100+ Copywriting Examples: How to Quote Correctly & Effectively

"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

"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

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

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

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take." – Wayne Gretzky

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

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

"Dream big, work hard, stay focused, and surround yourself with good people." – Anonymous

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

"Opportunities don't happen. You create them." – Chris Grosser

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

"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." – Walt Disney

"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together." – Vincent Van Gogh

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." – Thomas Jefferson

"Excellence is never an accident; it's always the result of high intention." – Aristotle

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." – Henry David Thoreau

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

"Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of commitment." – Paul McJones

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

"Action is the foundational key to all success." – Pablo Picasso

"Focus on being productive instead of busy." – Tim Ferriss

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

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

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

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

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

"I told my wife she was drawing her eyebrows too high. She looked surprised." – Dennis Farina

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

"I don’t need therapy, I just need a nap." – Unknown

"My phone battery lasts longer than my relationships." – Unknown

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

"I put the ‘pro’ in procrastination." – Unknown

"If silence is golden, then I must be a millionaire." – Unknown

"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

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

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

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to understanding ourselves." – Carl Jung

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

"Man is the measure of all things." – Protagoras

"Knowledge is power." – Francis Bacon

"The mind is everything. What you think, you become." – Buddha

"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated." – Confucius

"Change is the only constant in life." – Heraclitus

"The best thing to hold onto in life is each other." – Audrey Hepburn

"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies." – Aristotle

"Where there is love, there is life." – Mahatma Gandhi

"To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides." – David Viscott

"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person." – Mignon McLaughlin

"Love makes a short absence long, and a long presence short." – Jean de La Bruyère

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

"In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours." – Maya Angelou

"Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile." – Franklin P. Jones

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams." – Dr. Seuss

"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved." – Victor Hugo

"Love is not about how many days, months, or years you have been together. It's about how much you love each other every single day." – Unknown

"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently." – Henry Ford

"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." – Winston Churchill

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." – Thomas Edison

"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor." – Truman Capote

"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all." – J.K. Rowling

"Failure teaches success." – Tony Robbins

"Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent advantage." – Napoleon Hill

"The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried." – Stephen McCranie

"Failure is not the opposite of success; it’s part of success." – Arianna Huffington

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." – Dale Carnegie

"Failure is the tuition you pay for success." – Walter Brunell

"Don’t fear failure. Fear being in the same place next year as you are today." – Eric Thomas

"Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another." – John C. Maxwell

"The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things." – Ronald Reagan

"A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way." – John C. Maxwell

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

"The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers." – Ralph Nader

"Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results, not attributes." – Peter Drucker

"People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision." – John C. Maxwell

"A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit." – Arnold H. Glasow

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

"The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are." – John C. Maxwell

"True leadership lies in guiding others to discover their own potential." – Unknown

"Lead with integrity, inspire with purpose, and serve with humility." – Simon Sinek

"Creativity is intelligence having fun." – Albert Einstein

"You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have." – Maya Angelou

"The chief enemy of creativity is good sense." – Pablo Picasso

"Creativity takes courage." – Henri Matisse

"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions." – Albert Einstein

"To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow." – Kurt Vonnegut

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." – Scott Adams

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

"An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail." – Edwin Land

"Art challenges society, and society inspires the artist." – Banksy

"There is no innovation and creativity without error." – Dean Keith Simonton

"Don’t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad." – Andy Warhol

"Time isn't precious because it's scarce, but because it's irreversible." – Gary Keller

"Lost time is never found again." – Benjamin Franklin

"The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities." – Stephen Covey

"Time management is really self-management." – Brian Tracy

"Don't count the days, make the days count." – Muhammad Ali

"You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it." – Charles Buxton

"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot." – Michael Altshuler

"One hour in the morning is worth two in the evening." – Benjamin Franklin

"Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things." – Peter Drucker

"Take care of your minutes and the hours will take care of themselves." – Lord Chesterfield

"Focus on being productive, not busy." – Tim Fargo

"Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend." – Theophrastus

"Resilience is knowing that you are the only one that has the power and the responsibility to pick yourself up." – Mary Holloway

"Fall seven times, stand up eight." – Japanese Proverb

"It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up." – Vince Lombardi

"Resilience is not about overcoming, but transforming through adversity." – Linda Hoopes

"Strength doesn't come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn't." – Rikki Rogers

"Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors." – African Proverb

"Scars are tattoos with better stories." – Unknown

"The human capacity for burden is like bamboo – far more flexible than you’d ever believe at first glance." – Jodi Picoult

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

"Resilience is not about bouncing back, but growing forward." – Meg Wheatley

"You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them." – Maya Angelou

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