100+ Famous Quotes and Copywriting Examples – Who Said the Quote?

“The unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates

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

“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” – Aristotle

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

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” – Carl Jung

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” – Aristotle

“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.” – Heraclitus

“Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.” – Plato

“I think, therefore I am.” – René Descartes

“Man is the measure of all things.” – Protagoras

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” – Aristotle

“Leadership is not about being in charge. It is about taking care of those in your charge.” – Simon Sinek

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” – John Quincy Adams

“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” – Ralph Nader

“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” – John C. Maxwell

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” – Steve Jobs

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Peter Drucker

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill

“Great leaders are willing to sacrifice their personal interests for the good of the organization.” – John C. Maxwell

“A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

“You don’t lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.” – Ken Kesey

“The price of greatness is responsibility.” – Winston Churchill

“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower

“I’m not afraid of death; I just don’t want to be there when it happens.” – Woody Allen

“Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.” – Jim Carrey

“I used to sell furniture for a living. The trouble was, it was my own.” – Les Dawson

“I told my wife she was drawing her eyebrows too high. She looked surprised.” – Steven Wright

“I'm not arguing, I'm just explaining why I'm right.” – Unknown

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

“My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far I’ve finished two bags of M&Ms and a chocolate cake. I feel better already.” – Dave Barry

“I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn’t work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.” – Emo Philips

“I hate housework! You drag the dirt around, clean up, and five minutes later—you can't find a single thing you've done.” – Phyllis Diller

“If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.” – Steven Wright

“I’m in shape. Round is a shape.” – Unknown

“I put my phone in airplane mode, but it won’t take off.” – Demetri Martin

“I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan

“Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” – John Wooden

“Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.” – Tim Notke

“You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.” – Michael Jordan

“The only way to prove that you’re a good sport is by losing.” – Ernie Banks

“I run to where I want to be, not from where I’ve been.” – Usain Bolt

“Champions are made when no one is watching.” – Kobe Bryant

“Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.” – Napoleon Hill

“You were born to be a player. You were meant to be here. This moment is yours.” – Herb Brooks

“Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.” – Pat Riley

“It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up.” – Vince Lombardi

“Dream big. Work hard. Stay focused. And surround yourself with good people.” – Carmelo Anthony

“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” – Aristotle

“When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew—because you knew.” – William Shakespeare

“Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be.” – Robert Browning

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” – William Shakespeare

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

“You are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.” – E.E. Cummings

“Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.” – William Shakespeare

“In dreams begins responsibility.” – W.B. Yeats

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

“True love stories never have endings.” – Richard Bach

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” – Albert Einstein

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

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.” – Albert Einstein

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.” – Albert Einstein

“Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.” – Carl Sagan

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” – Carl Sagan

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

“The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate.” – Carl Sagan

“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” – Albert Einstein

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.” – Albert Einstein

“We float, weightless, in an infinite sea of darkness—and within us burns a flame of knowledge, fragile but eternal.” – Neil deGrasse Tyson

“The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.” – Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.” – Louisa May Alcott

“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.” – Frederick Douglass

“The revolution will not be televised.” – Gil Scott-Heron

“I have a dream.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion.” – Nelson Mandela

“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

“Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned…” – Marcus Garvey

“Speaking truth to power is the highest form of patriotism.” – Chris Hedges

“Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.” – Howard Zinn

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” – Pablo Picasso

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” – Pablo Picasso

“Creativity takes courage.” – Henri Matisse

“To send light into the darkness of men's hearts—such is the duty of the artist.” – Robert Schumann

“I dream my painting and then I paint my dream.” – Vincent van Gogh

“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” – Edgar Degas

“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.” – Pablo Picasso

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” – Thomas Merton

“A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.” – Eugene Ionesco

“Creativity is intelligence having fun.” – Albert Einstein

“Without imagination, there is no art.” – Unknown

“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.” – Pablo Picasso

“All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.” – J.K. Rowling

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” – Jane Austen

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.” – Rudyard Kipling

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.” – Jane Austen

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” – Charles Dickens

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero

“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.” – George Bernard Shaw

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” – C.S. Lewis

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” – Neil Gaiman

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” – James Baldwin

“The news media covers typhoons, earthquakes, famine, war—then turns to what Paris Hilton is wearing.” – Jon Stewart

“I'm not saying I hate you, but I would unplug your life support to charge my phone.” – Unknown

“I always wanted to be a procrastinator. I haven’t gotten around to it yet.” – Unknown

“The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.” – Horace Walpole

“I'm not lazy, I'm on energy-saving mode.” – Unknown

“Common sense is like deodorant. The people who need it most never use it.” – Unknown

“I'm not arguing, I'm just explaining why I'm right.” – Unknown

“I used to think I was indecisive, but now I’m not so sure.” – Unknown

“On the other hand, you have different fingers.” – Steven Wright

“I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done.” – Stephen Wright

“I asked the librarian if they had books about paranoia. She whispered, ‘They're right behind you…’” – Unknown

“The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.” – Unknown