100+ Ways to Find a Quote from a Book – Ultimate Guide for Readers & Writers

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

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

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

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

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

“It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela

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

“I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to reach my destination.” – Jimmy Dean

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

“Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.” – Theodore Roosevelt

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

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe

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

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

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” – Aristotle

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

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

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

“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.” – Seneca

“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.” – Heraclitus

“By believing passionately in something that does not yet exist, we create it.” – Nikos Kazantzakis

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

“The mind is everything. What you think you become.” – Buddha

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

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

“In a gentle way, you can shake the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Peter Drucker

“Let your life speak.” – Quaker saying

“There is no passion to be found playing small — in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.” – Nelson Mandela

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” – William James

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

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

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“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

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

“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

“I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.” – Roy Croft

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

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

“I would rather spend one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

“In your arms, I’ve found my home.” – Nicholas Sparks

“Every moment with you feels like magic.” – Unknown

“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

“You are my today and all of my tomorrows.” – Leo Christopher

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

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

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

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

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

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

“I don’t need therapy, I just need to rant to someone who gets paid to listen.” – Unknown

“I don’t make jokes. I just state facts and let people laugh.” – George Carlin

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

“I don’t always procrastinate, but when I do, I put it off until tomorrow.” – Unknown

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

“I used to be a people pleaser, until I realized that was stupid.” – Unknown

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

“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.” – Jimi Hendrix

“The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.” – William Shakespeare

“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

“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.” – Abraham Lincoln

“The first step to wisdom is silence; the second, listening.” – Solomon Ibn Gabirol

“Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.” – Oscar Wilde

“Patience is the companion of wisdom.” – Saint Augustine

“A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.” – David Hume

“To know what you don’t know is wisdom.” – Chinese Proverb

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

“Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

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

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did.” – Mark Twain

“The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey

“Adventure is worthwhile in itself.” – Amelia Earhart

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul.” – Jaime Lyn

“I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag

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

“Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle

“Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” – David Mitchell

“Adventure may hurt you, but monotony will kill you.” – Unknown

“A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.” – Elbert Hubbard

“True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.” – David Tyson

“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.’” – C.S. Lewis

“Good friends are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you know they’re always there.” – Unknown

“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” – Walter Winchell

“Friends are the family you choose.” – Jess C. Scott

“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.” – Henry David Thoreau

“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.” – Helen Keller

“Friendship doubles your joy and halves your grief.” – Richard Steele

“A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.” – Leo Buscaglia

“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.” – Linda Grayson

“A good friend is like a four-leaf clover: hard to find and lucky to have.” – Irish Proverb

“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” – Carl Jung

“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.” – Carl Jung

“Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing we’ll ever do.” – Brené Brown

“To find yourself, think for yourself.” – Socrates

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” – Buddha

“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.” – Lao Tzu

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

“You are enough just as you are.” – Meghan Markle

“Lose yourself to discover yourself.” – Osho

“Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.” – M. Scott Peck

“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.” – Rumi

“Find out who you are and do it on purpose.” – Dolly Parton

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

“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

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

“People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.” – John C. Maxwell

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

“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” – Warren Bennis

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

“Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.” – Peter Drucker

“Lead from the back — and let others believe they are in front.” – Nelson Mandela

“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.” – Rosalynn Carter

“Leadership is action, not position.” – Donald H. McGannon

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