Simplicity is the ultimate power that can lead us to higher living. When you want more and more, you are never satisfied. But when you strip off the unnecessary you live with much more freedom and joy.

Many of the greatest people in the world embrace simplicity. They know what is important to them and don’t run after things to please other people. Simplicity gives them strength, because they don’t waste their energies in useless wants and pleasures.

Steve Jobs once said, “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.”

Here’s a look at some of the most powerful quotes on simplicity to help you rise in your life.

1. “Simplicity is complex. It’s never simple to keep things simple. Simple solutions require the most advanced thinking.”

Richie Norton

2. “There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.”

Leo Tolstoy

3. “It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.”

Amelia Barr

4. “Live simply, so that others may simply live.”

Mother Teresa

5. “You can only become great at that thing you’re willing to sacrifice for.”

Maya Angelou

6. “Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.”

Charles Dudley Warner

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Isaac Newton

9. “Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.”

George Bernard Shaw

10. “As beautiful as simplicity is, it can become a tradition that stands in the way of exploration.”

Laura Nyro

11. “Those who have the ability to be grateful are the ones who have the ability to achieve greatness.”

Steve Maraboli

12. “Comfort and simplicity are two keys that I follow when it comes to fashion.”

Fawad Khan

13. “Simplicity is the outcome of technical subtlety. It is the goal, not the starting point.”

Maurice Saatchi

14. “A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life.”

Winston Churchill

15. “Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of it causes the least to take on the magnitude.”

Raymond Holliwell

16. “The role of genius is not to complicate the simple, but to simplify the complicated.”

Criss Jami

17. “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.”

Albert Einstein

18. “Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.”

William Allen White

19. “Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.”

John Maeda

20. “I have three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.”

Lao Tzu

21. “The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.”

Hans Hofmann

22. “The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.”

Orison Marden

23.  “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

Leonardo da Vinci

24. “The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace.”

Mildred Norman

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

Confucius

26. “I believe that things can be expressed very powerfully through simplicity.”

Johann Johannsson

27. “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