Quote for the Day! - Archive

Wednesday, Aug 30, 2023

“Knowing what you don't know is more useful than being brilliant.”

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

Tuesday, Aug 29, 2023

“If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.”

Milton Friedman
American economist & Nobel Laureate.
(1912 - 2006)

Monday, Aug 28, 2023

“There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”

C.S. Lewis
British novelist, poet, essayist, and Atheist-to-Christian convert.
(1898 - 1963)

Friday, Aug 25, 2023

“In God's will, there is great peace.”

Saint Josephine Bakhita
Sudanese-Italian Canossian religious sister & former slave.
(1869 - 1947)

Thursday, Aug 24, 2023

“Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person's own mind, than on the externals in the world.”

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

Wednesday, Aug 23, 2023

“It's not what happens to you but how you react to it that matters.”

Epictetus
Greek Stoic philosopher born into slavery.
(50 AD - 135 AD)

Tuesday, Aug 22, 2023

“The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.”

Baron de Montesquieu
French judge, man of letters and political philosopher.
(1689 - 1755)

Monday, Aug 21, 2023

“The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become.”

Heraclitus of Ephesus
Greek Ionian philosopher.
(535 BC - 475 BC)

Friday, Aug 18, 2023

“We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if the drop was not in the ocean, I think the ocean would be less because of the missing drop.”

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

Wednesday, Aug 16, 2023

“Hearts are the strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals.”

Ralph Johnson Bunche
American Nobel Laureate, political scientist, and diplomat.
(1904 - 1971)

Tuesday, Aug 15, 2023

“Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”

Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe
American author and abolitionist.
(1811 - 1896)

Monday, Aug 14, 2023

“Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.”

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

Friday, Aug 11, 2023

“I know now that true charity consists in bearing all of our neighbors' defects, not being surprised at their weakness but edified at their smallest virtues.”

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

Thursday, Aug 10, 2023

“"Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself." ”

Epictetus
Greek Stoic philosopher born into slavery.
(50 AD - 135 AD)

Wednesday, Aug 09, 2023

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”

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

Tuesday, Aug 08, 2023

“Truth and love will overcome lies and hatred.”

Václav Havel
Czech statesman, author, poet, playwright, and former dissident.
(1936 - 2011)

Monday, Aug 07, 2023

“The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable.”

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

Friday, Aug 04, 2023

“Since love completes all, makes all hard things soft, and the difficult easy, let us strive to make all our acts proceed from love.”

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

Thursday, Aug 03, 2023

“He that can have patience can have what he will.”

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

Wednesday, Aug 02, 2023

“Be strong and of good courage, do not fear or be in dread of them: for it is the Lord your God who goes with you; he will not fail you or forsake you.”

Deuteronomy 31:6
Holy Bible
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

Tuesday, Aug 01, 2023

“Happiness is like a butterfly, the more you chase it, the more it will evade you, but if you notice the other things around you, it will gently come and sit on your shoulder.”

Henry David Thoreau
American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher.
(1817 - 1862)