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50 Quotes for St. Patrick’s Day 2025

Are you ready for St. Patrick’s Day? Are you searching for the right words to add to your personal or business social media platforms? Using quotes is a great way to accent your posts. If you are searching for inspiration, consider the following quotes for St. Patrick’s Day.

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  1. “There are only two kinds of people in the world: the Irish and those who wish they were.” —Irish saying
  2. “May the luck of the Irish possess you. May the devil fly off with your worries. May God bless you forever and ever.” – Irish Blessing
  3. “When Irish hearts are happy, all the world seems bright and gay. And when Irish eyes are smiling, sure, they steal your heart away.” – Bing Crosby
  4. “Be still and know that I am. Be still and know. Be still. Be.” – St. Patrick
  5. “Whether it’s St. Patrick’s Day or not, everyone has a little luck o’ the Irish in them.” – Laura Sommers
  6. “May you live as long as you want but never want as long as you live.” – Irish Blessing
  7. “Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me.” —Colin Farrell
  8. “May you have all the happiness and luck that life can hold — and at the end of your rainbows. May you find a pot of gold.” – Irish Blessing
  9. “Top o’ the mornin’ to ya!” – Irish Greeting
  10. “St. Patrick’s Day is a day to celebrate our green heritage. The ancestry of Ireland. It is a day to celebrate what it means to be Irish and of Irish descent.” —Anthony T. Hicks
  11. “May your best day of your past be the worst day of your future.” – Irish Blessing
  12. “Everybody is Irish on St. Patrick’s Day, but if your name is Eisenhower, you’ve got to wear something green to show it.” –  Dwight D. Eisenhower
  13. “Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.” —William Butler Yeats
  14. “You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it.” – Jimmy Dean
  15. “There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.” —John Millington Synge
  16. “May your blessings outnumber the shamrocks that grow. And may trouble avoid you wherever you go.” – Irish Blessing
  17. “Wishing you a pot o’ gold and all the joy your heart can hold.” – Unknown
  18. “I’m of Ireland, and I’ll stay in Ireland until I die.” —Tom Cruise
  19. “I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.” —Thomas Jefferson
  20. “That’s what the holidays are for-for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn’t that the Irish way?” – Lara Flynn Boyle
  21. “Ireland is a land of poets and legends, of dreamers and rebels.” —Nora Roberts
  22. “Imagine if we were all magical leprechauns, and every wish ever made on a four-leaf clover obliged us to help others obtain their wishes. Now imagine if people simply lived like this were true.” —Richelle E. Goodrich
  23. “May the mist of Irish magic shorten every road, and may your friends remember the favors you are owed.” – Irish Blessing
  24. “I’m Irish!…When I feel well I feel better than anyone, when I am in pain I yell at the top of my lungs, and when I am dead I shall be deader than anybody.” —Morgan Llywelyn
  25. “Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.” —Fiona Shaw
  26. “For each  petal on the shamrock, this brings a wish your way: Good health, good luck, and happiness for today and every day.” – Irish Blessing
  27. “May the leprechauns be near you, To spread luck along your way. And may all the Irish angels, Smile upon you St. Patrick’s Day” – Irish Blessing
  28. “We survive. We’re Irish. We have the souls of poets. We love our misery, we delight in the beauty of strange places and dark places in our hearts.” – Ellis Flynn
  29. “If you’re Irish, it doesn’t matter where you go-you’ll find family” – Victoria Smurfit
  30. “A good friend is like a four-leaf clover: hard to find and lucky to have.” – Irish Proverb
  31. “It’s not easy being green.” – Kermit the Frog
  32. “We may have bad weather in Ireland, but the sun shines in the hearts of the people and that keeps us all warm.” —Marianne Williamson
  33. “The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination.” – George Bernard Shaw
  34. “We may have bad weather in Ireland, but the sun shines in the hearts of the people and that keeps us all warm.” —Marianne Williamson
  35. “The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” —William Butler Yeats
  36. “To anyone with a drop of Irish blood in them the land they live on is like their mother. It’s the only thing that lasts, that’s worth working for, worth fighting for.” —Alexandra Ripley
  37. “There’s no sense to being Irish unless you know the world’s going to break your heart.” —Thomas Adcock
  38. “Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat.” —Alex Levine
  39. “May you always walk in sunshine. May you never want for more. May Irish angels rest their wings beside your nursery door.” —Susi Hawke
  40. “That’s right, there’s free beer in Irish paradise. Everyone’s jealous.” —Kevin Hearne
  41. When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.” —Edna O’Brien
  42. “Legend says that each leaf of the clover has a meaning: the first is for hope, the second for faith, the third for love and, if you can find a 4-leaf clover, the fourth leaf represents luck.” —Jean LeGrand
  43. “There are good ships and wood ships, ships that sail the sea, but the best ships are friendships, and may they always be.” – Irish Toast
  44. “May the luck of the Irish possess you. May the devil fly off with your worries. May God bless you forever and ever.” – Irish Blessing
  45. “Lord, you’re Irish…Can you make things that don’t have potatoes in them? We had an Irish cook once when I was a boy. Potato pie, potato custard, potatoes with potato sauce.” —Cassandra Clare
  46. “May everything turn green today, except your gills!” —Lester B. Dill
  47. “May the Irish hills caress you. May her lakes and rivers bless you. May the luck of the Irish enfold you. May the blessings of Saint Patrick behold you.” – Irish Blessing
  48. “The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.” – Wilson Mizner
  49. “I’ve always thought you’ve got to believe in luck to get it.” – Victoria Holt
  50. “The leprechauns made me do it!” —Unknown

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Enjoy!  

14 Quotes for March

Tomorrow is the first day of March! Are you ready for a new month? Are you searching for the right words to add to your social media posts? Adding a quote is a great way to celebrate a new month. If you are looking for ideas, consider the following quotes for March.

  1. “March bustles in on windy feet and sweeps my doorstep and my street.”
    ― Susan Reiner
  2. “As March arrives, so does the perfect moment to leave the past behind and step forward.” — Unknown
  3. “It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.”
    ― Charles Dickens
  4. “March is a tomboy with tousled hair, a mischievous smile, mud on her shoes and a laugh in her voice.” — Hal Borland
  5. “In March the soft rains continued, and each storm waited courteously until its predecessor sunk beneath the ground.” – John Steinbeck
  6. “In March, the brave crocus dares the snow.” – Emily Dickinson
  7. “March, when days are getting long, Let thy growing hours be strong to set right some wintry wrong.”― Caroline May
  8. “March is the month of expectation, the things we do not know.” – Emily Dickinson
  9. “In March, winter is holding back and spring is pulling forward. Something holds and something pulls inside of us too.” – Jean Hersey
  10. “By March, the worst of the winter would be over. The snow would thaw, the rivers begin to run and the world would wake into itself again.” — Neil Gaiman
  11. “March came in that winter like the meekest and mildest of lambs, bringing days that were crisp and golden and tingling, each followed by a frosty pink twilight which gradually lost itself in an elfland of moonshine.” ― L.M. Montgomery
  12. “March comes in like a lion and out like a lamb.” – English Proverb
  13.  “March is the gateway to spring.” – Unknown
  14. “The stormy March has come at last, with winds and clouds and changing skies.” — William C. Bryant

Happy March!

20 Quotes for the New Year

Are you ready to ring in the new year? Do you plan to post to your business or personal social media platforms? Do you want to find the right words to add to your photos? If you are searching for inspiration, check out the following quotes for the new year.

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  1. “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.” – Albert Einstein
  2. “Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.” – Brad Paisley
  3. “Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.” – Oprah Winfrey
  4. “This year’s book, at midnight turns to footnote in the next.” – Terri Guillemets
  5. “This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.” – Taylor Swift
  6. “Every single year, we’re a different person. I don’t think we’re the same person all of our lives.” – Steven Spielberg
  7. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis
  8. “What the new year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the new year.” – Vern McLellan
  9. “For last year’s words belong to last year’s language. And next year’s words await another voice.” – T.S. Eliot
  10. “Every moment is a fresh beginning.” – T.S. Eliot
  11. “With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
  12. “A new year. A fresh, clean start! It’s like having a big white sheet of paper to draw on!” – Bill Watterson
  13. “The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written.” – Melody Beattie
  14. “The beginning is the most important part of the work.” – Plato
  15. “New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday.” – Charles Lamb
  16. “Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.” – Oscar Wilde
  17. “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  18. “You do not find the happy life. You make it.” – Bejamin Franklin
  19. “Many years ago I resolved never to bother with New Year’s resolutions, and I’ve stuck with it ever since.” – Dave Beard
  20. “And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.” – Rainer Maria Rilke

Happy New Year!

Celebrate Winter: 20 Quotes to Inspire Your Season

Winter is officially underway! Do you like the cold and snowy season? Are you planning to post to your personal or business social media platforms? Adding quotes is a great way to express your feelings about winter. If you are searching for inspiration, consider the following winter quotes.

  1. “Every winter has its spring.” – H. Tuttle
  2. “Kindness is like snow. It beautifies everything it covers.” – Kahlil Gibran
  3. “There’s nothing better than curling up with a good book and sitting in front of the fire on winter evenings.” – Leo Sayer
  4. “I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, ‘go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.’” – Lewis Carroll
  5. “One kind word can warm three winter months.” – Japanese Proverb
  6. “No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.” – Hal Borland
  7. “Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me.” – Anne Morrough Lindbergh
  8. “Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.” – Victor Hugo
  9. “Winter is not a season, it’s a celebration.” – Anamika Mishra
  10. “Only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.” – Ruth Stout
  11. “I love the scents of winter! For me, it’s all about the feeling you get when you smell pumpkin spice, cinnamon, nutmeg, gingerbread and spruce.” – Taylor Swift
  12. “It is growing cold. Winter is putting footsteps in the meadow.” – Roman Payne
  13. “I pray this winter be gentle and kind—a season of rest from the wheel of the mind.” – John Geddes
  14. “In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.” – Henry Rollins
  15. “You can’t get too much winter in the winter.” – Robert Frost
  16. “Winter forms our character and brings out our best.” – Tim Allen
  17. “O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?” – Percy Bysshe Shelley
  18. “To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.” – Aristotle
  19. “Even the strongest blizzards start with a single snowflake.”—Sara Raasch
  20. “He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.” – John Burroughs

Have a great winter season! Enjoy!

35 Quotes for Christmas

Christmas is getting closer! Are you ready for the fun, festive holiday? Christmas is a great time to post to your personal or business social media platforms. If you are searching for the right words to add to your post, consider the following quotes for Christmas.

  1. “May you never be too grown up to search the skies on Christmas Eve.” — Unknown
  2. “My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others.” —Bob Hope
  3. “Christmas is the day that holds all time together.” – Alexander Smith
  4. “‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.” – Clement Clarke Moore
  5. “Christmas works like glue. It keeps us all sticking together.” — Rosie Thomas
  6. “I love snow for the same reason I love Christmas. It brings people together while time stands still.” – Rachel Cohn
  7. “And so I’m offering this simple phrase to kids from one to 92. Although it’s been said many times, many ways, merry Christmas to you.” — Robert Wells, “The Christmas Song”
  8. “Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.” – Winston Churchill
  9. “I’m dreaming of a white Christmas, just like the ones I used to know.” – Irving Berlin
  10. ”At Christmas, all roads lead home.” – Majorie Holmes
  11. “Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas.” —Dale Evans
  12. “The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.”—Bill Vaughan
  13. “For to us a child is born, to us a son is given.” – Isaiah 9:6
  14. “Remembrance, like a candle, burns brightest at Christmastime.” — Charles Dickens
  15. “From home to home and heart to heart, from one place to another, the warmth and joy of Christmas brings us closer to each other.” — Emily Matthews
  16. “Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance—each beautiful, unique, and gone too soon.” —Deborah Whipp
  17. “Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.” —Peg Bracken
  18. “Remember, if Christmas isn’t found in your heart, you won’t find it under a tree.” – Charlotte Carpenter
  19. “As long as we love, there will always be Christmas.” — Lailah Gifty Akita
  20. “Every gift which is given, even though it be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.” —Pindar
  21. “Christmas gives us an opportunity to pause and reflect on the important things around us.” —David Cameron
  22. “The merry family gatherings — the old, the very young; the strangely lovely way they harmonize in carols sung. For Christmas is tradition time, traditions that recall the precious memories down the years — the sameness of them all.” — Helen Lowrie Marshall
  23. “Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving.” —B.C. Forbes
  24. “If there is love in your heart and your mind, you will feel Christmas all the time.” —Faith Hill
  25. “Mankind is a great, an immense family…This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas.” —Pope John XXIII
  26. “Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts.”—Janice Maeditere
  27. “When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things, not the great occasions, give off the greatest glow of happiness.” — Bob Hope
  28. “Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most.” — Ruth Carter Stapleton
  29. “I heard the bells on Christmas Day / Their old familiar carols play / And wild and sweet, the words repeat / Of peace on earth, good-will to men.” —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  30. “Christmas is not a time nor a season but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.” —Calvin Coolidge
  31. “The Christmas tree is a symbol of love, not money. There’s a kind of glory to them when they’re all lit up that exceeds anything all the money in the world could buy.” –Andy Rooney
  32. “Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmastime.” — Laura Ingalls Wilder
  33. “The rooms were very still while the pages were softly turned, and the winter sunshine crept in to touch the bright heads and serious faces with a Christmas greeting.” — Louisa May Alcott
  34. “Christmas is a togethery sort of holiday. That’s my favorite kind.” — A. A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh
  35. “God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If He gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it.” — Pope Francis

Merry Christmas!

Inspire Your Thanksgiving Posts with Meaningful Quotes

Thanksgiving is getting closer! Do you plan to post to your social media platforms? Are you searching for the right words to add to your posts? Adding a quote is a great way to enhance your posts. If you are searching for inspiration, check out the following quotes for Thanksgiving.

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  1. “The more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.” — Norman Vincent Peale
  2. “Thanksgiving is a time of togetherness and gratitude.” – Nigel Hamilton
  3. “We should just be thankful for being together. I think that’s what they mean by Thanksgiving, Charlie Brown.” – Marcie, A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
  4. “In November, people are good to each other. They carry pies to each other’s homes and talk by crackling woodstoves, sipping mellow cider. They travel very far on a special November day just to share a meal with one another and to give thanks for their many blessings.” — Cynthia Rylant
  5. Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving.” – Amy Grant
  6. “I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson.
  7. “We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.” – John F. Kennedy
  8. “Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” — William Arthur Ward
  9. “To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything.” – Thomas Merton
  10. “Home is people. Not a place.” ― Robin Hobb
  11. “If you think Independence Day is America’s defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.”—Tony Snow.
  12. “Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.” – W. T. Purkiser
  13. “Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.” — Kevin James
  14. “Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.”—Henry Van Dyke
  15. “The more we express thanks, the more gratitude we feel. The more gratitude we feel, the more we express thanks. It’s circular, and it leads to a happier life.”—Steve Goodier
  16. “Thanksgiving just gets me all warm and tingly and all kinds of wonderful inside.” – Willard Scott
  17. “The most important thing in the world is family and love.” — John Wooden
  18. “Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.” – Lionel Hampton
  19. “I can’t cook a Thanksgiving dinner. All I can make is cold cereal and maybe toast.” ― Charlie Brown, A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
  20. “Wear gratitude like a cloak, and it will feed every corner of your life.” – Rumi
  21. “Although Thanksgiving comes but once a year, every day should be a day of Thanks.” -Monique Hammond
  22. “To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.”—Victor Hugo
  23. “I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.” — Henry David Thoreau
  24. “Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer.” – Maya Angelou
  25. “When one has a grateful heart, life is so beautiful.” ― Roy Bennett
  26. “I have a lot to be thankful for. I am healthy, happy and I am loved.”—Reba McEntire
  27. “Thanksgiving Day is a jewel, to set in the hearts of honest men; but be careful that you do not take the day, and leave out the gratitude.”—E.P. Powell
  28. “Reflect upon your present blessings.”—Charles Dickens
  29. “If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share. ”—W. Clement Stone
  30. “A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
  31. “Find gratitude in the little things and your well of gratitude will never run dry.” ― Antonia Montoya
  32. “Never let the things you want make you forget the things you have.” — Sanchita Pandey
  33. “Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is.”—Ernest Hemingway
  34. “When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.” — Maria Shriver
  35. “I am happy because I’m grateful. I choose to be grateful. That gratitude allows me to be happy.” – Wil Arnett
  36. “Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.” — Margaret Cousins
  37. “If a fellow isn’t thankful for what he’s got, he isn’t likely to be thankful for what he’s going to get.” — Frank A. Clark
  38. “Over and over I marvel at the blessings of my life: Each year has grown better than the last.”—Lawrence Welk
  39. Having a place to go is a home. Having someone to love is a family. Having both is a blessing.” — Donna Hedges
  40. “We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.”—Neal A. Maxwell
  41. “Gratitude can turn a meal into a feast.”—Melody Beattie
  42. “When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.”—Willie Nelson
  43. “Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life” — Melody Beattie
  44. “Thanksgiving is one of my favorite days of the year because it reminds us to give thanks and to count our blessings. Suddenly, so many things become so little when we realize how blessed and lucky we are.” – Joyce Giraud
  45. “Gratitude, help us to see what is there instead of what isn’t.” — Annette Bridges
  46. “The turkey. The sweet potatoes. The stuffing. The pumpkin pie. Is there anything else we all can agree so vehemently about?” — Nora Ephron
  47. “There is no sincerer love than the love of food.”—George Bernard Shaw
  48. “I love Thanksgiving because it is a holiday centered around food and family, two things that are of utmost importance to me.” Marcus Samuelsson
  49. “What I love about Thanksgiving is that it’s purely about getting together with friends or family and enjoying food. It’s really for everybody, and it doesn’t matter where you’re from.”—Daniel Humm
  50. “Gratitude turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity … it makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.” ― Melody Beattie
  51. When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.” — C.S. Lewis
  52. “Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.”—Aesop
  53. “There’s no happier person than a truly thankful, content person.”—Joyce Meyer
  54. “You never know where a blessing can come from.” — Teena Marie
  55. “Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”—Marcel Proust
  56. “It’s a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack.” ― Germany Kent
  57. “God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say ‘thank you?’”—William Arthur Ward
  58. “I think in every lesson there’s a blessing, and there’s so many blessings from all the lessons I’ve had to go through in life.” — Alonzo Mourning
  59. “Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.” — Epicurus
  60. It’s never too late. Don’t focus on what was taken away. Find something to replace it, and acknowledge the blessing you have.” — Drew Barrymore

Happy Thanksgiving!

Quotes for Veterans Day

Today, November 11, 2024, is Veterans Day. Using quotes on social media is one of the easiest ways to honor and celebrate the holiday. If you are searching for the right words to say, consider one of the following quotes for Veterans Day.

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  1. “May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please but as the opportunity to do what is right.” — Peter Marshall
  2. “This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.”‒ Elmer Davis
  3. “America’s veterans embody the ideals upon which America was founded more than 229 years ago.” -Steve Buyer
  4. “Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
  5. “One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, one Nation, evermore!” — Oliver Wendell Holmes
  6. “How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
    ‒ Maya Angelou
  7. “Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.” – Michel de Montaigne
  8. “Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.” – Douglas MacArthur
  9. “Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country’s cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause.” -Abraham Lincoln
  10. “We’re blessed with the opportunity to stand for something — for liberty and freedom and fairness. And these are things worth fighting for, worth devoting our lives to. And we have good reason to be hopeful and optimistic.” — Ronald Reagan
  11. “Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.” ‒ Dwight D. Eisenhower
  12. “A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.” – Joseph Campbell
  13. “Freedom is never free.” – Unknown
  14. “When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?” –  Michel de Montaigne
  15. “The veterans of our military services have put their lives on the line to protect the freedoms that we enjoy. They have dedicated their lives to their country and deserve to be recognized for their commitment.” – Judd Gregg
  16. “Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will be America’s heart, her benedictions and her prayers be.” — John Quincy Adams
  17. “Our debt to the heroic men and valiant women in the service of our country can never be repaid. They have earned our undying gratitude.” – Harry S. Truman
  18. “America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.” — Harry Truman
  19. “And we must never forget that it is the mighty arm of the American warrior — never bending, never breaking, never yielding — generation after generation that secured for us the blessings of a nation that still stands today as the beacon of liberty, democracy, and justice around the world.” — Joe Biden
  20. “The willingness of America’s veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude.” -Jeff Miller
  21. “Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.” – G.K. Chesterton
  22. “As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” — John F. Kennedy
  23. “On this Veterans Day, let us remember the service of our veterans, and let us renew our national promise to fulfill our sacred obligations to our veterans and their families who have sacrificed so much so that we can live free.” — Dan Lipinski
  24. “Never was so much owed by so many to so few.” – Winston Churchill
  25. “Some people live an entire lifetime and wonder if they have ever made a difference in the world, but the Marines don’t have that problem.” – Ronald Reagan
  26. “Heroism doesn’t always happen in a burst of glory. Sometimes small triumphs and large hearts change the course of history.” — Mary Roach
  27. “America without her soldiers would be like God without his angels.” — Claudia Pemberton
  28. “We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.” — Cynthia Ozick
  29. “I respect every soldier, from every country, who serves beside us in the hard work of history. America is grateful, and America will not forget.” — George W. Bush
  30. “Spending time with America’s soldiers is always inspiring.” — John Boehner
  31. “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
  32. “But this Veterans Day, I believe we should do more than sing the praises of the bravery and patriotism that our veterans have embodied in the past. We should take this opportunity to re-evaluate how we are treating our veterans in the present.” — Nick Lampson
  33. “True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.” – Arthur Ashe
  34. “Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  35. “America’s veterans have served their country with the belief that democracy and freedom are ideals to be upheld around the world.”
    ‒ John Doolittle
  36. “ A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.” – Bob Dylan
  37. “…The military pledges to leave no soldier behind. As a nation, let it be our pledge…that we leave no veteran behind.” – Dan Lipinski
  38. “We sleep peaceably in our beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on our behalf.” — George Orwell
  39. “In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.” – Jose Narosky
  40. “It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.” —Norman Schwarzkopf Jr.
  41. “The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how they perceive the Veterans of earlier wars were treated and appreciated by their nation.”
    ‒ George Washington
  42. “Americans should always honor our veterans. At this moment, we especially need the example of their character. And we need a new generation to set examples of its own, examples in service and sacrifice and courage. These veterans have shaped our history, and with their values, your generation will help guide our future.”‒ George W. Bush
  43. “The valor and courage of our young women and men in the armed services are a shining example to all of the world, and we owe them and their families our deepest respect.” — Bill Frist
  44. “Whenever the world makes you cynical; whenever you seek true humility, and true selflessness — look to a veteran.” — Barack Obama

Happy Veterans Day to all who have served. God bless!

Fall Into October: Meaningful Quotes for the Season

October is here! Are you ready for a new month? October brings Autumn into full view. The month is perfect for posting fall-themed photos to your social media platforms. If you are searching for the right words, consider the following October quotes for your personal or business posts.

  1. “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers” — Lucy Maud Montgomery, Ann of Green Gables
  2. “He loved October. Had always loved it. There was something sad and beautiful about it— the ending and beginning of things” — Jacqueline Woodson
  3. “October’s poplars are flaming torches lighting the way to winter” — Nova Beir 
  4. “October is a fallen leaf, but it is also the wider horizon more clearly seen” — Hal Borlan
  5. “You don’t waste October sunshine. Soon the old autumn sun would bed down in cloud blankets, and there would be weeks of gray rain before it finally decided to snow.” — Katherine Arden
  6. “October had the tremendous possibility. The summer’s oppressive heat was a distant memory, and the golden leaves promised a world full of beautiful adventures. They made me believe in miracles.” — Sarah Guillory
  7. “October is the month for painted leaves…. As fruits and leaves and the day itself acquire a bright tint just before they fall, so the year near its setting. October is its sunset sky; November the later twilight.” — Henry David Thoreau
  8. “There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings, as now in October.” — Nathanial Hawthrone
  9. “In October, my heart is filled with love and the beauty of fall.” — Unknown
  10. “Listen! The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves. We have had our summer evenings; now for October eves!” — Humbert Wolfe
  11. “In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence helps to dispel the gloom.” — John Burroughs
  12. “The clear light that belongs to October was making the landscape radiant.” — Florence Bone
  13. “Hello, October! Let’s get cozy and enjoy the magic of autumn.” — Unknown
  14. “Bittersweet October. The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking, perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter.” — Carol Bishop Hippes
  15. “The first day of October brings a promise of change and new beginnings.” — Unknown
  16. “October is the opal month of the year. It is the month of glory, of ripeness. It is the picture-month.” — Henry Ward Beecher
  17. “I have been younger in October than in all the months of spring.” — W.S. Merwin
  18.  “October turned my maple’s leaves to gold; The most are gone now; here and there one lingers; Soon these will slip from out the twig’s weak hold, Like coins between a dying miser’s fingers.” – Thomas Bailey Aldrich
  19. “October is my favorite month because it’s when the weather finally stops being so clingy.” — Unknown
  20. “October is a symphony of permanence and change.” — Bonaro W. Overstreet
  21. “Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald
  22. “I love October because it means I can finally stop pretending to enjoy summer.” — Unknown
  23. “What could be more exciting than an October day? It’s your birthday, Fourth of July and Christmas all rolled into one.” — Peggy Toney Horton
  24. “The trees are in their autumn beauty / The woodland paths are dry / Under the October twilight the water / Mirrors a still sky.” – William Butler Yeats
  25. “As October ends, the leaves remind us how beautiful it is to let go.” — Unknown
  26. “As October fades away, let’s cherish the moments we had and look forward to November.” — Unknown
  27. “As October fades away, let’s cherish the moments we had and look forward to November.” — Unknown
  28. “We were letting go of October, relinquishing color, readying ourselves for streets lacquered with ice, the town closed like a walnut, locked inside the cold.” — Mark Perlberg
  29. “Farewell, October! You’ve been a month of magic and transformation.” — Unknown
  30. “As the leaves change, let’s embrace new challenges and opportunities at work.” — Unknown
  31. “In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October, when the trees are bare to the mild heavens, and the red leaves bestrew the road, and you can feel the breath of winter, morning and evening—no days so calm, so tenderly solemn, and with such a reverent meekness in the air.” — Alexander Smith
  32. “I remember it as October days are always remembered, cloudless, maple-flavored, the air gold and so clean it quivers.” — Leif Enger
  33. October had tremendous possibility. The summer’s oppressive heat was a distant memory, and the golden leaves promised a world full of beautiful adventures. They made me believe in miracles.” — Sarah Guillory
  34. “October, baptize me with leaves! Swaddle me in corduroy and nurse me with split pea soup. October, tuck tiny candy bars in my pockets and carve my smile into a thousand pumpkins. O autumn! O teakettle! O grace!” — Rainbow Rowell

Happy October!

Friday the 13th Quotes: Superstitions, Luck, and Positivity

Happy Friday the 13th! Are you superstitious or fear the day? Known as Paraskevidekatriaphobia, Friday the 13th causes fear in millions of people around the world. Whether you fear the date or not, Friday the 13th is the perfect time to post. Share something on your social media platforms. Adding a quote is essential for drawing attention to your post.

 If you are searching for inspiration, check out the following Friday the 13th quotes.

  1. “Don’t be superstitious. Nothing will happen on Friday the 13th that cannot happen on Saturday the 14th.” – Unknown
  2. “Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.” – John Dewey
  3. “Don’t walk under any ladders, don’t break any mirrors, Don’t spill any salt, And don’t walk by any black cats. Happy Friday the 13th!” – Unknown
  4. “Not many people have had as much bad luck as I have, but not many people have had as much good luck, either.” – Tig Notaro
  5. “Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive, and irrational-but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?’ – Judith Viorst
  6. “Here’s the thing about luck…you don’t know if it’s good or bad until you have some perspective.” – Alice Hoffman
  7. “The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.” – Channing Pollock
  8. “Friday the 13th is quickly becoming my least favorite day of the year.” – Ashley Tisdale
  9. “Tomorrow is Friday the 13th. It’s gonna be another blessed day for God’s people, just like every other day.” Unknown
  10. “It’s Friday the 13th. Just warning you all before you make any weekend arrangements for wood cabins by lake.” – Unknown
  11. “Friday the 13th, that’s the day that hell raised.” – Lil Wayne
  12. “In reality, there’s no such thing as bad luck. Friday the 13th is just a day like any other day.” – Michael Feldman
  13. “The notion that Thirteen is a generally unlucky number has not been found earlier than 1852. Fridays, however, have been regarded as unlucky since medieval times.” – Steve Roud
  14. “Friday 13th is only bad luck if you choose it to be.” – Denise Mansfield
  15. “I’m not superstitious, but I am a little stitious.” – Michael Scott, ‘The Office’
  16. “A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.” — Groucho Marx
  17. “And on a Friday fell all this mischance.” – Chaucer
  18. “On Friday the 13th weird things are supposed to happen…Maybe I’ll get into a relationship. Happy Friday the 13th!” – Unknown
  19. “Fear of Friday the 13th one of the most popular myths in science is called paraskavedekatriaphobia as well as friggatriskaidekaphobia. Triskaidekaphobia is fear of the number 13.” – Unknown
  20. “Today is Friday the 13th. Try not to be a teenage girl in her underwear at night at a deserted summer camp today.” – Unknown
  21. “Every time I’ve won an award I’ve been seated in either the 13th seat, the 13th row, the 13th section or row M, which is the 13th letter.” — Taylor Swift
  22. “You’re doomed! You’re all doomed!” — Friday the 13th
  23. “Just an FYI: Thursday the 12th is just as rare as Friday the 13th.” – Unknown
  24. “Very superstitious, writings on the wall, very superstitious, ladders ’bout to fall, Thirteen-month-old baby, broke the lookin’ glass, seven years of bad luck, the good things in your past.” – Stevie Wonder
  25. “Happy Friday the 13th! Don’t look what’s under your bed tonight & don’t turn off the light. You don’t know what’s coming. Have a good day!” – Unknown
  26. “It’s Friday the 13th! It’s only bad luck if you put it in your head. Think it’s just another day & stay positive. Have faith with God!” – Unknown

Have a great Friday the 13th!

Remembering 9/11: Quotes to Honor the Day

Tomorrow marks the anniversary of the terrorist attacks that claimed nearly 3,000 lives. Do you plan to post a remembrance for the anniversary of 9/11 also known as Patriot Day? Adding a quote to your personal or business social post is an easy way to remember the events of 9/11.

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  1. “What separates us from the animals, what separates us from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people we’ve never met.”— Author David Levithan
  2. “September 11 impressed upon us that life is a precious gift. Every life has a purpose. And I think we all have a duty to devote at least a small portion of our daily lives to ensuring that neither America nor the world ever forgets September 11.” – Bill Frist
  3. “With almost no time to decide, [your loved ones] gave the entire country an incalculable gift. They saved the Capitol from attack. They saved God knows how many lives. They saved the terrorists from claiming the symbolic victory of smashing the center of American government. … They allowed us to survive as a country that could fight terror and still maintain liberty and still welcome people from all over the world from every religion and race and culture as long as they shared our values, because ­ordinary people given no time at all to decide did the right thing.”— President Bill Clinton in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, in 2011
  4. “September 11 shocked many Americans into an awareness that they had better pay much closer attention to what the U.S. government does in the world and how it is perceived. Many issues have been opened for discussion that were not on the agenda before. That’s all to the good.” – Noam Chomsky
  5. It was the worst day we have ever seen, but it brought out the best in all of us.”
    —Senator John Kerry
  6.  “If we learn nothing else from this tragedy, we learn that life is short and there is no time for hate.” — Sandy Dahl, wife of Flight 93 pilot Jason Dahl, in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, in 2002
  7. “Americans never quit.” — Douglas MacArthur
  8. “The attacks of September 11th were intended to break our spirit. Instead, we have emerged stronger and more unified. We feel renewed devotion to the principles of political, economic, and religious freedom, the rule of law, and respect for human life. We are more determined than ever to live our lives in freedom.” — Rudy Giuliani
  9. “These acts of mass murder were intended to frighten our nation into chaos and retreat. But they have failed. Our country is strong. A great people has been moved to defend a great nation.” – Former President George W. Bush on Sept. 11, 2001.
  10. For me and my family personally, September 11 was a reminder that life is fleeting, impermanent, and uncertain. Therefore, we must make use of every moment and nurture it with affection, tenderness, beauty, creativity, and laughter.” — Deepak Chopra
  11. “Even the smallest act of service, the simplest act of kindness, is a way to honor those we lost, a way to reclaim that spirit of unity that followed 9/11.” — Barack Obama
  12. “Our task, in the aftermath of September 11, was and continues to be the transformation of the effects of evil into something beautiful and good.” – Marianne Williamson
  13. “I may never know the answers to the questions that plagued me after 9/11. But I know if we lean on God and each other, we will be guided to a better, brighter future.” – Michael Hingson, 9/11 survivor
  14. “America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.” — Harry S. Truman
  15. “True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.” — Clarence Darrow
  16. “When Americans lend a hand to one another, nothing is impossible. We’re not about what happened on 9/11. We’re about what happened on 9/12.” — Jeff Parness
  17. “September 11, 2001, seems destined to be the watershed event of our lives and the greatest test for our democracy in our lifetimes.” — Lt. Col. Shelton F. Leskford, U.S. Marine Corps
  18. “On that terrible day, a nation became a neighborhood, all Americans became New Yorkers.” George Pataki, former Governor of New York
  19. “What happened on September 11 compels us to focus on who we are as Americans, what we stand for, what really matters in our lives—family, friends, faith and freedom.” – Bob Taft
  20. “On September 11, I always take the day off. I want to be in a peaceful quiet place praying. It is a day I both mourn and celebrate.” — Genelle Guzman-McMillan, 9/11 Survivor
  21. “It was as if real life had been canceled for the day.” ― Jennifer Weiner
  22. “We will win this struggle—not for glory, nor wealth, nor power, but for justice, for freedom, and for peace… so help us God.” — Tom Harkin
  23. “We didn’t crumble after 9/11. We didn’t falter after the Boston Marathon. But we’re America. Americans will never, ever stand down. We endure. We overcome. We own the finish line.” —President Joe Biden
  24. “It’s the nature of the world that most people have moved on, but the people directly involved with 9/11, for them, twice a day it’s 9/11.” – Robert Reeg, former FDNY firefighter.
  25. “I give speeches around the country. I tell how Stanley and I made our way out of the tower. Life is precious, I tell them. It can be gone in an instant.” said Brian Clark, a 9/11 Survivor.
  26. “I still have the shoes I wore to work that day. The soles are melted and they’re caked in ash. I keep them in a shoebox with the word “deliverance” written all around it. They’re kind of like my ark, a reminder of God’s presence and the life I owe to him.” –Stanley Praimnath, a 9/11 Survivor
  27. “We got buried under more rubble, and I remember saying to myself, you can’t be lucky enough to survive it twice. And I started to pray. When the thing settled down, and the rubble stopped piling up on top of us, I was still alive.” – Frank Razzano, 9/11 Survivor
  28. “I was in New York on September 11 when those planes hit the World Trade Center. At the time, it seemed like it was a local thing. But three or four days later, by the time we drove across the country in the bus, we realized it wasn’t a local thing. You could really feel the States become united. We became the United States of America.” – John Madden
  29. “September 11 was, and remains, above all an immense human tragedy. But September 11 also posed a momentous and deliberate challenge not just to America but to the world at large. The target of the terrorists was not only New York and Washington but the very values of freedom, tolerance, and decency which underpin our way of life.” – Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair
  30. “Grief is the price we pay for love.” – Queen Elizabeth II’s Message to New York in the Aftermath of 9/11
  31. “I was walking in the street right next to the firemen going directly into the area from which everyone else was evacuating. I could see the fearless intensity in their faces. They were going to put out the fire and save lives.” – Bob Swierupski, a 9/11 Survivor
  32. Why am I here? What is the reason I was saved? They’re really unanswerable questions. After going through something like we did, all you can do is try to live your best life from day to day and move forward with gratitude.” — Brian Clark, a World Trade Center survivor
  33. “Where were you when the world stopped turning, on that September day?” — Alan Jackson

Use the above quotes to remember and honor the day.