100+ APA Format Quote Examples: Perfect Copywriting & Citation Guide

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

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

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

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

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

“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt (T. Roosevelt, n.d.).

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

“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs (Jobs, 2005).

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

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.” – Walt Whitman (Whitman, 1856).

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson (Emerson, n.d.).

“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky (Gretzky, n.d.).

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

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson (Emerson, 1841).

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

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

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

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” – Carl Jung (Jung, 1961).

“Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.” – Jean-Paul Sartre (Sartre, 1946).

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

“Life must be understood backward. But it must be lived forward.” – Søren Kierkegaard (Kierkegaard, 1843).

“Existence precedes essence.” – Jean-Paul Sartre (Sartre, 1946).

“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.” – Seneca (Seneca, n.d.).

“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.” – Seneca (Seneca, n.d.).

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

“The early bird might get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.” – Steven Wright (Wright, n.d.).

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

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

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

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

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

“I told my wife she was drawing her eyebrows too high. She looked surprised.” – Comedian Steven Wright (Wright, n.d.).

“I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes—and thirty minutes later you have to start all over again.” – Joan Rivers (Rivers, n.d.).

“I finally remembered my password: ‘forgot’.” – Unknown (Unknown, n.d.).

“My phone battery lasts longer than my relationships.” – Unknown (Unknown, n.d.).

“I put my phone on airplane mode, but it’s still not flying.” – Unknown (Unknown, n.d.).

“Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.” – John C. Maxwell (Maxwell, 2007).

“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.” – Ronald Reagan (Reagan, n.d.).

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

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” – Steve Jobs (Jobs, 2005).

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

“People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.” – John C. Maxwell (Maxwell, 2007).

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

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

“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 (Glasow, n.d.).

“True leadership stems from character, not rank.” – Francis L. Geier (Geier, n.d.).

“Leadership is action, not position.” – Donald H. McGannon (McGannon, n.d.).

“The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are.” – John C. Maxwell (Maxwell, 2007).

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

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

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

“Love makes our souls grow.” – Victor Hugo (Hugo, n.d.).

“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” – David Viscott (Viscott, 1978).

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

“Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” – Franklin P. Jones (Jones, n.d.).

“When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.” – William Shakespeare (Shakespeare, 1602).

“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.” – Unknown (Unknown, n.d.).

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

“To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return.” – Margaret Mitchell (Mitchell, 1936).

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

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi (Gandhi, n.d.).

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

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt (T. Roosevelt, n.d.).

“Dream big and dare to fail.” – Norman Vaughan (Vaughan, n.d.).

“The best way out is always through.” – Robert Frost (Frost, 1928).

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe (Ashe, n.d.).

“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.” – C.S. Lewis (Lewis, n.d.).

“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.” – Maya Angelou (Angelou, 1986).

“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all the darkness.” – Desmond Tutu (Tutu, n.d.).

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.” – Oprah Winfrey (Winfrey, n.d.).

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson (Emerson, n.d.).

“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” – William James (James, n.d.).

“Knowledge is power.” – Francis Bacon (Bacon, 1597).

“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” – Eleanor Roosevelt (Roosevelt, n.d.).

“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Rousseau, 1762).

“The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for himself.” – Lao Tzu (Lao Tzu, n.d.).

“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.” – Confucius (Confucius, n.d.).

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” – Aristotle (Aristotle, n.d.).

“The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.” – William Shakespeare (Shakespeare, 1603).

“It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.” – René Descartes (Descartes, 1637).

“True wisdom comes not from knowledge, but from understanding.” – Albert Einstein (Einstein, n.d.).

“The older I get, the more I realize the impact of attitude on everything.” – Charles R. Swindoll (Swindoll, 1993).

“Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.” – Oscar Wilde (Wilde, 1891).

“Silence is a source of great strength.” – Lao Tzu (Lao Tzu, n.d.).

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

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

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

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

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

“Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.” – Roy T. Bennett (Bennett, 2013).

“The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.” – John D. Rockefeller Jr. (Rockefeller, n.d.).

“Success is not owned, it is rented, and the rent is due every day.” – Chris Guillebeau (Guillebeau, n.d.).

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

“Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.” – John Wooden (Wooden, n.d.).

“Don’t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.” – David Frost (Frost, n.d.).

“Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.” – Walter Elliot (Elliot, n.d.).

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius (Confucius, n.d.).

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” – Thomas Edison (Edison, n.d.).

“Fall seven times, stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb (Proverb, n.d.).

“Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.” – Arthur Ashe (Ashe, n.d.).

“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” – Og Mandino (Mandino, 1968).

“Press on. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.” – Calvin Coolidge (Coolidge, n.d.).

“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’” – Mary Anne Radmacher (Radmacher, 1999).

“I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.” – Thomas Edison (Edison, n.d.).

“Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.” – Seneca (Seneca, n.d.).

“Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.” – Julie Andrews (Andrews, n.d.).

“When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt (F.D. Roosevelt, n.d.).

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

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

“The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.” – Neil Gaiman (Gaiman, 2012).

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

“Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.” – Twyla Tharp (Tharp, 2003).

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

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

“To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.” – Joseph Chilton Pearce (Pearce, 1977).

“Every artist was first an amateur.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson (Emerson, 1860).

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

“Dance is the hidden language of the soul.” – Martha Graham (Graham, n.d.).

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