100+ MLA Format Book Quote Examples & Copywriting Tips

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world” (Gandhi 87).

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts” (Churchill 103).

“The only way to do great work is to love what you do” (Jobs 56).

“Believe you can and you’re halfway there” (Roosevelt 44).

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop” (Confucius 72).

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall” (Confucius 75).

“Dream big and dare to fail” (Disney 33).

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are” (Theodore Roosevelt 49).

“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take” (Gretzky 112).

“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny” (C.S. Lewis 67).

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams” (Eleanor Roosevelt 51).

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can” (Arthur Ashe 91).

“I’m not arguing, I’m just explaining why I’m right” (Vizzini, as cited in Goldman 124).

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work” (Edison, quoted in Baldwin 201).

“Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes” (Martin 88).

“I used to think I was indecisive, but now I’m not so sure” (Anonymous, qtd. in Smith 66).

“I’m not lazy, I’m on energy-saving mode” (Jones 34).

“I told my wife she was drawing her eyebrows too high. She looked surprised” (Wright 77).

“I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific” (Leno 110).

“The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese” (Anonymous, qtd. in Brown 52).

“I haven’t lost my mind; it’s backed up on a USB drive” (Taylor 45).

“If at first you don’t succeed, redefine success” (Murphy 89).

“I don’t need therapy, I just need a nap” (Clark 30).

“I’m not late; everyone else is just early” (Wilson 73).

“To be is to do” (Sartre 102).

“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how” (Nietzsche 55).

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit” (Aristotle 12).

“Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself” (Sartre 105).

“The unexamined life is not worth living” (Plato 38).

“Everything that exists is born of chaos” (Nietzsche 67).

“God is dead. So are we” (Nietzsche 101).

“I think, therefore I am” (Descartes 22).

“Happiness depends upon ourselves” (Aristotle 88).

“Freedom is the recognition of necessity” (Hegel 76).

“All that I know is that I know nothing” (Socrates, qtd. in Plato 41).

“The world is my representation” (Schopenhauer 33).

“She wasn’t looking for a knight. She was looking for a sword” (Erin Kelly 134).

“Grief is the price we pay for love” (C.S. Lewis 20).

“Love makes a silent room echo with laughter” (Pablo Neruda 91).

“You can love someone so much… but you can never love people as much as you can miss them” (John Green 105).

“I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)” (E.E. Cummings 5).

“Sometimes, the person who loves you the most is the one who hurts you the deepest” (Anonymous, qtd. in Lee 77).

“It’s so hard to forget someone who gave you so much to remember” (Anonymous, qtd. in Perez 63).

“The worst kind of pain is when your arms are free but you still can’t reach the one you want to hold” (Unknown, qtd. in Moore 44).

“I didn’t lose myself; I found pieces I never knew were missing” (Atticus 29).

“Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything” (C.S. Lewis 25).

“Tears are words that need to be written” (Paulo Coelho 81).

“If you remember me, then I don’t care if I die” (Haruki Murakami 117).

“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going” (Sam Levenson 45).

“The harder you work for something, the greater you’ll feel when you achieve it” (Anonymous, qtd. in Reed 67).

“Great things never come from comfort zones” (Neil Strauss 89).

“Dream it. Believe it. Build it” (Tony Gaskins 33).

“Your passion is waiting for your courage to catch up” (Isabelle Lafleche 51).

“Action is the foundational key to all success” (Pablo Picasso 74).

“Success doesn’t come from what you do occasionally, it comes from what you do consistently” (Marie Forleo 92).

“Push yourself, because no one else is going to do it for you” (Anonymous, qtd. in Kim 41).

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today” (Franklin D. Roosevelt 60).

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you” (Walt Whitman 103).

“Don’t stop when you’re tired. Stop when you’re done” (David Goggins 111).

“Opportunities don’t happen. You create them” (Chris Grosser 78).

“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” (García Márquez 120).

“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same” (Emily Brontë 92).

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where” (Pablo Neruda 15).

“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope” (Jane Austen 108).

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever” (Alfred Tennyson 7).

“I would rather spend one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone” (J.R.R. Tolkien 133).

“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 55).

“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies” (Aristotle 201).

“Every time I see you, I fall in love all over again” (Margaret Mitchell 88).

“I choose you. And I’ll choose you over and over and over. Without pause, without a doubt, in a heartbeat. I’ll keep choosing you” (Unknown, qtd. in Evans 101).

“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul” (Pablo Neruda 18).

“You are my today and all of my tomorrows” (Leo Christopher 67).

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing” (Socrates, qtd. in Plato 41).

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars” (Oscar Wilde 73).

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is” (Einstein 99).

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places” (Ernest Hemingway 112).

“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is” (Camus 66).

“To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly” (Henri Bergson 81).

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience” (Teilhard de Chardin 105).

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us” (Ralph Waldo Emerson 54).

“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path” (Buddha 29).

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself” (F.D. Roosevelt 61).

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation” (Thoreau 12).

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate” (Carl Jung 77).

“You have power over your mind—not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength” (Marcus Aurelius 48).

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent” (Eleanor Roosevelt 23).

“I am not a victim. No, I am a survivor” (Maya Angelou 101).

“Know thyself” (Socrates, qtd. in Plato 35).

“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them” (Maya Angelou 110).

“I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul” (William Ernest Henley 88).

“Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen” (Brené Brown 67).

“She believed she could, so she did” (R.S. Grey 44).

“The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who’s going to stop me” (Ayn Rand 91).

“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else” (Booker T. Washington 76).

“You define your own life. Don’t let others write your script” (Oprah Winfrey 105).

“Power is not given to you. You have to take it” (Beyoncé, qtd. in Carter 119).

“Not all those who wander are lost” (J.R.R. Tolkien 77).

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step” (Lao Tzu 1).

“Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans” (Allen, qtd. in Lennon 52).

“We do not remember days, we remember moments” (Cesare Pavese 33).

“Time isn’t precious because it’s short. Time is precious because it’s undefined” (Mitch Albom 89).

“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on” (Robert Frost 102).

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present” (Bill Keane 22).

“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life” (Charles Swindoll 41).

“We are all stories in the end. Just make it a good one” (Steven Moffat, qtd. in Davies 115).

“What we think, we become” (Buddha 12).

“The best mirror is an old friend” (George Herbert 67).

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all” (Oscar Wilde 71).

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world” (Nelson Mandela 15).

“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically” (Martin Luther King Jr. 88).

“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest” (Benjamin Franklin 34).

“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence” (Abigail Adams 56).

“The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you” (B.B. King 77).

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever” (Gandhi 91).

“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today” (Malcolm X 63).

“Knowledge is power” (Francis Bacon 10).

“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet” (Aristotle 102).

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty” (Henry Ford 44).

“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn” (Benjamin Franklin 29).

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire” (William Butler Yeats 111).