100+ Ways to Include a Quote in an Essay: Proven Copywriting Tips & Examples

"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 Churchill

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

"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

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

"Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going." – Sam Levenson

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

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

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

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

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

"I think, therefore I am." – René Descartes

"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

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

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

"Everything that exists is logical." – Ludwig Wittgenstein

"God is dead." – Friedrich Nietzsche

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

"Freedom is the recognition of necessity." – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

"Existence precedes essence." – Jean-Paul Sartre

"Knowledge is power." – Francis Bacon

"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation…" – Abraham Lincoln

"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.

"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

"Workers of the world, unite!" – Karl Marx

"Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate." – John F. Kennedy

"I regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." – Nathan Hale

"All tyranny needs is for good men to do nothing." – Edmund Burke

"The ballot is stronger than the bullet." – Abraham Lincoln

"Speak softly and carry a big stick." – Theodore Roosevelt

"Imagination is more important than knowledge." – Albert Einstein

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science." – Albert Einstein

"Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge." – Carl Sagan

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." – Carl Sagan

"We are made of star-stuff." – Carl Sagan

"Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution." – Theodosius Dobzhansky

"The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it." – Neil deGrasse Tyson

"The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you." – Neil deGrasse Tyson

"Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality." – Carl Sagan

"To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit." – Stephen Hawking

"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge." – Stephen Hawking

"Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity." – Albert Einstein

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…" – Charles Dickens

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

"Call me Ishmael." – Herman Melville

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

"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

"Do I dare disturb the universe?" – T.S. Eliot

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

"Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day…" – William Shakespeare

"To be, or not to be, that is the question." – William Shakespeare

"The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers." – William Wordsworth

"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship." – Louisa May Alcott

"We accept the love we think we deserve." – Stephen Chbosky

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

"I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not too sure." – Unknown

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

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

"I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong." – Benjamin Franklin (attributed)

"If at first you don’t succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried." – Steven Wright

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

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

"I’m not procrastinating, I’m just prioritizing other things." – Unknown

"I’m not clumsy. It’s just the floor hates me, the table and chairs get in my way." – Unknown

"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." – Lord Acton

"Democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others." – Winston Churchill

"When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty." – Thomas Jefferson

"The ballot is stronger than the bullet." – Abraham Lincoln

"Politics is the art of the possible." – Otto von Bismarck

"You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist." – Indira Gandhi

"In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way." – Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

"A house divided against itself cannot stand." – Abraham Lincoln

"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it." – Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Never let a serious crisis go to waste." – Rahm Emanuel

"All politics is local." – Tip O’Neill

"Women belong in all places where decisions are being made." – Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own." – Audre Lorde

"The story of women's struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights." – Gloria Steinem

"We should all be feminists." – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

"There is no limit to what we, as women, can accomplish." – Michelle Obama

"Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings." – Cheris Kramarae

"Well-behaved women seldom make history." – Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

"No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor." – Betty Friedan

"Each one, teach one." – Fannie Lou Hamer

"I am a woman phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, that's me." – Maya Angelou

"Equality will never be a reality until women can create equal opportunities for themselves." – Jane Fonda

"We realize the implications of the fact that we are human beings, and therefore equals." – Sojourner Truth

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

"Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead." – Nora Ephron

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

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

"Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." – John Wooden

"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out." – Robert Collier

"The expert in anything was once a beginner." – Helen Hayes

"You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great." – Zig Ziglar

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

"Failure is just practice for success." – Unknown

"Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try." – John F. Kennedy

"You are capable of more than you know." – Atul Gawande

"You must write every single day of your life." – Ray Bradbury

"Write what should not be forgotten." – Isabel Allende

"The first draft is just you telling yourself the story." – Terry Pratchett

"Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work." – Stephen King

"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind." – Rudyard Kipling

"To write is to write is to write." – Gary Provost

"A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit." – Richard Bach

"You can fix anything but a blank page." – Nora Roberts

"Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very'; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be." – Mark Twain

"Writing is the painting of the voice." – Voltaire

"Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on." – Louis L'Amour

"Creativity takes courage." – Henri Matisse