100+ Insights on Whether Books Should Be Italicized or Quoted

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do." – Steve Jobs

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts." – Winston Churchill

"Believe you can and you're halfway there." – Theodore Roosevelt

"Your time is limited, don't waste it living someone else's life." – Steve Jobs

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." – Confucius

"Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going." – Sam Levenson

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." – Eleanor Roosevelt

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." – C.S. Lewis

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." – William James

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." – Mahatma Gandhi

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." – Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Do one thing every day that scares you." – Eleanor Roosevelt

"I'm not arguing, I'm just explaining why I'm right." – Unknown

"I’m not lazy, I’m on energy-saving mode." – Unknown

"If at first you don’t succeed, redefine success." – Unknown

"I used to be indecisive. Now I’m not sure." – Unknown

"I put the ‘pro’ in procrastination." – Unknown

"I’m not short, I’m concentrated awesome." – Unknown

"I didn’t fall off the wagon—I jumped off with style." – Unknown

"I’m not weird, I’m limited edition." – Unknown

"I followed my dreams… now I’m lost." – Unknown

"My bed is a magical place where I suddenly remember everything I was supposed to do." – Unknown

"I’m not late—everyone else is just early." – Unknown

"I’m not addicted to coffee—I’m committed." – Unknown

"Know thyself." – Socrates

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." – Aristotle

"Happiness depends upon ourselves." – Aristotle

"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man." – Heraclitus

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." – Socrates

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

"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how." – Friedrich Nietzsche

"The unexamined life is not worth living." – Socrates

"It is not that we have little time, but that we waste much of it." – Seneca

"Fate leads the willing and drags along the reluctant." – Seneca

"Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one." – Marcus Aurelius

"If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things." – René Descartes

"Where there is love, there is life." – Mahatma Gandhi

"Love makes our souls bloom." – Rumi

"I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you." – Roy Croft

"To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides." – David Viscott

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage." – Lao Tzu

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

"In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine." – Maya Angelou

"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies." – Aristotle

"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

"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same." – Emily Brontë

"Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile." – Franklin P. Jones

"I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)." – E.E. Cummings

"A woman is like a tea bag—you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water." – Eleanor Roosevelt

"Well-behaved women seldom make history." – Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

"There is no limit to what we, as women, can accomplish." – Michelle Obama

"I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own." – Audre Lorde

"Here’s to strong women: May we know them, may we be them, may we raise them." – Unknown

"Women belong in all places where decisions are being made." – Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples." – Mother Teresa

"The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud." – Coco Chanel

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." – Eleanor Roosevelt

"She believed she could, so she did." – R.S. Grey

"A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman." – Melinda Gates

"We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced." – Malala Yousafzai

"Be the energy you want to attract." – Unknown

"Good vibes only." – Unknown

"Stay close to anything that makes you glow inside." – Unknown

"Dream big. Start small. Act now." – Robin Sharma

"Self-care isn’t selfish." – Unknown

"Progress over perfection." – Unknown

"Create your own sunshine." – Unknown

"Say less. Do more." – Unknown

"Less filter, more real." – Unknown

"Mindset is everything." – Unknown

"Make today so awesome yesterday gets jealous." – Unknown

"You do you." – Unknown

"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently." – Henry Ford

"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." – Winston Churchill

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." – Thomas Edison

"It’s fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure." – Bill Gates

"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor." – Truman Capote

"Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success." – Napoleon Hill

"Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life." – J.K. Rowling

"Fail fast, fail often, but always fail forward." – John C. Maxwell

"The phoenix must burn to emerge." – Janet Fitch

"Failure is not the opposite of success; it’s part of success." – Arianna Huffington

"Sometimes when you're in a dark place, you think you've been buried, but you've actually been planted." – Christine Caine

"Out of difficulties grow miracles." – Jean de La Bruyère

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." – Henry David Thoreau

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started." – Mark Twain

"Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today." – Will Rogers

"The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary." – Vidal Sassoon

"If you're not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late." – Reid Hoffman

"Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning." – Bill Gates

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it." – Alan Kay

"Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard." – Guy Kawasaki

"Focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex." – Steve Jobs

"Chase the vision, not the money; the money will end up following you." – Tony Hsieh

"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can." – Arthur Ashe

"Opportunities don't happen. You create them." – Chris Grosser

"Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without." – Buddha

"The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion." – Thich Nhat Hanh

"Breathe. It’s just a bad day, not a bad life." – Unknown

"Let go or be dragged." – Zen Proverb

"Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have." – Eckhart Tolle

"Meditation is not about stopping thoughts, but recognizing that we are more than our thoughts." – Deepak Chopra

"Serenity is not freedom from the storm, but peace amid the storm." – Unknown

"Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet." – Thich Nhat Hanh

"Silence is the language of God; all else is poor translation." – Rumi

"When the mind is quiet, wisdom speaks." – Unknown

"Stillness is where creativity and solutions are found." – Matthew McKay

"Be where you are; otherwise you will miss your life." – Buddha

"The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend." – Henri Bergson

"Once you stop learning, you start dying." – Albert Einstein

"We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are." – Anaïs Nin

"The greatest danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short, but in setting our aim too low and reaching it." – Michelangelo

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." – Albert Einstein

"Doubt is the origin of wisdom." – Augustine of Hippo

"If you want to know your past, look into your present conditions. If you want to know your future, look into your present actions." – Buddha

"The only constant in life is change." – Heraclitus

"You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore." – Christopher Columbus

"Everything you know is wrong." – Frank Zappa

"Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly." – Morticia Addams

"We are fooled by the idea that progress means complexity, when often it means simplicity." – Edward de Bono