Quote for the Day! - Archive

Monday, Oct 30, 2023

“Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.”

Bruce Lee
Hong Kong-American martial artist and actor.
(1940 - 1973)

Friday, Oct 27, 2023

“Faith and love are like the blind man's guides. They will lead you along a path unknown to you, to the place where God is hidden.”

Saint John of the Cross
Spanish mystic, poet & One of the Thirty-Seven Doctors of the Catholic Church.
(1542 - 1591)

Thursday, Oct 26, 2023

“Cherish each hour of this day for it can never return.”

Augustine "Og" Mandino II
American author, speaker, and salesman.
(1923 - 1996)

Tuesday, Oct 24, 2023

“...when a thing has been stated about a thousand times as obviously true, it is almost certain to be obviously false.”

G.K. Chesterton
Arguably the greatest thinker & writer of the 20th century. He defended "the common man", common sense, the poor, the family, beauty, Christianity & the Catholic Faith.
(1874 - 1936)

Monday, Oct 23, 2023

“Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.”

Henry Wheeler Shaw
American humorist and writer better known by his pen name Josh Billings.
(1818 - 1885)

Friday, Oct 20, 2023

“At each step we can admire the grandeur, the power, the goodness of God. How bountifully He provides for all our wants-I would even say for our pleasures!”

Saint Théodore Guérin
French-American Sister and foundress of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods and Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College.
(1798 - 1856)

Thursday, Oct 19, 2023

“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.”

Benjamin Franklin
One of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America.
(1706 - 1790)

Wednesday, Oct 18, 2023

“Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.”

Philip Dormer Stanhope
British statesman, diplomat, man of letters and 4th Earl of Chesterfield.
(1694 - 1773)

Tuesday, Oct 17, 2023

“Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.”

Eric Arthur Blair
English novelist who used the pen name George Orwell, author of the dystopian novel 1984.
(1903 - 1950)

Monday, Oct 16, 2023

“The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.”

Laura Ingalls Wilder
American writer.
(1867 - 1957)

Friday, Oct 13, 2023

“Help me to journey beyond the familiar and into the unknown. Give me the faith to leave old ways and break fresh ground with You.”

Saint Brendan the Navigator
Irish monastic saint and one of the Twelve Apostles of Ireland.
(AD 484 - AD 577)

Wednesday, Oct 11, 2023

“In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.”

Anne Frank
German-Dutch diarist & Holocaust victim.
(1929 - 1945)

Tuesday, Oct 10, 2023

“We make war that we may live in peace.”

Aristotle
Greek philosopher and scientist.
(384BC - 322BC)

Monday, Oct 09, 2023

“This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.”

Rainer Maria Rilke
Austrian poet and novelist.
(1875 - 1926)

Friday, Oct 06, 2023

“Time is short, eternity is long.”

Saint John Henry Cardinal Newman
English priest, educator, author & theologian.
(1801 - 1890)

Thursday, Oct 05, 2023

“Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion...reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.”

George Washington
1st President of the United States.
(1732 - 1799)

Wednesday, Oct 04, 2023

“Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.”

Ernest Hemingway
American Nobel Laureate & Pulitzer Prize winning novelist, short-story writer, journalist, and sportsman.
(1899 - 1961)

Tuesday, Oct 03, 2023

“Man is not free unless government is limited.”

Ronald Reagan
40th President of the United States of America.
(1911 - 2004)

Monday, Oct 02, 2023

“No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land.”

Helen Keller
American author, political activist, and lecturer.
(1880 - 1968)