Quote for the Day! - Archive

Monday, Sep 30, 2024

“The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.”

Robert Frost
Pulitzer Prize winning American poet.
(1874 - 1963)

Friday, Sep 27, 2024

“Jesus does not demand great deeds. All He wants is self-surrender and gratitude...He needs nothing from us except our love.”

Saint Thérèse of Lisieux
French Catholic Discalced Carmelite nun & One of the Thirty-Seven Doctors of the Catholic Church.
(1873 - 1897)

Thursday, Sep 26, 2024

“The only foundation for a useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments.”

Benjamin Rush
One of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America.
(1746 - 1813)

Wednesday, Sep 25, 2024

“Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.”

James Bovard
American author and lecturer.
(1956 - present)

Tuesday, Sep 24, 2024

“Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice and is never the result of selfishness.”

Napoleon Hill
American author and lecturer.
(1883 - 1970)

Monday, Sep 23, 2024

“Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters.”

Margaret Peters
American educator and African American history specialist.
(1936 - 2022)

Friday, Sep 20, 2024

“God speaks in the silence of your heart, and all you have to do is to listen to Him.”

Saint Teresa of Calcutta (aka Mother Teresa)
Foundress of the Missionaries of Charity.
(1910 - 1997)

Thursday, Sep 19, 2024

“The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.”

Thomas Paine
One of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America.
(1737 - 1809)

Wednesday, Sep 18, 2024

“Happiness is not within us, and happiness is likewise not outside us. Happiness is only in God. And when we have found Him, then happiness is everywhere.”

Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, writer, and theologian.
(1623 - 1662)

Tuesday, Sep 17, 2024

“We must support our rights or lose our character, and with it, perhaps, our liberties.”

James Monroe
One of the Founding Fathers & Fifth President of the United States of America.
(1758 - 1831)

Monday, Sep 16, 2024

“Teamwork is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.”

Andrew Carnegie
Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist.
(1835 - 1919)

Friday, Sep 13, 2024

“Let us thank God for everything, since all good comes from Him.”

Saint Francis of Assisi
Friar, preacher, and founder of the Order of Friars Minor (the "Franciscans").
(1182 - 1226)

Thursday, Sep 12, 2024

“Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.”

Calvin Coolidge
30th President of the United States of America.
(1872 - 1933)

Wednesday, Sep 11, 2024

“Now, we have inscribed a new memory alongside those others. It's a memory of tragedy and shock, of loss and mourning. But not only of loss and mourning. It's also a memory of bravery and self-sacrifice, and the love that lays down its life for a friend―even a friend whose name it never knew.”

George W. Bush
43rd President of the United States of America.
(1946 - present)

Tuesday, Sep 10, 2024

“A generation which ignores history has no past-and no future.”

Robert A. Heinlein
American author, aeronautical engineer, and naval officer.
(1907 - 1988)

Monday, Sep 09, 2024

“Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.”

Saint Jerome
Priest, theologian, and historian.
(347 AD - 420 AD)

Thursday, Sep 05, 2024

“Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake of the latter.”

Samuel Adams
One of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America.
(1722 - 1803)

Wednesday, Sep 04, 2024

“There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.”

Will Rogers
American cowboy, humorist, social commentator aka Oklahoma's Favorite Son.
(1879 - 1935)

Tuesday, Sep 03, 2024

“Knowledge isn't power until it is applied.”

Dale Carnegie
American writer and lecturer.
(1888 - 1955)