100+ Ways to Properly Quote a Book: Expert Copywriting Tips & Techniques

“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

“The best way out is always through.” – Robert Frost

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

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

“Do one thing every day that scares you.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“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 the measure of all things.” – Protagoras

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

“God is dead.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

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

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

“Everything that exists is logical.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky

“A year from now you may wish you had started today.” – Karen Lamb

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

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

“Dream it. Wish it. Do it.” – Anonymous

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

“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.” – Anonymous

“Do something today that your future self will thank you for.” – Anonymous

“Small progress is still progress.” – Anonymous

“Don’t stop when you’re tired. Stop when you’re done.” – Anonymous

“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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“I put the ‘pro’ in procrastination.” – Unknown

“Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?” – Robin Williams

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

“I’m not late. Everyone else is just early.” – Unknown

“Religion is the opium of the people.” – Karl Marx

“There is no God.” – Stephen Hawking

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

“Feminism is the radical notion that women are people.” – Cheris Kramarae

“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.” – Isaac Asimov

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

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” – George Orwell

“The death of God is the most catastrophic event in human history.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

“Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Under communism, it’s the other way around.” – Unknown

“An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” – George Orwell

“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.” – Oscar Wilde

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

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

“Call me Ishmael.” – Herman Melville, Moby Dick

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

“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

“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

“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

“To be, or not to be: that is the question.” – William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me.” – Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“The world is flat,” he said, “and I saw the edge.” – Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic

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

“We are made of star-stuff.” – Carl Sagan

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

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

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

“We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” – Albert Einstein

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

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.” – Albert Einstein

“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” – Albert Einstein

“We stand on the shoulders of giants.” – Isaac Newton

“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious.” – Albert Einstein

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

“Four score and seven years ago…” – Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address

“I have a dream.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

“We shall fight on the beaches.” – Winston Churchill

“Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.” – John F. Kennedy

“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

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

“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” – Ronald Reagan

“One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” – Neil Armstrong

“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

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

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

“Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” – Henry Ford

“Your outer world is a reflection of your inner world.” – Eckhart Tolle

“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.” – Buddha

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” – Plato

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

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

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

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

“Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.” – Suzy Kassem

“Focus on being productive instead of busy.” – Tim Ferriss

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

“May the Force be with you.” – Star Wars

“Here’s looking at you, kid.” – Rick Blaine, Casablanca

“I’m gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse.” – Don Vito Corleone, The Godfather

“You talking to me?” – Travis Bickle, Taxi Driver

“There’s no place like home.” – Dorothy, The Wizard of Oz

“To infinity and beyond!” – Buzz Lightyear, Toy Story

“Why so serious?” – The Joker, The Dark Knight

“After all, tomorrow is another day!” – Scarlett O’Hara, Gone with the Wind

“Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.” – Michael Corleone, The Godfather Part II

“I am your father.” – Darth Vader, The Empire Strikes Back

“Elementary, my dear Watson.” – Sherlock Holmes (popularized)

“Life is like a box of chocolates; you never know what you’re gonna get.” – Forrest Gump