50 Inspirational Puzzle Piece Quotes to Inspire Your Journey

"There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle."

- Deepak Chopra

"The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity."

- Douglas Horton

"When you are studying from a book, lots of people go straight to the end to look for the answers. But that's not my style. For me, the most enjoyable part is the puzzle, the process of solving, not the solution itself."

- Erno Rubik

"Life is like a puzzle – I operate within my surroundings and certain rules, but I get to choose the picture of my essence and my life that the puzzle is becoming. And I choose love, joy, and peace."

- Emilyann Allen (Girdner)

"I'm probably wouldn't do anything differently if I had to do it again. Every little thing that happens to you, good and bad, becomes a little piece of the puzzle of who you become. Every successful person you read about - Warren Buffett, Bill Gates - they all say pretty much the same thing. 'Do what you love.' I know I did."

- David Foster

"All he really understood, he thought, was himself and the rest of the universe. Neither anything like completely, of course, but both well enough to know that what remained to be discovered would make sense; it would fit in, it could all be gradually and patiently fitted together a bit at a time, like an infinite jigsaw puzzle."

- Iain Banks

"Science isn't just about solving this or that puzzle. It's about understanding how the world works: the whole world from the vastness of the cosmos to the particularity of an individual human life. It's worth thinking about how all the different ways we have to talk about the world manage to fit together."

- Sean M. Carroll

"I think each person, if you're a CEO, the most important thing is to have - to me, is to pick people around you that aren't like you, that complement you. Because you want to build a puzzle; you don't want to stack Chiclets up and have everyone be the same. And so I believe in diversity with a capital D."

- Tim Cook

"Each person is an enigma. You're a puzzle not only to yourself but also to everyone else, and the great mystery of our time is how we penetrate this puzzle."

- Theodore Zeldin

"It always seems impossible until it’s done."

- Nelson Mandela

"Before Flint, my career was a total mystery to me," Elin confessed at lunch. "None of it made sense. So many times I have looked back at my choices and career moves and wondered, What was I thinking? But now I see that each move was a piece in the puzzle, so that I could be standing right there in your kitchen at exactly the right time."

- Mona Hanna-Attisha

"Each one of us fulfills a piece of a larger puzzle."

- Eric McCormack

"The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle."

- Richard Dawkins

"That's another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it's as if things were coming together in my mind. It's like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it's it's like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together."

- Jordan Peterson

"Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle."

- Lewis Carroll

"A good puzzle, it's a fair thing. Nobody is lying. It's very clear, and the problem depends just on you."

- Erno Rubik

"I like to edit my sentences as I write them. I rearrange a sentence many times before moving on to the next one. For me, that editing process feels like a form of play, like a puzzle that needs solving, and it's one of the most satisfying parts of writing."

- Karen Thompson Walker

"Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel."

- Hans Hofmann

"All pieces of the puzzle need to fall in the right place to be a champion team."

- Shreyas Iyer

"The experience of life that you and I have is pretty much a jigsaw puzzle in the box: Day-to-day experiences of disconnected pieces that don't seem to justify the efforts we make each day."

- Robert Adams

"When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There's no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource."

- Biz Stone

"Math, it's a puzzle to me. I love figuring out puzzles."

- Maya Lin

"Children astound me with their inquisitive minds. The world is wide and mysterious to them, and as they piece together the puzzle of life, they ask 'Why?' ceaselessly."

- John C. Maxwell

"The brain is the most complex, challenging scientific puzzle we have ever tried to decode."

- Paul Allen

"The nice thing about doing a crossword puzzle is, you know there is a solution."

- Stephen Sondheim

"Every day is sort of a jigsaw puzzle. You have to make sure that you're putting the most important things first."

- Julia Hartz

"Because we are all a puzzle."

- Kate Winslet

"For me, the most enjoyable part is the puzzle, the process of solving, not the solution itself."

- Erno Rubik

"I could see why Archimedes got all excited. There was nothing finer than the feeling that came rushing through you when it clicked and you suddenly understood something that had puzzled you."

- Jeannette Walls

"In life's kaleidoscope, we're each a different piece of the puzzle."

- Sarah Reinvalde

"When you are acting, you are just one piece of the puzzle. You don't see how everything fits together. It feels like you have less authorship over the entire product. In directing, you take the entire picture into account, so you're challenged in a different way."

- Misha Collins

"Unraveling the threads of a good game story is like solving a well-crafted puzzle. After a lengthy, sometimes difficult journey, the pieces click into place, and you're rewarded with the satisfying payoff of a job well done."

- Jason Schreier

"I feel every painting is a challenging piece of a puzzle for me and others to solve. I feel both humble and exhilarated to see if completed."

- Akiane Kramarik

"I think that we’re pattern-seeking animals, and what we like best is a story where everything fits together, where there’s no puzzle pieces left over."

- Noah Hawley

"Writing is mentally stimulating; it’s like a puzzle that makes you think all the time."

- Stephanie Zimbalist

"I think that, at the end of the day, I'm drawn to a certain level of ambiguous storytelling that requires hard thought and work in the same way that the 'New York Times' crossword puzzle does: Sometimes you just want to put it down or throw it out the window, but there's a real rewarding sense if you feel like you've cracked it."

- Damon Lindelof

"Willingness to be puzzled is a valuable trait to cultivate, from childhood to advanced inquiry."

- Noam Chomsky

"Once I get on a puzzle, I can't get off."

- Richard P. Feynman

"To me acting is like a jigsaw puzzle. The jigsaw puzzle is of the sky and all the pieces are blue. Out of this you have to create a human being and put it together."

- Henry Winkler

"When you work with somebody, either the puzzle piece fits, or it doesn't."

- Gary Goetzman

"Music is a lot more like solving an intricate puzzle with moments of pure, random creative bliss... whereas painting is much more purely random creative bliss with moments of problem solving."

- Brandon Boyd

"Every film is a puzzle really, from an editorial point of view."

- Walter Murch

"Every horse I get on I can adapt to. It's like a jigsaw puzzle."

- Charlotte Dujardin

"If I have luck and keep working and the puzzle comes together, maybe one day I will drive an F1 car."

- Robert Kubica

"(Love is the puzzle that) can’t be solved. Catlike, it follows no rules but its own, and only it knows what they are."

- Chris Dee

"My goal as a puzzle designer is to create a meaningful experience for the player, not just ‘I solved it.’"

- Scott Kim

"like a puzzle we constantly seek to be whole"

- Hanna Abi Akl

"When you write non-fiction, you sit down at your desk with a pile of notebooks, newspaper clippings, and books and you research and put a book together the way you would a jigsaw puzzle."

- Janine di Giovanni

"I just consider myself a piece of the puzzle and I'm lucky enough to be asked or invited to the party, if you will. I hope I can bring some laughs and grimaces to the fans."

- Adam Baldwin

"It starts off like climbing a tree or solving a puzzle - poetry, if nothing else, is just fun to write. But deeper into each and every piece, you no longer hesitate to call it work. It's passion."

- Criss Jami

"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game."

- Randy Pausch

"Man is a puzzle-solving animal."

- Ronald A Knox

"Ambiguity— Maybe it’s not something to fear Maybe it’s just another adventure to take or puzzle to solve"

- Lucy Carter

"As we all know... golf is a puzzle without an answer."

- Gary Player

"If you read proverbs, you will find answers to every puzzle."

- Lailah Gifty Akita

"I'm only 26 - I don't know anything about life yet. Life is like a puzzle and my pieces are spread all over the world."

- Ville Valo

"People who work crossword puzzles know that if they stop making progress, they should put the puzzle down for a while."

- Marilyn vos Savant

"Learning never exhausts the mind."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"Nothing whets the intelligence more than a passionate suspicion, nothing develops all the faculties of an immature mind more than a trail running away into the dark."

- Stefan Zweig

"Tell the truth so as to puzzle and confound your adversaries."

- Henry Wotton

"Never change a winning game; always change a losing one."

- Bill Tilden

"Life is puzzle unsolved."

- Santosh Kalwar

"Why should things be easy to understand?"

- Thomas Pynchon

"I was a circus performer traversing the tightwire, and I could fall off into a vortex devoid of reality at any moment. There was, and had been for a very long time, an intense sense of despair."

- Suzie Burke