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Create your own personal statement in the digital age.
By Megan Hatch — Written on Nov 10, 2021
Having unique quotes for your email signature can add a bit of personality to your emails.
One of the best ways people do that while keeping it professional is by adding email signature quotes from famous writers, politicians, activists, and entertainers.
Instead of just adding your phone number or ways of contact in your email signature, adding an email signature can serve as a personal statement.
When choosing a quote for your email signature, make sure it includes a few short words that you feel are inspiring, wise, or humorous, and speak to you.
Most importantly, you shouldn't use any quote that's inappropriate or offensive to others.
Need some ideas? Here are 50 inspiring and witty quotes for email signatures.
Wise Quotes For Email Signature
If you want to sound more professional and incorporate a bit of your knowledge into your email signature, choosing a wise quote is helpful. It can make you sound smart and sophisticated.
1. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” — George Bernard Shaw
2. "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." — William Shakespeare
3. “Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.” — Elbert Hubbard
4. “No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” — Aesop
5. "Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead." — Oscar Wilde
6. “Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.” — Omar Khayyam
7. “Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.” — Baltasa
8. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.” — Aristotle
9. “What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” — Napoleon Hill
10. “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?'" — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Witty Quotes For Email Signature
Email signatures don't always have to be serious. By including witty or funny quotes at the end of an email, you can lighten the mood and show your coworkers your quirky side while remaining professional at the same time.
11. “Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.” — Hugh Prather
12. “Good ideas come from bad ideas, but only if there are enough of them.” — Seth Godin
13. “You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.” — Winston Churchill
14. “Life is hard. After all, it kills you.” — Katharine Hepburn
15. “Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.” — Norman Cousins
16. “Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.” — Mark Twain
17. “You've got to dance like nobody's watching, dream like you will live forever, live like you're going to die tomorrow, and love like it's never going to hurt.”
18. "Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all its pupils." — Louis Hector Berlioz
19. "The day after tomorrow is the third day of the rest of your life." — George Carlin
20. "If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving definitely isn't for you." — Steven Wright
Inspirational Quotes For Email Signature
If you're the type of person who likes to motivate others, including yourself, why not include an inspirational quote in your email signature? You can inspire others and let them know you're the type of person who looks for inspiration everywhere.
21. “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” — Albert Einstein
22. "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” — Mark Twain
23. “Every problem is a gift — without problems, we would not grow.” — Anthony Robbins
24. “Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.” — Les Brown
25. "The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." — Walter Bagehot
26. "The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large." — Confucius
27. "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment." — Jim Rohn
28. "With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts." — Eleanor Roosevelt
29. "You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water." — Rabindranath Tagore
30. "Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you react to it." — Charles R. Swindoll
Professional Email Signature Quotes
Sometimes the best way to end your email signature is with a professional quote to let others know that you mean business. You are a hardworking professional and anyone can identify you like that with these quotes.
31. “A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.” — Michael LeBoeuf
32. “If you don’t understand the details of your business you are going to fail.” — Jeff Bezos
33. “Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.” — Steve Jobs
34. "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on." — Robert Frost
35. "There are limits to self-indulgence, none to self-restraint." — Gandhi
56. "The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind." — Khalil Gibran
37. "Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans." — Thomas La Mance
38. “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” — Milton Berle
39. "Don’t focus on negative things; focus on the positive, and you will flourish.” — Alek Wek
40. “Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.” — Peter Drucker
Success Quotes For Email Signature
Dress your email for success by including an inspiring quote about success at the end of your email signature. Manifest to the world that you are a successful hardworking person who exudes confidence.
41. “Action is the foundational key to all success." — Pablo Picasso
42. “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” — Colin Powell
43. “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” — Maya Angelou
44. “Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” — Dale Carnegie
45. “Don’t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.” — David Frost
46. “I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.” — George Burns
47. "Most people give up just when they’re about to achieve success. They quit on the one-yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown." — Ross Perot
48. “The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.” — George Bernard Shaw
49. “What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.” — Margaret Thatcher
50. "Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it." — Sam Ewing
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Megan Hatch is a writer at YourTango who covers news & entertainment, love & relationships, and internet culture. Follow her on Twitter and Instagram.