20 Contenders for Quote of the Day

04/27/2026 by

Today I am exploring contenders for Quote of the Day.

I love quotes, and I like to have an inspirational quote of the day each morning. It just helps get the day started.

So, I’ve picked 20 great quotes for you, dear reader, and let you decide which one inspires you the most.

If you enjoy them all, please feel free to share them.

Share them, and you will inspire your friends.

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Contenders for Quote of the Day:

1. Inspirational and Growth Quotes

  • We can’t become what we need to be by remaining what we are. ~Oprah Winfrey
  • Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still. ~Chinese Proverb 
  • If there is no struggle, there is no progress. ~Frederick Douglass
  • The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. ~Author Unknown

2. Motivational Quotes

  • Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan. ~Author Unknown
  • You don’t drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there. ~Author Unknown
  • If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. ~Author Unknown
  • The price of greatness is responsibility. ~Winston Churchill

3. Positive Outlook and Wisdom

  • Keep your face to the sunshine, and you cannot see a shadow. ~Helen Keller
  • Happiness is not determined by what’s happening around you but rather by what’s happening inside you. ~Author Unknown
  • A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer; it sings because it has a song. ~Maya Angelou
  • The most important things in life aren’t things. ~Anthony J. D’Angelo 

4. Short Quotes for Quick Inspiration

  • Stay afraid, but do it anyway. ~Carrie Fisher
  • Less is more. ~Joshua Becker
  • Choose joy. ~Author Unknown
  • Be kind to yourself. ~Author Unknown

5. Thoughtful Quotes

  • Tell me, and I forget. Teach me, and I remember. Involve me, and I learn. ~Benjamin Franklin
  • What love we’ve given, we’ll have forever. What love we fail to give will be lost for all eternity. ~Leo Buscaglia
  • I don’t think about art when I’m working. I try to think about life. ~Jean-Michel Basquiat
  • We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.
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15 Quotes by Betty White to inspire you

04/24/2026 by

Today I am exploring some quotes by Betty White.

The late Betty Marion White Ludden, known professionally as Betty White, was an American actor and comedian born in 1922.

She’s had the longest television career of any female entertainer.

Not only was she an actor, she was also one of the first women to have control both in front of and behind the camera, and she was recognized as the first woman to produce a sitcom.

She was probably best known for her roles in The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Golden Girls, and Hot in Cleveland.

However, she had a successful career spanning more than 75 years, and she received eight Emmy awards in various categories.

What made her interesting to me was her positive attitude.

Whenever you heard her speak or give advice, she was always positive, and that’s a quality I admire in people.

So here are 15 quotes by Betty White to illustrate my point.

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Quotes by Betty White (1-8)

I may be a senior, but so what? I’m still hot.

I just make it my business to get along with people so I can have fun. It’s that simple.

It’s your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don’t take yourself too seriously, pretty soon you can find humour in our everyday lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver.

I think it’s your mental attitude. So many of us start dreading age in high school, and that’s a waste of a lovely life. ‘Oh… I’m 30, oh, I’m 40, oh, 50.’ Make the most of it.

I have a two-story house and a bad memory, so I’m up and down those stairs all the time. That’s my exercise. 

The bottom line is, I’m blessed with good health. On top of that, I don’t go around thinking ‘Oh, I’m 90, I better do this or I better do that.’ I’m just Betty. I’m the same Betty that I’ve always been. Take it or leave it. 

Retirement is not in my vocabulary. They aren’t going to get rid of me that way. 

Don’t try to be young. Just open your mind. Stay interested in stuff. There are so many things I won’t live long enough to find out about, but I’m still curious about them. You know people who are already saying, ‘I’m going to be 30 – oh, what am I going to do?’ Well, use that decade! Use them all! 

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Quotes by Betty White (9-15)

I really don’t care with whom you sleep. I just care what kind of a decent human being you are. 

I’m having the time of my life and the fact that I’m still working – how lucky can you get? I’m 90 years old and still able to work as much as I do. That’s a privilege. 

I didn’t know what Facebook was, and now that I do know what it is, I have to say, it sounds like a huge waste of time. 

The audience today has heard every joke. They know every plot. They know where you’re going before you even start. That’s a tough audience to surprise, and a tough audience to write for. It’s much more competitive now because the audience is so much more – I want to say ‘sophisticated.’ 

A lot of people think this is a goody-two-shoes talking. But we do have a tendency to complain rather than celebrate who we are. I learned at my mother’s knee it’s better to appreciate what’s happening. I think we kind of talk ourselves into the negative sometimes. 

Animals don’t lie. Animals don’t criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them better than humans do. 

If you’re walking with your lady on the sidewalk, I still like to see a man walking street-side, to protect the lady from traffic. I grew up with that, and I hate to see something like that get lost. I still like to see that a man opens the door. I like those touches of chivalry that are fast disappearing. If I sound old-fashioned, it’s because I’m as old as I am! But it’s just polite. 

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