The Beatles quotes show the wisdom the band shared with the world during the troubled times of the 60s and 70s. Their hope for a better world, a world that aspires for love and peace, inspires us to be better people today. These are some of their best quotes.
What made The Beatles so popular?
The Beatles used their platform as a world-wide sensation to actively campaign for peace
- Their words of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr still inspire us to live our lives with love, strive for peace, and to never extinguish the hope in our hearts.
Beatles quotes about life
“It’s being here now that’s important. There’s no past and there’s no future. All there is ever, is the now.”
- George Harrison
- “Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.”
- John Lennon
- Nothing is real. “Possession isn’t nine-tenths of the law. It’s nine-thirty-nine percent of the problem.”
- Lennon, speaking as an egomaniac
Short Beatles Quotes About Learning From Our Surroundings
“Doesn’t have a point of view / Doesn’t know where he’s going to / Isn’t he a bit like you and me?”
- The Beatles
- Everyone should have themselves regularly overwhelmed by nature.
- “I really thought love would save us all.”
- John Lennon
- Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.
Do these Beatles quotes inspire you to live life with love?
The Beatles wrote songs about love, hope, and their observations of life during the 60s and 70s
- Their words still impact music listeners today
- All you need is love
- Use these quotes to inspire yourself to live with love
Beatles quotes about hope
“Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.”
- John Lennon
- Lennon added, “I am going into an unknown future, but I’m still all here, and still while there’s life, there’s hope.”
- The Beatles
Beatles quotes for dreamers
Love is the answer and you know that for sure.
- “And, in the end, the love you take is equal to the love that you make.”
- The Beatles
- “Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given, never forgotten, never let it disappear.”
- John Lennon
- A dream you dream alone is only a dream; a dream you have with a partner is a reality. A life without hope is a sinking ship.
Beatles quotes about people
“I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.”
- Paul McCartney
- You can judge a man’s true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.”
- John Lennon
- “It doesn’t matter how long my hair is, or what color my skin, or whether I’m a woman or a man. You are what you are.”
- Lennon
More Beatles quotes on life lessons
“I’ve never really done anything to create what has happened. It creates itself. I’m here because it happened.”
- Ringo Starr
- “Nobody controls me. The only one who can control me is me, and that’s just barely possible.”
- John Lennon
- You don’t need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are the person you are.”
- The Beatles
- And any time you feel the pain, hey Jude, refrain. Don’t carry the world upon your shoulders.
- Your own space is so important. Everything needs to be left alone.
Beatles quotes about love
“There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life; when we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance.”
- “We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections.”
- John Lennon
- If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create.”
Beatles quotes about peace
John Lennon: “We all have Hitler in us, but we also have love and peace. So why not give peace a chance for once?”
- When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.”
- The Beatles: “And when the brokenhearted people living in the world agree there will be an answer, let it be.”
- Paul McCartney
- “I’m really glad that most of our songs were about love, peace and understanding.”
- Lennon
