2026 Reading Challenge

Tree > Tree's Quotes

Showing 1-30 of 77
« previous 1 3
sort by

    like
  • #1
    “it is being honest
    about
    my pain
    that
    makes me invincible.”
    ― Nayyirah Waheed
    tags: pain, poetry, suffering
    293 likes

    • like
  • #2
    bell hooks
    “Love is an action, never simply a feeling.”
    ― bell hooks
    259 likes

    • like
  • #3
    Toni Morrison
    “If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.”
    ― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
    tags: inspirational
    380 likes

    • like
  • #4
    James Baldwin
    “The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. ”
    ― James Baldwin
    724 likes

    • like
  • #5
    Audre Lorde
    “When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
    ― Audre Lorde
    tags: courage, empowering, fear, feminist, political, powerful, vision, women-strength
    1205 likes

    • like
  • #6
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
    ― Rumi
    3802 likes

    • like
  • #7
    Maya Angelou
    “Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: misattributed-to-maya-angelou
    310 likes

    • like
  • #8
    bell hooks
    “The classroom remains the most radical space of possibility in the academy”
    ― bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
    33 likes

    • like
  • #9
    Tamora Pierce
    “Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.”
    ― Tamora Pierce, Lady Knight
    2485 likes

    • like
  • #10
    Lao Tzu
    “Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    1405 likes

    • like
  • #11
    Margaret Mead
    “Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”
    ― Margaret Mead
    tags: children, education, judgement, mentoring, reasoning
    3726 likes

    • like
  • #12
    Anne Frank
    “It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
    ― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
    tags: hope, human-nature
    9576 likes

    • like
  • #13
    Margaret Mead
    “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
    ― Margaret Mead
    tags: activism, attributed-no-source, change, inspirational, life, philosophy, world
    11485 likes

    • like
  • #14
    Kurt Cobain
    “Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are.”
    ― Kurt Cobain
    tags: individuality, inspirational, misattributed, self-acceptance
    1683 likes

    • like
  • #15
    Shel Silverstein
    “Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
    ― Shel Silverstein
    tags: anything-can-be, hope, impossible, inspirational, musn-t, possibilities, shouldn-t, won-t
    22594 likes

    • like
  • #16
    Henry Van Dyke
    “The woods would be quiet if no bird sang but the one that sang best.”
    ― Henry van Dyke
    tags: birds, singing, woods
    81 likes

    • like
  • #17
    Stan Lee
    “With great power comes great responsibility.”
    ― Stan Lee
    tags: comics, inspirational, marvel, marvel-comics, stan-lee
    467 likes

    • like
  • #18
    Yogi Berra
    “The future ain't what it used to be.”
    ― Yogi Berra
    190 likes

    • like
  • #19
    Corrie ten Boom
    “Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”
    ― Corrie Ten Boom, Clippings from My Notebook
    tags: strength, worry
    4871 likes

    • like
  • #20
    Henri Poincaré
    “En un mot, pour tirer la loi de l'expérience, if faut généraliser; c'est une nécessité qui s'impose à l'observateur le plus circonspect.

    In one word, to draw the rule from experience, one must generalize; this is a necessity that imposes itself on the most circumspect observer.”
    ― Henri Poincare, The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare
    tags: experience, generalizations, necessity, rule, science
    17 likes

    • like
  • #21
    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
    130188 likes

    • like
  • #22
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
    92189 likes

    • like
  • #23
    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    89122 likes

    • like
  • #24
    “Capacity never lacks opportunity. It cannot remain undiscovered because it is sought by too many anxious to use it.”
    ― Jacqueline Cochran
    2 likes

    • like
  • #25
    Lao Tzu
    “If you are depressed you are living in the past.
    If you are anxious you are living in the future.
    If you are at peace you are living in the present.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: misattributed, misattributed-lao-tzu
    2086 likes

    • like
  • #26
    Lao Tzu
    “Be content with what you have;
    rejoice in the way things are.
    When you realize there is nothing lacking,
    the whole world belongs to you.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: contentment
    1359 likes

    • like
  • #27
    Lao Tzu
    “When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.”
    ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, integrity, self-reliance, self-respect
    3207 likes

    • like
  • #28
    Lao Tzu
    “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: travel
    5316 likes

    • like
  • #29
    Lao Tzu
    “The wise man is one who, knows, what he does not know.”
    ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
    tags: wisdom-for-living
    535 likes

    • like
  • #30
    Howard Thurman
    “Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
    ― Howard Thurman
    tags: inspirational
    1409 likes



Rss
« previous 1 3
All Quotes



Tags From Tree’s Quotes

pain
poetry
suffering
inspirational
courage
empowering
fear
feminist
political
powerful
vision
women-strength
misattributed-to-maya-angelou
children
education
judgement
mentoring
reasoning
hope
human-nature
activism
attributed-no-source
change
life
philosophy
world
individuality
misattributed
self-acceptance
anything-can-be
impossible
musn-t
possibilities
shouldn-t
won-t
birds
singing
woods
comics
marvel
marvel-comics
stan-lee
strength
worry
experience
generalizations
necessity
rule
science
ataraxy
be-yourself
confidence
fitting-in
misattributed-dr-seuss
those-who-matter
lies
lying
memory
truth
misattributed-lao-tzu
contentment
integrity
self-reliance
self-respect
travel
wisdom-for-living