Books hold a treasure trove of wisdom, and inspirational quotes are like sparkling gems waiting to be unearthed. Inspirational quotes from books are more than just motivational phrases. They are doorways into deeper reflection and self-discovery.
Inspirational Quotes From Books
1. “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
2. “Not all those who wander are lost.”
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
3. “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.”
— Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
4. “And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
5. “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
6. “The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
— John Green, Looking for Alaska
7. “It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
8. “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
9. “You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
— A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
10. “There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.”
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
11. “The only limits for tomorrow are the doubts we have today.”
— Pittacus Lore, The Power of Six
12. “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.”
— Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
13. “Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.”
— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
14. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.”
— Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
15. “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
16. “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
— Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
17. “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
18. “The only journey is the one within.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
19. “It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
20. “The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it.”
— J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
21. “There is no greater power on this earth than story.”
— Libba Bray, The Diviners
22. “Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
— Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
23. “It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.”
— Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
24. “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
25. “Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
26. “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
— Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere’s Fan
27. “The only thing you can do is to go on living alone inside yourself, hoping that one day you will meet someone who will open up your heart.”
— Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
28. “We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.”
— Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
29. “One day, you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
— C.S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia
30. “All endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time.”
— Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
31. “When you can’t find someone to follow, you have to find a way to lead by example.”
— Roxane Gay, Hunger
32. “It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
— Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
33. “To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
34. “The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.”
— E.E. Cummings, Collected Poems
35. “There is no greater gift than the gift of listening.”
— Sara Dessen, Just Listen
36. “Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.”
— Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
37. “What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?”
— John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
38. “There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.”
— Bram Stoker, Dracula
39. “We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.”
— H.G. Wells, The Time Machine
40. “The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.”
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
41. “So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I’m still trying to figure out how that could be.”
— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
42. “If you have good thoughts, they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”
— Roald Dahl, The Twits
43. “When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won’t come up with a handful of mud either.”
— Leo Burnett, The World of Advertising
44. “You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
— Madeleine L’Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
45. “When you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worthwhile.”
— L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
46. “And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.”
— John Steinbeck, East of Eden
47. “The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
48. “A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”
— Roald Dahl, The Twits
49. “It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
50. “To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further.”
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
