Category: Quotes

Quotes & Memes

Quotes August 26, 2024

“Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.”
Vern Law
 
 
 
 
“The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.”
Mother Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu
 
 
 
 
“When life gets tough and you’re faced with defeat, remember somewhere in the world a flower is popping through some concrete.”
BRAD MONTAGUE
 
 
 
 
“Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.”
WENDELL BERRY
 
 
 
 
The best way to ensure success is to never lose energy because things aren’t going as fast as you want them to.
Unknown
 
 
 
 

Quotes August 25, 2024

Grant me courage to serve others, for in service, there is true life.
Cesar Chavez – 1927-1993 – Labor Leader-Civil Rights Activist
 
 
 
 
“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, from “The Alchemist”
 
 
 
 
“The point of living in the world is just to stay interested.”
KATHLEEN ROONEY, LILLIAN BOXFISH TAKES A WALK
 
 
 
 
“Without goals, training has no direction.”
Natalie Coughlin
 
 
 
 
“There’s no failure in sports. You know, there’s good days, bad days. Some days you are able to be successful, some days you’re not. Some days it’s your turn, some days it’s not your turn. And that’s what sports [are] about. You don’t always win.”
​GIANNIS ANTETOKOUNMPO
 
 
 
 

Quotes August 24, 2024

It doesn’t do any good to talk if nobody’s listening.
I think if it exists you can discuss it.
Phil Donahue,
talk show host, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient
1935-2024
 
 
 
 
I feel like I have to have a voice.
I have a lot of regrets, but I’m not going to think of them as regrets.
Debbie Harry,
singer, songwriter
 
 
 
 
“There’s a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.”
Dorothy Parker
 
 
 
 
“We do not remember days, we remember moments.”
Cesare Pavese
 
 
 
 

Quotes August 23, 2024

Better than honor and glory, and History’s iron pen, Was the thought of duty done and the love of his fellow-men.
Richard Watson Gilder
 
 
 
 
Honoring the sacrifices many have made for our country in the name of freedom and democracy is the very foundation of Veterans Day.
Charles B. Rangel
 
 
 
 
America’s Veterans have served their country with the belief that democracy and freedom are ideals to be upheld around the world.
John Doolittle
 
 
 
 
“We are acknowledging the close personal nature of our 10 years at war and the strong bonds of fidelity that Marines have for one another, especially for those fellow Marines who we have lost.”
James F. Amos
 
 
 
 
Old breed? New breed? There’s not a damn bit of difference so long as it’s the Marine breed.
Chesty Puller
 
 
 
 
“I loved being in the Marine Corps, I loved my job in the Marine Corps, and I loved the people I served with. It’s one of the best things I’ve had a chance to do.”
Adam Driver
 
 
 
 

Quotes August 21-22, 2024

“Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing, nobody listens and then everybody disagrees.”
Will Rogers
 
 
 
 
The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.
Oliver Wendell Holmes – 1841-1935 – Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
 
 
 
 
Realize that if a door closed, it’s because what was behind it wasn’t meant for you.
Mandy Hale
 
 
 
 
Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow.
Vincent van Gogh
 
 
 
 
Follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
Franz Kafka
 
 
 
 
What matters most is how well you walk through fire.
Charles Bukowski
 
 
 
 
Freedom is what you do with what has been done to you.
Jean-Paul Sartre
 
 
 
 
“The real enemies of our life are the ‘oughts’ and the ‘ifs.’ They pull us backward into the unalterable past and forward into the unpredictable future. But real life takes place in the here and now.”
Henri Nouwen
 
 
 
 

Quotes August 21, 2024

The chief cause of failure is substituting what you want most for what you want now.
Zig Ziglar – 1926-2012 – Author-Salesman
 
 
 
 
“Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.”
Jawaharlal Nehru
 
 
 
 
“Worrying gets you nowhere. If you turn up worrying about how you’re going to perform, you’ve already lost.”
Usain Bolt
 
 
 
 
“Beauty is in the mind, not the mirror.”
FRÉDÉRIC FEKKAI
 
 
 
 
“Don’t let anybody tell you you are ever past your prime.”
MICHELLE YEOH
 
 
 
 

Quotes August 20, 2024

No one is ready for a thing until they believe that they can acquire it. The state of mind must be belief and not mere hope or wish.
Napoleon Hill – 1883-1970 -Author
 
 
 
 
Everything I did in films, I truly lived.
Alain Delon,
actor
1935-2024
 
 
 
 
“When you’re climbing Mount Everest, nothing is easy. You just take one step at a time, never look back and always keep your eyes glued to the top.”
Jacqueline Susann, from “Valley of the Dolls”
 
 
 
 
“You can get excited about the future. The past won’t mind.”
HILLARY DEPIANO, NEW YEAR’S THIEVE
 
 
 
 
“If it makes you happy, soothes your soul, grows your garden — choose that.”
MAIA
 
 
 
 
“Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.”
LANGSTON HUGHES
 
 
 
 
“We have to make mistakes. It’s how we learn compassion for others.”
CURTIS SITTENFELD, AMERICAN WIFE
 
 
 
 

Quotes August 18-19, 2024

If I have something I like to forget, then I forget it.
Gena Rowlands,
actor
1930-2024
 
 
 
 
The life in front of you is far more important than the life behind you.
Joel Osteen – Pastor-Televangelist-Author
 
 
 
 
“I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.”
Walt Disney
 
 
 
 
“Years ago, I tried to top everybody, but I don’t anymore. I realized it was killing conversation. When you’re always trying for a topper you aren’t really listening.”
Groucho Marx
 
 
 
 
“We are all worthy of being seen.”
“Don’t be afraid to speak up because you never know who is listening.”
​AMERICA FERRERA
 
 
 
 
“Don’t postpone loving yourself.”
AGAPI STASSINOPOULOS
 
 
 
 
“A stranger’s compassion can make a world of difference.”
​OPRAH WINFREY
 
 
 
 

Quotes August 17, 2024

A dead end is just a good place to turn around.
Naomi Judd – 1946-2022 – Singer-Actress
 
 
 
 
“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.”
Henry Ford
 
 
 
 
“Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.”
Lauren Bacall
 
 
 
 
“Celebrate the life you had, not the life you could’ve had.”
Earvin “Magic” Johnson
 
 
 
 
“This is my invariable advice to people: Learn how to cook—try new recipes, learn from your mistakes, be fearless and above all have fun.”
Julia Child
 
 
 
 
“I swing big, with everything I’ve got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.”
Babe Ruth
 
 
 
 
“Weak or strong, clever or simple, we are all brothers.”
“Animal Farm” by George Orwell
 
 
 
 
We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
Henry James
 
 
 
 

Quotes August 16, 2024

“No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.”
General Douglas MacArthur
 
 
 
 
Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.
John Dickinson
 
 
 
 
These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor – and a nation who has fought many battles to keep our country free from threats of terror.
Michael N. Castle
 
 
 
 
Armies can notonlydefend their countries- they can build them.
John F. Kennedy
 
 
 
 
WE NO LONGER differentiate in an ultimate sense between Army, National Guard, and Reserve forces. Every energy…. is bent to the development of the Army of the United States. Our purpose is to think only of the American citizen who is to be a soldier in that Army and to prepare him in time of peace for duties in war.
General John J. Pershing