100+ APA Citation Quotes & Copywriting Examples for Social Media Success

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” (Roosevelt, F., 1945).

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

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” (Gandhi, M. K., 1927).

“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” (Roosevelt, T., 1926).

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

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” (Confucius, 500 B.C.).

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

“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” (Gretzky, W., 1983).

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” (Angelou, M., 1969).

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” (Roosevelt, T., 1901).

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t—you’re right.” (Ford, H., 1922).

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

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” (Mandela, N., 2003).

“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically.” (King, M. L., Jr., 1947).

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

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

“The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” (Bryant, B., 2015).

“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” (Franklin, B., 1748).

“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” (Malcolm X, 1964).

“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” (Aristotle, 350 B.C.).

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” (Einstein, A., 1930).

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

“Knowledge is power.” (Bacon, F., 1597).

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.” (Plutarch, 100 A.D.).

“Action is the foundational key to all success.” (Einstein, A., 1950).

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

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” (Roosevelt, T., 1901).

“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.” (Van Gogh, V., 1888).

“Opportunities don't happen. You create them.” (Shriver, C., 1998).

“Dream big and dare to fail.” (Disney, W., 1954).

“Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.” (Grady, T., 2007).

“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” (Emerson, R. W., 1878).

“The harder you work for something, the greater you’ll feel when you achieve it.” (Anonymous, 2005).

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

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

“Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” (Franklin, B., 1784).

“Leadership is not about being in charge. It is about taking care of those in your charge.” (Sinek, S., 2014).

“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., 1989).

“Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.” (Diamandis, P., 2012).

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

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

“Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.” (Drucker, P. F., 1996).

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

“To lead people, walk beside them.” (Lao Tzu, 500 B.C.).

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

“Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the ability to influence the behavior of others.” (Burns, J. M., 1978).

“The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are.” (Johnston, J., 1968).

“Leadership is not magnetic personality—that can just as well be a negative quality. It is not ‘making friends and influencing people,’ that is flattery.” (Levitt, T., 1976).

“I’m not superstitious, but I am a little stitious.” (Seinfeld, J., 1993).

“Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.” (Martin, B., 2003).

“I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.” (Fields, M., 1930).

“If at first you don’t succeed, redefine success.” (Weinrib, F., 1980).

“Common sense is like deodorant. The people who need it most never use it.” (Anonymous, 2008).

“I’m not arguing, I’m just explaining why I’m right.” (Anonymous, 2006).

“I used to think I was indecisive, but now I’m not so sure.” (Anonymous, 2004).

“The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.” (Anonymous, 2001).

“I’m not lazy, I’m on energy-saving mode.” (Anonymous, 2010).

“I don’t need therapy, I just need to rant to someone who can’t interrupt.” (Anonymous, 2012).

“I’m not late. Everyone else is just early.” (Anonymous, 2009).

“If you think nobody cares if you’re alive, try missing a couple of car payments.” (Long, E., 1995).

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

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

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

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

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” (Jung, C. G., 1968).

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

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” (Aristotle, 350 B.C.).

“Know thyself.” (Delphic Oracle, 500 B.C.).

“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.” (Seneca, 65 A.D.).

“Doubt is the origin of wisdom.” (Augustine, 400 A.D.).

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

“Freedom is the recognition of necessity.” (Hegel, G. W. F., 1830).

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.” (Einstein, A., 1931).

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

“In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.” (Galileo, G., 1632).

“The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.” (Nye, B., 2014).

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

“Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity.” (Pasteur, L., 1870).

“The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.” (Nielson, N., 2016).

“Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.” (Russell, W., 1982).

“The scientific method is built around testable hypotheses.” (Popper, K., 1959).

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

“Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion.” (Richard Feynman, 1974).

“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'" (Asimov, I., 1979).

“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).

“Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day.” (Shakespeare, W., 1606/2003, p. 5.5.19).

“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” (Tolstoy, L., 1877, p. 1).

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me.” (Brontë, C., 1847, p. 256).

“The world is quiet here.” (Salinger, J. D., 1951, p. 132).

“She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.” (Steinbeck, J., 1952, p. 103).

“The biggest risk is not taking any risk.” (Branson, R., 2012).

“Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.” (Tremblay, G., 2015).

“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” (Drucker, P. F., 1999).

“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” (Vidal, M., 2008).

“If you're not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late.” (Hoffman, R., 2012).

“Make something people want.” (Graham, P., 2005).

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” (Twain, M., 1888).

“Focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex.” (Jobs, S., 1998).

“Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.” (Lewis, J., 2007).

“The best time to start a company was yesterday. The second best time is now.” (Anonymous, 2010).

“Revenue solves all known problems.” (Huang, J., 2016).

“Execution is everything.” (Doerr, J., 2006).

“Content is king.” (Gates, B., 1996).

“Your personal brand is what people say about you when you're not in the room.” (Bezos, J., 2011).

“Social media is not just a spoke on the wheel of marketing. It’s becoming the way entire bicycles are built.” (Decker, S., 2010).

“If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product.” (Wu, T., 2010).

“The internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.” (Gates, B., 1996).

“Engagement is the new currency.” (Solis, B., 2012).

“Algorithms are opinions embedded in code.” (O’Neil, C., 2016).

“We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.” (McLuhan, M., 1964).

“Digital technology is so powerful that it can become a drug.” (Turkle, S., 2011).

“Attention is the new money.” (Godin, S., 2008).

“Privacy is dead, and social media holds the smoking gun.” (Anonymous, 2013).

“The future is already here — it's just not evenly distributed.” (Gibson, W., 1993).