Twitter Quotes and Short, Inspirational Quotes to Tweet

Play is our brain’s favorite way of learning.
Dianne Ackerman

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
Ansel Adams

Encouragement is the oxygen of the soul.
George M. Adams

Spread joy. Chase your wildest dreams.
Patch Adams

Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness.
Scott Adams

The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Joseph Addison

Trust only movement.  Life happens at the level of events, not of words.
Alfred Adler

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.
Aesop

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

Dreams are free, so free your dreams.
Astrid Alauda

There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle.
Robert Alden

The man who has no imagination has no wings.
Mohammad Ali

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
Mohammad Ali

It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out, it's the pebble in your shoe.
Muhammad Ali

Failures are steps in the ladder of success.
James Allen

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?
James Allen

Eighty percent of success is showing up.
Woody Allen

How to make God laugh: Tell him your future plans.
Woody Allen

I am thankful for laughter except when milk comes out my nose.
Woody Allen

Age doesn’t matter. Obstacles don’t matter. Winning is the challenge. Bottom line, inspiring others is the goal.
Glen Allison

The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.
Michael Altshuler

Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.
Greg Anderson

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.
Greg Anderson

Find what makes your heart sing and create your own music.
Mac Anderson

Be a rainbow in someone else's cloud.
Maya Angelou

I believe the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.
Maya Angelou

I think a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people.
Maya Angelou

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can transform one million realities.
Maya Angelou

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.
Maya Angelou

Nothing will work unless you do.
Maya Angelou

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
Maya Angelou

You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
Maya Angelou

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
Jean Anouilh

Things are beautiful if you love them.
Jean Anouilh

Act as if you have already achieved your goal and it is yours.
Dr. Robert Anthony

To be loved and trusted by those who know us best is life's greatest compliment.
Jack Anthony

Failure is impossible.
Susan B. Anthony

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
Susan B. Anthony

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
Guillaume Apollinaire

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt

Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient.
Aristotle

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
Aristotle

Hope is a waking dream.
Aristotle

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
Aristotle

Intuition is the source of scientific knowledge.
Aristotle

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
Aristotle

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
Aristotle

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
Aristotle

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Aristotle

Life is not about getting through the storms, but about dancing in the rain.
Bunny Armstrong

Fear is priceless education.
Lance Armstrong

I take nothing for granted. I now have only good days, or great days.
Lance Armstrong

The living need charity more than the dead.
George Arnold

The portal of healing and creativity always takes us into the realm of the spirit.
Angeles Arrien

I have two questions for you: What do you need to make your creativity shine through? Why do you keep ignoring it?
Lauren Artress

There are two things people want more than sex and money…recognition and praise.
Mary Kay Ash

Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.
Mustafa K. Ataturk

Happiness is living by inner purpose, not by outer pressures.
David Augsberger

Love and do what you like.
Saint Augustine

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
Marcus Aurelius

Some days there won't be a song in your heart. Sing anyway.
Emory Austin

Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and we must set off that spark in one another.
Kenny Ausubel

Be a dynamo of irrepressible joy!
Babaji

The successful man is the one who had the chance and took it.
Roger Babson

I am not a has-been. I am a will be.
Lauren Bacall

Standing still is the fastest way of moving backwards in a rapidly changing world.
Lauren Bacall

Time is clay. Go make something.
Barbara Bach

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.
Richard Bach

Here is the test to find whether or not your mission on earth is finished: If you are alive, it isn’t.
Richard Bach

In order to win, you must expect to win.
Richard Bach

Real love stories never have endings.
Richard Bach

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.
Richard Bach

Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you; you must acquire it.
Sudie Back

Dancing is the body made poetic.
Ernst Bacon

The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot

You must change in order to survive.
Pearl Bailey

Start wherever you are and start small.
Rita Baily

Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.
Christina Baldwin

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
James Baldwin

Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
James Baldwin

Enthusiasm moves the world.
Arthur James Balfour

We can learn to be the catalysts for our own change.
Sarah Ban Breathnach

Joy is your birthright.
Sarah Ban Breathnach

Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
Sarah Ban Breathnach

A leader is someone you would follow to a pace you would not go to by yourself.
Joel Barker

God gave us memories that we might have roses in December.
J.M. Barrie

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
J.M. Barrie

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
J.M. Barrie

Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance.
Dave Barry

You grow up the day you have the first real laugh - at yourself.
Ethel Barrymore

Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
Karl Barth

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.
Karl Barth

If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
Bruce Barton

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
Mikhail Baryshnikov

If everyone thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.
George Barzan

Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
Leo Bascaglia

If it’s not fun, you’re not doing it right.
Bob Basso

Strength is a matter of a made up mind.
John Beecher

Enthusaism is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.
Bo Bennett

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
Milton Berle

You owe it to everyone you love to find pockets of tranquility in your busy world.
Georges Bernanos

The earth sets some music going in us and dance we must.
Ludwig Boone

Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.
Constantin Brancusi

Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be.
Robert Brault

Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.
Joyce Brothers

The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.
Rita Mae Brown

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
Buddha

God calls you to the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.
Frederick Buechner

There is a boundary to our passions when we act from feelings; but none when we are under the influence of imagination.
Edmund Burke

One of these days, I’m going to publish a book of all the pictures I did not take.
Rene Burri

I trust the tempo of my unfolding.
Julia Cameron

Life is the sum of all your choices.
Albert Camus

Passion should overwhelm reason time and time again.
Alvaro Castagnet

Conclusions arrived at through reasoning have very little or no influence in altering the course of our lives.
Carlos Casteneda

We live in a rainbow of chaos.
Paul Cézanne

Contemplation is the root of awareness and creativity.
Sandra Chantry

Be open to the possibility that there is more to you than the fruit you bear.
Tamara Christensen

Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.
John Cleese

Great opportunity is usually disguised as unsolvable problems.
Gretchen G. Clement

Good is the enemy of great.
Jim Collins

The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.
Marva Collins

Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.
Mason Cooley

Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
Cesar Cruz

It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
Leonardo da Vinci

Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.
Roald Dahl

Ultimately the creator is one’s own mind.
Dalai Lama

Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.
Dandemis

The whole of life lies in the verb seeing.
Teilhard de Chardin

I hope I have given back half the joy music has given me.
Placido Domingo

No man is an island.
John Donne

Ideas are like frog eggs: you've got to lay a thousand to hatch one.
Peter F. Drucker

Joy is not dependent on circumstances.
Faith Duck

So long as you have courage and a sense of humor, it is never too late to start life afresh.
Freeman Dyson

The most important thing is that you love what you are doing, and the second that you are not afraid of where your next idea will lead.
Charles Eames

When you've exhausted all possibilities remember this - you haven't.
Thomas Alva Edison

Through drawing, you are make visible.
Betty Edwards

Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.
Albert Einstein

Creativity is the residue of time wasted.
Albert Einstein

The legs are the wheels of creativity.
Albert Einstein

All of science is nothing more than the refinement of everyday thinking.
Albert Einstein

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.
Albert Einstein

Science will stagnate if it is made to serve practical goals.
Albert Einstein

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
Albert Einstein

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
George Eliot

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
George Eliot

In my beginning is my end.
T.S. Eliot

We had the experience, but we missed the meaning.
T.S. Elliot

Life is a festival only to the wise.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air of your imagination.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love lights up the world…with its generous flames.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Money often costs too much.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

People only see what they are prepared to see.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one's own consistency.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion for life.
Federico Fellini

The ability to live in the question long enough for genius to emerge is a touchstone of creative success.
Jonathan Fields

Our self-expression is meant to be a manifestation of the silence of our hearts.
Matthew Fox

You don't create your mission in life - you detect it.
Viktor Frankl

Words may show a man’s wit, but actions show his meaning.
Benjamin Franklin

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
Erich Fromm

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
Buckminster Fuller

Art is a step from what is obvious toward what is concealed.
Kahlil Gibran

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
Kahlil Gibran

No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.
Althea Gibson

What you call freedom is still nothing but choosing how to steer straight into the heart of what chooses you.
Kate Gleason

Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.
Seth Goden

Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist.
Seth Goden

Change almost never fails because it's too early. It almost always fails because it's too late.
Seth Goden

I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.
Seth Goden

Transferring your passion to your job is far easier than finding a job that happens to match your passion.
Seth Goden

Children are not born empty vessels waiting to be filled, but vessels of infinite love and wisdom ready to be expressed.
Vince Gowmon

Step forward into your life as you did when you were a child, when you believed anything was possible.
Vince Gowmon

People need joy quite as much as clothing. Some of them need it far more.
Margaret Collier Graham

Movement never lies.  It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather.
Martha Graham

Art is a delivery system for worldviews.
Alex Grey

Smile, breathe, and go slowly.
Thich Nhat Hanh

Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.
Thich Nhat Hanh

Everything we feel deeply must be expressed.
Han Hartung

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
John Harvey

There is no friend as loyal as a book.
Ernest Hemingway

Systems die; instincts remain.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

A bird does not sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
Lou Holtz

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.
Robert G. Ingersoll

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
Eugene Ionesco

We invent what we love and what we fear.
John Irving

The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.
Phil Jackson

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
William James

Every generation needs a new revolution.
Thomas Jefferson

A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.
Steve Jobs

Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.
Steve Jobs

Don’t settle. Stay hungry. Stay foolish.
Steve Jobs

Follow your heart and intuition, they already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
Steve Jobs

Listen to me. We're here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise why even be here?
Steve Jobs

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them
Michael Jordan

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
Carl Jung

Fear is the reason for making art. It is a means to freedom.
Ilya Kabakov

Try and fail, but don't fail to try.
Stephen Kaggwa

When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt.
Henry J. Kaiser

All human knowledge thus begins with intuitions, proceeds thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.
Immanuel Kant

…creative ability is often mistakenly attributed to inborn talent. It is about all the ability to connect one thing with another.
Sister Corita Kent

Real generosity is an unfailing sign of spirituality.
Hazrat Inayat Khan

The end is the beginning of all things, suppressed and hidden, awaiting to be released through the rhythm of pain and pleasure.
Krishnamurti

Politeness is the poison of collaboration.
Edwin Land

Mindfulness is the cure for everything; the essence of being alive.
Ellen Langer

By letting go it all gets done.
Lao Tzu

Great indeed is the sublimity of the creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.
Lao Tzu

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
Lao Tzu

Sometimes when we aren't looking, the holiness comes breaking through like a rainbow.
Madeleine L'Engle

I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Nothing feeds the center of being so much as creative work.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

There is no right path. Only the one that allows you to sleep soundly and wake up excited.
Jennifer Louden

Orville Wright did not have a pilot's license.
Gordon MacKenzie

Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
Abraham Maslow

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
Somerset Maugham

Creativity is a force for change.
Dimis Michaelides

Art teaches nothing but the significance of life.
Henry Miller

Your fears are not walls, but hurtles. Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquering of it.
Dan Millman

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
John Milton

Creativity, not normality, has become the paradigm of mental health.
Stephen Mitchell

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
Marilyn Monroe

Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Alfred A. Montapert

Imagination is the fundamental expressive tool of the soul.
Bruce L. Moon

Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.
John Naisbitt

Don't be afraid of sweetness.
Pablo Neruda

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Isaac Newton

All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Instead of competing, all we have to do is create.
Earl Nightingale

I must be a mermaid...I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
Anaïs Nin

Creativity is our human capacity to imagine and express new possibilities.
Marta Davidovich Ockuly

Creativity is the process of expressing and applying imagination.
Marta Davidovich Ockuly

I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding.
John O'Donohue

Listen...are you breathing just a little and calling it a life?
Mary Oliver

To draw, you must close your eyes and sing.
Pablo Picasso

To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution.
Steven Pressfield

When the music changes, so does the dance.
African Proverb

Don't apologize for who your are or the art you create.
C.J. Rider

You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born.
Rainer Maria Rilke

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
Carl Rogers

Inside you there's an artist you don't know about…Say yes quickly, if you know, if you've known it before the beginning of the universe.
Rumi

Stop the words now. Open the window in the center of your chest, and let the spirits fly in and out.
Rumi

There is a fountain inside you. Don’t walk around with an empty bucket.
Rumi

Yesterday is gone and its tale told. Today new seeds are growing.
Rumi

The key is to trust your heart to move where your talents can flourish. This old world will really spin when work becomes a joyous expression of the soul.
Al Sacharov

I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.
Carl Sandburg

Any fool can count the seeds in an apple. Only God can count all the apples in one seed.
Robert H. Schuller

People kept telling me art can't change the world; so I stopped calling what I did art.
Carl Scrase

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples, then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
George Bernard Shaw

Every person is a golden link in the chain of my good.
Florence Scovel Shinn

Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.
Florence Scovel Shinn

The best teachers are the best storytellers. We learn in the form of stories.
Frank Smith

The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.
Baruch Spinoza

Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art.
Konstantin Stanislavsky

There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.
Walt Streightiff

Love is a fruit in season at all times and within the reach of every hand.
Mother Teresa

An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
Henry David Thoreau

It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak, and another to hear.
Henry David Thoreau

Fear makes us feel small and uncertain, uncomfortable and separate. Fearlessness expands and creates possibilities.
Helena Tiainen

Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.
Paul Tillich

Once we’re thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it’s only here that the new and the good begins.
Leo Tolstoy

For fast-acting relief, try slowing down.
Lily Tomlin

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilitie within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
Dale Turner

You cannot depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark Twain

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.
John Updike

Let's not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it.
Vincent van Gogh

The greatest wealth is health.
Virgil

We can't be creative if we refuse to be confused.
Margaret Wheatley

Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.
E. B. White

Be curious, not judgmental.
Walt Whitman

A new year’s resolution goes in one year and out another
Oscar Wilde

The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.
Oscar Wilde

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Oscar Wilde

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.
Billy Wilder

A kind soul is in constant bloom.
A.S. Williams

Make voyages. Attempt them. There is nothing else.
Tennessee Williams

Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.
Marianne Williamson

There is absolutely nothing that can be taken for granted in this world.
Robert Anton Wilson

Devote today to something so daring even you can’t believe you’re doing it.
Oprah Winfrey

There is a vision for my life that is greater than my imagination can hold.
Oprah Winfrey

Why are you trying so hard to fit in when you were born to stand out?
Oprah Winfrey

I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.
Kate Winslet

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
William Butler Yeats