Quote for the Day! - Archive

Thursday, Nov 30, 2023

“I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”

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

Wednesday, Nov 29, 2023

“Good businesses are ethical businesses. A business model that relies on trickery is doomed to fail.”

Charlie Munger
American billionaire investor, businessman and philanthropist.
(1924 - 2023)

Tuesday, Nov 28, 2023

“It is hard to think of a time when a nation - and a whole civilization - has drifted more futilely toward a bigger catastrophe than that looming over the United States and Western civilization today.... We are fast approaching the point of no return.”

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

Monday, Nov 27, 2023

“Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.”

Margaret Ethel Storm Jameson
English journalist and author.
(1891 - 1986)

Wednesday, Nov 22, 2023

“When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”

Paulo Coelho de Souza
Brazilian lyricist and novelist.
(1947 - present)

Tuesday, Nov 21, 2023

“I hate all bungling as I do sin, but particularly bungling in politics, which leads to the misery and ruin of many thousands and millions of people.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer and statesman.
(1749 - 1832)

Monday, Nov 20, 2023

“Time stays long enough for those who use it.”

Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath, inventor, painter, sculptor and writer.
(1452 - 1519)

Friday, Nov 17, 2023

“O my God, teach me to be generous, to serve you as you deserve to be served, to give without counting the cost, to fight without fear of being wounded, to work without seeking rest, and to spend myself without expecting any reward, but the knowledge that I am doing your holy will. Amen.”

Saint Ignatius of Loyola
Spanish knight, hermit, priest, and theologian. Founder of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits).
(1491 - 1556)

Thursday, Nov 16, 2023

“It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.”

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

Wednesday, Nov 15, 2023

“A word or a smile is often enough to put fresh life in a despondent soul.”

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

Tuesday, Nov 14, 2023

“Throughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man's liberty.”

Barry Goldwater
United States Senator, businessman and author.
(1909 - 1998)

Monday, Nov 13, 2023

“Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.”

Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nobel laureate, Baptist minister, and civil rights leader.
(1929 - 1968)

Friday, Nov 10, 2023

“We are not sent into this world for nothing; we are not born at random; . . . God sees every one of us; He creates every soul, He lodges it in the body, one by one, for a purpose.”

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

Thursday, Nov 09, 2023

“Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.”

Henry Jackson van Dyke, Jr.
American author, educator, diplomat, and clergyman.
(1852 - 1933)

Wednesday, Nov 08, 2023

“For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.”

Margaret Ethel Storm Jameson
English journalist and author.
(1891 - 1986)

Tuesday, Nov 07, 2023

“God was pitched out of forced schooling on his ear after WWII. This wasn't because of any constitutional proscription - there was none that anyone had been able to find in over a century and a half-but because the political state and corporate economy considered the Western spiritual tradition too dangerous a competitor. And it is.”

John Taylor Gatto
(1935 - 2018)
American author and award-winning schoolteacher.

Monday, Nov 06, 2023

“Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.”

Alexandre Dumas
French novelist and playwright.
(1802 - 1870)

Friday, Nov 03, 2023

“It is not lengthy prayers, but generous deeds that touch God's heart.”

Saint Arnold Janssen
German-Dutch priest and founder of the Society of the Divine Word.
(1837 - 1909)

Friday, Nov 03, 2023

“It is not lengthy prayers, but generous deeds that touch God's heart.”

Saint Arnold Janssen
German-Dutch priest and founder of the Society of the Divine Word.
(1837 - 1909)

Thursday, Nov 02, 2023

“Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have the strength.”

Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.
26th President of the United States of America.
(1858 - 1919)

Wednesday, Nov 01, 2023

“The world is charged with the grandeur of God.”

Gerard Manley Hopkins
English Jesuit priest and poet.
(1844 - 1889)