“It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.”
Maud Hart Lovelace · Betsy-Tacy, 1940
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459 quotes on life and the lessons it teaches — from the classics to the everyday.
“And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.”
James Russell Lowell · The Vision of Sir Launfal, 1848
“I'm always going to compete. That's just who I am.”
Jalen Brunson · NBA media availability, 2024
“Family means everything to me. Everything I do is for them.”
Jalen Brunson · NBA media day, 2022
“I'm not trying to be anybody else. I'm just trying to be the best version of myself.”
Jalen Brunson · NBA media availability, 2023
“I learned so much from Coach Wright. The way he built culture, the way he taught us to play for each other.”
Jalen Brunson · Interview referencing Villanova, 2022
“Every day you have a choice to get better or to stay the same.”
Jalen Brunson · NBA press conference, 2022
“Every problem you face in a startup is a problem you chose when you decided to start.”
Ashneer Grover · Doglapan, 2023
“In India, the first thing you have to do is survive. Growth comes after survival.”
Ashneer Grover · Shark Tank India, Season 1
“We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.”
Eleanor Roosevelt · You Learn by Living, 1960
“I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.”
Henry David Thoreau · Walden, 1854
“You are never strong enough that you don't need help.”
César Chávez · widely attributed, labor movement speeches
“One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings.”
Franklin A. Thomas · widely attributed to Franklin A. Thomas, former president of the Ford Foundation
“I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all.”
Zora Neale Hurston · "How It Feels to Be Colored Me," World Tomorrow, 1928
“Life's most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others?”
Martin Luther King Jr. · "A Question of Life or Death," speech, Louisville, Kentucky, March 1956
“We know what we are, but know not what we may be.”
William Shakespeare · Hamlet, Act 4, Scene 5
“There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.”
Audre Lorde · "Learning from the 60s," speech at Harvard, February 1982
