Famous Quotes
Using quotes to inspire writing
No matter where you look online, it’s possible to find quotes from famous personages: politicians, nobility, historians, authors, poets. There are multiple websites dedicated to famous quotes, sorting them on topic, source, and the like.
This week, I invite you to peruse this list of quotes from a variety of famous people and use them to inspire a story, essay, poem, or journal entry.
"Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions." - Winston Churchill
"The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit." - Morgan Freeman
"History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again." - Maya Angelou
"Creativity is intelligence having fun." - Albert Einstein
"Grief is the last act of love we can give to those we loved. Where there is deep grief, there was great love." - Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." - Thomas Edison
"Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice, and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do." - Pele
"Laughter is an instant vacation." - Milton Berle
"Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction." - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Recommendation: set a timer for 25 minutes and see what comes up. You can write by hand or type it out—whatever writing method works for you.
Have fun writing!