Quote for the Day! - Archive

Tuesday, Nov 29, 2022

“It's amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.”

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

Monday, Nov 28, 2022

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

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

Wednesday, Nov 23, 2022

“I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will. ”

Charles Spurgeon
English preacher and author.
(1834 - 1892)

Tuesday, Nov 22, 2022

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.”

H.L. Mencken
American journalist, essayist, and author.
(1880 - 1956)

Monday, Nov 21, 2022

“Reflect upon your blessings, of which everyone has plenty, not on your past misfortunes, of which everyone has some.”

Charles Dickens
English writer and social critic.
(1812 - 1870)

Friday, Nov 18, 2022

“We are all made in God's image. We are all important to our heavenly Father. Our Divine Savior died for each one of us.”

Father Benedict Groeschel CFR
Franciscan friar, priest, author, activist, and television host.
(1933 - 2014)

Thursday, Nov 17, 2022

“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.”

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

Wednesday, Nov 16, 2022

“The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high, and we miss it, but that it is too low, and we reach it.”

Michelangelo
Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet.
(1475 - 1564)

Tuesday, Nov 15, 2022

“Most of the great problems we face are caused by politicians creating solutions to problems they created in the first place.”

Walter E. Williams
American economist, educator, and author.
(1936 - 2020)

Monday, Nov 14, 2022

“If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.”

Milton Berle
American actor and comedian.
(1908 - 2002)

Friday, Nov 11, 2022

“[Veterans], by their lives, by the record of their deeds, teach us in more practical fashion than it can be taught by any preaching, for they teach us by practice, that in the ultimate analysis, the greatness of a nation is to be measured not by the output of its industrial products, not by its material prosperity, not by the products of the farm, factory, business house, but by the products of its citizenship, by the men and women that that nation produces.”

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

Thursday, Nov 10, 2022

“When you're good to others, you're best to yourself.”

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

Wednesday, Nov 09, 2022

“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
English poet of the Victorian era.
(1806 - 1861)

Tuesday, Nov 08, 2022

“Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient.”

P.J. O'Rourke
American journalist, author, and political satirist.
(1947 - 2022)

Monday, Nov 07, 2022

“The greatness of a life can only be estimated by the multitude of its actions. We should not count the years; it is our actions which constitute our life.”

Gottfried Leibniz
German polymath, logician, mathematician, and natural philosopher.
(1646 - 1716)

Friday, Nov 04, 2022

“Again and again, Scripture tells us that God's is a faithful love. Made in God's image and likeness, we are called to be faithful. Fidelity grounds our relationship to God and to those he has given to our care.”

Francis Cardinal George, OMI
American priest, bishop, and theologian.
(1937 - 2015)

Thursday, Nov 03, 2022

“How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.”

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

Wednesday, Nov 02, 2022

“You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.”

Harriet Martineau
English social theorist and writer.
(1802 - 1876)