100+ Famous Author Quotes That Inspire & Captivate Readers Worldwide

“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” — Emily Brontë

“I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love.” — Gabriel García Márquez

“Love is not blind; it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.” — William R. Inge

“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.” — A.A. Milne

“We loved with a love that was true love.” — Edgar Allan Poe

“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope.” — Jane Austen

“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” — David Viscott

“In your light I learn how to love.” — Rumi

“Love makes a silent house noisy.” — Khalil Gibran

“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” — Audrey Hepburn

“When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.” — William Shakespeare

“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” — Aristotle

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” — Maya Angelou

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” — Confucius

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails.” — Elizabeth Edwards

“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.” — Maya Angelou

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” — Winston Churchill

“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a hard one.” — Bruce Lee

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

“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

“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.” — Seneca

“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all the darkness.” — Desmond Tutu

“You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” — Maya Angelou

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” — Albert Einstein

“Creativity takes courage.” — Henri Matisse

“The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.” — Neil Gaiman

“An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.” — Charles Horton Cooley

“Dance is the hidden language of the soul.” — Martha Graham

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

“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.” — Pablo Picasso

“The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.” — Pablo Picasso

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” — Pablo Picasso

“Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.” — Pablo Picasso

“A painting is never finished—it simply stops in interesting places.” — Paul Gardner

“Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.” — John Lennon

“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

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.” — Robert Frost

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” — George Bernard Shaw

“The unexamined life is not worth living.” — Socrates

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” — Confucius

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” — Oscar Wilde

“Life is not measured in years, but in the moments that take your breath away.” — Anonymous

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” — Anaïs Nin

“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.” — Charles R. Swindoll

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” — Helen Keller

“Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, but learning to dance in the rain.” — Vivian Greene

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” — Socrates

“Wisdom begins in wonder.” — Socrates

“Knowledge is power.” — Francis Bacon

“The fool speaks, the wise man listens.” — Arthur Conan Doyle

“Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.” — Plato

“He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.” — Lao Tzu

“The wise man doesn’t give the right answers, he poses the right questions.” — Claude Lévi-Strauss

“True wisdom comes not from knowledge, but from understanding.” — Unknown

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” — Aristotle

“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.” — Voltaire

“The wisest mind has something yet to learn.” — George Santayana

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” — Aristotle

“Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.” — William Penn

“Lost time is never found again.” — Benjamin Franklin

“The trouble is, you think you have time.” — Buddha

“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” — Bertrand Russell

“Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.” — Spanish Proverb

“Your relationship with time is your relationship with your life.” — Marie Forleo

“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.” — Leo Tolstoy

“Time is a created thing. To say ‘I don’t have time’ is like saying ‘I don’t want to.’” — Lao Tzu

“The saddest thing about love, is that not only that it cannot last forever, but that heartbreak is soon forgotten.” — William Faulkner

“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.” — Ernest Hemingway

“Do not count the days, make the days count.” — Muhammad Ali

“Time is the longest distance between two places.” — Tennessee Williams

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality does not destroy you.” — Ray Bradbury

“Writing is the painting of the voice.” — Voltaire

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.” — Rudyard Kipling

“A word after a word after a word is power.” — Margaret Atwood

“Substitute 'damn' every time you write 'very'; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.” — Mark Twain

“Write what should not be forgotten.” — Isabel Allende

“The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.” — Anaïs Nin

“I write to discover what I know.” — Flannery O’Connor

“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.” — Louis L’Amour

“Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.” — Jessamyn West

“A story is told as much by silences as by speech.” — Susan Griffin

“Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That’s why it’s so hard.” — David McCullough

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four.” — George Orwell

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

“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.” — George Bernard Shaw

“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.” — Rudyard Kipling

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.” — Charlotte Brontë

“Freedom lies in being bold.” — Robert Frost

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” — Alice Walker

“Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.” — Carl Sandburg

“I’d rather die standing than live on my knees.” — Emiliano Zapata

“The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself.” — Louis Brandeis

“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.” — Mahatma Gandhi

“All our dreams can come true—if we have the courage to pursue them.” — Walt Disney

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

“Dream big, work hard, stay focused, and surround yourself with good people.” — Roy T. Bennett

“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.” — Langston Hughes

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” — C.S. Lewis

“It’s good to have dreams. Otherwise, what’s the point of sleep?” — Ellen DeGeneres

“Dreams are illustrations… from the book your soul is writing about you.” — Marsha Norman

“Don’t let the expectations of others limit your dreams.” — Roy T. Bennett

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined.” — Henry David Thoreau

“Dreams don’t work unless you do.” — John C. Maxwell

“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” — Zig Ziglar

“Chase your passions, not your problems.” — Steve Maraboli

“I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.” — Henry David Thoreau

“In silence, we hear the whispers of our soul.” — Unknown

“Solitude is where I place my chaos to rest and awaken my inner peace.” — Nikki Rowe

“Sometimes you need to sit lonely on the floor in a quiet room in the middle of the day to hear your own voice.” — Jennifer Elisabeth

“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.” — Michel de Montaigne

“No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

“Solitude is not loneliness. It is being alone with purpose.” — Unknown

“The soul that is within me no man can degrade.” — Frederick Douglass

“Reflection is the lamp of the heart.” — Hasan al-Basri

“Sit quietly, breathe deeply, and listen. Your answer will come.” — Unknown

“We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.” — Benjamin Disraeli

“To be silent is to be heard.” — Unknown