Easy Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old easy quotes, easy sayings, and easy proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Its not easy taking your own advice, accepting what you don't like hearing, & seeing the grey amongst the black & white. April Mae Monterrosa
It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie. Victor Hugo
An easy way to find your own style is to exaggerate yourself a bit and then find a balance. Johan Lindeberg
It's easy to make good decisions when there are no bad options. Robert Half
People will always have an opinion, but you have to live life the way you want to. It's very easy to tell others what to do, but difficult to implement it on yourself. Preity Zinta
It is easy to believe we are each waves and forget we are also the ocean. Jon J Muth
It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get. Elbert Hubbard
It is easy to love people when they smell good, but sometimes they slip into the manure of life and smell awful. You must love them just as much when they smell foul. Wayne Dyer
It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action. Honoré de Balzac
There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere. Nelson Mandela
It is easier to align our opinions with facts, than it is to align facts with our opinions. Justin K. McFarlane Beau
Change is never easy, and it often creates discord, but when people come together for the good of humanity and the Earth, we can accomplish great things. David Suzuki
There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right. Ronald Reagan
It's very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better. Jonathan Ive
It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad. Charles Eames
Difficult things aren't easy, but they're worth it. Mia Love
It's easy to say young people should believe in themselves, but the number one thing is recognizing that it's a journey, that you have to build confidence in yourself. Andrew Shue
When something comes easy, you usually let it go the same way. Nora Roberts
It's always easy to blame others. You can spend your entire life blaming the world, but your successes or failures are entirely your own responsibility. You can try to stop time, but it's a complete waste of energy. Paulo Coelho
The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it, but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it. Madame De Stael
It is easy to make promises it is hard work to keep them. Boris Johnson
It's easy to make money when you have a lot of it. Max Tegmark
Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible. Larry Wall
It was all too easy to make things up, it was like skating on thin ice, it was like doing dainty pirouettes on a brittle crust over water thousands of fathoms deep. Jostein Gaarder
It's easy to be complicated but very difficult to be simple. Debasish Mridha
It is easy to make promises, it is hard work to keep them. Boris Johnson
If we all tried to make other people's paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on. Myrtle Reed
Easy is right. Begin right and you are easy. Continue easy and you are right. The right way to go easy is to forget the right way, and forget that the going is easy. Zhuangzi
Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice. E. M. Forster
It's easy to see the negative, but every person has something great about them. Develop a habit of looking for the good. Joel Osteen
It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart. Al Pacino
Things aren't always easy, but you just have to keep going and don't let the small stuff bog you down. Stella Maeve
An easy life doesn't teach us anything. In the end it's the learning that matters: what we've learned and how we've grown Richard Bach
Nothing is so easy as to deceive one's self for what we wish, that we readily believe; but such expectations are often inconsistent with the real state of things. Demosthenes
There is always an easy solution to every problem neat, plausible, and wrong. H. L. Mencken
Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic, or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline. Barbara Tuchman
If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is always difficult since we think them happier than they are. Montesquieu
Vacant heart and hand and eye, / Easy live and quiet die. Sir Walter Scott
It is easy to fly into a passion— anybody can do that— but to be angry with the right person and to the right extent and at the right time and with the right object and in the right way— that is not easy, and it's not everyone who can do it. Aristotle
If something seems too easy, it probably is. Terry M. Walker
There is no excellence without difficulty. Ovid
In the bad old days, there were three easy ways of losing money—racing being the quickest, women the pleasantest, and farming the most certain. Earl Amherst
From politics, it was an easy step to silence. Abbey Northanger
From politics, it was an easy step to silence. Abbey Northanger
It was an easy cause any man may be eloquent. Ovid
I sweat. If anything comes easy to me, I mistrust it. Lillli Palmer
It is easy— terribly easy— to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work. George Bernard Shaw
All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity are easy. Stay away from easy. Scott Alexander
It's easy to do anything in victory. It's in defeat that a man reveals himself. Floyd Patterson
I'm easy like Sunday morning. Lionel Richie
it is easy to do right out of fear, but it is better to do right because right is right. Louis Farrakhan
It's not easy to keep trying, /But it's one good way to grow. / It's not easy to keep learning, / But I know that this is so: / When you've tried and learned / You're bigger than you were a day ago. / It's not easy to keep trying, / But it's one way to grow. Fred Rogers
Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well. Theodore Roosevelt
Life itself is simple...it's just not easy. Steve Maraboli
If losing weight was easy, we would all be skinny. Steven Magee
Yes, it’s easier to be alone but when has life ever been easy? Lydia Longorio
Nothing worth having comes easy' Trust the process. Napz Cherub Pellazo
If the road is easy, it’s probably easy because it’s not a road and you're not on it. Craig D. Lounsbrugh
Being good is making it look easy, but getting good is never easy. Jeffrey Fry
To make life easy, accept its difficulty. Joshua Suya Pelicano
The choice in this life is not between easy and hard, but between kinds of hardship, between a hardship that gives birth to wisdom, compassion, and mercy, and the hardship that keeps on replicating itself to no end. Noam Shpancer
Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard. Benjamin Disraeli
Everything is hard before it is easy. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
How easy life is when it's easy, and how hard when it's hard. Philip Roth
Every difficult problem is easy if you know how to. Debasish Mridha