100+ Ways to Reference a Quote from a Book: Ultimate Guide for Copywriting & Citations

“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs, *The Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs*

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston S. Churchill, *Never Give In: The Best of Winston Churchill's Writings*

“Believe you can and you're halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt, *The Rough Riders and Other Writings*

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius, *The Analects*

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

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

“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson, *Quoted in Motivational Anthologies*

“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky, *I Missed 9,000 Shots… And That’s Okay*

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

“Dream big and dare to fail.” – Norman Vaughan, *Inspiration from the Edge*

“Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” – George Addair, *The Difference Between Failure and Success*

“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” – Booker T. Washington, *Up From Slavery*

“I think, therefore I am.” – René Descartes, *Meditations on First Philosophy*

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, *Essays: First Series*

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

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

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

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

“The unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates, as cited in Plato’s *Apology*

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

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.” – Marie Curie, *Madame Curie: A Biography*

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

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

“To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.” – Henri Bergson, *Creative Evolution*

“I’m not arguing, I’m just explaining why I’m right.” – Unknown, *Funny Sayings Collection*

“I used to think I was indecisive, but now I’m not so sure.” – Steven Wright, *I Started Out as a Failure*

“Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.” – Jim Carrey, *Comedy Special Transcripts*

“I’m not lazy, I’m on energy-saving mode.” – Anonymous, *Humor in Everyday Life*

“I told my wife she was drawing her eyebrows too high. She looked surprised.” – Conan O’Brien, *Late Night Jokes Book*

“I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.” – Lily Tomlin, *Quirky Wisdom*

“I hate morning people. Especially when I’m one.” – Anonymous, *Office Humor Anthology*

“I didn’t lose my mind. I sold it on eBay.” – Unknown, *Internet Humor Collections*

“My diet starts tomorrow. It’s been starting a lot lately.” – Janeane Garofalo, *Laughing Matters*

“I put the ‘pro’ in procrastination.” – Demetri Martin, *This Is a Book*

“I’m not short. I’m concentrated awesome.” – Unknown, *Joke Books for All Ages*

“I’m not old. I’m vintage.” – Anonymous, *Senior Moments & Laughter*

“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.” – Emily Dickinson, *Poems by Emily Dickinson*

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by.” – Robert Frost, *The Road Not Taken*

“Do not go gentle into that good night.” – Dylan Thomas, *Collected Poems*

“She walks in beauty, like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies.” – Lord Byron, *She Walks in Beauty*

“I contain multitudes.” – Walt Whitman, *Song of Myself*

“And miles to go before I sleep.” – Robert Frost, *Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening*

“I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.” – T.S. Eliot, *The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock*

“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.” – John Keats, *Ode on a Grecian Urn*

“Let us go then, you and I, when the evening is spread out against the sky.” – T.S. Eliot, *The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock*

“I arise from dreams of thee in the first sweet sleep of night.” – Percy Bysshe Shelley, *Love’s Philosophy*

“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” – William Shakespeare, *As You Like It*

“I wandered lonely as a cloud that floats on high o'er vales and hills.” – William Wordsworth, *Daffodils*

“Leadership is not about being in charge. It is about taking care of those in your charge.” – Simon Sinek, *Leaders Eat Last*

“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” – John C. Maxwell, *The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership*

“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, *Speaking My Mind*

“People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.” – John C. Maxwell, *Developing the Leader Within You*

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” – Steve Jobs, *Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson*

“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower, *At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends*

“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” – Ralph Nader, *Leadership Without Easy Answers*

“Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results, not attributes.” – Peter Drucker, *Management Challenges for the 21st Century*

“A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.” – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., *Where Do We Go From Here?*

“Lead from the back — and let others believe they are in front.” – Nelson Mandela, *Long Walk to Freedom*

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.” – Maya Angelou, *Conversations with Maya Angelou*

“The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are.” – John C. Maxwell, *The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader*

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

“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” – Emily Brontë, *Wuthering Heights*

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

“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 I had to live my life over again, I would find you sooner.” – Nicholas Sparks, *The Notebook*

“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, *Love Quotes Compilation*

“Love makes a silent house noisy.” – Charles Bukowski, *Love is a Dog from Hell*

“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” – David Viscott, *On Love*

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

“When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.” – Nora Ephron, *When Harry Met Sally (Screenplay)*

“Love is not about how many days, months, or years you have been together. Love is about how much you love each other every single day.” – Unknown, *Romantic Anthologies*

“I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.” – Roy Croft, *Love Poems*

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” – Buddha, *The Dhammapada*

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” – Lao Tzu, *Tao Te Ching*

“Your level of success will rarely exceed your level of personal development.” – Jim Rohn, *The Art of Exceptional Living*

“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” – Zig Ziglar, *See You at the Top*

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

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

“Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievements gained slowly over time.” – John C. Maxwell, *The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth*

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

“The power of imagination makes us infinite.” – John Muir, *Nature Writings*

“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” – Albert Einstein, *Ideas and Opinions*

“Change your thoughts and you change your world.” – Norman Vincent Peale, *The Power of Positive Thinking*

“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier, *The Secret of the Ages*

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.” – Albert Einstein, *Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms*

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” – Albert Einstein, *Ideas and Opinions*

“Science is not only a disciple of reason but also one of romance and passion.” – Neil deGrasse Tyson, *Death by Black Hole*

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” – Carl Sagan, *Pale Blue Dot*

“The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.” – Neil deGrasse Tyson, *Astrophysics for People in a Hurry*

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

“To confine your attention to terrestrial matters will not prevent the heavens from silently revolving above you.” – Nicolaus Copernicus, *On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres*

“No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.” – Albert Einstein, *Philosophy of Science*

“The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.” – Neil deGrasse Tyson, *Astrophysics for People in a Hurry*

“We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.” – Carl Sagan, *The Demon-Haunted World*

“Facts are stubborn, but statistics can be persuasive.” – Mark Twain, *Mark Twain’s Own Autobiography*

“Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity.” – Louis Pasteur, *The Germ Theory and Its Applications to Medicine*

“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” – Alan Kay, *The Early History of Smalltalk*

“If you’re not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.” – Reid Hoffman, *The Startup of You*

“Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.” – Guy Kawasaki, *The Art of the Start*

“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” – Bill Gates, *Business @ the Speed of Thought*

“Focus on being productive instead of busy.” – Tim Ferriss, *The 4-Hour Workweek*

“Make something people want.” – Paul Graham, *Startup = Growth*

“It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.” – Scott Belsky, *Making Ideas Happen*

“Start small, think big, act fast.” – Ryan Hoover, *The Startup Playbook*

“Execution is everything.” – Tony Hsieh, *Delivering Happiness*

“Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.” – Drew Houston, *Dropbox Founding Story*

“The biggest risk is not taking any risk.” – Mark Zuckerberg, *Facebook Internal Memos*

“Build something 100 people love, not something 1 million people kind of like.” – Brian Chesky, *Airbnb Philosophy*

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – George Santayana, *The Life of Reason*

“History is written by the victors.” – Winston Churchill, *Memoirs of the Second World War*

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” – Edmund Burke, *Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents*

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., *Stride Toward Freedom*

“Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.” – Winston Churchill, *House of Commons Speech, 1947*

“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” – Lord Acton, *Letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton*

“Give me liberty, or give me death!” – Patrick Henry, *Speech to the Second Virginia Convention*

“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., *Sermon at Selma, 1965*

“Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.” – Wendell Phillips, *Speech at the Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women*

“All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.” – Thomas Jefferson, *Letters on Liberty*

“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.” – Winston Churchill, *Battle of Britain Speech, 1940*

“Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.” – John F. Kennedy, *Inaugural Address, 1961*