100+ MLA Quote Examples & Copywriting Tips for Perfect Citations
Creating a page filled with quotes can provide both inspiration and insight into diverse perspectives and experiences. This article explores the art of quoting in the MLA format, offering ten unique sections to exemplify this standard. Each section will deliver twelve pertinent quotes, thereby enabling us to appreciate the depth and richness of using formatted quotes. Engage with various themes, from friendship and love to personal growth and legacy, all while adhering to standard citation styles, fostering understanding, and enhancing the ability to quote with precision and respect for intellectual property.
"A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same." — Elbert Hubbard
"Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together." — Woodrow Wilson
"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out." — Walter Winchell
"Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up." — Thomas J. Watson
"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
"A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world." — Leo Buscaglia
"The only way to have a friend is to be one." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me." — Henry Ford
"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity." — Khalil Gibran
"There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship." — Thomas Aquinas
"Friends are the siblings God never gave us." — Mencius
"True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable." — David Tyson
"We are most alive when we’re in love." — John Updike
"The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love." — Henry Miller
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage." — Lao Tzu
"Love does not dominate; it cultivates." — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides." — David Viscott
"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies." — Aristotle
"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear." — Martin Luther King Jr.
"Love is not about how many days, months, or years you have been together. Love is about how much you love each other every day." — Unknown
"Where there is love there is life." — Mahatma Gandhi
"The best thing to hold onto in life is each other." — Audrey Hepburn
"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person." — Mignon McLaughlin
"Love is a friendship set to music." — Joseph Campbell
"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." — Socrates
"Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it." — Albert Einstein
"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens." — Jimi Hendrix
"Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone." — Horace
"The wise man does at once what the fool does finally." — Niccolò Machiavelli
"The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook." — William James
"Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom." — Terry Pratchett
"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool." — William Shakespeare
"It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics." — George Bernard Shaw
"Turn your wounds into wisdom." — Oprah Winfrey
"Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk." — Doug Larson
"The only impossible journey is the one you never begin." — Tony Robbins
"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now." — Chinese Proverb
"Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life." — Steve Jobs
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The only way to do great work is to love what you do." — Steve Jobs
"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." — Henry David Thoreau
"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
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." — William James
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts." — Winston S. Churchill
"Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny." — C.S. Lewis
"Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you." — Walt Whitman
"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans." — John Lennon
"The purpose of our lives is to be happy." — Dalai Lama
"Get busy living or get busy dying." — Stephen King
"Life is about making an impact, not making an income." — Kevin Kruse
"In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years." — Abraham Lincoln
"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough." — Mae West
"Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." — Thomas A. Edison
"If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor." — Eleanor Roosevelt
"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving." — Albert Einstein
"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." — Nelson Mandela
"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment." — Buddha
"The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything." — Frank Sinatra
"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." — Walt Disney
"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty." — Winston Churchill
"Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today." — Will Rogers
"It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up." — Vince Lombardi
"If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you." — Steve Jobs
"People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do." — Rob Siltanen
"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough." — Og Mandino
"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated." — Maya Angelou
"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Wishing is not enough; we must do." — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
"Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right." — Henry Ford
"The path to success is to take massive, determined action." — Tony Robbins
"The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others." — Hasidic Proverb
"Family is not an important thing, it’s everything." — Michael J. Fox
"The memories we make with our family is everything." — Candace Cameron Bure
"Family is the heart of a home." — Unknown
"Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten." — David Ogden Stiers
"To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there." — Barbara Bush
"The family is one of nature’s masterpieces." — George Santayana
"Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one." — Jane Howard
"The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life." — Richard Bach
"Families are the compass that guides us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter." — Brad Henry
"When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching – they are your family." — Jim Butcher
"In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony." — Friedrich Nietzsche
"Hom is wherever you leave everything you love and never question that it will be there when you return." — Leo Christopher
"Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions." — Dalai Lama
"Happiness is the secret to all beauty. There is no beauty without happiness." — Christian Dior
"Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul." — Democritus
"The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life." — William Morris
"Happiness is a state of mind. It’s just according to the way you look at things." — Walt Disney
"Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears." — John Lennon
"Happiness is the best makeup." — Drew Barrymore
"If you want to be happy, be." — Leo Tolstoy
"Happiness is not by chance, but by choice." — Jim Rohn
"The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it’s all that matters." — Audrey Hepburn
"Happiness is letting go of what you think your life is supposed to look like and celebrating it for everything that it is." — Mandy Hale
"Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present." — Jim Rohn
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." — Nelson Mandela
"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet." — Aristotle
"Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school." — Albert Einstein
"The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one." — Malcolm Forbes
"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest." — Benjamin Franklin
"Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow." — Anthony J. D’Angelo
"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education." — Martin Luther King Jr.
"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself." — John Dewey
"The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth." — John F. Kennedy
"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled." — Plutarch
"Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom." — George Washington Carver
"Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today." — Malcolm X
"Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones." — Shannon L. Alder
"The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it." — William James
"Legacy is not what I did for myself. It’s what I’m doing for the next generation." — Vitor Belfort
"The legacy you leave is the life you lead." — Dr. Richie Norton
"Our fingerprints don’t fade from the lives we’ve touched." — Judy Blume
"Everyone must leave something behind when he dies." — Ray Bradbury
"The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering." — Bruce Lee
"Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago." — Warren Buffett
"No legacy is so rich as honesty." — William Shakespeare
"What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others." — Pericles
"To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die." — Thomas Campbell
"Your story is the greatest legacy that you will leave to your friends. It’s the longest-lasting legacy you will leave to your heirs." — Steve Saint
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