Personally I have always love shorter quotes rather than those long-winded ones. It is not just the length of the quotations or sayings, it’s the profound message it offers to the readers.
Here is a collection of popular sayings and inspirational quotes with 10 words or less about life.
“What we think we become.” – Buddha
“Courage is knowing what not to fear.” – Plato
“Imagination is greater than detail.” – Albert Einstein
“Freedom lies in being bold.” – Robert Frost
“Conquer yourself, not the world.” – Descarte
“Carpe diem.” – Horace
“Only the dead have seen the end of war.” – Plato
“Idea: Salvation by imagination.” – Frank Loyd Wright
“Every winner has scars.” – Herbert Casson
“We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.” – Socrates
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar Wilde
“We’re all perfectly real, but never really perfect.” – Quotationize
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“A person’s a person, no matter how small.” – Dr. Seuss
“Death is not the worst that can happen to men.” – Plato
“Whatever you are, be a good one.” – Abraham Lincoln
“Always do what you are afraid to do.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Try a little harder to be a little better.” – Gordon B. Hinckley
“Character is simply habit long continued.” – Plato
“By letting go it all gets done.” – Lao Tzu
“None but ourselves can free our minds.” – Bob Marley
“Turn your wounds into wisdom.” – Oprah Winfrey
“Only in the darkness can you see the stars.” – Martin Luther King Jr
“He that can have patience can have what he will.” – Benjamin Franklin
“The past has no power over the present moment.” – Eckhart Tolle
“Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.” – African Proverb
“Don’t sweat the small stuff.” – Richard Carlson
“Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater.” – Hazlitt
“Great acts are made up of small deeds.” – Lao Tzu
“Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes.” – Kenneth Hildebrand
“Life is the childhood of our immortality.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Live the life you love, love the life you live.” – Bob Marley
“We are made for loving.” – Archbishop Desmond Tutu
“Where there is love there is no darkness.” – Burundi Proverb
“Knowing how to yield is strength” – Lao Tzu
“Patience will achieve more than force.” – Edmund Burke
“To be unique, you must always be different.” – Coco Chanel
“Silence is a true friend who never betrays.” – Confucius
It’s choice – not chance – that determines your destiny.” – Jean Nidetch
“Do the things you think you cannot do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.” – Jesse Jackson
“Confidence is courage at ease.” – Daniel Maher
“A problem is a chance for you to do your best.” – Duke Ellington
“Problems are the price you pay for progress.” – Branch Rickey
“A desire can overcome all objections and obstacles.” – Gunderson
“Respect yourself and others will respect you.” – Confucius
“I think, therefore I am.” – René Descartes
“Know thyself.” – Socrates
“Kindness is free. So feel free to be kind.” – Quotationize
“Inches make champions.” – Vince Lombardi
“Work is love made visible.” – Kahlil Gibran
“No great thing is created suddenly.” – Epictetus
“No man is free who is not master of himself.” – Epictetus
“Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.” – Confucius
“Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.” – Epictetus
“Well done is better than well said.” – Benjamin Franklin
“No wind favors s/he who has no destined port.” – Montaigne
“There is no failure except in no longer trying.” – Elbert Hubbard
“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.” – Seneca
“Be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.” – Elbert Hubbard
“The creation of a thousand forests is one acorn.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Be gentle first with yourself.” – Lama Yeshe
“Live life to the fullest.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu
“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch
“Do what you fear and fear disappears.” – David Joseph Schwartz
“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.” – Albert Einstein
“Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.” – Elbert Hubbard
“Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.” – Herman Melville
“It is not length of life, but depth of life.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Make each day your masterpiece.” – John Wooden
“Big egos have little ears.” – Robert Schuller
“Make yourself necessary to somebody.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“May you be happy always.” – Honore De Balzac
“The greatest wealth is health.” – Virgil
“Our life is what our thoughts make it.” – Marcus Aurelius
“Well begun is half done.” – Aristotle
“Don’t fight forces; use them.” – R. Buckminster Fuller
“The greatest prayer is patience.” – Buddha
“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.” – Jimi Hendrix
“Luck is believing you’re lucky.” – Tennessee Williams
“Self-command is the main elegance.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Talkers are no good doers.” – William Shakespeare
“Chance favors the prepared mind.” – Louis Pasteur
“Reflect upon your present blessings.” – Charles Dickens
“Fear regret more than failure.” – Taryn Rose
“In chaos, there is fertility.” – Anais Nin
“While there’s life, there’s hope.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Success demands singleness of purpose.” – Vincent Lombardi
“Success is dependent on effort.” – Sophocles
“The shortest answer is doing.” – Lord Herbert
“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsh
“Give a man a mask and he will show his true face.” – Oscar Wilde
“The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.” – Old Proverb
“Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.” – Mark Twain
“Creativity has no place for predictability.” – Quotationize
“Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.” – George Carlin
“Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice.” – Henry Ford
“Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.” – Bill Nye
“Some people die at 25 and aren’t buried until 75.” – Benjamin Franklin
“To love is to recognize yourself in another.” – Eckhart Tolle
“Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.” – Rosa Luxemburg
“Either you run the day, or the day runs you.” – Jim Rohn
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” – Socrates
“Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.” – Jesse Jackson
“Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.” – Albert Einstein
“Failure is success if we learn from it.” – Malcolm Forbes
“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.” – Socrates
“Whatever you are, be a good one.” – Abraham Lincoln
“Every man dies, but not every man truly lives.” – William Wallace
“Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” – Benjamin Franklin
“Well done is better than well said.” – Benjamin Franklin
“To find yourself, think for yourself.” – Socrates
“Life is a journey, not a destination.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The best things in life aren’t things.” – Art Buchwald
The most important things in life aren’t things.” – Anthony J. D’Angelo
“The wise asks more and speaks less.” – Quotationize
“By means of beauty all beautiful things become beautiful.” – Socrates
“Making mistakes means you’ve tried.” – Quotationize
“An unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates
“A great man is always willing to be little.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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