100+ Powerful Quoting & Referencing Copywriting Examples for Social Media Success

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

It always seems impossible until it’s done.

Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving them.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.

Wherever you are, be all there.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

Everything begins with a dream and the courage to take the first step.

I’m not arguing, I’m just explaining why I’m right.

The early bird might get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

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

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

If at first you don’t succeed, redefine success.

I didn’t lose my mind. I sold it on eBay.

Common sense is like deodorant. The people who need it most never use it.

I’m not short. I’m concentrated awesome.

My bed is a magical place where I suddenly remember everything I was supposed to do.

I don’t need therapy, I just need a nap.

I followed my dreams… now I’m lost.

If laughter is the best medicine, my sides hurt from laughing too much.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Existence precedes essence.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours.

Love makes our souls grow.

Where there is love, there is life.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

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.

A simple ‘I love you’ means more than money.

Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

The wise man speaks because he has something to say; the fool because he has to say something.

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

True wisdom comes not from knowledge, but from understanding.

The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

With great power comes great responsibility.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

Knowledge is power, but character is choice.

To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.

Leadership is not about being in charge. It is about taking care of those in your charge.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

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.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

You don’t lead by pointing and commanding. You lead by going alongside people to show the way.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are.

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.

Creativity is intelligence having fun.

You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

The creative adult is the child who survived.

Art challenges society, and society resists change.

To be creative means to surprise yourself and to be surprised by yourself.

Creativity takes courage.

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

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

Every artist was first an amateur.

Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.

Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.

Success is not measured by how high you climb, but how many people you bring with you.

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.

Opportunities don't happen. You create them.

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.

The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.

Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency.

Don’t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.

Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

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

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.

It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Scars are tattoos with better stories.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

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

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

Resilience is not about overcoming, but transforming through adversity.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.