
If you’re looking for some of the best quotes by famous authors, then I have 36 great quotes to inspire you today. I’m confident that they will all get you thinking.
So, take a few minutes to read them all and then see how many of them you can work into your day.
Perhaps you have a presentation to do in the office? Well, a good quote to stress your underlying message is always a good idea. Maybe one of these would fit perfectly?
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Best quotes by famous authors (1-12)
It hurt because it mattered. ~John Green
To thine own self be true. ~William Shakespeare
Life’s not fair; why should I be? ~Margaret Atwood
You cannot find peace by avoiding life. ~Virginia Woolf
As you start to walk on the way, the way appears. ~Rumi
Straight roads do not make skilful drivers. ~Paula Coelho
Each moment is a place you’ve never been. ~Mark Strand
There is always something left to love. ~Gabriel García Márquez
To avoid criticism: say nothing, do nothing, be nothing. ~Aristotle
Everything is hard before it is easy. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose. ~C.S. Lewis
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way. ~Henry David Thoreau
Best quotes by famous authors (13-24)
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. ~Plato
Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life. ~J.K. Rowling
Sooner or later even the fastest runners have to stand and fight. ~Stephen King
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. ~Albert Einstein
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not. ~Oscar Wilde
When you can’t change the direction of the wind, adjust your sails. ~H. Jackson Brown Jr.
I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it. ~Maya Angelou
Monsters are real, and ghosts are real, too. They live inside us, and sometimes they win. ~Stephen King
I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival. ~Audre Lorde
We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out. ~Ray Bradbury
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. ~Mark Twain
It is impossible to live without failing at something unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default. ~J.K. Rowling
Best quotes by famous authors (25-36)
It is never too late to be what you might have been. ~George Eliot
Self-awareness and self-love matter. Who we are is how we lead. ~Brene Brown
No one really has a bad life. Not even a bad day. Just bad moments. ~Regina Brett
Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood. ~George Orwell
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance. ~Samuel Johnson
When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. ~Alice Walker
We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down. ~Kurt Vonnegut
Challenges make life interesting, however, overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. ~Mark Twain
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
It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself and half-believed before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here. ~James Baldwin
There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I could change the past. Well, I can’t, but I can change the present so that when it becomes the past it will turn out to be a past worth having. ~Terry Pratchett
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