Insightful Quotes from Literature

Not all those who wander are lost. – J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

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

All endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time. – Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Sometimes, the smallest things take up the most room in your heart. – A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh

The only way out is through. – Robert Frost, A Servant to Servants

We lose ourselves in books, we find ourselves there too. – Anonymous

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go. – Dr. Seuss, I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times if one only remembers to turn on the light. – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

A person’s a person, no matter how small. – Dr. Seuss, Horton Hears a Who!

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. – Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not. – Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Success

Insightful Quotes from Literature part 2

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. – Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. – Steve Jobs, Stanford University Commencement Speech

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts. – Winston Churchill, Blood, Sweat, and Tears

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. – Eleanor Roosevelt

It is never too late to be what you might have been. – George Eliot, Adam Bede

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. – Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. – Mark Twain

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be. – Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. – Maya Angelou

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already. – J.K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Speech

You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you. – Chris Bradford, The Ring of Earth

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. – Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge, but imagination. – Albert Einstein

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. – Vince Lombardi, What It Takes to Be Number One

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. – E.E. Cummings

It is the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting. – Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. – Henry Ford

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it. – Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. – Edmund Burke, Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. – Stephen Hawking, The Grand Design

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

It is not the mountains we conquer, but ourselves. – Sir Edmund Hillary

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars. – Jack Kerouac, On the Road

The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams. – Oprah Winfrey

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. – Maya Angelou

The best way out is always through. – Robert Frost, A Servant to Servants

It always seems impossible until it’s done. – Nelson Mandela

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. – Oscar Wilde

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. – Robert Louis Stevenson

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. – Franklin D. Roosevelt