and to say no to doing something because you realize that it isn’t that important anyway.

11. Take a 2 minute laugh-break.

Few things will so simply bring happiness and relieve stress as laughing. So:

• Revisit one or two of those small video clips that always makes you laugh or smile.
• Head over to your favorite funny comic online or in your bookshelf.
• Listen a bit to a podcast or a stand-up show that you know you find funny.

12. Do what you deep down think is the right thing.

Instead of letting quick and judgmental words come of your mouth be understanding.

Instead of snacking on some candy eat a fruit or drink a glass of water.

When an impulse inside of you wants you do something that you know deep down isn’t right for you then pause.

Be still for a few moments. The impulse will pass.

And you can more easily choose to take the action you think is right in this situation.

Then appreciate that you did the right thing, give yourself a pat on the back and see how good it all feels. Continue to do this and you’ll help yourself to build a stronger self-esteem.

13. Stand still for a minute, close your eyes and just enjoy the sun.

I did it today and it was wonderful.

This one may however work best if you have had a rainy autumn and a winter filled with grey skies for the last few months.