Looking for quotes from famous authors? I have compiled a list of 71+ quotes from some of the most well-known and influential authors in history. These quotes cover a range of topics, including love, life, success, and more, and are sure to provide you with inspiration and wisdom.
Whether you’re looking for a quote to use as a daily motivational reminder or simply want to expand your knowledge of literature, this list has something for everyone. So sit back, relax, and let these famous authors inspire you with their words of wisdom.
Be a good person, it is easier than pretending to be a good person.
– Nitin Namdeo
Inspiring Quotes from Famous Authors
1. “Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.” – George Orwell
2. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
3. “If you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.” – Toni Morrison
4. “Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without the words, and never stops at all.” – Emily Dickinson
5. “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
6. “The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.” – Vincent van Gogh
7. “The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.” – Elbert Hubbard
8. “The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.” – William Wordsworth
9. “My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.” – Maya Angelou
10. “Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.” – Jim Rohn
11. “Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.” – Emily Post
12. “Don’t worry about being successful but work toward being significant and the success will naturally follow.” – Oprah Winfrey
13. “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” – Albert Schweitzer
14. “Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.” – J.K. Rowling
15. “The only thing that stands between you and your dream is the will to try and the belief that it is actually possible.” – Joel Brown
16. “I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.” – D.H. Lawrence
17. “I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go.” – Theodore Roethke
18. “Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.” – Edgar Allan Poe
19. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” – Robert Frost
20. “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Famous Quotes by Authors
21. “Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.” – Christian D. Larson
22. “The world is a beautiful place and worth fighting for.” – Ernest Hemingway
23. “Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without the words, and never stops at all.” – Emily Dickinson
24. “I hold it true, whate’er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; ‘Tis better to have loved and lost, Than never to have loved at all.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson
25. “It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.” – Gabriel García Márquez
26. “Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” – George Bernard Shaw
27. “Death be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so.” – John Donne
28. “I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart.” – John Steinbeck
29. “Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.” – C.S. Lewis
30. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius
31. “Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” – Mark Twain
32. “I hope she’ll be a fool — that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
33. “If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.” – Lewis Carroll
34. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
35. “The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” – Colin R. Davis
36. “I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.” – J.D. Salinger
37. “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” – Albert Einstein
38. “The only person you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday.” – Matty Mullins
39. “If you love a flower, don’t pick it up. Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.” – Osho
40. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.” – Steve Jobs
Short Quotes by Famous Authors
41. “Keep your hope alive to experience a vibrant life” – Nitin Namdeo
42. “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” – Amelia Earhart
43. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” – Mark Twain
44. “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.” – John Milton
45. “It is not down in any map; true places never are.” – Herman Melville
46. “To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return.” – Madonna
47. “Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” – Will Rogers
48. “I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.” – James Joyce
49. “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” – Socrates
50. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas A. Edison
51. “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” – Maya Angelou
52. “Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” – Mark Twain
53. “There is no friend as loyal as a book.” – Ernest Hemingway
54. “I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.” – William Ernest Henley
55. “The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.” – Percy Bysshe Shelley
56. “The only true paradise is a paradise lost.” – Marcel Proust
57. “To be or not to be, that is the question.” – William Shakespeare
58. “The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.” – William Blake
59. “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” – Oscar Wilde
60. “He who opens a school door, closes a prison.” – Victor Hugo
61. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
62. “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” – William Faulkner
63. “There are years that ask questions and years that answer.” – Zora Neale Hurston
64. “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” – Henry David Thoreau
65. “Beauty is truth, truth beauty.” – John Keats
66. “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
67. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
68. “The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.” – James Baldwin
69. “There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.” – Charles Dickens
70. “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” – George Orwell
71. “I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.” – James Joyce
