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

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
Buddha

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.
Dalai Lama

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
Albert Einstein

The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.
Barack Obama

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
Ronald Reagan

The government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
Ronald Reagan

The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.
Winston Churchill

Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.
Winston Churchill

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
Winston Churchill

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
Friedrich Nietzsche

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
Friedrich Nietzsche

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.
Confucius

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.
Helen Keller

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.
George Washington

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.
William Shakespeare

And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
Robert Frost

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.
Aristotle

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?
Henry David Thoreau

A Constitution should be short and obscure.
Napoleon Bonaparte