100+ APA Long Quote Examples: Perfect Copywriting Templates for Research & SEO

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” — Winston Churchill.

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” — Eleanor Roosevelt.

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” — Mahatma Gandhi.

“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” — Theodore Roosevelt.

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” — Confucius.

“Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” — Steve Jobs.

“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” — Steve Jobs.

“Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” — Will Rogers.

“If you are offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.” — Sheryl Sandberg.

“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” — Chinese Proverb.

“Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” — George Addair.

“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.” — C.S. Lewis.

“I’m not arguing, I’m just explaining why I’m right.” — Unknown.

“The early bird might get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.” — Steven Wright.

“I used to think I was indecisive, but now I’m not so sure.” — Unknown.

“I told my wife she was drawing her eyebrows too high. She looked surprised.” — Comedian Gallagher.

“I always take life with a grain of salt… plus a slice of lemon… and a shot of tequila.” — Carrie Fisher.

“I’m not lazy, I’m on energy-saving mode.” — Unknown.

“My bed is a magical place where I suddenly remember everything I was supposed to do.” — Unknown.

“I’m not short, I’m concentrated awesome.” — Unknown.

“Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?” — Robin Williams.

“I don’t need therapy, I just need to scream into the void.” — Unknown.

“I put the ‘pro’ in procrastination.” — Unknown.

“I’m not aging, I’m upgrading.” — Unknown.

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson.

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” — Aristotle.

“The unexamined life is not worth living.” — Socrates.

“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” — Friedrich Nietzsche.

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” — Carl Jung.

“Man is the measure of all things.” — Protagoras.

“Knowledge is power.” — Francis Bacon.

“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.” — Heraclitus.

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” — Aristotle.

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” — Socrates.

“We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason.” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

“Freedom is not freedom unless it includes the freedom to make mistakes.” — Mahatma Gandhi.

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” — Jane Austen, *Pride and Prejudice*.

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” — Leo Tolstoy, *Anna Karenina*.

“Call me Ishmael.” — Herman Melville, *Moby Dick*.

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” — Charles Dickens, *A Tale of Two Cities*.

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald, *The Great Gatsby*.

“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.” — J.R.R. Tolkien, *The Hobbit*.

“It was a pleasure to burn.” — Ray Bradbury, *Fahrenheit 451*.

“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.” — Charles Dickens, *A Tale of Two Cities*.

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.” — Charlotte Brontë, *Jane Eyre*.

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.” — Ernest Hemingway, *A Farewell to Arms*.

“Big Brother is watching you.” — George Orwell, *1984*.

“She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.” — J.D. Salinger, *Franny and Zooey*.

“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” — Sam Levenson.

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt.

“Push yourself, because no one else is going to do it for you.” — Unknown.

“Great things never come from comfort zones.” — Unknown.

“Dream big and dare to fail.” — Norman Vaughan.

“Success doesn’t just come and find you, you have to go out and get it.” — Unknown.

“The harder you work for something, the greater you’ll feel when you achieve it.” — Unknown.

“Dream it. Wish it. Do it.” — Unknown.

“Done is better than perfect.” — Sheryl Sandberg.

“The path to success is to take massive, determined action.” — Tony Robbins.

“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” — Winston Churchill.

“Opportunities don't happen. You create them.” — Chris Grosser.

“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” — Aristotle.

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” — Dr. Seuss.

“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” — Audrey Hepburn.

“I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.” — Roy Croft.

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” — Lao Tzu.

“Where there is love there is life.” — Mahatma Gandhi.

“In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours.” — Maya Angelou.

“Love makes our souls grow.” — Victor Hugo.

“I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect and I loved you even more.” — Angelita Lim.

“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” — David Viscott.

“Love is not about how many days, months, or years you have been together. Love is about how much you love each other every single day.” — Unknown.

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.” — Alfred Lord Tennyson.

“Leadership is not about being in charge. It is about taking care of those in your charge.” — Simon Sinek.

“The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.” — Ronald Reagan.

“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” — John C. Maxwell.

“People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.” — John C. Maxwell.

“A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.” — Martin Luther King Jr.

“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower.

“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” — Ralph Nader.

“Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.” — Peter Drucker.

“The price of greatness is responsibility.” — Winston Churchill.

“A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.” — Rosalynn Carter.

“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” — Warren Bennis.

“The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are.” — John C. Maxwell.

“The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for himself.” — Lao Tzu.

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” — Aristotle.

“Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.” — Basho.

“True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.” — Socrates.

“The fool speaks, the wise man listens.” — Unknown.

“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.” — Albert Einstein.

“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” — Eleanor Roosevelt.

“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.” — Henry Ford.

“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.” — Oscar Wilde.

“It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom.” — Mahatma Gandhi.

“The wise man questions the mind, the fool trusts it.” — Unknown.

“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.” — Abraham Lincoln.

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” — Lao Tzu.

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” — C.S. Lewis.

“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” — Albert Einstein.

“Your level of success will seldom exceed your level of personal development.” — Jim Rohn.

“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson.

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson.

“Continuous effort—not strength or intelligence—is the key to unlocking our potential.” — Winston Churchill.

“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” — Robert Louis Stevenson.

“Investing in yourself is the best investment you will ever make.” — Warren Buffett.

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

“Small daily improvements are the key to staggering long-term results.” — Robin Sharma.

“Growth begins when we accept our weaknesses and commit to overcoming them.” — Unknown.

“Content is king, but engagement is queen, and the lady rules the house.” — Mari Smith.

“Social media is not just a spoke on the wheel of marketing. It is becoming the way entire bicycles are built.” — Ryan Lilly.

“The art of communication is the language of leadership.” — James Humes.

“Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.” — Alan Alda.

“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” — George Bernard Shaw.

“Build relationships, not contacts.” — Tim Sanders.

“People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it.” — Simon Sinek.

“The story of social media is still being written—and we’re all authors.” — Brian Solis.

“To connect with others, you must first connect with yourself.” — Oprah Winfrey.

“Engagement is the new currency.” — Gary Vaynerchuk.

“Communication works for those who work at it.” — John Powell.

“Your brand is what people say about you when you’re not in the room.” — Jeff Bezos.