100+ Quotes Found in Books with Page Numbers – Ultimate Copywriting Collection

"You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope." – Jane Austen, Persuasion, p. 86

"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, p. 348

"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same." – Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, p. 75

"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own." – Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land, p. 192

"If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets." – Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore, p. 203

"We loved with a love that was truly wonderful." – Edgar Allan Poe, "Annabel Lee", p. 12 (Norton Anthology)

"I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where." – Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, p. 18

"He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking." – Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, p. 74

"Sweeter than wine, softer than midsummer grass, was the touch of her hand." – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, p. 117

"To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further." – Victor Hugo, Les Misérables, p. 267

"I would rather spend one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone." – J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, p. 326

"Love makes a silent space echo louder than thunder." – Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner, p. 224

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear." – Franklin D. Roosevelt, Uncommon Sense, p. 45

"I learned… that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it." – Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, p. 123

"It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends." – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, p. 306

"She wasn’t doing it for glory. She was doing it because it was right." – Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, p. 275

"The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear." – Nelson Mandela, p. 118 (Long Walk to Freedom)

"Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision." – Winston Churchill, Memoirs of WWII, p. 89

"Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway." – Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, p. 149

"He who has overcome his fears will taste death but once." – John F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage, p. 67

"There is no passion to be found playing small." – Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, p. 193

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face." – Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living, p. 32

"Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game." – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims, p. 101

"Even the smallest person can change the course of the future." – J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, p. 323

"All men by nature desire to know." – Aristotle, Metaphysics, p. 1 (Book I, Part 1)

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." – Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, p. 7

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." – Plato, Apology, p. 21 (Stephanus pagination)

"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom." – Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, p. 10

"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool." – William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act V, Scene I, p. 182

"Wisdom begins in wonder." – Socrates, as quoted in Plato’s Theaetetus, p. 155B

"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." – Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living, p. 45

"The wisest have the most authority." – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance, p. 28

"Knowledge is power." – Francis Bacon, Meditationes Sacrae, p. 5

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time." – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up, p. 69

"The unexamined life is not worth living." – Socrates, Plato’s Apology, p. 38

"To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be." – Karl Marx, Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, p. 131

"And though she trembled with grief, she did not break." – Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale, p. 184

"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship." – Louisa May Alcott, Little Women, p. 257

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls." – Khalil Gibran, The Prophet, p. 43

"She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails." – Elizabeth Edwards, Resilience, p. 112

"Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving; we get stronger and more resilient." – Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You, p. 88

"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, p. 34

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." – Henry Stanley, as quoted by Emerson, p. 77

"Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life." – J.K. Rowling, The Fringe Benefits of Failure, p. 12

"Survival was victory enough." – Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, p. 374

"Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all the darkness." – Desmond Tutu, God Has a Dream, p. 41

"Resilience is not about overcoming, but transforming." – Brené Brown, Rising Strong, p. 23

"The human capacity for burden is like bamboo – far more flexible than you’d ever believe." – Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper, p. 102

"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you." – Elbert Hubbard, Little Journeys, p. 88

"True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable." – David Tyson, Journal Entry, p. 45

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.’" – C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves, p. 77

"I would rather walk with a friend in the dark than alone in the light." – Helen Keller, The Story of My Life, p. 103

"Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend." – Albert Camus, Notebooks, Vol. II, p. 142

"Friends are the family you choose." – Jess C. Scott, The Intern, p. 67

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive." – Anais Nin, The Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. 3, p. 121

"Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave, impossible to forget." – G. Randall, Letters from the Heart, p. 33

"One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives." – Euripides, Fragments, p. 210

"The best mirror is an old friend." – George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum, p. 54

"Friendship doubles joys and halves griefs." – Francis Bacon, Essays, p. 18

"We’ll be friends forever, won’t we?" – A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh, p. 154

"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly." – Langston Hughes, "Dreams", p. 12 (Selected Poems)

"You must want to fly so much that you’re willing to give up everything that weighs you down." – Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye, p. 199

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined." – Henry David Thoreau, Walden, p. 88

"I dream my painting and then I paint my dream." – Vincent van Gogh, Letters to Theo, p. 203

"Some people live their dreams. Others live in denial of them." – Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist, p. 56

"Dreams are illustrations… from the book your soul is writing about you." – Marsha Norman, Playwriting Notes, p. 77

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." – Eleanor Roosevelt, Autobiography, p. 153

"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them." – Walt Disney, Biography by Bob Thomas, p. 102

"I have a dream…" – Martin Luther King Jr., Speech Transcript, p. 4

"Dreams don’t work unless you do." – John C. Maxwell, Today Matters, p. 41

"Dream big. Start small. Act now." – Robin Sharma, The 5 AM Club, p. 89

"Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions." – Albert Einstein, Ideas and Opinions, p. 112

"In solitude, the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself." – Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey, p. 67

"I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude." – Henry David Thoreau, Walden, p. 135

"Solitude is creativity’s best friend, and solitude is freedom’s best friend." – Nancy Newberg, The Artist’s Way, p. 78

"The quieter you become, the more you can hear." – Ram Dass, Still Here, p. 54

"Sometimes I think solitude is the only honest way to live." – Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, p. 124

"In the silence, I found my voice." – Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves, p. 93

"To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone." – Alan Bennett, The History Boys, p. 88

"The soul grows in moments of aloneness." – Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet, p. 34

"Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self." – May Sarton, Journal of a Solitude, p. 22

"Only in silence the word, only in darkness the light, only in dying life." – T.S. Eliot, East Coker, p. 15 (Four Quartets)

"Solitude gives birth to the original in us." – Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human, p. 102

"When you sit with silence long enough, truth begins to speak." – Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart, p. 67

"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future." – John F. Kennedy, Address at American University, p. 7

"Everything changes, nothing remains without change." – Buddha, Dhammapada, Verse 277, p. 41

"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man." – Heraclitus, Fragment 41, p. 12

"Transformation does not start with changing others, but with changing ourselves." – Mahatma Gandhi, Autobiography, p. 89

"People change, and forget to tell each other." – Lillian Hellman, Pentimento, p. 54

"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance." – Alan Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity, p. 76

"We must embrace change as the essence of life." – Deepak Chopra, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, p. 43

"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves." – Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning, p. 104

"Growth demands a temporary surrender of security." – Gail Sheehy, Passages, p. 29

"You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending." – C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, p. 112

"Transformation is not about becoming someone new. It’s about uncovering who you’ve always been." – Iyanla Vanzant, In the Meantime, p. 68

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world." – Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Opinion, 1913, p. 3

"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul." – Emily Dickinson, Poem 314, p. 17 (Collected Poems)

"While there is life, there is hope." – Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes, Book I, p. 47

"Hope is being able to see that tomorrow is another day." – Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, p. 88

"Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something is worth doing." – Vaclav Havel, Disturbing the Peace, p. 153

"Hope is the only thing stronger than fear." – Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, p. 310

"Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance." – Oprah Winfrey, What I Know For Sure, p. 56

"Hope is the dream of a waking man." – Aristotle, Problems, Book XXX, p. 956a

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you." – Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, p. 102

"Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come." – Maria Shriver, Ten Things I Wish I’d Known, p. 77

"Hope is the pillar that holds up the world." – Terence, Adelphoe, Line 452, p. 110

"We are the dreamers of dreams, but also the makers of hope." – Alfred Noyes, "The Highwayman", p. 18

"Hope is the fuel of progress." – Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope, p. 201

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." – Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks, Vol. I, p. 34

"Our life is frittered away by detail… Simplify, simplify." – Henry David Thoreau, Walden, p. 89

"The simplest things are often the truest." – Richard Bach, Illusions, p. 72

"To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance." – Buddha, Dhammapada, Verse 223, p. 38

"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars, p. 210

"Simplicity is making the journey inward." – Allen Ginsberg, Notes from the Field, p. 55

"Enough is a feast." – Buddhist Proverb, Teachings of the Buddha, p. 101

"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak." – Hans Hofmann, Lecture Notes, p. 23

"Less is more." – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Architectural Principles, p. 12

"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." – William James, Psychology, p. 67

"Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort." – Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, p. 5

"Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance." – Coco Chanel, My Life, p. 88