Tell me about yourself…
It’s what you’re asked on an interview or when you’re meeting someone for the first time. It’s a common enough request, we’ve all gotten it at one time or another. So why is it always so hard to come up with a response when you’re writing your online dating profile?
Because your self is an awfully large topic. And, as is so often the case with awfully large topics, it’s hard to know where to start. Luckily, we thought of a great cheat. Next time you find yourself staring at your online dating profile trying to tell people about yourself… don’t. Instead let someone else do it for you and use a quote.
We’ve curated the ultimate list of online dating profile quotes that can help express who you are. So look through the list, pick what resonates with you, and add a little something special to your profile.
Silly and Lighthearted
May you live every day of your life. -Jonathan Swift
Reality continues to ruin my life. -Bill Watterson
I can, therefore I am. -Simone Weil
Whatever you are, be a good one. -Abraham Lincoln
If you would be loved, love, and be loveable. -Benjamin Franklin
If you’re not confused, you’re not paying attention. -Tom Peters
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. -Oscar Wilde
A day without sunshine is like, you know, night. -Steve Martin
Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead. -Charles Bukowski
Reality continues to ruin my life. -Bill Watterson
Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand. -Kurt Vonnegut
We are all either fools or undiscovered geniuses. -Bonnie Lin
I think I’ve discovered the secret of life -you just hang around until you get used to it. -Charles Schulz
Single by choice, just not my choice. -The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
There’s power in looking silly and not caring that you do. -Amy Poehler
Being crazy isn’t enough. -Dr. Seuss
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. -Dr. Seuss
I’m killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness. -Bill Watterson
What fun is it being cool if you can’t wear a sombrero? -Bill Watterson
A day without laughter is a day wasted. -Nicolas Chamfort
Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud. -Maya Angelou
On Love
Love is a friendship set to music. -Joseph Campbell
Love is friendship set on fire. -Jeremy Taylor
All you need is love. -John Lennon
We are most alive when we are in love. -John Updike
We love because it’s the only true adventure. -Nikki Giovanni
There is only one happiness in life—to love and be loved. -George Sand
Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. -Robert A. Heinlein
There are as many kinds of love as there are hearts. -Leo Tolstoy
There is no remedy for love, but to love more. -Henry David Thoreau
Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you. -Loretta Young
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in. -Morrie Schwartz
Fortune and love favor the brave. -Ovid
Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. -Franklin P. Jones
Love is quivering happiness. -Kahlil Gibran
I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart. -Alice Walker
We love the things we love for what they are. -Robert Frost
Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything. -Ray Bradbury
Tough and Determined
Tough times never last, but tough people do. -Dr. Robert Schuller
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. -Anais Nin
If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything. -Gordon A. Eadie
That which does not kill us makes us stronger. -Friedrich Nietzsche
An obstacle is often a stepping stone. -Prescott Bush
Don’t regret the past, just learn from it. -Ben Ipok
Turn your wounds into wisdom. -Oprah Winfrey
Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. -Eleanor Roosevelt
Never never never give up. -Winston Churchill
The best way out is always through. -Robert Frost
Every moment is a fresh beginning. -T.S. Eliot
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. -Babe Ruth
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. -Walter Bagehot
I’ve always loved the idea of not being what people expect me to be. -Dita von Teese
Confident and Unique
Believe in your flyness, conquer your shyness. -Kanye West
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves. -Sir Edmund Hill
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. -Oscar Wilde
There’s nothing more badass than being who you are. -Darren Criss
You’re lucky enough to be different, never change. -Taylor Swift
When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around. -Willie Nelson
Always be a first-rate version of yourself rather than a second-rate version of somebody else. -Judy Garland
When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things. -Joe Namath
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is never too late to be what you might have been. -George Eliot
In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different. -Coco Chanel
If you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best. -Marilyn Monroe
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. -Mae West
If you don’t flirt, you’re probably dead inside. -Katharine Towne
Hopeful and Inspirational
Live what you love. -Jo Deurbrouck
Wherever you go, go with all your heart. -Confucius
Don’t count the days, make the days count. -Muhammad Ali
Every man dies. Not every man really lives. -William Wallace
Where there is love there is life. -Mahatma Gandhi
It’s never too late to be what you might have been. -George Eliot
Hope is a waking dream. -Aristotle
Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever. -Leo Buscaglia
Keep your face to the sunshine and you can never see the shadow. -Helen Keller
The best dreams happen while you’re awake. -Cherie Gilderbloom
Once you choose hope, anything is possible. -Christopher Reeve
Believe you can and you’re halfway there. -Theodore Roosevelt
Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it. -Roald Dahl
Make each day your masterpiece. -John Wooden
Follow your dreams. They know the way. -Kobi Yamada
It is never too late to be what you might have been. -George Eliot
Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today. -James Dean
It always seems impossible until it’s done. -Nelson Mandela
Artsy and Imaginative
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination. -John Lennon
Everything you can imagine is real. -Pablo Picasso
The power of imagination makes us infinite. -John Muir
Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age, and dreams are forever. -Walt Disney
Reality is fake. Dreams are for real. -Tupac Shakur
Every child is an artist, the problem is staying an artist when you grow up. -Pablo Picasso
You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.-Friedrich Nietzsche
Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere. -Albert Einstein
Our imagination flies—we are its shadow on the earth. -Vladimir Nabokov
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere. -Carl Sagan
Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality. -Lewis Carroll
I like my artsy with a little bit of fartsy. -Marc Johns
Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. -Anaïs Nin
Creativity takes courage. -Henri Matisse
Art is what you can get away with. -Andy Warhol
Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous. -Toni Morrison
Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment. -Claude Monet
Ambitious
In the book of life, the answers aren’t in the back. -Charlie Brown
Dream big and dare to fail. -Norman Vaughan
You must do the thing you think you cannot do. -Eleanor Roosevelt
Do one thing every day that scares you. -Eleanor Roosevelt
Fortune and love favor the brave. -Ovid
Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail. -Charles Kettering
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. -Jimmy Johnson
Who dares wins. -Winston Churchill
Find a job you love and you’ll never work a day in your life. -Confucius
One must work and dare if one really wants to live. -Vincent van Gogh
History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it. -Winston Churchill
Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. -Will Rogers
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.-Josh Billings
If not us, who? If not now, when? -John F. Kennedy
Giving
A loving heart is the truest wisdom. -Charles Dickens
Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love. -Mother Teresa
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. -Winston Churchill
Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have. -Margaret Mead
If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having. -Henry Miller
The great use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it. -William James
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. -Charles Dickens
You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. -Robert Louis Stevenson
When I give I give myself. -Walt Whitman
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up. -John Holmes
That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing. -Simone de Beauvoir
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain. -Emily Dickinson
Adventurous
Not all who wander are lost. -J. R. R. Tolkien
If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there. -Lewis Carroll
Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. -Allen Saunders
I solemnly swear that I am up to no good. -J.K. Rowling
If you don’t know where you’re going, any road’ll take you there. -George Harrison
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. -Emily Dickinson
Adventure is worthwhile in itself. -Amelia Earhart
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. -Margaret Lee Runbeck
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
It’s opener, out there, in the wide, open air. -Dr. Seuss
Today is your day, your mountain is waiting. So get on your way. -Dr. Seuss
Thoughtful
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward. -Soren Kierkegaard
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. -Siddhartha Gautama
The most important things in life aren’t things. -Anthony J. D’Angelo
To be awake is to be alive. -Henry David Thoreau
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. -Socrates
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. -Leo Tolstoy
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on. -Robert Frost
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. -Bertrand Russell
We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep. -William Shakespeare
On Life
When he worked, he really worked. But when he played, he really PLAYED. -Dr. Seuss
Don’t wait for the perfect moment, take the moment and make it perfect. -Zoey Sayward
Three things are needed for a good life, good friends, good food, and good song. -Jason Zebehazy
Life is trying things to see if they work. -Ray Bradbury
There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time. -Coco Chanel
Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can. -Danny Kaye
The beautiful is always bizarre -Charles Baudelaire
The purpose of life is a life of purpose. -Robert Byrne
Don’t bood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever. -Leo Buscaglia
If you would be loved, love, and be loveable. -Benjamin Franklin
The best thing to hold onto in life is each other. -Audrey Hepburn
