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

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi, *The Story of My Experiments with Truth*

“It always seems impossible until it's done.” – Nelson Mandela, *Long Walk to Freedom*

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius, *The Analects*

“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt, *The Strenuous Life*

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill, *Never Give In*

“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson, *Have a Nice Day: A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks*

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt, *You Learn by Living*

“Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” – George Addair, *The Art of Risk*

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe, *Days of Grace*

“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.” – C.S. Lewis, *The Weight of Glory*

“Dream big. Start small. Act now.” – Robin Sharma, *The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari*

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, *Essays: Second Series*

“I’m not arguing, I’m just explaining why I’m right.” – Unknown, *Various Humor Collections*

“Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.” – Jim Carrey, *Speech at Maharishi University*

“I used to think I was indecisive, but now I’m not so sure.” – Steven Wright, *I Have a Pony*

“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, *The Wayward Comic*

“I'm not lazy, I'm on energy-saving mode.” – Unknown, *Internet Humor Archives*

“I told my wife she was drawing her eyebrows too high. She looked surprised.” – Comedian Unknown, *Stand-Up Routines*

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

“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.” – Douglas Adams, *The Salmon of Doubt*

“I always take life with a grain of salt… plus a slice of lemon… and a shot of tequila.” – Rita Rudner, *Naked Beneath My Clothes*

“The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.” – Steve Cropper, *Quoted in Forbes*

“I haven’t spoken to my wife in years. I didn’t want to interrupt her.” – Rodney Dangerfield, *No Respect*

“Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy a yacht large enough to pull up alongside it.” – Spike Milligan, *Puckoon*

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

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle, *Nicomachean Ethics*

“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, *Twilight of the Idols*

“Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.” – Jean-Paul Sartre, *Existentialism is a Humanism*

“The unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates, as quoted by Plato, *Apology*

“Life must be understood backward. But it must be lived forward.” – Søren Kierkegaard, *Diary Entries*

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

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” – Aristotle, *Nicomachean Ethics*

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” – Oscar Wilde, *Lady Windermere’s Fan*

“Doubt is the origin of wisdom.” – René Descartes, *Meditations on First Philosophy*

“Freedom is not freedom unless it includes the freedom to make mistakes.” – Mahatma Gandhi, *An Autobiography*

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – Saint Augustine, *Sermons*

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

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt, *Fireside Chats*

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

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

“Don’t stop when you’re tired. Stop when you’re done.” – David Goggins, *Can’t Hurt Me*

“Great things never come from comfort zones.” – Neil Strauss, *The Truth*

“Dream it. Believe it. Build it.” – Anonymous, *Modern Motivation Manuals*

“Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso, *Interviews on Creativity*

“Push yourself, because no one else is going to do it for you.” – Anonymous, *Fitness and Success Blogs*

“Wake up with determination. Go to bed with satisfaction.” – Anonymous, *Daily Motivation Guides*

“Small progress is still progress.” – Anonymous, *Mindset Coaching Materials*

“Success doesn’t just come to you, you go to it.” – Marva Collins, *Ordinary Children, Extraordinary Teachers*

“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*

“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.” – A.A. Milne, *Winnie-the-Pooh*

“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, *Quotes About Love*

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

“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” – Aristotle, *Historia Animalium*

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.” – Pablo Neruda, *100 Love Sonnets*

“In your light I learn how to love.” – Rumi, *The Essential Rumi*

“When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.” – William Shakespeare, *As You Like It*

“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 makes man grow up.” – Hermann Hesse, *Siddhartha*

“I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart).” – E.E. Cummings, *Selected Poems*

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

“It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson, *In Memoriam A.H.H.*

“The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.” – Mark Twain, *Following the Equator*

“I am haunted by waters.” – Norman Maclean, *A River Runs Through It*

“We are all broken—that’s how the light gets in.” – Ernest Hemingway, *A Farewell to Arms*

“Nobody ever said life was fair, son—but I expect it to be.” – Atticus Finch, *To Kill a Mockingbird*

“So it goes.” – Kurt Vonnegut, *Slaughterhouse-Five*

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.” – Ernest Hemingway, *A Farewell to Arms*

“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.” – Sarah Williams, *The Old Astronomer to His Pupil*

“There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.” – Dante Alighieri, *Inferno*

“I am not what I am.” – Iago, *Othello*

“To weep is to make less the depth of grief.” – William Shakespeare, *King John*

“I’m not great at the advice. Can I interest you in a sarcastic comment?” – Chandler Bing, *Friends*

“I’m not saying I hate you, but I would unplug your life support to charge my phone.” – Unknown, *Internet Memes*

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

“On the bright side, I can now fit into smaller boxes.” – Demetri Martin, *This Is a Book*

“I didn’t lose my mind. I sold it on eBay.” – Unknown, *Social Media Posts*

“I’m not late. Everyone else is just early.” – Unknown, *Office Humor Collections*

“I’m not lazy, I’m in energy efficiency mode.” – Unknown, *Quote Books*

“I’m not ignoring you. I’m just prioritizing my peace.” – Unknown, *Instagram Captions*

“I’m not arguing. I’m just passionately expressing my point with volume.” – Unknown, *Twitter Threads*

“I’m not weird. I’m a limited edition.” – Unknown, *T-Shirt Quotes*

“I don’t need therapy. I just need to scream into the void.” – Unknown, *Tumblr Posts*

“I’m not clumsy. The floor just hates me.” – Unknown, *Facebook Statuses*

“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 animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” – George Orwell, *Animal Farm*

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

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

“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*

“Big Brother is watching you.” – George Orwell, *1984*

“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.” – William Shakespeare, *Julius Caesar*

“Beware the beast Man, for he is the Devil's pawn.” – William Golding, *Lord of the Flies*

“The only way out is through.” – Robert Frost, *After Apple-Picking* (often misattributed)

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

“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” – George Orwell, *1984*

“Resilience is knowing you can endure anything.” – Anonymous, *Resilience Training Manuals*

“Fall seven times, stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb, *Traditional Sayings*

“Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.” – J.K. Rowling, *Harvard Commencement Speech*

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls.” – Khalil Gibran, *The Prophet*

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.” – Oprah Winfrey, *Live Your Best Life*

“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” – Maya Angelou, *Letter to My Daughter*

“Scars are tattoos with better stories.” – Unknown, *Veterans’ Memoirs*

“Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t.” – Rikki Rogers, *Teen Ink*

“The human capacity for burden is like bamboo—far more flexible than you’d ever believe at first glance.” – Jodi Picoult, *My Sister’s Keeper*

“Survival is important. Thriving is elegant.” – Nikki Giovanni, *Quoted in Interviews*

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

“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all the darkness.” – Desmond Tutu, *God Has a Dream*

“Knowledge is power.” – Francis Bacon, *Meditationes Sacrae*

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” – Socrates, as quoted by Plato, *Apology*

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela, *Speech at UNISA*

“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.” – Abigail Adams, *Letters to John Quincy Adams*

“The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you.” – B.B. King, *My Life, My Songs*

“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin, *Poor Richard’s Almanack*

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” – Mahatma Gandhi, *Young India*

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

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.” – Henry Ford, *My Life and Work*

“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.” – Stephen Hawking, *Public Lecture*

“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” – Benjamin Franklin, *Autobiography*

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” – W.B. Yeats, *Quoted in Biographies*