Today, we bring you 35 wonderful quotes from The Wizard of Oz and, as a bonus, some other quotes from the Oz books!
35 Wonderful Wizard of Oz Quotes
Here is our list of 35 wonderful quotes from the Wizard of Oz:
1. Life is all about facing your fears!
Wizard of Oz: “There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid, and that kind of courage you have in plenty.”
— The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
2. Brain’s mean knowledge!
Dorothy: “How can you talk if you haven’t got a brain?”
Scarecrow: “I don’t know… But some people without brains do an awful lot of talking… don’t they?”
— The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
3. Home is where your loved ones are.
Dorothy: “No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country, be it ever so beautiful. There is no place like home.”
— The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
4. Happiness is the most important thing!
Tin Woodman (Tin Man): “I shall take the heart. For brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.”
— The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
5. Learning is important!
Wizard of Oz: “A baby has brains, but it doesn’t know much. Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth the more experience you are sure to get.”
— The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
6. Hearts are there to guide you!
Tin Woodman (Tin Man): “you people with hearts,’ he said once, ‘have something to guide you, and need never do wrong; but I have no heart, and so I must be very careful.”
— The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
7. Relationships are really important.
Wizard of Oz: “…and remember my sentimental friend that a heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.”
— The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
8. Sometimes it’s okay to run away.
Wizard of Oz: “You, my friend, are a victim of disorganized thinking. You are under the unfortunate impression that just because you run away you have no courage; you’re confusing courage with wisdom.”
— The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
9. Good always wins over evil.
The King of the Winged Monkeys: “We dare not harm this little girl,” he said to them, “for she is protected by the Power of Good, and this is greater than the Power of Evil.”
— The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
10. Â Never underestimate anyone!
Cowardly Lion: “I have always thought myself very big and terrible; yet such small things as flowers came near to killing me, and such small animals as mice have saved my life. How strange it all is!
— The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
11.  Strong people only appear strong.
Wizard of Oz: “I am Oz, the Great and Terrible,” said the little man, in a trembling voice, “but don’t strike me—please don’t!—and I’ll do anything you want me to.”
— The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
12. Â Words hurt more than sticks and stones.
Scarecrow: “If anyone treads on my toes or sticks a pin into me, it doesn’t matter, for I can’t feel it. But I do not want people to call me a fool…”
— The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
13. Love, companionship, and joy, even from a small dog, can protect a person from being dulled.
“It was Toto that made Dorothy laugh, and saved her from growing as gray as her other surroundings.”
— The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
14. Life is full of ups and downs, yet something that must be walked through with courage and resilience.
“You must walk. It is a long journey, through a country that is sometimes pleasant and sometimes dark and terrible.”
— The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
15. Knowledge is the most important thing to have.
“Brains are the only things worth having in this world, no matter whether one is a crow or a man.”
— The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
16. Fear can be a mask for insecurity, but true courage means facing your own vulnerability.
“I learned that if I roared very loudly every living thing was frightened and got out of my way. Whenever I’ve met a man I’ve been awfully scared; but I just roared at him, and he has always run away as fast as he could go. “
— The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
17. True courage isn’t the absence of fear, but the willingness to act despite it.
“I am terribly afraid of falling, myself,” said the Cowardly Lion, “but I suppose there is nothing to do but try it. So get on my back and we will make the attempt.”
— The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
18. True courage means standing strong to protect others, even when facing certain defeat.
And the Lion said to Dorothy: “We are lost, for they will surely tear us to pieces with their sharp claws. But stand close behind me, and I will fight them as long as I am alive.”
— The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
19. Compassion doesn’t require a heart; it simply requires action.
“I have no heart, you know, so I am careful to help all those who may need a friend, even if it happens to be only a mouse.”
— The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
20. Nothing valuable comes without effort.
“In this country everyone must pay for everything he gets. If you wish me to use my magic power to send you home again you must do something for me first. Help me and I will help you.”
— The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
21. Wishful thinking creates illusions, but reality demands real solutions.
“It was easy to make the Scarecrow and the Lion and the Woodman happy, because they imagined I could do anything. But it will take more than imagination to carry Dorothy back to Kansas.”
— The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
22. Our perceived weaknesses may be our greatest protections.
“I am thankful I am made of straw and cannot be easily damaged. There are worse things in the world than being a Scarecrow.”
— The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
23. Progress begins when someone takes the first step.
“That will be a hard climb,” said the Scarecrow, “but we must get over the hill, nevertheless.” So he led the way and the others followed.Â
— The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
24. True fulfilment comes not from personal gain, but from helping others achieve their dreams.
“I am glad I was of use to these good friends. But now that each of them has had what he most desired, and each is happy in having a kingdom to rule besides, I think I should like to go back to Kansas.”
— The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
25. Sometimes the power to return was within you all along.
Dorothy now took Toto up solemnly in her arms, and having said one last good-bye she clapped the heels of her shoes together three times, saying: “Take me home to Aunt Em!”
— The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Some bonus Wizard of Oz Quotes:
Because we love the Oz books so much here at Imagine Forest. We have included two more quotes from the Oz series! Both inspirational and very important to remember.
26. Never Give up!
Dorothy: “Never give up, Ojo… No one knows what’s going to happen next.”
— The Patchwork Girl of Oz
27. Knowledge is better than money.
Scarecrow: “For I consider brains far superior to money in every way. You may have noticed that if one has money without brains, he cannot use it to his advantage; but if one has brains without money, they will enable him to live comfortably to the end of his days.”
— The Marvelous Land of Oz
28. The Love of others is all that matters.
“A heart is not judged by how much you love; but by how much you are loved by others.”
— The Wizard of Oz
29. Home is where the heart is.
Dorothy: “If I ever go looking for my heart’s desire again, I won’t look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn’t there, I never really lost it to begin with! Is that right?“
— The Wizard of Oz
30. You can be whoever you want to be.
Glinda the Good Witch: “You’ve always had the power my dear, you just had to learn it for yourself.”
— The Wizard of Oz
31. Hearts are made to be broken.
“As for you, my galvanized friend, you want a heart. You don’t know how lucky you are not to have one. Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.”
— The Wizard of Oz
32. Even the bravest people get scared.
Dorothy: “Weren’t you frightened?”
Wizard of Oz: “Frightened? Child, you’re talking to a man who’s laughed in the face of death, sneered at doom, and chuckled at catastrophe… I was petrified.”
— The Wizard of Oz
33. Badness makes a person ugly.
Glinda the Good Witch: “Only bad witches are ugly.”
— The Wizard of Oz
34. With a little bravery, you can be anyone.
Cowardly Lion: What makes a king out of a slave? Courage!
— The Wizard of Oz
35. Being weird or unusual is a good thing.
Scarecrow: “I am convinced that the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed.”
— The Wizard of Oz
Any more Wonderful Quotes from the Wizard of Oz?
Everyone from their childhood or their adulthood will remember reading a book from the Oz series or at least seeing the Wizard of Oz films. You might have read The Wonderful Wizard of Oz or The Patchwork Girl of Oz. Maybe you read all 14 of the full-length books in the series! You then know that they were filled with magic, delight, humour, and most importantly, inspiring life lessons. And not to forget the timeless characters, such as Scarecrow, Dorothy, Cowardly Lion, Tin Woodman and the Wizard!
What do you think of our list of 35 wonderful quotes from The Wizard of Oz and our bonus quotes from other Oz books? Do you have a quote from any Oz book or film that you love? You can share it in the comments below! In the meantime, why not read our post on top quotes from children’s books?
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