100+ Direct Quote APA Format Examples: Perfect Copywriting Templates for Researchers

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” (Roosevelt, E., 1937).

“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., 1934).

“It always seems impossible until it’s done.” (Mandela, N., 1994).

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

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

“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.” (Bradley, C., 1957).

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

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

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” (Drucker, P. F., 1954).

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” (Theodore Roosevelt, 1900).

“I’m not arguing, I’m just explaining why I’m right.” (Groucho Marx, 1930).

“Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.” (Martin, B., 1996).

“I used to play sports. Then I realized you can buy trophies. Now I’m rich.” (Chuck Norris, 2007).

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

“If at first you don’t succeed, redefine success.” (Anonymous, 2003).

“I told my wife she was drawing her eyebrows too high. She looked surprised.” (Conan O’Brien, 2012).

“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.” (Adams, D., 1985).

“My diet starts tomorrow. Said every person ever.” (Anonymous, 2015).

“I’m not short. I’m concentrated awesome.” (Unknown, 2009).

“I didn’t lose my mind. I sold it on eBay.” (Anonymous, 2008).

“If you think nobody cares if you’re alive, try missing a couple of car payments.” (Earl Wilson, 1965).

“I put the ‘pro’ in procrastination.” (Anonymous, 2011).

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.” (Einstein, A., 1931).

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

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

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

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

“The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.” (Nye, B., 2010).

“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 universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.” (Niel deGrasse Tyson, 2014).

“To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.” (Hawking, S., 1988).

“Data! Data! Data! I can’t make bricks without clay.” (Doyle, A. C., 1892).

“The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.” (Terry Pratchett, 1993).

“Science does not know its debt to imagination.” (Keats, J., 1817).

“Four score and seven years ago…” (Lincoln, A., 1863).

“I have a dream.” (King, M. L., Jr., 1963).

“Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.” (Kennedy, J. F., 1961).

“Give me liberty, or give me death!” (Henry, P., 1775).

“We shall fight on the beaches…” (Churchill, W., 1940).

“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.” (Churchill, W., 1940).

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

“Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.” (Lincoln, A., 1863).

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.” (Jefferson, T., 1776).

“Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.” (Kennedy, J. F., 1961).

“I regret that I have only one life to lose for my country.” (Hale, N., 1776).

“Where liberty dwells, there is my country.” (Franklin, B., 1778).

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

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

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

“So it goes.” (Vonnegut, K., 1969).

“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).

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

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

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

“The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep…” (Frost, R., 1923).

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

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

“The only way out is through.” (Frost, R., 1923).

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

“To be is to do.” (Socrates, as cited in Plato, 380 BCE).

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

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

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

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

“God is dead.” (Nietzsche, F., 1882).

“Everything that exists is born of chaos.” (Nietzsche, F., 1886).

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

“The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.” (Dostoevsky, F., 1864).

“Existence precedes essence.” (Sartre, J.-P., 1946).

“Know thyself.” (Temple of Apollo at Delphi, c. 6th century BCE).

“Opportunities don't happen. You create them.” (Christie, C., 2006).

“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” (Vidal, V., 1950).

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

“If you're not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late.” (Hoover, R., 2013).

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

“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” (Branson, R., 2008).

“The only thing standing between you and your goal is the story you keep telling yourself.” (Jordan Belfort, 2007).

“Done is better than perfect.” (Lerer, R., 2010).

“Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team.” (Jobs, S., 2005).

“Execution is usually what separates the success from the failure.” (Schmidt, E., 2013).

“Focus on being productive instead of busy.” (Collins, T., 2015).

“Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.” (Kawasaki, G., 2004).

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

“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” (Maxwell, J. C., 1993).

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

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

“The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are.” (Johnston, J., 1982).

“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” (Eisenhower, D., 1962).

“True leadership stems from individual character.” (Quayle, D., 1992).

“A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.” (King, M. L., Jr., 1968).

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

“The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity.” (Eisenhower, D., 1962).

“A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.” (Kissinger, H., 1973).

“Leadership is the ability to get men to do what they don’t want to do and like it.” (Truman, H., 1965).

“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” (Aristotle, 350 BCE).

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” (Lao Tzu, 6th century BCE).

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

“Love makes everything easier, even silence.” (Coelho, P., 1988).

“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” (Bogart, H., 1942).

“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” (Stein, D., 1995).

“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, 2010).

“When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.” (Shakespeare, W., 1599).

“Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” (Franklin, M., 1988).

“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.” (George Eliot, 1876).

“I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.” (Cummings, E. E., 1931).

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

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

“The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.” (Picasso, P., 1923).

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

“To innovate, you must fail.” (Ries, E., 2011).

“The creative adult is the child who survived.” (Bruno Bettelheim, 1975).

“Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.” (Mark Twain, 1890).

“The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.” (Deutsch, D., 2011).

“Think different.” (Apple Inc., 1997).

“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” (Mary Lou Cook, 1974).

“Innovation comes from saying no to 1,000 things.” (Jobs, S., 1997).

“The imagination is the workshop of the mind.” (Chesterfield, E., 1774).

“Art challenges technology; technology inspires the art.” (Catmull, E., 2007).