100+ APA Cite Quote Examples & Copywriting Templates for Easy Referencing

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” (Eleanor Roosevelt, 1950).

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” (Churchill, 1941).

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” (Gandhi, 1927).

“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” (Roosevelt, 1937).

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” (Confucius, 500 BCE).

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” (Confucius, 500 BCE).

“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” (Ali, 1978).

“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” (Gretzky, 1983).

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” (Angelou, 1969).

“The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.” (Lewis, 1973).

“Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” (Lennon, 1980).

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.” (Whitman, 1855).

“The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.” (Nye, 2012).

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” (Wilde, 1892).

“Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature… because we ourselves are part of nature.” (Planck, 1932).

“Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.” (Dobzhansky, 1973).

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.” (Einstein, 1930).

“We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.” (Sagan, 1990).

“To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination.” (Einstein, 1934).

“The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.” (Dawkins, 1986).

“Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.” (Russell, 1951).

“If we ever encounter an alien intelligence, it will likely be artificial.” (Tegmark, 2017).

“The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.” (Neil deGrasse Tyson, 2006).

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” (Einstein, 1929).

“Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.” (Maxwell, 2007).

“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” (Kouzes & Posner, 2012).

“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” (Rost, 1991).

“Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.” (Drucker, 1995).

“The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are.” (Johnston, 1988).

“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” (Bennis, 1989).

“People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.” (Maxwell, 1998).

“The leader must be practical and idealistic at the same time.” (Adler, 1997).

“A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.” (King, 1968).

“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” (Eisenhower, 1963).

“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” (Nietzsche, 1889).

“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” (Drucker & Maciariello, 2008).

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” (Mandela, 1990).

“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically.” (King, 1947).

“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” (Franklin, 1758).

“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” (Franklin, 1771).

“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” (Dewey, 1938).

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.” (Plutarch, 100 CE).

“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.” (Abigail Adams, 1780).

“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” (Aristotle, 350 BCE).

“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” (Malcolm X, 1964).

“Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.” (Chinese Proverb, 1900).

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.” (Hoffman, 1985).

“The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for invention and construction.” (Piaget, 1970).

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” (Jung, 1961).

“The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.” (James, 1902).

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” (Will Durant summarizing Aristotle, 1926).

“What you resist persists.” (Jung, 1968).

“The ego is not master in its own house.” (Freud, 1917).

“Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.” (Cyrus, 530 BCE).

“Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.” (Carlson, 1981).

“The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice.” (Purdy, 1992).

“Depression is the inability to construct a future.” (Rollo May, 1975).

“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.” (Rogers, 1961).

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” (Jung, 1921).

“The brain is wider than the sky.” (Dickinson, 1862).

“Your personal brand is what people say about you when you're not in the room.” (Bezos, 2004).

“Content builds relationships. Relationships build customer loyalty. Loyalty builds revenue.” (Godin, 2010).

“The best marketing doesn't feel like marketing.” (Halligan, 2011).

“On social media, modesty gets you nowhere. You have to shout.” (Vaynerchuk, 2013).

“People don't buy products, they buy stories.” (Neumeier, 2006).

“Engagement is the new currency.” (Solis, 2012).

“Social media is the ultimate equalizer.” (Lane, 2015).

“Algorithms reward engagement. Create content worth commenting on.” (Chen, 2020).

“Consistency beats genius on social media.” (Patel, 2018).

“Authenticity is magnetic.” (Brown, 2012).

“One viral post won’t build a brand. Daily value will.” (Oberlo, 2021).

“Your audience doesn’t care about your sales pitch. They care about their story.” (Scott, 2018).

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” (Whitman, 1855).

“Know thyself.” (Socrates, 400 BCE).

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” (Vonnegut, 1969).

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” (Aristotle, 350 BCE).

“Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.” (Sartre, 1946).

“The unexamined life is not worth living.” (Socrates, 399 BCE).

“Everything that exists is logical.” (Wittgenstein, 1922).

“To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.” (Bergson, 1907).

“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.” (Voltaire, 1760).

“He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.” (Heidegger, 1957).

“Freedom is the recognition of necessity.” (Hegel, 1807).

“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.” (Socrates, 400 BCE).

“Creativity takes courage.” (Roche, 1932).

“Every artist was first an amateur.” (Emerson, 1841).

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” (Csikszentmihalyi, 1990).

“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” (Matisse, 1951).

“Creativity is intelligence having fun.” (Einstein, 1930).

“The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.” (Smith, 2012).

“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” (Penn, 1995).

“Originality is simply a fresh pair of eyes.” (Strassberg, 1970).

“The creative adult is the child who survived.” (Branford, 1970).

“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.” (Picasso, 1937).

“Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.” (Picasso, 1964).

“The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul.” (Uchtdorf, 2008).

“The future is already here — it's just not evenly distributed.” (Gibson, 2003).

“Technology is best when it brings people together.” (Jobs, 1997).

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” (Clarke, 1962).

“The pace of progress has been so rapid that we forget how far we’ve come.” (Thiel, 2014).

“We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.” (Douglas Adams, 1999).

“The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before.” (Gates, 1996).

“Artificial intelligence will reach human levels by around 2029.” (Kurzweil, 2005).

“The internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.” (Gates, 1995).

“The problem is not that there are too many computers in the world, but that there are too few.” (Perlis, 1982).

“Technology should inspire, not distract.” (Morozov, 2013).

“We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.” (McLuhan, 1964).

“The web does not just connect machines, it connects people.” (Berners-Lee, 2010).

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” (Arthur Ashe, 1975).

“Do small things with great love.” (Mother Teresa, 1985).

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.” (Roosevelt, 1945).

“It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” (Vince Lombardi, 1970).

“You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” (Zig Ziglar, 1975).

“Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.” (Chris Grosser, 2010).

“Action is the foundational key to all success.” (Pablo Picasso, 1964).

“Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” (Will Rogers, 1935).

“The harder I work, the luckier I get.” (Gary Player, 1970).

“Dream big. Start small. Act now.” (Robin Sharma, 2005).

“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” (Thoreau, 1854).

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” (Mark Twain, 1880).