Quote for the Day! - Archive

Tuesday, Feb 28, 2023

“Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.”

Frederick Douglass
American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman.
(1818 - 1895)

Monday, Feb 27, 2023

“There is a big future out there, but you have to know where you are going to get there; learn to stick with a program; keep on keeping on through the development of the 'Don't Quit' attitude.”

Dr. Donnie Cannon
American Entrepreneur.
(1917 - 2013)

Friday, Feb 24, 2023

“He was created of a mother whom He created. He was carried by hands that He formed. He cried in the manger in wordless infancy. He, the Word, without whom all human eloquence is mute.”

Saint Augustine
Famous sinner turned Saint & One of the Thirty-Seven Doctors of the Catholic Church.
(354AD - 430AD)

Thursday, Feb 23, 2023

“The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.”

Frederick Douglass
American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman.
(1818 - 1895)

Wednesday, Feb 22, 2023

“To all I say: Arise, rejoice, God is calling you.”

Cardinal Francis Arinze
Nigerian priest, bishop, and author.
(1932 - present)

Monday, Feb 20, 2023

“If you can somehow think and dream of success in small steps, every time you make a step, every time you accomplish a small goal, it gives you confidence to go on from there.”

John H. Johnson
Founder of Johnson Publishing Company.
(1918 - 2005)

Friday, Feb 17, 2023

“Man's salvation and perfection consists of doing the will of God which he must have in view in all things, and at every moment of his life.”

Saint Peter Claver
Spanish Jesuit priest and missionary. Patron of the missions to African peoples and human rights defender.
(1580 - 1654)

Thursday, Feb 16, 2023

“We will not agree on every issue. But let us respect those differences and respect one another.”

John Roy Lynch
American Congressman, writer, attorney, military officer, author & former slave.
(1847 - 1939)

Wednesday, Feb 15, 2023

“You cannot define a person on just one thing. You can't just forget all these wonderful and good things that a person has done because one thing didn't come off the way you thought it should come off.”

Aretha Franklin
American singer, songwriter, and civil rights activist.
(1942 - 2018)

Tuesday, Feb 14, 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)

Monday, Feb 13, 2023

“Impossible is just a word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”

Muhammad Ali
American professional boxer, activist and philanthropist.
(1942 - 2016)

Friday, Feb 10, 2023

“Happiness is attained by achieving the purpose of our earthly existence. God made me to know him, to love him, to serve him in this world and to be happy with him forever in the next.”

Cardinal Francis Arinze
Nigerian priest, bishop, and author.
(1932 - present)

Thursday, Feb 09, 2023

“Violence diminishes our humanity.”

Coretta Scott King
American author, activist, and civil rights leader.
(1927 - 2006)

Wednesday, Feb 08, 2023

“What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived; it is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.”

Nelson Mandela
President of South Africa & Nobel Laureate.
(1918 - 2013)

Tuesday, Feb 07, 2023

“Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over our schools, prisons, welfare programs, police departments and courts. It's high time we ran these people out of our lives and went back to common sense.”

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

Monday, Feb 06, 2023

“It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.”

Muhammad Ali
American professional boxer, activist and philanthropist.
(1942 - 2016)

Friday, Feb 03, 2023

“To believe is none other than, in the obscurity of the world, to touch the hand of God and thus, in silence, to hear the Word, to see Love...”

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI
Priest, Bishop, Cardinal & Servant of the Servants of God.
(1927 - 2022)

Thursday, Feb 02, 2023

“One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.”

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

Wednesday, Feb 01, 2023

“My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.”

Charles F. Kettering
American inventor, engineer, and businessman.
(1876 - 1958)