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

“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.)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.” – Charles R. Swindoll (Swindoll, n.d.)

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

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.” – Walt Whitman (Whitman, 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 used to play sports. Then I realized you can buy trophies. Now I’m rich.” – Ray Romano (Romano, n.d.)

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

“If at first you don’t succeed, skydiving is not for you.” – Steven Wright (Wright, n.d.)

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

“My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far, I’ve finished two bags of M&Ms and a chocolate cake. I feel better already.” – Dave Barry (Barry, n.d.)

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

“I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn’t work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.” – Emo Philips (Philips, n.d.)

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

“I’m great at multitasking—I can ignore you and forget what I was saying at the same time.” – Unknown (Unknown, n.d.)

“Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?” – Robin Williams (Williams, n.d.)

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

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

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

“Man is the measure of all things.” – Protagoras (Protagoras, n.d.)

“Everything that exists is born of chaos.” – Jean-Paul Sartre (Sartre, n.d.)

“God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.” – Friedrich Nietzsche (Nietzsche, n.d.)

“Thought is the soul of man.” – René Descartes (Descartes, n.d.)

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

“Freedom is the recognition of necessity.” – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (Hegel, n.d.)

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

“Doubt is the origin of wisdom.” – Augustine of Hippo (Augustine, n.d.)

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity is the key to creativity.” – Albert Einstein (Einstein, n.d.)

“Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.” – Carl Sagan (Sagan, n.d.)

“We are made of star-stuff.” – Carl Sagan (Sagan, n.d.)

“In science, there is no 'why,' only 'how.'” – Isaac Asimov (Asimov, n.d.)

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

“Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.” – Theodosius Dobzhansky (Dobzhansky, n.d.)

“We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” – Albert Einstein (Einstein, n.d.)

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

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

“Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity.” – Louis Pasteur (Pasteur, n.d.)

“Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.” – Clifford Stoll (Stoll, n.d.)

“The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.” – Carl Sagan (Sagan, n.d.)

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

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

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

“Call me Ishmael.” – Herman Melville (Melville, 1851)

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me.” – Charlotte Brontë (Brontë, 1847)

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

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.” – Robert Frost (Frost, 1936)

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero (Cicero, n.d.)

“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” – Leo Tolstoy (Tolstoy, 1877)

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – Saint Augustine (Augustine, n.d.)

“To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose is the next best.” – William Makepeace Thackeray (Thackeray, 1848)

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

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

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

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

“Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas.” – Seth Godin (Godin, n.d.)

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

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

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

“A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.” – Martin Luther King Jr. (King, n.d.)

“You don’t lead by pointing and commanding. You lead by going alongside people.” – Ken Kesey (Kesey, 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.” – Ronald Reagan (Reagan, n.d.)

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

“Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.” – Jack Welch (Welch, n.d.)

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

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

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

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

“Love makes a short absence longer than eternity.” – Jean Paul (Jean Paul, n.d.)

“In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours.” – Maya Angelou (Angelou, n.d.)

“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 to choose between breathing and loving you, I would use my last breath to say I love you.” – Unknown (Unknown, n.d.)

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

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

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

“I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect and I loved you even more.” – Angelita Lim (Lim, n.d.)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” – Will Rogers (Rogers, n.d.)

“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon (Sassoon, n.d.)

“Success isn’t owned. It’s leased, and rent is due every day.” – J.J. Watt (Watt, n.d.)

“The Earth is what we all have in common. If we can’t see that, we risk losing it all.” – Wendell Berry (Berry, n.d.)

“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” – Lao Tzu (Lao Tzu, n.d.)

“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.” – Henry David Thoreau (Thoreau, n.d.)

“The environment is where we all meet; where we all have a mutual interest.” – Lady Bird Johnson (Johnson, n.d.)

“We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.” – Native American Proverb (Native American Proverb, n.d.)

“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” – Albert Einstein (Einstein, n.d.)

“The Earth is a fine place and worth fighting for.” – Ernest Hemingway (Hemingway, n.d.)

“Conservation is a cause that has no end. There is no point at which we will say, ‘Our work is finished.’” – Rachel Carson (Carson, n.d.)

“Saving nature is not about politics. It’s about survival.” – Al Gore (Gore, n.d.)

“The poetry of the Earth is never dead.” – John Keats (Keats, n.d.)

“In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks.” – John Muir (Muir, n.d.)

“The environment is everything that isn’t me.” – Albert Einstein (Einstein, n.d.)

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

“Your mind is a powerful thing. When you fill it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change.” – Unknown (Unknown, n.d.)

“You have power over your mind—not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” – Marcus Aurelius (Aurelius, n.d.)

“It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” – Vince Lombardi (Lombardi, n.d.)

“Small daily improvements are the key to staggering long-term results.” – Robin Sharma (Sharma, n.d.)

“You become what you believe.” – Oprah Winfrey (Winfrey, n.d.)

“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson (Emerson, n.d.)

“Growth begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch (Walsch, n.d.)

“Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.” – Zig Ziglar (Ziglar, n.d.)

“Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better.” – Jim Rohn (Rohn, n.d.)

“Change your thoughts and you change your world.” – Norman Vincent Peale (Peale, n.d.)

“Every day may not be good, but there’s something good in every day.” – Alice Morse Earle (Earle, n.d.)