36 best quotes by famous authors to inspire you

03/31/2025 by

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?

Enjoy them all and please feel free to pass them on.

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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27 Quotes by Jane Austen that are thought-provoking

03/29/2025 by

Today I thought exploring some quotes by Jane Austen would be interesting.

As I’m sure many readers will know, Jane Austen was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique, and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century.

Austen’s work explored women’s dependence on marriage in the pursuit of favourable social standing and economic security.

Austen’s use of biting irony, realism, and social commentary has earned her acclaim among critics and scholars.

For her time, she was a successful woman, and it’s always worth listening to successful people.

So, dear reader, be inspired by these excellent quotes by Jane Austen and see how many of them still resonate with us all today.

Quotes by Jane Austen (1-9)

An artist cannot do anything slovenly.

Respect for right conduct is felt by everybody.

It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

Nothing ever fatigues me but doing what I do not like.

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.

Quotes by Jane Austen (10-18)

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Vanity working on a weak head produces every sort of mischief.

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

One man’s ways may be as good as another’s, but we all like our own best.

In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know because there is no hope of a cure.

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

Quotes by Jane Austen (19-27)

The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.

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

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favour of matrimony.

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual in that family may be.

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.

There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.

What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

I would have everybody marry if they can do it properly: I do not like to have people throw themselves away, but everybody should marry as soon as they can do it to advantage.

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