Quotes with sources

Every quote in QuoteXpedia, 632 in all from 93 authors and 232 public-domain works, grouped by theme and by author. Each one names the book, letter or essay it comes from.

By theme

• Stoicism 67
  Steady thinking for unsteady days
• Courage 80
  Acting despite the fear
• Growth 89
  Becoming, slowly
• Love 58
  Closeness, longing, and kindness
• Hope 64
  Light on the far side
• Spiritual 113
  Quiet light from many traditions
• Focus 60
  Attention kept on one thing
• Calm 87
  A moment to breathe
• Resilience 73
  Strength through difficult days
• Purpose 76
  A path worth following
• Creativity 34
  Ideas worth exploring
• Wisdom 120
  Words to think with
• Change 38
  Making room for what comes next
• Joy 66
  Small reasons to smile
• Connection 45
  Finding one another

By author

• Al-Hujwiri 1
• Louisa May Alcott 4
• Henri-Frédéric Amiel 6
• Susan B. Anthony 1
• Aristotle 2
• Marcus Aurelius 21
• Jane Austen 2
• Francis Bacon 5
• William Blake 8
• Charlotte Brontë 2
• Emily Brontë 1
• John Burroughs 11
• Thomas Carlyle 2
• Andrew Carnegie 1
• Willa Cather 3
• G. K. Chesterton 5
• Cicero 1
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1
• Confucius 11
• Marie Curie 1
• Charles Dickens 1
• Emily Dickinson 4
• John Donne 3
• Fyodor Dostoevsky 4
• Frederick Douglass 5
• George Eliot 2
• Ralph Waldo Emerson 57
• Epictetus 12
• Benjamin Franklin 4
• Mahatma Gandhi 3
• Edward Gibbon 1
• Kahlil Gibran 48
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 11
• Hafiz 1
• Heraclitus 1
• Augustine of Hippo 2
• Elbert Hubbard 4
• Victor Hugo 5
• William James 5
• Thomas Jefferson 2
• Samuel Johnson 1
• Kabir 10
• John Keats 2
• Thomas à Kempis 3
• Laozi 16
• Brother Lawrence 3
• Abraham Lincoln 9
• Jack London 4
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 4
• George MacDonald 6
• Mencius 1
• Michel de Montaigne 12
• John Muir 6
• Friedrich Nietzsche 11
• Julian of Norwich 4
• Kakuzo Okakura 7
• Thomas Paine 3
• Blaise Pascal 5
• Plato 1
• Edgar Allan Poe 1
• Alexander Pope 2
• François de La Rochefoucauld 9
• Theodore Roosevelt 4
• Rumi 4
• John Ruskin 1
• Arthur Schopenhauer 6
• Seneca 32
• William Shakespeare 10
• Socrates 4
• Robert Louis Stevenson 2
• Harriet Beecher Stowe 3
• Rabindranath Tagore 36
• The Bhagavad Gita 3
• The Bible 37
• The Buddha 12
• The Quran 12
• Henry David Thoreau 30
• Leo Tolstoy 4
• Thomas Traherne 2
• Mark Twain 6
• Sun Tzu 3
• Leonardo da Vinci 9
• Swami Vivekananda 7
• Voltaire 3
• Booker T. Washington 2
• Edith Wharton 2
• Walt Whitman 4
• Oscar Wilde 2
• Virginia Woolf 1
• William Wordsworth 2
• Zeno 1
• Zhuangzi 3
• Teresa of Ávila 1