Top 70 Culture Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.”

— John Lennon

Also featured in: Quotes About Dreams, Uplifting Quotes, Important Quotes

2. “Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don’t want to.”

— Richard Branson

Also featured in: Business Quotes, Inspirational Business Quotes, Intelligent Quotes, Quotes About Work

3. “Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.”

— Victor Hugo

Also featured in: Music Quotes, Emotion Quotes, Philosophy Quotes, Beautiful Quotes

4. “Where words leave off, music begins.”

— Heinrich Heine

Also featured in: Music Quotes, Aesthetic Quotes, Beautiful Quotes, Quotes About Songs

5. “Music is the universal language of mankind.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Also featured in: Music Quotes, Quotes About Humanity, Appreciation Quotes, Art Quotes

6. “It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.”

— Oscar Wilde

Also featured in: Quotes About Books And Reading, Life Philosophy Quotes, Knowledge Quotes, Influence Quotes

7. “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading. How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book.”

— Jane Austen

Also featured in: Quotes About Books And Reading, Interesting Quotes, Quality Quotes, Smart Quotes

8. “A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.”

— Neil Gaiman

Also featured in: Quotes About Books And Reading, Creativity Quotes, Interesting Quotes, Fiction Quotes, Quotes About Dreams

9. “We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Also featured in: Live Life Quotes, Smart Quotes, Life Is Short Quotes, Joy Quotes

10. “A culture is strong when people work with each other, for each other. A culture is weak when people work against each other, for themselves.”

— Simon Sinek

Also featured in: Positive Work Quotes, Intelligent Quotes, Collaboration Quotes, Helping Quotes

11. “The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.”

— Jack Kerouac

Also featured in: Creativity Quotes, Live Life Quotes, Passion Quotes, Freedom Quotes, Crazy Quotes

12. “Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”

— Pablo Picasso

Also featured in: Meaningful Quotes, Appreciation Quotes, Creative Quotes

13. “Beauty will save the world.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Also featured in: Impact Quotes, Fiction Quotes, Aesthetic Quotes, Beauty Quotes

14. “Culture does not make people. People make culture.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Also featured in: Quotes About People

15. “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

Also featured in: Quotes About Books And Reading, Reflection Quotes, Knowledge Quotes, Library Quotes

16. “Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.”

— Ludwig van Beethoven

Also featured in: Music Quotes, Creativity Quotes, Quotes About Thinking, Philosophy Quotes

17. “Company culture is the backbone of any successful organization.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

Also featured in: Short Quotes, Inspirational Business Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Work, Positive Work Quotes

18. “A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Also featured in: Creativity Quotes, Beautiful Quotes, Beauty Quotes

19. “Your culture is your brand.”

— Tony Hsieh

Also featured in: Marketing Quotes

20. “If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Also featured in: Experience Quotes, Travel Quotes

21. “I am strong, I am invincible, I am woman.”

— Helen Reddy

Also featured in: Quotes About Strength, Music Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Women, Empowering Quotes, Positive Quotes for Women

22. “You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”

— Ray Bradbury

Also featured in: Quotes About Books And Reading, Knowledge Quotes

23. “It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.”

— Audre Lorde

Also featured in: Quotes About Humanity, Quotes About People, Diversity Quotes, Justice Quotes

24. “A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.”

— Marcus Garvey

Also featured in: Identity Quotes, Legacy Quotes, History Quotes

25. “When in Rome, do as the Romans do.”

— Ambrose

Also featured in: Travel Quotes

26. “Leaders create culture. Culture drives behavior. Behavior produces results.”

— Urban Meyer

Also featured in: Coaching Quotes, Performance Quotes, Positive Work Quotes

27. “Art is my life and my life is art.”

— Yoko Ono

Also featured in: Aesthetic Quotes, Artist Quotes, Art Quotes

28. “If you hire people just because they can do a job, they’ll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they’ll work for you with blood, sweat, and tears.”

— Simon Sinek

Also featured in: Leadership Quotes, Values Quotes, Dedication Quotes, Career Development Quotes

29. “Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”

— Voltaire

Also featured in: Happy Quotes, Witty Quotes, Joy Quotes

30. “Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.”

— George Bernard Shaw

Also featured in: Aesthetic Quotes, Art Quotes

31. “If I’m an advocate for anything, it’s to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else’s shoes or at least eat their food, it’s a plus for everybody. Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.”

— Anthony Bourdain

Also featured in: Experience Quotes, Perspective Quotes, Moving Quotes, Travel Quotes

32. “Don’t be a drag. Just be a queen.”

— Lady Gaga

Also featured in: Personality Quotes, Silly Quotes, Witty Quotes, Individuality Quotes

33. “Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of magic.”

— Carl Sagan

Also featured in: Quotes About Books And Reading, Creative Quotes, Book Quotes

34. “Stories matter. Many stories matter.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Also featured in: Storytelling Quotes, Quotes About Stories

35. “We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.”

— Maya Angelou

Also featured in: Acceptance Quotes, Quotes About Humanity, Diversity Quotes

36. “It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.”

— Maya Angelou

Also featured in: Acceptance Quotes, Diversity Quotes, Teaching Quotes

37. “Turn on, Tune in, Drop out.”

— Timothy Leary

Also featured in: Crazy Quotes

38. “Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.”

— Rita Mae Brown

39. “Music is the answer to the mystery of life. The most profound of all the arts, It expresses the deepest thoughts of life.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Also featured in: Music Quotes, Aesthetic Quotes

40. “Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

Also featured in: Diversity Quotes

41. “We should respect all people.”

— Helen Keller

Also featured in: Care Quotes, Morality Quotes, Acceptance Quotes

42. “Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.”

— Bertolt Brecht

43. “I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

Also featured in: Vision Quotes, Progress Quotes, Diversity Quotes

44. “Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Also featured in: Aesthetic Quotes, Intelligence Quotes, Quotes About Songs

45. “The culture precedes positive results. It doesn’t get tacked on as an afterthought on your way to the victory stand. Champions behave like champions before they’re champions: they have a winning standard of performance before they are winners.”

— Bill Walsh

Also featured in: Coaching Quotes, Competition Quotes, Football Quotes

46. “We live for books.”

— Umberto Eco

Also featured in: Quotes About Books And Reading, Book Quotes, Reading Quotes

47. “Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture.”

— Anthony Burgess

48. “Your personal core values define who you are, and a company’s core values ultimately define the company’s character and brand. For individuals, character is destiny. For organizations, culture is destiny.”

— Tony Hsieh

49. “Culture outperforms strategy every time; and culture with strategy is unbeatable.”

— Quint Studer

50. “Trust is knowing that when a team member does push you, they’re doing it because they care about the team.”

— Patrick Lencioni

Also featured in: Friday Quotes for Work, Teamwork Quotes