Inspirational simplicity quotes will encourage growth in life, make you wiser and broaden your perspective.
Powerful Collection of Most Famous Simplicity Quotes
The less I needed, the better I felt. – Charles Bukowski
The most complicated skill is to be simple. – Anonymous
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. – Confucius
In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. – Leonardo da Vinci
I have three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. – Lao Tzu
Less stuff equals more freedom. – Maxime Lagacé
Simplicity reveals the pure beauty of life. – Debasish Mridha
The most complicated skill is to be simple. – Dejan Stojanovic
That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains. – Steve Jobs
Simplicity is not about deprivation. Simplicity is about a greater appreciation for things that really matter. – Anonymous
If buying stuff hasn’t made you happy, maybe getting rid of it will. – Joshua Becker
With wisdom comes the desire for simplicity. – Brendon Burchard
The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity. – Douglas Horton
Simplicity boils down to two steps: Identify the essential. Eliminate the rest. – Leo Babauta
Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things. – Isaac Newton
It is always the simple that produces the marvelous. – Amelia Barr
Simplicity is a prerequisite for reliability. – Edsger Dijkstra
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. – Lao Tzu
He who is contented is rich. – Lao Tzu
I’ve always liked simplicity. – Marissa Mayer
Live simply. Dream big. Be grateful. Give love. Laugh lots. – Anonymous
Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius. – George Sand
Simplicity is an exact medium between too little and too much. – Sir Joshua Reynolds
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject. – Thomas Mann
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. – Lin Yutang
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. – Hans Hofmann
I will not say yes when my heart says no. – Courtney Carver
Receive without conceit, release without struggle. – Marcus Aurelius
Never overlook the power of simplicity. – Robin Sharma
Out of chaos, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. – Bruce Lee
Simplicity is the outcome of technical subtlety. It is the goal, not the starting point. – Maurice Saatchi
Simplicity is a state of mind. – Charles Wagner
Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of it causes the least to take on the magnitude. – Raymond Holliwell
Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance. – Coco Chanel
The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires. – Seneca
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. – Henry David Thoreau
I always go for simplicity. – David Bailey
Make it simple but significant. – Anonymous
If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand it yourself. – Albert Einstein
The greatest ideas are the simplest. – William Golding
Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing, layout, processes, and procedures. – Tom Peters
There is beauty in simplicity. – Anonymous
In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity. – Henry Wandsworth
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. – William James
Saying no is more important than saying yes. – Shane Parrish
Simplicity is the soul of efficiency. – Austin Freeman
Very often, people confuse simple with simplistic. The nuance is lost on most. – Clement Mok
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. – Martin H. Fischer
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler – Albert Einstein
People often associate complexity with deeper meaning, when often after precious time has been lost, it is realized that simplicity is the key to everything. – Gary Hopkins
Simplicity is not style, it is a state of harmony. – Naoto Fukasawa
A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life. – Winston Churchill
He is not rich, that enjoyeth not his own goods. – Pythagoras
Every increased possession loads us with new weariness. – John Ruskin
Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity. – Henry David Thoreau
Growth creates complexity, which requires simplicity. – Andy Stanley
Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify. – Henry David Thoreau
It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials. – Bruce Lee
Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful. – John Maeda
Things are never as complicated as they seem. It is only our arrogance that prompts us to find unnecessarily complicated answers to simple problems. – Muhammad Yunus
Simplicity is the key to brilliance. – Bruce Lee
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth. – Leo Tolstoy
Let’s stop telling each other how busy we are. – Unknown
The more you have, the more you are occupied. The less you have, the more free you are. – Mother Teresa
One of the biggest accelerators to change is simplicity. – Dr Henry Cloud
The role of genius is not to complicate the simple, but to simplify the complicated. – Criss Jami
Complexity is impressive, but simplicity is genius. – Lance Wallnau
Complexity is enemy of execution. – Anthony Robbins
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Come can avoid it. Geniuses remove it. – Alan Perlis
That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains. – Steve Jobs
The more simple we are, the more complete we become. – August Rodin
Slow down. Do less. – Maxime Lagacé
Keep things simple. – Anonymous
Live simply, so that others may simply live. – Mother Theresa
Nature teaches us simplicity and contentment because in its presence we realize we need very little to be happy. – Mark Coleman
In zen, poverty is voluntary, and considered not really as poverty so much as simplicity, freedom, unclutteredness. – Alan Watts
Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough. – Charles Dudley Warner
Simplicity will stand out, while complexity will get lost in the crowd. – Kevin Barnett
Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge. – Winston Churchill
The evolution of knowledge is toward simplicity, not complexity. – L. Ron Hubbard
The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. – Mildred Norman
As you simplify your life, the laws of the Universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness. – Henry David Thoreau
In everything, love simplicity. – Saint Francis De Sales
The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go. – Steve Maraboli
Our joy comes from living our own lives simply – never from demanding that others live simply or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Simplicity is the trademark of genius. – Robin Sharma
