100+ Best Book Quote Finding Tips & Copywriting Examples

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do." – 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

"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

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

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

"Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear." – George Addair

"Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny." – C.S. Lewis

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

"Dream big and dare to fail." – Norman Vaughan

"I'm not arguing, I'm just explaining why I'm right." – Unknown

"I told my wife she was drawing her eyebrows too high. She looked surprised." – Steven Wright

"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 just conserving energy for later." – Unknown

"I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn’t work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness." – Emo Philips

"I hate housework! If it weren't for the fact that my laundry piles up, I'd never do it." – Joan Rivers

"I always take life with a grain of salt… plus a slice of lemon… and a shot of tequila." – Carrie Fisher

"My diet starts tomorrow, same as it did yesterday." – Unknown

"If at first you don’t succeed, redefine success." – Scott Adams

"I put the 'pro' in procrastination." – Unknown

"I’m not short, I’m concentrated awesome." – Unknown

"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

"The unexamined life is not worth living." – Socrates

"Happiness depends upon ourselves." – Aristotle

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

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

"All that we are is the result of what we have thought." – Buddha

"Life must be understood backward. But it must be lived forward." – Søren Kierkegaard

"The mind is everything. What you think you become." – Buddha

"Existence precedes essence." – Jean-Paul Sartre

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

"We suffer more in imagination than in reality." – Seneca

"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 I had to define you in one word, that word would be ‘home’." – Beau Taplin

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

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

"In your light, I learn how to love." – Rumi

"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

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

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

"I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where." – Pablo Neruda

"To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides." – David Viscott

"Every moment with you feels like magic." – Unknown

"Life isn’t about finding yourself. It’s about creating yourself." – George Bernard Shaw

"The best way out is always through." – Robert Frost

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." – Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It is not length of life, but depth of life." – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

"Turn your wounds into wisdom." – Oprah Winfrey

"Growth begins when we accept our weaknesses." – Unknown

"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be." – Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today." – Will Rogers

"Your value doesn’t decrease based on someone’s inability to see your worth." – Unknown

"Live the life you’ve imagined." – Henry David Thoreau

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." – Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." – Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..." – Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

"Call me Ishmael." – Herman Melville, Moby Dick

"It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not." – André Gide, Autumn Leaves

"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains." – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

"The world is wide enough for all of us." – Mark Twain, Following the Equator

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you." – Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

"A room without books is like a body without a soul." – Marcus Tullius Cicero

"We are all fools in love." – Jane Austen, Emma

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it." – Nelson Mandela

"It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends." – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." – Confucius

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

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

"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?" – Vincent Van Gogh

"I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it." – Maya Angelou

"Strength does not come from what you can do, it comes from overcoming what you once thought you couldn’t." – Rikki Rogers

"Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life." – J.K. Rowling

"When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what the storm is all about." – Haruki Murakami

"Survival is important. Endurance is a skill. Joy is a choice." – Glennon Doyle

"Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise." – Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

"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

"Loyalty is not blind. It sees faults but stays anyway." – Unknown

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

"Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness." – Euripides

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

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

"Loyalty means standing beside someone even when they aren’t standing tall." – Unknown

"Friendship doubles your joy and halves your sorrow." – Francis Bacon

"One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives." – Euripides

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

"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom." – Aristotle

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

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

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

"Don’t ask yourself who you are; ask who you want to be." – Thomas Moore

"Identity is not found, it is created." – Unknown

"Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you won’t do anything with it." – M. Scott Peck

"You were born an original. Don’t die a copy." – John Mason

"To find yourself, think for yourself." – Socrates

"Your identity is not fixed. It is shaped by your choices." – Unknown

"Self-discovery is the journey of a lifetime." – Unknown

"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go." – Dr. Seuss

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." – Nelson Mandela

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." – Mahatma Gandhi

"Knowledge is power." – Francis Bacon

"The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you." – B.B. King

"Learning never exhausts the mind." – Leonardo da Vinci

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest." – Benjamin Franklin

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

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty." – Henry Ford

"Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn." – Benjamin Franklin

"Intelligence is not to be measured by the amount of knowledge, but by the capacity for knowledge." – Henry Miller

"Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere." – Chinese Proverb