Great Quotes
Prompts
For
Writiing
“Whether I shall turn out
to be the hero
of my own life,
or whether that station
will be held by anybody else,
these pages must show.”
– Charles Dickens
“Do one thing
every day that
scares you.”
-Eleanor Roosevelt
“Ah, but a man’s
reach should exceed
his grasp, or what’s
a heaven for?”
-Robert Browning
“Breed is
stronger than
pasture.”
-George Eliot
“The two most powerful
things in existence:
a kind word and
a thoughtful
gesture.”
-Ken Langone, founder,
Home Depot
“Dream as if
you’ll live forever.
Live as if
you’ll die today.”
-James Dean
“Have you invested
as much this year
in your career as
in your car?”
-Molly Sargent
“The most successful
people are those
who are good at
plan B.”
-James Yorke
“Knowing others is
intelligence;
knowing yourself is
true wisdom.”
-Lao-tzu
“Quality is never an
accident; it is always the
result of high intention,
sincere effort, intelligent
direction and skillful
execution ; it represents
the wise choice of many
alternatives .”
– Willa Foster
“If you don’t like
change, you’re
going to like
irrelevance even
less.”
-General Eric Shinseki
“Stay Hungry.
Stay Foolish.”
-Steve Jobs
“You are the
storyteller of your
own life, and you
can create your
own legend or not.”
-Isabel Allende
“The greatest danger
for most of us
is not that our aim is
too high and we miss
it, but that it is too low
and we reach it.”
-
-Michelangelo
“We are drowning
in information
and starving for
knowledge .”
-Rutherford D. Rogers
“A year from now
you may wish
you had
started today.”
-Karen Lamb
“Education's purpose
is to replace an
empty mind with
an open one.”
-Malcolm S. Forbes
“The history of the
world is but the
biography of great
men.”
-Thomas Carlyle
“Character is like a tree
and reputation like its
shadow. The shadow is
what we think of it; the
tree is the real thing.”
-Abraham Lincoln
“All books are
either dreams or
swords.”
-Amy Lowell
“In the depth of
winter, I finally
learned that within
me there lay an
invincible summer.”
-Albert Camus
“You can only be
young once.
But you can always
be immature.”
-Dave Barry
“Not all those
who wander
are lost.”
-J. R. R. Tolkien
“He who will not
reason is a bigot;
he who cannot is a
fool; and he who
dares not is a
slave.”
-William Drummond
“Hatred is
too great
a burden
to bear.”
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
“It is never too late
to be what you
might have been.”
-George Eliot
“The world breaks
every one and
afterward many
are strong at the
broken places.”
-Ernest Hemingway
“One of the main
causes of failure is
giving up what you
want most for what
you want now.”
-Jesse Ahroni
“There are no
shortcuts to any
place worth going.”
-Beverly Sills
“We all have our time
machines. Some take us
back; they’re called
memories. Some take us
forward; they’re called
dreams.”
– Jeremy Irons
“The hand
is the cutting edge
of the mind.”
-Jacob Bronowski
“Write from
abundance.”
-Donald Murray
“Money often
costs too
much.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Prose is
architecture
not interior
decoration.”
-Ernest Hemingway
“Memory is a
complicated thing,
a relative to truth,
but not its twin .”
-Barbara Kingsolver
“Midway on our
life's journey,
I found myself in
dark woods,
the right road lost.”
-Dante
“Knowledge is its
own reward ;
ignorance is its
own punishment.”
-Sandra Effinger
“Doneness
counts.”
-Sandra Effinger