100+ Block Quote Copywriting Examples to Elevate Your Content

"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

"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

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

"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

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

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

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

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

"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." – Gavin Webster

"I’m on a seafood diet. I see food and I eat it." – Unknown

"I used to play sports. Then I realized you can buy trophies. So I switched to business." – Ray O’Dell

"My favorite machine at the gym is the vending machine." – Unknown

"I don’t need a personal assistant. I just need someone to do everything for me." – Unknown

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

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

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

"I didn’t lose weight. I left it all over town." – Unknown

"I’m not procrastinating. I’m doing other things poorly instead." – Unknown

"I’m not weird. I’m limited edition." – Unknown

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

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

"Culture eats strategy for breakfast." – Peter Drucker (often attributed)

"Data is not information. Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom." – Clifford Stoll

"The greatest risk is not taking any risk." – Mark Zuckerberg

"Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning." – Bill Gates

"The best investment you can make is in yourself." – Warren Buffett

"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower." – Steve Jobs

"Execution is usually what separates the successful companies from the unsuccessful ones." – Larry Bossidy

"Profitability is not the purpose of, but a test of, business effectiveness." – Peter Drucker

"The biggest risk is not innovating fast enough." – Satya Nadella

"Speed is more important than perfection in a fast-moving market." – Reid Hoffman

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

"We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds..." – Winston Churchill

"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.

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

"Give me liberty, or give me death!" – Patrick Henry

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

"That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." – Neil Armstrong

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

"Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." – Thomas Jefferson

"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." – Benjamin Franklin

"All men are created equal." – Declaration of Independence

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

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

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

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

"Happiness depends upon ourselves." – 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

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

"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience." – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

"Doubt is the origin of wisdom." – Augustine of Hippo

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

"Know thyself." – Inscription at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi

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

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

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

"Great things never come from comfort zones." – Unknown

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

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

"Wake up with determination. Go to bed with satisfaction." – Unknown

"Do something today that your future self will thank you for." – Unknown

"Small progress is still progress." – Unknown

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

"Don’t stop when you’re tired. Stop when you’re done." – Unknown

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started." – Mark Twain

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

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by." – Robert Frost

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

"And miles to go before I sleep." – Robert Frost

"She walks in beauty, like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies." – Lord Byron

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

"Do not go gentle into that good night." – Dylan Thomas

"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

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

"Let us go then, you and I, when the evening is spread out against the sky." – T.S. Eliot

"I burn with dreams of who I might become." – Rumi

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

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing." – Albert Einstein

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

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

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

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

"E=mc²" – Albert Einstein

"Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable." – Mark Twain

"To confine your attention to terrestrial matters will not prevent events in space from having effects upon you." – Stephen Hawking

"The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life." – Carl Sagan

"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere." – Albert Einstein

"We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future." – John F. Kennedy

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

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

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

"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

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

"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit." – J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

"It was a pleasure to burn." – Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

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

"When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow." – Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

"I am an invisible man." – Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

"Big Brother is watching you." – George Orwell, 1984

"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel." – William Gibson, Neuromancer

"Content is king, but distribution is queen and she wears the pants." – Gary Vaynerchuk

"Build a brand, not just a business." – Marie Forleo

"Your audience isn’t interested in you. They’re interested in themselves." – Jay Baer

"If you’re not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late." – Reid Hoffman

"The best marketing doesn’t feel like marketing." – Tom Fishburne

"Engagement is the new currency." – Brian Solis

"People don’t buy products, they buy stories." – Seth Godin

"Be authentic. Be helpful. Be consistent." – Neil Patel

"Create content that educates, entertains, or inspires." – Amy Porterfield

"Show up every day. Show up real. Show up ready to serve." – Brene Brown

"Algorithms change, but human connection lasts forever." – Mari Smith

"Focus on building relationships, not followers." – Jon Loomer