100+ APA Quote Examples & Copywriting Guide for Social Media Success

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

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

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

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” (C.S. Lewis, n.d.).

“It always seems impossible until it’s done.” (Mandela, n.d.).

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

“Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” (Jobs, n.d.).

“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” (Jobs, n.d.).

“I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” (Duke, n.d.).

“The harder you work for something, the greater you’ll feel when you achieve it.” (Anonymous, n.d.).

“Dream big and dare to fail.” (Disney, n.d.).

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

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

“The unexamined life is not worth living.” (Socrates, as cited in Plato, n.d.).

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

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

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” (Aristotle, n.d.).

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

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

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” (Socrates, as cited in Plato, n.d.).

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

“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.” (Heraclitus, n.d.).

“It is not length of life, but depth of life.” (Emerson, n.d.).

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought.” (Buddha, n.d.).

“Leadership is not about being in charge. It is about taking care of those in your charge.” (Sinek, n.d.).

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

“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” (Maxwell, n.d.).

“Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.” (Diamandis, n.d.).

“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.” (Reagan, n.d.).

“Leaders think and act exponentially.” (Kouzes & Posner, n.d.).

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

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

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

“A good leader inspires others with confidence in him; a great leader inspires them with confidence in themselves.” (Unknown, n.d.).

“Leadership is action, not position.” (DePree, n.d.).

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

“Give me liberty, or give me death!” (Henry, 1775).

“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation…” (Lincoln, 1863).

“Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.” (Kennedy, 1961).

“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed…” (King, 1963).

“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.” (Churchill, 1940).

“We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds…” (Churchill, 1940).

“Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” (Lincoln, 1863).

“One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” (Armstrong, 1969).

“Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.” (Kennedy, 1961).

“Where liberty dwells, there is my country.” (Franklin, 1783).

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” (Roosevelt, 1933).

“Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” (Jefferson, 1776).

“I’m not arguing, I’m just explaining why I’m right.” (Unknown, n.d.).

“Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.” (Martin, n.d.).

“I used to think I was indecisive, but now I’m not so sure.” (Unknown, n.d.).

“I'm not lazy, I'm on energy-saving mode.” (Unknown, n.d.).

“I told my wife she was drawing her eyebrows too high. She looked surprised.” (Groucho Marx, n.d.).

“I’m not short, I’m concentrated awesome.” (Unknown, n.d.).

“If at first you don’t succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.” (Unknown, n.d.).

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

“I put the ‘pro’ in procrastination.” (Unknown, n.d.).

“My favorite exercise is a cross between a lunge and a crunch—walking to the fridge.” (Mitch Hedberg, n.d.).

“I didn’t lose my mind. I sold it on eBay.” (Unknown, n.d.).

“The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.” (Unknown, n.d.).

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” (Dickens, 1859).

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” (Tolstoy, 1877).

“Call me Ishmael.” (Melville, 1851).

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” (Austen, 1813).

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” (Fitzgerald, 1925).

“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.” (Tolkien, 1937).

“It was a pleasure to burn.” (Bradbury, 1953).

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” (Orwell, 1945).

“Big Brother is watching you.” (Orwell, 1949).

“The world is flat.” (Greene, 1955).

“Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day…” (Shakespeare, 1606).

“To be, or not to be, that is the question.” (Shakespeare, 1603).

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” (Einstein, n.d.).

“We are made of star-stuff.” (Sagan, 1973).

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.” (Einstein, n.d.).

“Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.” (Sagan, 1996).

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

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

“We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.” (von Braun, n.d.).

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.” (Einstein, n.d.).

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.” (Einstein, n.d.).

“In science, there is only physics. All the rest is stamp collecting.” (Rutherford, n.d.).

“Data! Data! Data! I can't make bricks without clay.” (Doyle, 1892).

“The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.” (Neil deGrasse Tyson, n.d.).

“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” (Aristotle, n.d.).

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” (Lao Tzu, n.d.).

“Where there is love, there is life.” (Gandhi, n.d.).

“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” (Audrey Hepburn, n.d.).

“Love makes everything easier, even silence.” (Unknown, n.d.).

“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” (Burns, n.d.).

“Love is not about how many days, months, or years you have been together. It’s all about how much you love each other every single day.” (Unknown, n.d.).

“Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.” (H. Jackson Brown Jr., n.d.).

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.” (Alfred Lord Tennyson, n.d.).

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

“Love is the bridge between two hearts.” (Unknown, n.d.).

“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, n.d.).

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

“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” (Churchill, n.d.).

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.” (Albert Schweitzer, n.d.).

“There is no substitute for hard work.” (Edison, n.d.).

“I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” (Jordan, n.d.).

“Opportunities don't happen. You create them.” (Chris Grosser, n.d.).

“The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” (Colin R. Davis, n.d.).

“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” (Churchill, n.d.).

“The secret of success is constancy to purpose.” (Disraeli, n.d.).

“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” (Collier, n.d.).

“Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.” (Einstein, n.d.).

“Success is not measured by how high you climb, but how many people you bring with you.” (Unknown, n.d.).

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

“You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” (Maya Angelou, n.d.).

“The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.” (Pablo Picasso, n.d.).

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” (Picasso, n.d.).

“Creativity takes courage.” (Henri Matisse, n.d.).

“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” (Scott Adams, n.d.).

“The creative adult is the child who survived.” (Ursula K. Le Guin, n.d.).

“To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow.” (Kurt Vonnegut, n.d.).

“Art challenges society, and society controls art.” (Unknown, n.d.).

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” (Steve Jobs, n.d.).

“Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.” (Mary Lou Cook, n.d.).

“What is one to say about poetry? It is amazingly beautiful. It cannot be translated; it is perfectly incomprehensible.” (Carl Sandburg, n.d.).