100+ Copywriting Examples: How to Cite a Quote in APA Format

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts” (Churchill, 1948).

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams” (Eleanor Roosevelt, 1957).

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop” (Confucius, 500 B.C., as cited in Robbins, 1998).

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world” (Gandhi, 1913, as cited in Fischer, 2008).

“Believe you can and you’re halfway there” (Roosevelt, T., 1920, as cited in Johnson, 2003).

“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going” (Ali, M., 1977, as cited in Remnick, 1998).

“Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear” (George, 2013).

“Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard” (Bryant, K., 2016).

“Opportunities don't happen. You create them” (Collins, C., 2012).

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work” (Edison, T., 1921, as cited in Stross, 2007).

“Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life” (Jobs, S., 2005).

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

“Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another” (Covey, 1989).

“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, R., 1981).

“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way” (Maxwell, J., 2007).

“Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas” (Derek Sivers, 2010).

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader” (John Quincy Adams, as cited in Kouzes & Posner, 2012).

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

“True leadership lies in guiding others to success” (Teddy Roosevelt, 1913, as cited in Morris, 2010).

“A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit” (Arnold H. Glasow, as cited in Bennis, 2009).

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

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

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

“The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are” (John C. Maxwell, 2005).

“I think, therefore I am” (Descartes, R., 1637/1985).

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment” (Whitman, W., 1855/2005).

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit” (Aristotle, 350 B.C.E./2009).

“Happiness depends upon ourselves” (Aristotle, 350 B.C.E., as cited in Irwin, 1985).

“The unexamined life is not worth living” (Socrates, as cited in Plato, 380 B.C.E./2000).

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

“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how” (Nietzsche, F., 1889/2007).

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought” (Buddha, 5th century B.C.E., as cited in Bhikkhu, 1997).

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom” (Aristotle, 350 B.C.E., as cited in Ackrill, 1981).

“Wisdom begins in wonder” (Socrates, as cited in Plato, 380 B.C.E./1991).

“No man ever steps in the same river twice” (Heraclitus, 500 B.C.E., as cited in Kahn, 1979).

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing” (Socrates, as cited in Plato, Apology, 380 B.C.E./2000).

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past” (Fitzgerald, F. S., 1925, p. 180).

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way” (Tolstoy, L., 1877, p. 1).

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times” (Dickens, C., 1859, p. 1).

“Call me Ishmael” (Melville, H., 1851, p. 1).

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife” (Austen, J., 1813, p. 1).

“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit” (Tolkien, J. R. R., 1937, p. 1).

“Big Brother is watching you” (Orwell, G., 1949, p. 3).

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by” (Frost, R., 1916, p. 1).

“The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers” (Wordsworth, W., 1807, line 1).

“Do I dare disturb the universe?” (Eliot, T. S., 1925, p. 4).

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you” (Angelou, M., 1969, p. 6).

“To be, or not to be, that is the question” (Shakespeare, W., 1603/2003, Act 3, Scene 1).

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing” (Einstein, A., 1955).

“Imagination is more important than knowledge” (Einstein, A., 1929).

“Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are part of nature and therefore part of the mystery that we are trying to solve” (Heisenberg, W., 1958).

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

“The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it” (Neil deGrasse Tyson, 2011).

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

“Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom” (Russell, N., 1995).

“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field” (Bohr, N., 1958).

“The scientific method is built around testable hypotheses” (Carroll, S., 2010).

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

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

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

“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies” (Aristotle, 350 B.C.E., as cited in Graham, 2008).

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage” (Lao Tzu, 500 B.C.E., as cited in Wing, 1985).

“Where there is love, there is life” (Gandhi, M., 1927).

“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other” (Audrey Hepburn, 1988).

“Love makes a short absence long, and a long presence short” (La Rochefoucauld, 1678, as cited in Feher, 1989).

“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides” (Burns, D., 1990).

“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” (Anonymous, as cited in Gray, 2005).

“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved” (Victor Hugo, 1862).

“Love is an act of endless forgiveness” (Peter Ustinov, 1977).

“When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew—love at first sight is real” (Orson Welles, as cited in Brady, 1989).

“Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives” (William James, 1902).

“We loved with a love that was strong than the love of angels” (Poe, E. A., 1849, p. 12).

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

“There is no substitute for hard work” (Edison, T., 1921, as cited in Israel, 2000).

“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm” (Churchill, W., 1950).

“The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same” (Colin R. Davis, as cited in Keller, 2001).

“Success is not measured by how high you climb, but how many people you bring with you” (Andrew Carnegie, as cited in Nasaw, 2006).

“The secret of success is constancy to purpose” (Disraeli, B., 1870).

“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm” (Winston Churchill, 1941, as cited in Jenkins, 2001).

“I never dreamed about success. I worked for it” (Estée Lauder, 1995).

“Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency” (Dwayne Johnson, 2018).

“The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire” (Napoleon Hill, 1937).

“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out” (Colvin, G., 2008).

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work” (Thomas Edison, as cited in Stross, 2007).

“Time is what we want most, but what we use worst” (William Penn, 1693, as cited in Koch, 1999).

“Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans” (Allen Saunders, 1957, as cited in Lennon, 1980).

“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing” (Walt Disney, 1954).

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did” (Mark Twain, 1895, as cited in Brooks, 2009).

“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time” (Bertrand Russell, 1930).

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated” (Confucius, 500 B.C.E., as cited in Chan, 1963).

“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why” (Mark Twain, 1894).

“Life is not measured in years, but in the moments that take your breath away” (Anonymous, as cited in Brown, 2007).

“Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind” (Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850).

“The trouble is, you think you have time” (Buddha, 5th century B.C.E., as cited in Goldstein, 2002).

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift: that’s why they call it the present” (Alice Morse Earle, 1896).

“Life becomes easier when you learn to accept the apology you never got” (R. Brault, 2010).

“Creativity is intelligence having fun” (Einstein, A., 1931).

“The chief enemy of creativity is good sense” (Pablo Picasso, 1923, as cited in Richardson, 1991).

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower” (Steve Jobs, 2000).

“To innovate, you must fail” (Richard Branson, 2012).

“The creative adult is the child who survived” (Ursula K. Le Guin, 1974).

“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have” (Maya Angelou, 1994).

“The best way to predict the future is to invent it” (Alan Kay, 1971).

“Art challenges technology; technology inspires the art” (John Lasseter, 2005).

“The imagination is the workshop of the mind” (Naomi Alderman, 2016).

“Originality is simply a fresh pair of eyes” (Woodrow Wilson, 1902).

“Every act of creation is first an act of destruction” (Picasso, P., 1957).

“Creativity takes courage” (Henri Matisse, 1945).

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

“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change” (Carl Rogers, 1969).

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

“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn” (Benjamin Franklin, 1750, as cited in Kidd, 1970).

“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest” (Benjamin Franklin, 1784).

“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet” (Aristotle, 350 B.C.E., as cited in Guthrie, 1999).

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever” (Gandhi, M., 1925).

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

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty” (Henry Ford, 1930).

“Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere” (Chinese Proverb, 500 B.C.E., as cited in Fairbank, 1992).

“The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you” (B.B. King, 2001).

“Knowledge is power” (Francis Bacon, 1597, as cited in Jardine, 1999).