Top 500 Quotes About Stories (2025 Update)

1. “In the end, we’ll all become stories.”

— Margaret Atwood

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2. “People forget facts, but they remember stories.”

— Joseph Campbell

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3. “Imagine a new story for your life and start living it.”

— Paulo Coelho

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4. “Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.”

— Oprah Winfrey

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5. “We are our choices. Build yourself a great story.”

— Jeff Bezos

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6. “Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I’m not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.”

— Neil Gaiman

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7. “If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.”

— Chinua Achebe

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8. “A villain is just a victim whose story hasn’t been told.”

— Chris Colfer

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9. “We’re all stories, in the end.”

— Steven Moffat

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10. “People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it’s the other way around.”

— Terry Pratchett

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11. “The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.”

— Muriel Rukeyser

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12. “We are the stories we tell ourselves.”

— Joan Didion

Also featured in: Short Quotes About Life, Reflection Quotes, Identity Quotes, Storytelling Quotes

13. “Your life is nothing more than a love story. Between you and God. Nothing more. Every person, every experience, every gift, every loss, every pain is sent to your path for one reason and one reason only: to bring you back to Him.”

— Yasmin Mogahed

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14. “Tell your story with your whole heart.”

— Brené Brown

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15. “Don’t read success stories, you will only get a message. Read failure stories, you will get some ideas to get success.”

— Abdul Kalam

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16. “When we deny our stories, They define us. When we own our stories, we get to write the ending.”

— Brené Brown

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17. “Write a short story every week. It’s not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.”

— Ray Bradbury

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18. “You either walk inside your story and own it or you stand outside your story and hustle for your worthiness.”

— Brené Brown

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19. “Nobody is a villain in their own story. We’re all the heroes of our own stories.”

— George R.R. Martin

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20. “The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.”

— Terry Pratchett

Also featured in: Creativity Quotes, Fiction Quotes, Storytelling Quotes, Firsts Quotes

21. “Overnight success stories take a long time.”

— Steve Jobs

22. “Out of pain and problems have come the sweetest songs, the most poignant poems, the most gripping stories.”

— Billy Graham

23. “There’s always a story. It’s all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything’s got a story in it. Change the story, change the world.”

— Terry Pratchett

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24. “Courage, the original definition of courage, when it first came into the English language – it’s from the Latin word cor, meaning heart – and the original definition was to tell the story of who you are with your whole heart.”

— Brené Brown

Also featured in: Emotion Quotes, Positive Quotes for Women, Being Yourself Quotes, Quotes About Feelings

25. “Stories matter. Many stories matter.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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26. “What I tell people is be the best version of yourself in anything that you do. You don’t have to live anybody else’s story.”

— Stephen Curry

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27. “If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can’t survive.”

— Brené Brown

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28. “Maybe stories are just data with a soul.”

— Brené Brown

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29. “When you write you tell yourself a story. When you rewrite you take out everything that is NOT the story.”

— Stephen King

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30. “Change your story, change your life. Divorce the story of limitation, and marry the story of the truth and everything changes.”

— Tony Robbins

Also featured in: Short Motivational Quotes, Transformation Quotes, Coaching Quotes, Mindset Quotes

31. “Everything has a purpose. And that purpose has a story that goes along with it. It just depends on what your passion is.”

— Kobe Bryant

32. “If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.”

— Rudyard Kipling

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33. “Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it.”

— Brené Brown

Also featured in: Self-Worth Quotes, Identity Quotes, Mental Health Quotes, Healing Quotes

34. “I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.”

— Brené Brown

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35. “Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change.”

— Richard Branson

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36. “My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges.”

— Helen Keller

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37. “All the stories are true.”

— Cassandra Clare

Also featured in: Storytelling Quotes

38. “Feel the feelings and drop the story.”

— Pema Chödrön

Also featured in: Mental Health Quotes, Quotes About Feelings

39. “Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”

— Leo Tolstoy

40. “It is your reaction to adversity, not the adversity itself, that determines how your life’s story will develop.”

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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41. “There’s always another story. There’s more than meets the eye.”

— W.H. Auden

42. “There are always four sides to a story: your side, their side, the truth and what really happened.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

43. “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

44. “Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works.”

— Ernest Hemingway

45. “No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Also featured in: Truth Quotes

46. “My body is my journal, and my tattoos are my story.”

— Johnny Depp

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47. “Packaging can be theater, it can create a story.”

— Steve Jobs

48. “My friends have made the story of my life.”

— Helen Keller

Also featured in: Healing Quotes, Friends Quotes

49. “If it’s not your story to tell, you don’t tell it.”

— Iyanla Vanzant

50. “Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change. A company that stands still will soon be forgotten. Trying to provoke positive change is a principle we’ve embedded across the Virgin family for more than four decades.”

— Richard Branson

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