Quotes can make great writing prompts. This list is about using quotes for great creative writing.
There are quotes you know, quotes you don’t, and prompts that challenge a writer to think in a different way and embrace changes in style.
How to Use Prompts
These prompts are a bit different. They are a list of quotes meant to inspire. Take these as inspiration for a great story, explain how it applies to you, relate something to it, or even just focus on what the main idea is.
Quotes as Prompts
- The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. -Walt Disney
- If life were predictable, it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. -Eleanor Roosevelt
- If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough. -Oprah Winfrey
- If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success. -James Cameron
- Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans. -John Lennon
- When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on. -Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else. -Margaret Mead
- The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -Eleanor Roosevelt
- Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. -Benjamin Franklin
- It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. -Aristotle
- Whoever is happy will make others happy too. -Anne Frank
- In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. -Abraham Lincoln
- Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game. -Babe Ruth
- Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. -Helen Keller
- Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. -Thomas A. Edison
- You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. -Dr. Seuss
- Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about. -Marilyn Monroe
- Love the life you live. Live the life you love. -Bob Marley
- Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. -Helen Keller
- Life is made of ever so many partings welded together. -Charles Dickens
- Life is trying things to see if they work. -Ray Bradbury
- Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts. -Winston S. Churchill
- Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. -Henry David Thoreau
- The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well. -John D. Rockefeller Jr.
- I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. -Thomas Jefferson
- The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere. -Barack Obama
- You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. -Wayne Gretzky
- Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. -Henry Ford
- I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear. -Rosa Parks
- Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, ‘I’m possible!’ -Audrey Hepburn
- The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. -Ayn Rand
- The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Believe you can and you’re halfway there. -Theodore Roosevelt
- Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is. -Vince Lombardi
- You become what you believe. -Oprah Winfrey
- An unexamined life is not worth living. -Socrates
- Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. -George Addair
- Dream big and dare to fail. -Norman Vaughn
- It doesn’t matter how slow you go as long as you do not stop. -Confuscious
- I would rather die of passion than of boredom. -Vincent van Gogh
- Dreaming, after all, is another form of planning. -Gloria Steinem
- Before anything else, preparation is the key to success. -Alexander Graham Bell
- I failed my way to success. -Thomas Edison
- I never dreamed about success, I worked for it. -Estee Lauder
- It’s better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. -Herman Melville
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