Quotes for September 2449 quotes · 44 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every September 24: the anniversary does not move.

• A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.

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  Emily Bronte

  PoetBritish1818 · 19th century

  3.6 · 60 votes · 105 reads

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• Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.

  

  Henry A. Kissinger

  PoliticianGerman1923 · 20th century

  3.9 · 62 votes · 89 reads

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• Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity, the humanity (in the Harvard sense) of saying that the universe just happened to happen and that when we're

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  John Updike

  WriterAmerican1932 · 20th century

  3.4 · 41 votes · 60 reads

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• As far as the job of President goes, its rewarding and I've given before this group the definition of happiness for the Greeks. I'll define it again: the full use of your powers along lines of excellence. I find, therefore, that the Presidency provides so

  

  John F. Kennedy

  PoliticianAmerican1917 · 20th century

  4.7 · 33 votes · 68 reads

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• As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton

  AuthorBritish1780 · 18th century

  3.6 · 44 votes · 51 reads

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• Benevolence It is the glory of the true religion that it inculcates and inspires a spirit of benevolence. It is a religion of charity, which none other ever was. Christ went about doing good; he set the example to his disciples, and they abounded in it

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  Anonymous

  3.9 · 31 votes · 86 reads

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• Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.

  

  Socrates

  PhilosopherGreek-470 · 5th century BC

  4.9 · 45 votes · 135 reads

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• Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

  

  Thomas Hobbes

  PhilosopherBritish1588 · 16th century

  4.4 · 37 votes · 127 reads

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• Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.

  

  José Ortega y Gasset

  PhilosopherSpanish1883 · 19th century

  4.7 · 24 votes · 144 reads

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• Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

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  Iris Murdoch

  NovelistBritish1919 · 20th century

  3.6 · 11 votes · 47 reads

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• First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, ''I believe,'' three times.

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  Norman Mailer

  WriterAmerican1923 · 20th century

  3.7 · 14 votes · 5 reads

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• God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers and thrust the thing we have prayed for in our face, like a gauntlet with a gift in it.

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  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  PoetBritish1806 · 19th century

  4.0 · 25 votes · 116 reads

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• Haiti should remind us all that there is an immediate need to invest in and promote long-term development projects that are sustainable, scalable, and proven to work.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  4.8 · 37 votes · 166 reads

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• He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

  

  William James

  PhilosopherAmerican1842 · 19th century

  3.6 · 30 votes · 1 reads

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• He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.

  

  Martin Luther King Jr.

  LeaderAmerican1929 · 20th century

  3.8 · 22 votes · 29 reads

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• I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

  

  Abraham Lincoln

  PoliticianAmerican1809 · 19th century

  3.8 · 20 votes · 141 reads

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• If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.2 · 63 votes · 26 reads

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• If you don't want to deal with the devil, don't go in his shop. Keep on the Lord's side of the fence.

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  Anonymous

  3.8 · 5 votes · 99 reads

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• It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.

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  Joseph Stalin

  LeaderRussian1879 · 19th century

  3.0 · 59 votes · 161 reads

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• It is wrong to be harsh with the New York critics, unless one admits in the same breath that it is a condition of their existence that they should write entertainingly about something which is rarely worth writing about at all.

  

  Raymond Chandler

  WriterAmerican1888 · 19th century

  3.0 · 34 votes · 97 reads

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• It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I'm still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.

  

  Steve Jobs

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.6 · 16 votes · 124 reads

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• Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

  

  Henry Louis Mencken

  JournalistAmerican1880 · 19th century

  4.0 · 23 votes · 135 reads

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• Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books.

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  W. C. Fields

  ComedianAmerican1880 · 19th century

  4.8 · 48 votes · 100 reads

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• Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

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  Anaïs Nin

  AuthorFrench1903 · 20th century

  3.6 · 31 votes · 173 reads

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• Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

  

  Winston Churchill

  PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century

  4.1 · 18 votes · 158 reads

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• No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him.

  

  Napoleon Hill

  WriterAmerican1883 · 19th century

  4.3 · 32 votes · 77 reads

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• No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  3.4 · 59 votes · 124 reads

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• No person can arise above his real desire. Desires are of value only when they drive us to action. Will and work must accompany desire. Then high resolve is born. Desire is the design that will spurs us into achievement.

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  Anonymous

  3.9 · 5 votes · 189 reads

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• Nobody in Europe will be abandoned. Nobody in Europe will be excluded. Europe only succeeds if we work together.

  

  Angela Merkel

  PoliticianGerman1954 · 20th century

  3.3 · 47 votes · 114 reads

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• One thing you can give and still keep is your word.

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  Anonymous

  4.8 · 32 votes · 168 reads

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• Poetry is indispensable -if I only knew what for.

  

  Jean Cocteau

  AuthorFrench1889 · 19th century

  4.6 · 57 votes · 188 reads

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• Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

  

  Rudyard Kipling

  WriterBritish1865 · 19th century

  3.5 · 43 votes · 180 reads

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• Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.

  

  Walter Bagehot

  EconomistBritish1826 · 19th century

  4.1 · 30 votes · 126 reads

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• Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

  

  Vincent van Gogh

  PainterDutch1853 · 19th century

  3.3 · 23 votes · 76 reads

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• Silence implies consent.

  

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  Anonymous

  4.8 · 51 votes · 60 reads

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• Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano!

  

  Frederic Chopin

  MusicianPolish1810 · 19th century

  3.3 · 61 votes · 109 reads

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• The grass is always greener where the fence isn't.

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  Anonymous

  3.0 · 9 votes · 103 reads

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• The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  3.6 · 39 votes · 149 reads

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• The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.

  

  Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux

  PoetFrench1636 · 17th century

  3.4 · 52 votes · 190 reads

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• This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the quest

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  Sophocles

  PoetGreek

  4.7 · 23 votes · 126 reads

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• To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.

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  Sir John Eliot

  PoliticianBritish1592 · 16th century

  3.8 · 31 votes · 154 reads

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• To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

  

  Confucius

  PhilosopherChinese-551 · 6th century BC

  4.0 · 49 votes · 192 reads

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• Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  3.0 · 25 votes · 186 reads

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• War is like love, it always finds a way.

  

  Bertolt Brecht

  WriterGerman1898 · 19th century

  4.1 · 25 votes · 143 reads

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• What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.3 · 57 votes · 156 reads

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• When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  4.3 · 25 votes · 161 reads

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• You never know how much a man can't remember until he is called as a witness.

  

  Wentworth Dillon

  PoetEnglish1633 · 17th century

  4.0 · 54 votes · 40 reads

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• You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.

  

  Joseph Joubert

  French1754 · 18th century

  5.0 · 6 votes · 92 reads

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