100+ Ways to Create Block Quotes in Word: Easy Tips & Tricks

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

“Call me Ishmael.”

“In my younger and more vulnerable years, my father gave me some advice I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since.”

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

“Happy people don’t tell their dreams.”

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me.”

“The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.”

“Do I dare disturb the universe?”

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by.”

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt

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

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

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

“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson

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

“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky

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

“Dream big and dare to fail.” – Norman Vaughan

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

“Opportunities don't happen. You create them.” – Chris Grosser

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

“Leadership is not about being in charge. It is about taking care of those in your charge.” – Simon Sinek

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” – Steve Jobs

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

“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” – Peter Drucker

“A brand is a promise.” – Jeff Bezos

“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

“Execution is usually what separates the successful companies from the unsuccessful ones.” – Lou Gerstner

“People won’t remember what you said, but they will remember how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou

“The biggest risk is not taking any risk.” – Mark Zuckerberg

“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work.” – Steve Jobs

“Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” – Peter Drucker

“Hire character. Train skill.” – Peter Schutz

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

“The unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates, as cited in Plato’s Apology

“Democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others.” – Winston Churchill (1947)

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

“Social learning theory posits that people learn through observation, imitation, and modeling.” – Bandura, 1977

“Cognitive dissonance occurs when a person holds conflicting beliefs, leading to psychological discomfort.” – Festinger, 1957

“The medium is the message.” – Marshall McLuhan (1964)

“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” – Lord Acton (1887)

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” – Edmund Burke

“History is written by the victors.” – Often attributed to Winston Churchill

“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.” – Immanuel Kant

“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

“Here's looking at you, kid.” – Casablanca

“May the Force be with you.” – Star Wars

“I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.” – The Godfather

“There's no place like home.” – The Wizard of Oz

“Life is like a box of chocolates; you never know what you're gonna get.” – Forrest Gump

“You can't handle the truth!” – A Few Good Men

“I'll be back.” – The Terminator

“Why so serious?” – The Dark Knight

“You had me at 'hello.'” – Jerry Maguire

“Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.” – The Godfather Part II

“Houston, we have a problem.” – Apollo 13

“I am your father.” – The Empire Strikes Back

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

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

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

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

“To philosophize is to learn how to die.” – Michel de Montaigne

“God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

“Existence precedes essence.” – Jean-Paul Sartre

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

“Doubt is the origin of wisdom.” – René Descartes

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.” – Marie Curie

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” – Aristotle

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

“I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.” – T.S. Eliot

“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.” – Emily Dickinson

“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood…” – Robert Frost

“Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me.” – Emily Dickinson

“I wandered lonely as a cloud that floats on high o'er vales and hills.” – William Wordsworth

“O Captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done.” – Walt Whitman

“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” – William Shakespeare

“Tyger Tyger, burning bright, in the forests of the night.” – William Blake

“I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.” – William Ernest Henley

“Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.” – William Shakespeare

“I arise from dreams of thee, in the first sweet sleep of night.” – Edgar Allan Poe

“Beauty is truth, truth beauty—that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.” – John Keats

“Four score and seven years ago…” – Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address

“Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.” – John F. Kennedy

“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

“We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds…” – Winston Churchill

“One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” – Neil Armstrong

“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” – Ronald Reagan

“Give me liberty, or give me death!” – Patrick Henry

“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.” – Winston Churchill

“Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” – Abraham Lincoln

“We choose to go to the moon… not because it is easy, but because it is hard.” – John F. Kennedy

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi

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

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” – Mae West

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” – Lao Tzu

“Don’t count the days, make the days count.” – Muhammad Ali

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

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.” – Oprah Winfrey

“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” – Booker T. Washington

“Life becomes easier when you learn to accept the apology you never got.” – R. Brault

“Every moment is a fresh beginning.” – T.S. Eliot

“Do more than dream: work.” – Mary McLeod Bethune

“I’m not arguing, I’m just explaining why I’m right.” – Unknown

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

“I told my wife she was drawing her eyebrows too high. She looked surprised.” – Comedian unnamed

“I used to play piano by ear, but now I use my hands.” – Victor Borge

“Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.” – Jim Carrey

“I'm not lazy, I'm on energy-saving mode.” – Unknown

“I put the ‘pro’ in procrastination.” – Unknown

“I didn’t lose my mind. I sold it on eBay.” – Unknown

“Common sense is like deodorant. The people who need it most never use it.” – Unknown

“I’m not short. I’m concentrated awesome.” – Unknown

“I don’t need therapy. I just need to scream into the void.” – Internet Meme

“I’m not late. Everyone else is just early.” – Unknown