Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Anne Frank Quotes
DisciplineMotivationProductivitySatisfactionWork Ethic Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.
HopeIdentityInner ConflictPerseveranceSelf-Improvement And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world.
CreativityIndividualityResilienceSelf-Expression If I haven't any talent for writing books or newspaper articles, well, then I can always write for myself.
ActionHopeImprovementMotivationOptimism How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
CompanionshipDreamsEveryday LifeImaginationNostalgia This morning I lay in the bathtub thinking how wonderful it would be if I had a dog like Rin Tin Tin. I'd call him Rin Tin Tin too, and I'd take him to school with me, where he could stay in the janitor's room or by the bicycle racks when the weather was good.
ConscienceExperienceInner PeaceLearningStrength Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that 'a quiet conscience makes one strong!'
FamilyHeritageHistoryImmigration Because we're Jewish, my father immigrated to Holland in 1933, where he became the managing director of the Dutch Opekta Company, which manufactures products used in making jam.
ExpressionGrowthPerception of ValueSelf-DiscoveryYouth Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I've never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.
Fear of JudgmentInner ConflictInsecuritySelf-PerceptionVulnerability I'm afraid that people who know me as I usually am will discover I have another side, a better and finer side. I'm afraid they'll mock me, think I'm ridiculous and sentimental and not take me seriously. I'm used to not being taken seriously, but only the 'light-hearted' Anne is used to it and can put up with it; the 'deeper' Anne is too weak.
HumorIntrospectionSelf-awarenessSocial Perception If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.
Gender RolesGender StereotypesSociety Expectations Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.
HumorIdentityIsolationPerceptionSelf-awareness No one knows Anne's better side, and that's why most people can't stand me. Oh, I can be an amusing clown for an afternoon, but after that, everyone's had enough of me to last a month.
AdventureOptimismPerseverancePerspectiveResilience I have often been downcast but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary, I treat all the privations as amusing.
IdentityInner ConflictSelf-DiscoveryStruggleSuperficiality My lighter, more superficial side will always steal a march on the deeper side and therefore always win. You can't imagine how often I've tried to push away this Anne, which is only half of what is known as Anne - to beat her down, hide her.
EmotionInner LifeInnocenceSelf-DiscoveryYouth Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?
BeautyHopeOptimismPositivityResilience I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.
ApathyDespairExistentialismIndifferencePowerlessness I've reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, and I can't do anything to change events anyway.
ConfidenceIdentityIndependenceMaturitySelf-awareness Although I'm only fourteen, I know quite well what I want. I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child. I feel quite independent of anyone.
HopeOptimismPeaceResilienceTranquility I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.
CommunicationCompassionEmpathyGuiltReassurance I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
DeterminationHopeIdealsPerseverance I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.
ConflictHistoryJewish ExperiencePersecutionWar After May 1940, the good times were few and far between; first there was the war, then the capitulation, and then the arrival of the Germans, which is when the trouble started for the Jews.
Emotional ConnectionFriendshipInner ConflictLonelinessSocial Interaction I have a family, loving aunts, and a good home. No, on the surface I seem to have everything except my one true friend. All I think about when I'm with friends is having a good time. I can't bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things. We don't seem to be able to get any closer, and that's the problem.
EmpathyEnvironmental ConcernHopeOptimismResilience I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.