Top 100 Simplicity Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Simplify, simplify, simplify.”

— Henry David Thoreau

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2. “Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.”

— Henry David Thoreau

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3. “Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.”

— Coco Chanel

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4. “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”

— Henry David Thoreau

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5. “Smile, breathe, go slowly.”

— Nhat Hanh

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6. “True happiness is found in simple, seemingly unremarkable things.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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7. “I make myself rich by making my wants few.”

— Henry David Thoreau

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8. “A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.”

— Henry David Thoreau

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9. “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

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10. “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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11. “Avoiding complexity reduces bugs.”

— Linus Torvalds

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12. “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”

— Confucius

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13. “Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to keep things simple.”

— Richard Branson

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14. “Never overlook the power of simplicity.”

— Robin S. Sharma

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15. “Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.”

— Lao Tzu

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16. “The greatest truths are the simplest things in the world, simple as your own existence.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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17. “Love simply is.”

— Paulo Coelho

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18. “See it big, and keep it simple.”

— Wilferd Peterson

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19. “He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.”

— Lao Tzu

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20. “Less is more.”

— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

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21. “Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”

— Dr. Seuss

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22. “Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”

— Epictetus

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23. “That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. ”

— Henry David Thoreau

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24. “It is no bad thing celebrating a simple life.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

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25. “The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.”

— Lao Tzu

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26. “All the math you need in the stock market you get in the fourth grade.”

— Peter Lynch

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27. “Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.”

— Oscar Wilde

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28. “Short, sweet, and to the point. Clear writing, and therefore clear commands, comes from clear thinking. Think simple.”

— Tim Ferriss

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29. “Be as simple as you can be; you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

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30. “I’m just a regular person who believes life is simple, and I like a simple life.”

— Manny Pacquiao

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31. “It’s the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary.”

— Paulo Coelho

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32. “We’ve gone through the operating system and looked at everything and asked how can we simplify this and make it more powerful at the same time.”

— Steve Jobs

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33. “Above all, keep it simple.”

— Auguste Escoffier

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34. “The greatest wealth is to live content with little.”

— Plato

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35. “My greatest skill in life has been to want but little.”

— Henry David Thoreau

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36. “This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, your own heart is the temple. Your philosophy is simple kindness.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

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37. “Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers who can cut through the argument debate and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.”

— Colin Powell

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38. “Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.”

— Isaac Newton

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39. “Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read.”

— Leo Burnett

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40. “To be successful you don’t need to do extraordinary things, you just need to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.”

— Jim Rohn

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41. “To every problem, there is a most simple solution.”

— Agatha Christie

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42. “Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.”

— Robert Breault

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43. “It takes a lot of hard work to make something simple.”

— Steve Jobs

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44. “The greatest step towards a life of happiness and simplicity is to let go. Trust in the power that is already taking care of you spontaneously without effort.”

— Mooji

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45. “Simplify, then add lightness.”

— Colin Chapman

46. “One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.”

— Bruce Lee

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47. “The greatest ideas are the simplest.”

— William Golding

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48. “Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

49. “Simplify, slow down, be kind. And don’t forget to have art in your life – music, paintings, theater, dance, and sunsets.”

— Eric Carle

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50. “Simple design, intense content.”

— Edward Tufte

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