Top 500 J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Not all who wander are lost.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Fiction Quotes, Positive Short Quotes, Running Quotes

2. “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Featured in: Time Quotes, Fiction Quotes, Motivational Quotes About Life, Choices Quotes

3. “All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Featured in: Famous Quotes, Fiction Quotes, Quality Quotes, Powerful Quotes

4. “There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Featured in: Courage Quotes, Interesting Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes, Meaningful Quotes

5. “Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Featured in: Positive Inspirational Quotes, Positive Life Quotes, Make A Difference Quotes, Helping Others Quotes

6. “Courage is found in unlikely places.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Featured in: Courage Quotes, Hero Quotes

7. “No victory without suffering.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Featured in: Victory Quotes, Suffering Quotes

8. “Who cannot understand your silence, cannot understand your words.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Featured in: Silence Quotes

9. “The greatest adventure is what lies ahead.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Featured in: Adventure Quotes, Hiking Quotes

10. “The world is not in your books and maps, it’s out there.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Featured in: Fiction Quotes, Creative Quotes, Book Quotes, Travel Quotes

11. “Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Featured in: Short Positive Quotes, Fiction Quotes, Meaningful Quotes, Changing the World Quotes

12. “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Featured in: Happiness Quotes, Interesting Quotes, Fiction Quotes, Beautiful Quotes

13. “From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Featured in: Fiction Quotes, Meaningful Quotes, Resilience Quotes, Epic Quotes

14. “Above all shadows rides the sun.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Featured in: Fiction Quotes, Quotes About Hope, Creative Quotes, Sun Quotes

15. “May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Featured in: Fiction Quotes, Quality Quotes, Darkness Quotes, Quotes About Light

16. “It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Featured in: Fiction Quotes, Path Quotes, Creative Quotes, Character Quotes

17. “End? No, the journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Featured in: Journey Quotes, Fiction Quotes, Deep Quotes, Loss Quotes

18. “The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with eager feet, Until it joins some larger way Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Featured in: Journey Quotes, Fiction Quotes, Moving Forward Quotes, Path Quotes

19. “Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Featured in: Good Morning Quotes

20. “It is no bad thing celebrating a simple life.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Featured in: Short Quotes About Life, Simplicity Quotes

21. “It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Featured in: Quotes About Strength, Short Positive Quotes, Mindset Quotes, Virtue Quotes

22. “If you do not believe in a personal God, the question: ‘What is the purpose of life?’ is unaskable and unanswerable.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Featured in: Purpose Quotes

23. “Look, up at the sky. There is a light, a beauty up there, that no shadow can touch.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Featured in: Optimism Quotes, Quotes About Hope, Appreciation Quotes, Creative Quotes

24. “May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Featured in: Blessing Quotes, Sweet Quotes, Imagination Quotes, Different Quotes

25. “Deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

26. “Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

27. “True education is a kind of never ending story – a matter of continual beginnings, of habitual fresh starts, of persistent newness.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Featured in: Quotes About Stories

28. “Home is now behind you, the world is ahead!”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Featured in: Journey Quotes, Moving Quotes, Adventure Quotes, Quotes About Home

29. “One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Featured in: Fiction Quotes, Epic Quotes, Creative Quotes

30. “The world has changed. I see it in the water. I feel it in the Earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, For none now live who remember it.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Featured in: Loss Quotes, Past Quotes

31. “It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Featured in: Work Ethic Quotes

32. “War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

33. “The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

34. “For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Featured in: Wise Quotes

35. “I wish it need not have happened in my time,’ said Frodo. ‘So do I,’ said Gandalf, ’and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Featured in: Meaning Quotes, Wise Quotes, Epic Quotes, Different Quotes

36. “What punishments of God are not gifts?”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

37. “Never laugh at live dragons.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

38. “Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Featured in: Journey Quotes, Adventure Quotes

39. “I will not walk backward in life.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

40. “Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Featured in: Never Give Up Quotes, Quotes About Hope, Different Quotes, Adversity Quotes

41. “No half-heartedness and no worldly fear must turn us aside from following the light unflinchingly.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

42. “I do not believe this darkness will endure.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Featured in: Resilience Quotes, Darkness Quotes

43. “I’m looking for someone to share in an adventure.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Featured in: Journey Quotes, Storytelling Quotes, Adventure Quotes

44. “There is a place called ‘heaven’ where the good here unfinished is completed; and where the stories unwritten, and the hopes unfulfilled, are continued. We may laugh together yet.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

45. “Little by little, one travels far.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Featured in: Journey Quotes, Travel Quotes

46. “Home is behind, the world ahead, And there are many paths to tread Through shadows to the edge of night, Until the stars are all alight. Then world behind and home ahead, We’ll wander back and home to bed. Mist and twilight, cloud and shade, Away shall fade! Away shall fade!”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Featured in: Journey Quotes

47. “There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

48. “The burned hand teaches best.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

49. “Great heart will not be denied.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Featured in: Never Give Up Quotes

50. “A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien