100+ Best Book Quotes: How to Find Powerful Quotes from Books

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

“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

“We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.” – Native American Proverb

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

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

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” – Aristotle

“Change your thoughts and you change your world.” – Norman Vincent Peale

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

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

“Wisdom begins in wonder.” – Socrates

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

“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 in the Time of Cholera

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

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

“Love makes itself felt in the heart.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“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

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

“Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.” – Osho

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu

“We loved with a love that was strong and deep.” – Edgar Allan Poe

“There is no remedy for love but to love more.” – Henry David Thoreau

“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 limitation—it's only your imagination.” – Unknown

“Push yourself, because no one else is going to do it for you.” – Unknown

“Great things never come from comfort zones.” – Unknown

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

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

“Success doesn’t just come and find you, you have to go out and get it.” – Unknown

“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon

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

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

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

“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

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

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

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

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.” – Oprah Winfrey

“Strength does not come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn't.” – Rikki Rogers

“You have power over your mind—not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” – Marcus Aurelius

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

“Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.” – Maya Angelou

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

“Existence precedes essence.” – Jean-Paul Sartre

“To be is to do.” – Socrates

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

“The meaning of life is that it stops.” – Franz Kafka

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

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

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

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

“The only thing I know is that I know nothing.” – 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

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

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

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

“I don’t need therapy, I just need to win the lottery.” – Unknown

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

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

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

“I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.” – Lily Tomlin

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

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

“I used to be a baker, but I couldn’t make enough dough.” – 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

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

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

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

“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.” – Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

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

“The worst prison is not one made of stone. It’s one built in our minds.” – Karla McLaren

“Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” – George Orwell

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein

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

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

“Dare to live the life you’ve always wanted.” – Unknown

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

“Creativity takes courage.” – Henri Matisse

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

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

“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

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

“Creativity is intelligence having fun.” – Albert Einstein

“The creative adult is the child who survived.” – Ursula K. Le Guin

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

“If you can dream it, you can do it.” – Walt Disney

“Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.” – Laurence J. Peter

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

“The only constant in life is change.” – Heraclitus

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

“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” – Marthe Troly-Curtin

“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” – John F. Kennedy

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.” – Bill Keane

“Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Everything changes, nothing remains without change.” – Buddha

“The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.” – Ashley Montagu

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

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

“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.” – Buddha

“Knowledge is power.” – Francis Bacon

“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

“The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” – B.B. King

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

“Learning never exhausts the mind.” – Leonardo da Vinci

“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education.” – 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

“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” – John Dewey

“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” – Aristotle