Here are 30 Insightful Quotes from Authors, along with the year it was said and the source of the quote:
- “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot, 1866
- “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, 1954
- “The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.” – John Green, Looking for Alaska, 2005
- “There is no friend as loyal as a book.” – Ernest Hemingway, Interview, 1934
- “You have to write the book that wants to be written.” – Madeleine L’Engle, A Circle of Quiet, 1972
- “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost.” – Eleanor Roosevelt, 1960
- “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” – Robert Frost, 1954
- “We are all broken, that’s how the light gets in.” – Ernest Hemingway, Paraphrased from Leonard Cohen, 1964
- “To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” – David Viscott, 1976
- “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu, Ancient China
- “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933
- “Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama, 1989
- “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834
- “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1851
- “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” – Edmund Burke, Attributed, 1770
- “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” – Alan Kay, 1971
- “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” – John Lennon, Beautiful Boy, 1980
- “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill, 1941
- “The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.” – Tony Robbins, 2001
- “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841
- “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, 1997
- “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” – Socrates, Ancient Greece
- “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw, 1903
- “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” – Martin Luther King Jr., 1965
- “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 1998
- “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” – Mark Twain, 1905
- “We accept the love we think we deserve.” – Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, 1999
- “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt, 1901
- “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.” – André Gide, Autumn Leaves, 1950
- “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky, 1983