Quote for the Day! - Archive

Wednesday, Sep 30, 2020

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.”

James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix
American rock guitarist, singer and songwriter.
(1942 - 1970)

Tuesday, Sep 29, 2020

“The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.”

Marcus Aurelius
Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher.
(121 AD - 180 AD)

Monday, Sep 28, 2020

“We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.”

John W. Gardner
Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare.
(1912 - 2002)

Friday, Sep 25, 2020

“I think the oddest thing about the advanced people is that, while they are always talking about things as problems, they have hardly any notion of what a real problem is.”

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)

Thursday, Sep 24, 2020

“In the normal, bourgeois, middle-class, democratic West, one should say when confronted with the apocalypse du jour: Here it is impossible to predict the future. So when confronted with a national riot of dread: Keep your head.”

Charles Krauthammer
Columnist and political commentator.
(1950 - 2018)

Wednesday, Sep 23, 2020

“You must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.”

Saint Catherine of Siena
Mystic, activist, author & One of the Thirty-Six Doctors of the Catholic Church.
(1347 - 1380)

Tuesday, Sep 22, 2020

“Success is not measured by what you do compared to what others do. It is measured by what you do with the ability God gave you.”

Hilary Hinton "Zig" Ziglar
Legendary author, salesman, business consultant and motivational speaker who invested his life helping others get everything they wanted out of life.
(1926 - 2012)

Monday, Sep 21, 2020

“All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.”

Anicius Manlius Severinus Boëthius
Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum and philosopher.
(377 AD - 524 AD)

Friday, Sep 18, 2020

“Bless Him in all that He makes you suffer on this earth and rejoice in it, for each victory gained has a corresponding crown in paradise.”

Saint Padre Pio of Pietrelcina
Capuchin friar, priest, stigmatist & mystic.
(1887 - 1968)

Thursday, Sep 17, 2020

“A good man is not a perfect man; a good man is an honest man, faithful and unhesitatingly responsive to the voice of God in his life.”

Saint John Fisher
English Bishop, Cardinal, Theologian and Martyr.
(1469 - 1535)

Wednesday, Sep 16, 2020

“Never give up on anybody.”

Hubert H. Humphrey
38th Vice President of the United States of America.
(1911 - 1978)

Tuesday, Sep 15, 2020

“Humility involves the full knowledge of our status as creatures, a clear consciousness of having received everything we have from God.”

Dietrich von Hildebrand
Catholic philosopher and theologian.
(1889 - 1977)

Monday, Sep 14, 2020

“Both successful and unsuccessful people have problems. The only difference is that successful people know how to deal with and how to solve problems.”

Chapman R. Cannon, Jr.
American Entrepreneur.
(1934 - 2011)

Friday, Sep 11, 2020

“If the moral truth revealed in the dignity of the human person does not discipline and direct the explosive energies of technology, a new era of barbarism, rather than a springtime of hope, may well follow this century of tears.”

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

Thursday, Sep 10, 2020

“The more people who own little businesses of their own, the safer our country will be, and the better off its cities and towns; for the people who have a stake in their country and their community are its best citizens.”

John Hancock
American patriot, statesman and first to sign the Declaration of Independence.
(1737 - 1793)

Wednesday, Sep 09, 2020

“Free markets and small government made Sweden rich. The experiment with socialism crashed us.”

Johan Norberg
Swedish author, economist and historian.
(1973 - present)

Tuesday, Sep 08, 2020

“Like what you do, and then you will do your best.”

Katherine Johnson
American mathematician and NASA scientist.
(1918 - 2020)

Friday, Sep 04, 2020

“People who suffer have something to offer to God. When they succeed in enduring their suffering, that is a daily miracle.”

Saint Andre Bessette
Canadian lay brother of the Congregation of Holy Cross credited with thousands of miraculous healings associated with his pious devotion to Saint Joseph.
(1845 - 1937)

Thursday, Sep 03, 2020

“Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.”

Sam Rayburn
American Congressman & Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.
(1882 - 1961)

Wednesday, Sep 02, 2020

“There's none so blind as they that won't see.”

Jonathan Swift
Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, poet and cleric.
(1667 - 1745)

Tuesday, Sep 01, 2020

“The solution to our problems is not more paternalism, laws, decrees, and controls, but the restoration of liberty and free enterprise, the restoration of incentives, to let loose the tremendous constructive energies of 300 million Americans.”

Henry Hazlitt
American journalist.
(1894 - 1993)