Motivational Life Quotes With 10 Words Or Less That Offers More

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“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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