Quote for the Day! - Archive

Thursday, May 30, 2024

“I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.”

Alexander Hamilton
One of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America.
(1755 - 1804)

Wednesday, May 29, 2024

“It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made it.”

Sophocles
Greek playwright.
(497 BC - 405 BC)

Tuesday, May 28, 2024

“Give the world the best you have, and the best will come to you.”

Mary Ainge de Vere
American poet and author (pen name Madeline S. Bridges).
(1844 - 1920)

Friday, May 24, 2024

“We see Christ as the one who brings man freedom based on truth, frees man from what curtails, diminishes and as it were breaks off this freedom at its root, in man's soul, his heart and his conscience.”

Saint John Paul II
Priest, Bishop, Cardinal & Servant of the Servants of God.
(1920 - 2005)

Thursday, May 23, 2024

“Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.”

Abraham Lincoln
16th President of the United States of America.
(1809 - 1865)

Wednesday, May 22, 2024

“Beware the barrenness of a busy life.”

Eleanor Roosevelt
Former First Lady of the United States of America.
(1884 - 1962)

Tuesday, May 21, 2024

“Not since the days of the Hitler Youth have young people been subjected to more propaganda on more politically correct issues. At one time, educators boasted that their role was not to teach students what to think but how to think. Today, their role is far too often to teach students what to think on everything from immigration to global warming to the new sacred trinity of 'race, class and gender.'”

Thomas Sowell
American economist & National Humanities Medal recipient.
(1930 - present)

Monday, May 20, 2024

“It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”

J.K. Rowling
British author and philanthropist.
(1965 - present)

Friday, May 17, 2024

“O Lord, give us a mind that is humble, quiet, peaceable, patient and charitable, and a taste of your Holy Spirit in all of our thoughts, words and deeds.”

Saint Thomas More
English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman and martyr.
(1478 - 1535)

Wednesday, May 15, 2024

“There are eight levels of charity... The highest is when you strengthen a man's hand until he need no longer be dependent upon others.”

Maimonides
Sephardic Jewish philosopher.
(1135 - 1204)

Tuesday, May 14, 2024

“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”

George Bernard Shaw
Irish playwright, critic, and political activist.
(1856 - 1950)

Monday, May 13, 2024

“Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.”

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Roman statesman, lawyer, and scholar.
(106 BC - 43 BC)

Friday, May 10, 2024

“We know not, and we should not ask before the time, where our earthly way will lead us. We know only this, that to those who love the Lord, all things will work together to the good, and further, that the ways by which our Savior leads us point beyond this earth.”

Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, OCD (Edith Stein)
German Jewish philosopher, Discalced Carmelite nun and martyr.
(1891 - 1942)

Thursday, May 09, 2024

“Wisdom is knowing what to do next. Skill is knowing how to do it. Virtue is doing it.”

Thomas Jefferson
Principal author of the Declaration of Independence & Third President of the United States.
(1743 - 1826)

Wednesday, May 08, 2024

“In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.”

Sun Tzu
Chinese military general, strategist, philosopher, and writer.
(544 BC - 496 BC)

Tuesday, May 07, 2024

“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”

Albert Einstein
German-born Nobel Laureate, theoretical physicist and developer of the general theory of relativity.
(1879 - 1955)

Monday, May 06, 2024

“Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.”

William Arthur Ward
American writer and educator.
(1921 - 1994)

Friday, May 03, 2024

“The good works men [and women] do are not theirs but God's. To God be honor, glory, and praise, because all things belong to God.”

Saint John of God
Portuguese Founder of the Hospitaller Order of Saint John of God whose members make solemn vows of poverty, chastity, obedience and service to the sick for life in their hospitals.
(1495 - 1550)

Wednesday, May 01, 2024

“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”

Leo Tolstoy
Russian Count and writer nominated multiple times for the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Nobel Peace Prize.
(1828 - 1910)