These short quotes don't get too verbose. Using the minimum number of words, they are able to dish out profound words of wisdom.
Now, let's read through my selected list of short best life quotes with 10 words or less.
"You teach best what you most need to learn." - Richard Bach
"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
"The wise prefers questions to answers." - Best Life Quotes
"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
“Hope is a waking dream.” - Aristotle
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." - Oscar Wilde
"In teaching others we teach ourselves." - Proverb
"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
"Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself." - Chinese Proverb
"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
"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
"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
"By means of beauty all beautiful things become beautiful." - Socrates
"Sometimes mistakes are hidden answers." - Best Life Quotes
"An unexamined life is not worth living." - Socrates
“A great man is always willing to be little.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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