Daily Quotes for Student Responses
1.“To be great is to be misunderstood.” –
Emerson
2.“Conscience makes cowards of us all.” –
Shakespeare
3.“Nothing is either good or bad but
thinking makes it so.” – Shakespeare
4.“To be or not to be, that is the question.”
– Shakespeare
5.“What a piece of work is a man.” –
Shakespeare
6.“Good fences make good neighbors.” Frost
7.“Simplify, Simplify, Simplify.” –
Thoreau
8.“Earth’s the right place for love.”- Frost
9.“Something there is that doesn’t love a
wall.” – Frost
10. “Life is a tale. Full of sound and fury
signifying nothing.” – Shakespeare
11. “Out, out brief candle.” Shakespeare
12. “Carpe Diem.” – Seize the Day –
Whitman
13. “If a man does not step in pace with
his companions perhaps he hears the
beat of a different drummer.” – Thoreau
14. “Money is the root of al evil.” – OT
15. “Do unto others as you would have
them do unto you.”
16. “Love thy neighbor as thyself.” –
Jesus
17. “Hold fast to dreams for if dreams
die life is a broken winged bird that
cannot fly.” – Hughes
18. “To know a man will ‘t were best to
know himself.” – Shakespeare
19. “Give me liberty, or give me death.”
– Patrick Henry
20. “When the going gets tough, the
tough get going.” Vince Lombard
21. “Winners never quit.” – Vince
Lombard
22. “I think’ therefore I am.” – Descarte
23. “It was the best of times; it was the
worst of times” – Dickens
24. “He prayeth best who loveth best all
creatures great and small.” – Coleridge
25. “The truth will set you free.” – Paul
26. “How do I love thee, let me count
the ways.” – Browning
27. “All men are endowed by their
creator with certain inalienable rights.” –
Jefferson
28. “All men are created equal.”
Jefferson
29. “Every man has a right to life,
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” –
Jefferson
30. “Hell is other people.” – Sartre
31. “If you choose not to decide; you
still have made a choice.” – Camus
32. “All you need is love.” – The Beatles
33. “You can’t always get what you
want; but if you try sometimes you just
might find you get what you need.” –
Stones
34. “I have a dream that one day my 4
little children will be judged not by the
color of their skin but by the content of
their character.” – Martin Luther King
Jr.
35. “Ask not what your country can do
for you but what you can do for your
country.” – John Kennedy
36. “Hell hath no fury like a woman
scorned.” – Shakespeare
37. “Writers today write not of matters
of the human heart, but of the glands.” Faulkner
38. “Two roads diverged in a wood and I
took the one less traveled by and that has
made all the difference.” – Frost
39. “Because I could not stop for death;
he kindly stopped for me.” – Emily
Dickinson
40. “Success is counted sweetest by
those who never succeed.” - Dickinson
41. “Hope is a thing with feathers that
perches in the soul.” – Dickinson
42. “I celebrate myself. I sing myself, I
shout my barbaric yawps to the world.”
– Whitman
43. “The fault finder will find fault even
in paradise.” - Thoreau
44. “Money is not required to buy one
necessity of the soul.” – Thoreau
45. “I wander lonely as a cloud.” –
Wordsworth
46. “Better to reigh in hell than serve in
heaven.” – Milton
47. “Frailty, thy name is woman.” –
Shakespeare
48. “Man is born free, but everywhere he
is in chains.” –Rousseau
49. “An eye for an eye makes the whole
world blind.” – Ghandi
50. “We are wiser than we know.” –
Emerson
51. “Most people are as happy as they
make up their minds to be.” –Lincoln
52. “Never stand begging for what you
have the power to earn.” –Cervantes
53. “Everyone thinks of changing the
world, but no one thinks of changing
himself.” —Tolstoy
54. “Never take anything for granted.” –
Disraeli
55. “The longest journey begins with a
single step.” –Buddha
56. “When people talk, listen
completely. Most never listen.” –
Hemingway
57. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to
justice everywhere.” –M.L. King Jr.
58. “Anyone who has never made a
mistake has never tried anything new.” –
Einstein
59. “No man is so poor as to have
nothing worth giving.” –Longfellow
60. “Every great achievement was once
considered impossible.” –Einstein
61. “This is the way the world ends, not
with a bang, but a whimper.” –T.S. Eliot
62. “Love your enemies.” –Jesus
63. “Leave only footprints.” –John Muir
64. “We don’t need no education.” –Pink
Floyd
65. “The harder the conflict, the greater
the triumph.” –Thomas Paine
66. “Nothing gold can stay.” –Robert
Frost
67. “No man is an island.” –Donne
68. “Who so would be a man must be a
non-conformist.” –Emerson
69. “Love is not time’s fool.” –
Shakespeare
70. “Those who forget the past are
condemned to repeat it.” –San Fayana
71. “Beauty is truth, truth beauty—that
is all ye know on earth and all ye need to
know.” –Keats
72. “History is bunk.” –Henry Ford
73. “Fear is the mindkiller—the little
death that brings total obliteration.” –
Herbert
74. “Always be a 1st rate version of
yourself rather than a 2nd rate version of
someone else.” –Judy Garland
75. “Doubt is often the beginning of
wisdom.” –M. Scott Peck
76. “When a man angers you, he
conquers you.” –Tony Morrison
77. “The highest rewards for a man’s toil
is not what he gets for it but what he
becomes by it.” –John Ruskin
78. “The only disability in life is a bad
attitude.” –Scott Hamilton
79. “No one can play whatever position
they choose. If that were to happen in
baseball, there be nine pitchers.” –Billy
Martin
80. “One machine can do the work of
fifty ordinary men. No machine can do
the work of one extraordinary man.” –
Elbert Hubbard
81. “Ability may get you to the top, but
it takes character to keep you there.” –
John Wooden
82. “Any fool can criticize, condemn,
and complain; and most fools do.” –A.
Carnegie
83. “Be careful what you pretend to be
because you are what you pretend to be.”
–Kurt Vonn. Jr.
84. “Don’t let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.” –John
Wooden
85. “Only two things are infinite, the
universe and human stupidity, and I’m
not sure about the former.” –Einstein
86. “Better keep yourself clean and
bright; you are the window through
which you must see the world.” –George
Bernard Shaw
87. “In a world of unhappiness, you
must create happiness.” –Camus
88. “Persistence and determination alone
are omnipotent.” –Calvin Coolidge
89. “You always miss 100% of the shots
you don’t take.” –Unknown
90. “I have conquered nations but I have
failed to conquer myself.’ –Peter
McGreat
91. “Know thyself.”—Socrates
92. “Why is education important?” –
Unknown
93. “You must be the change you wish
to see in the world.” –Gandhi
94. “There is a higher court than courts
of justice; it supercedes all other courts,
that is the court of conscience.” –Gandhi
95. “Humility and truth are mightier than
empires.” –Anonymous
96. “I cannot believe that good would
choose to play dice with the universe.” –
Einstein
97. “Science without religion is
lame.”—Unknown
98. “Religion without science is blind.”
–Einstein
99. “Ask not what your country can do
for you, but what you can do for your
country.” –Kennedy
100. “Genius is 99% perspiration and 1%
inspiration.” –Edison
101. “The next world war will be fought
with stones.” – Einstein
102. “To the world you are one person, to
one person you are the world.”
103. “If you chase two rabbits you will
lose them both.” – Indian Proverb
104. “The Person who has no compassion
in him can never be happy.” – Thich
Hahn
105. “Word can travel thousands of miles
may my words create understanding and
love may they be as beautiful as gems as
lovely as flowers.” Thich Hahn
106. “Right diligence lies in the middle
way, between the extremes of austerity
and sensual indulgence.” Thich Hahn
107. “Know man that you ye are dust and
unto dust you shall return.” – Genesis
108. “You forget my dear friend, we are
living in the land of the hypocrite.”
Oscar Wilde
109. “United we stand, divided we fall.” –
Thomas Jefferson
110. “There’s a difference between
knowing the path and walking the path.”
Morpheus The Matrix
111. “In the depth of winter, I finally
learned that within me lay an invincible
summer.” – Camus
112. “Forgive your enemies; for nothing
annoys them more.” – Oscar Wilde
113. “The greatest grief’s are those we
cause ourselves.” Sophocles Oedipus
Rex
114. “God is dead.” Nietzsche
115. “It does not do well to dwell on
dreams and forget to live.” –Dumbledore
from Harry Potter
116. “If you tell the truth, you don’t have
to remember anything.” –Mark Twain
117. “Kill all the elderly.”—Unknown, 60
year old
118. “It’s the things in life you don’t
choose that make you who you are.” –
Gone Baby Gone
119. “He who accepts evil without
protesting against it is really cooperating
with it.” –MLK
120. “Patriotism is a virtue of the
vicious.” –Oscar Wilde