College Application Essay Quotes & Sayings

You were taught that love is supposed to be patient and kind, and not something that challenges you and changes you and makes you who you are. — Brianna Wiest

I umpired for 25 years and can honestly say I never called one wrong in my heart. — Nestor Chylak

I saw a gray-haired man a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing. — H.G.Wells

An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners' names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the same thought. — Mignon McLaughlin

Grips slipped. Hers had from every surface. She's shaped nothing after all, only been crushed and reshaped. No wonder she felt for the brownstones, the cripples, now filling chaotically with no regard for her plan. — Jonathan Lethem

Be who you are; go where you belong — Debasish Mridha

Stop making the perfect enemy of the good. — Patrick Lencioni

The modern world has created airports and hospitals and put 10,000 songs in our pocket. It has built gleaming buildings and computers and advances and innovations that blow our minds. But we have soul, and spirit, and consciousness, and the modern world hasn't done so well at helping us name and understand what it means to be thriving and fully alive with a full heart. — Rob Bell