100+ Copywriting Examples: Can You End a Paragraph with a Quote? (Pro Tips & SEO Guide)

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” – Leo Tolstoy

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” – Charles Dickens

“Call me Ishmael.” – Herman Melville

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me.” – Charlotte Brontë

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

“A man is not what he knows but what he is willing to learn.” – Malcolm X

“The only way to deal with fear is to face it head-on.” – George Orwell

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.” – Rudyard Kipling

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” – Oscar Wilde

“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.” – Voltaire

“It is not length of life, but depth of life.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t—you’re right.” – Henry Ford

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

“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 miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky

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

“It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela

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

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

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt

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

“Know thyself.” – Socrates

“I think, therefore I am.” – René Descartes

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” – Aristotle

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

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

“To be is to be perceived.” – George Berkeley

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

“Everything that exists is logical.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

“No man ever steps in the same river twice.” – Heraclitus

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

“What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational.” – G.W.F. Hegel

“I have a dream.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

“Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.” – John F. Kennedy

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“We shall fight on the beaches…” – Winston Churchill

“Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” – Abraham Lincoln

“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

“In politics, nothing happens by accident.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The ballot is stronger than the bullet.” – Abraham Lincoln

“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.” – Winston Churchill

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

“An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“Let every nation know… that we shall pay any price, bear any burden…” – John F. Kennedy

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” – Albert Einstein

“The important thing is not to stop questioning.” – Albert Einstein

“We are all made of stardust.” – Carl Sagan

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” – Carl Sagan

“Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.” – Carl Sagan

“The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.” – Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.” – Stephen Hawking

“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.” – Stephen Hawking

“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” – Albert Einstein

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

“We are not creators, we are discoverers.” – Marie Curie

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.” – Marie Curie

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

“If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.” – Margaret Thatcher

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

“I raise up my voice—not so I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard.” – Malala Yousafzai

“Feminism isn’t about making women strong. Women are already strong. It’s about changing the way the world perceives that strength.” – G.D. Anderson

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

“The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who’s going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand

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

“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” – Maya Angelou

“I’ve been a slave all my life. I’ve been a slave to men, to poverty, to race. But I won’t be a slave to fear.” – Harriet Tubman

“Each time a woman stands up for herself, she stands up for all women.” – Maya Angelou

“You don’t have to be perfect to be amazing.” – Amy Poehler

“I’m not afraid of death; I just don’t want to be there when it happens.” – Woody Allen

“Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.” – Jim Carrey

“I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass.” – David Lee Roth

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

“I told my wife she was drawing her eyebrows too high. She looked surprised.” – Steven Wright

“I'm not lazy, I'm on energy-saving mode.” – Unknown

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

“I hate housework: you drag the dirt around and then they won’t let you keep it.” – Phyllis Diller

“My therapist says I have a preoccupation with vengeance. We’ll see about that.” – Bill Burr

“I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.” – Lily Tomlin

“I don’t need therapy. I just need to scream into the void.” – Bo Burnham

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

“You don’t have to be perfect to be worthy of love.” – Brene Brown

“Comparison is the thief of joy.” – Theodore Roosevelt (popularized online)

“Self-care isn’t selfish. You can’t serve from an empty vessel.” – Eleanor Brownn

“Progress over perfection.” – Unknown (widely shared)

“You are allowed to say no without feeling guilty.” – Rachel Hollis

“Your vibe attracts your tribe.” – Unknown

“Mindset is everything.” – Gary Vaynerchuk

“Create content like no one’s watching, market like everyone is.” – Jay Baer

“Be the energy you want to attract.” – Unknown

“Small habits, big results.” – James Clear (popular on Instagram)

“Digital minimalism is the new luxury.” – Cal Newport

“Your attention is your most valuable currency.” – Anne-Laure Le Cunff

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Tao Te Ching

“The best fighter is never angry.” – Tao Te Ching

“To know that you do not know is the best.” – Confucius

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

“The mind is everything. What you think, you become.” – Buddha

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

“Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you.” – Bible, Luke 6:27

“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son.” – Bible, John 3:16

“And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries… but have not love, I am nothing.” – Bible, 1 Corinthians 13:2

“The pen is mightier than the sword.” – Edward Bulwer-Lytton (often misattributed to ancient sources)

“Not all who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien (often mistaken for ancient)

“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.” – Victor Hugo (inspired by ancient themes)

“Why so serious?” – The Joker, The Dark Knight

“I am your father.” – Darth Vader, Star Wars

“After all this time?” “Always.” – Severus Snape, Harry Potter

“There’s no place like home.” – Dorothy, The Wizard of Oz

“Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.” – Rhett Butler, Gone with the Wind

“I’ll be back.” – The Terminator

“You can’t handle the truth!” – Colonel Jessup, A Few Good Men

“Life is like a box of chocolates.” – Forrest Gump

“May the Force be with you.” – Star Wars

“Just keep swimming.” – Dory, Finding Nemo

“I’m the king of the world!” – Jack, Titanic

“Why don’t you pucker up and kiss my shiny metal ass?” – Bender, Futurama