100+ MLA Quote Examples & Copywriting Templates for Perfect Citations

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

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

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

“Call me Ishmael” (Melville 3).

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

“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun” (Salinger 124).

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me” (Brontë 225).

“The creature was made, not born” (Shelley 56).

“Big Brother is watching you” (Orwell 5).

“We accept the love we think we deserve” (Chbosky 77).

“It was a pleasure to burn” (Bradbury 3).

“She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment” (Chopin 57).

“I think, therefore I am” (Descartes 17).

“Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself” (Sartre 22).

“To be is to be perceived” (Berkeley 34).

“God is dead” (Nietzsche 125).

“Existence precedes essence” (de Beauvoir 56).

“The unexamined life is not worth living” (Plato 38a).

“Happiness depends upon ourselves” (Aristotle 109).

“We are what we repeatedly do” (Aristotle 110).

“Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, except bad news” (Pratchett 45).

“Life must be understood backward, but lived forward” (Kierkegaard 112).

“Doubt is the origin of wisdom” (Augustine 73).

“Freedom is the recognition of necessity” (Hegel 89).

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

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

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

“Opportunities don’t happen. You create them” (Collins n.p.).

“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take” (Gretzky n.p.).

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today” (Roosevelt n.p.).

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

“Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard” (Bryant n.p.).

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

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

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

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started” (Twain n.p.).

“To be, or not to be, that is the question” (Shakespeare *Hamlet* 3.1.56).

“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players” (Shakespeare *As You Like It* 2.7.139).

“Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble” (Shakespeare *Macbeth* 4.1.10–11).

“O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?” (Shakespeare *Romeo and Juliet* 2.2.33).

“Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once” (Shakespeare *Julius Caesar* 2.2.32–33).

“The lady doth protest too much, methinks” (Shakespeare *Hamlet* 3.2.209).

“If music be the food of love, play on” (Shakespeare *Twelfth Night* 1.1.1).

“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy” (Shakespeare *Hamlet* 1.5.166–67).

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind” (Shakespeare *A Midsummer Night’s Dream* 1.1.234).

“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown” (Shakespeare *Henry IV, Part 2* 3.1.31).

“Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more” (Shakespeare *Henry V* 3.1.1).

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet” (Shakespeare *Romeo and Juliet* 2.2.43–44).

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that” (King Jr. 23).

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world” (Gandhi 45).

“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up” (King Jr. 27).

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world” (Mandela 88).

“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes” (Gandhi 67).

“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things” (Kennedy n.p.).

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

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

“Out of clutter, find simplicity” (da Vinci 102).

“Imagination is more important than knowledge” (Einstein 15).

“Peace begins with a smile” (Mother Teresa 33).

“No one has ever become poor by giving” (Mother Teresa 41).

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by” (Frost 19).

“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul” (Dickinson 1).

“I contain multitudes” (Whitman 51).

“Do not go gentle into that good night” (Thomas 1).

“Because I could not stop for Death – He kindly stopped for me” (Dickinson 1).

“I wandered lonely as a cloud” (Wordsworth 1).

“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know” (Keats 49).

“I arise from dreams of thee” (Poe 3).

“The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep” (Frost 20).

“Still I rise” (Angelou 1).

“I, too, sing America” (Hughes 1).

“Let America be America again” (Hughes 5).

“May the Force be with you” (*Star Wars* 1977).

“Here's looking at you, kid” (*Casablanca* 1942).

“You can't handle the truth!” (*A Few Good Men* 1992).

“I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse” (*The Godfather* 1972).

“There's no place like home” (*The Wizard of Oz* 1939).

“Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer” (*The Godfather Part II* 1974).

“Why so serious?” (*The Dark Knight* 2008).

“You talking to me?” (*Taxi Driver* 1976).

“Life is like a box of chocolates” (*Forrest Gump* 1994).

“Just keep swimming” (*Finding Nemo* 2003).

“Winter is coming” (*Game of Thrones*, HBO 2011).

“I drink and I know things” (*Game of Thrones*, HBO 2013).

“Eureka!” (Archimedes qtd. in Heath 12).

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work” (Edison qtd. in Stross 45).

“The important thing is not to stop questioning” (Einstein qtd. in Calaprice 33).

“Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration” (Edison qtd. in Baldwin 22).

“We chose to go to the moon... not because it is easy, but because it is hard” (Kennedy qtd. in Logsdon 7).

“Something wonderful happens when you're curious” (Tyson 101).

“The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life” (Sagan 1).

“We are made of star-stuff” (Sagan 2).

“Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge” (Sagan 4).

“In science, there is no such thing as failure—only feedback” (Curie qtd. in Quinn 67).

“Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution” (Dobzhansky 126).

“The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you” (Neil deGrasse Tyson 88).

“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies” (Aristotle qtd. in Kraut 45).

“Where there is love, there is life” (Gandhi 77).

“Love makes the world go round” (Anonymous qtd. in Smith 102).

“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved” (Victor Hugo qtd. in Robb 33).

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength” (Lao Tzu qtd. in Wing 15).

“Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation” (Osho qtd. in Brown 89).

“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides” (Burns 22).

“When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew” (Shakespeare *As You Like It* 3.5.110).

“Love is an endless act of forgiveness” (Peter Ustinov qtd. in Jones 54).

“We loved with a love that was true love” (Poe 1).

“Love is the bridge between two hearts” (Anonymous qtd. in Lee 67).

“Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives” (William James qtd. in Taylor 29).

“Your vibe attracts your tribe” (Unknown Instagram post, 2020).

“Self-care isn’t selfish. You can’t pour from an empty cup” (@mindful_mommy, Instagram 2021).

“Comparison is the thief of joy” (Theodore Roosevelt qtd. in @dailyquotes 2022).

“You do you, boo” (@queen_of_vibes, TikTok 2023).

“Good energy only” (@positivevibesdaily, Twitter 2021).

“Manifest it, then receive it” (@spiritual_szn, Instagram 2022).

“You are enough, just as you are” (@selflove_journey, Facebook 2020).

“Create the life you can’t wait to wake up to” (@dreamdesigner, YouTube 2023).

“Confidence level: selfie with no filter” (@nofilter_nina, Instagram 2021).

“Stay humble, stay hungry, stay grinding” (@hustle_king, Twitter 2022).

“Vibe high, live fully” (@zen_zoe, TikTok 2023).

“Your story matters—share it bravely” (@authenticvoice, LinkedIn 2021).