Anne Frank Quotes

Anne Frank was one of the bravest girls in modern history, and she was full of wisdom and kindness. Here are 80+ Anne Frank quotes that will inspire you on this beautiful day!

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“I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love. Let me be myself and then I am satisfied. I know that I’m a woman, a woman with inward strength and plenty of courage.”
“Whoever is happy will make others happy too.”
“We aren’t allowed to have any opinions. People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but it doesn’t stop you having your own opinion. Even if people are still very young, they shouldn’t be prevented from saying what they think.”
“No one has ever become poor by giving.”
“In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.”
“Whenever I go upstairs, it’s always so I can see “him.” Now that I have something to look forward to, my life here has improved greatly.”
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
“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 school girl. Oh well, it doesn’t matter. I feel like writing.”
“Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.”
“You must work and do good, not be lazy and gamble, if you wish to earn happiness. Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.”
“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”
“He still blushes every evening when he gets his good-night kiss, and then begs for another one.”
“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”
“The young are not afraid of telling the truth.”
“Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?”
“The best remedy for those who are frightened, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be alone with the sky, nature and God. For only then can you feel that everything is as it should be and that God wants people to be happy amid nature’s beauty and simplicity.”
“People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn’t stop you from having your own opinion.”
“Women should be respected as well! Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn’t women have their share? Soldiers and war heroes are honored and commemorated, explorers are granted immortal fame, martyrs are revered, but how many people look upon women too as soldiers?”
“Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.”
“Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because the regret is stronger than gratitude.”
“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.”
“I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.”
“Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.”
“Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!”
“The final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.”
“I have always been the dunce, the never-do-well of the family, I’ve always have to pay double for my deeds, first with the scolding and then again because of the way my feelings are hurt.”
“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.”
“We aren’t allowed to have any opinions. People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but it doesn’t stop you having your own opinion. Even if people are still very young, they shouldn’t be prevented from saying what they think.”
“Those who have courage and faith shall never perish in misery.”
“It’s difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality. It’s a wonder I haven’t abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.”
“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.”
“You can always give something, even if it is only kindness.”
“Whoever doesn’t know it must learn and find by experience that ‘a quiet conscience makes one strong!”
“What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it happening again.”
“Where there’s hope, there’s life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.”
“We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.”
“You can be lonely even when you are loved by many people, since you are still not anybody’s one and only.”
“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.”
“Memories mean more to me than dresses.”
“I don’t want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I’ve never met. I want to go on living even after my death!”
“He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!”
“Because paper has more patience than people.”
“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.”
“I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in anyone, and I hope you will be a great source of comfort and support.”
“Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.”
“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.”
“In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.”
“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.”
“I see the eight of us in the Annex as if we were a patch of blue sky surrounded by menacing black clouds.”
“I’ve learned one thing: you only really get to know a person after a fight. Only then can you judge their true character!”
“Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn’t women have their share? Soldiers and war heroes are honored and commemorated, explorers are granted immortal fame, martyrs are revered, but how many people look upon women too as soldiers?”
“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”
“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.”
“I sometimes wonder if anyone will ever understand what I mean, if anyone will ever overlook my ingratitude and not worry about whether or not I’m Jewish and merely see me as a teenager badly in need of some good, plain fun.”
“Riches, prestige, everything can be lost. But the happiness in your own heart can only be dimmed; it will always be there, as long as you live, to make you happy again.”
“Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn’t matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.”
“How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world! How lovely that everyone, great and small, can make their contribution toward introducing justice straightaway… And you can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness!”
“I simply can’t build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death… I think… peace and tranquillity will return again.”
“I get cross, then sad, and finally end up turning my heart inside out, the bad part on the outside and the good part on the inside, and keep trying to find a way to become what I’d like to be and what I could be if . . . if only there were no other people in the world.”
“I think it’s odd that grown-ups quarrel so easily and so often and about such petty matters. Up to now I always thought bickering was just something children did and that they outgrew it.”
“Whoever doesn’t know it must learn and find by experience that ‘a quiet conscience makes one strong!'”
“I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.”
“I’ve learned one thing: you only really get to know a person after a fight. Only then can you judge their true character!”
“An empty day, though clear and bright, is just as dark as any night.”
“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.”
“People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn’t stop you from having your own opinion.”
“If I haven’t any talent for writing books or newspaper articles, well, then I can always write for myself.”
“Mother has said that she sees us more as friends than as daughters. That’s all very nice, of course, except that a friend can’t take the place of a mother. I need my mother to set a good example and be a person I can respect, but in most matters, she’s an example of what not to do.”
“I’ve found that there is always some beauty left – in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you.”
“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.”
“As long as this exists, this sunshine and this cloudless sky, and as long as I can enjoy it, how can I be sad?”
“I want friends, not admirers. People who respect me for my character and my deeds, not my flattering smile. The circle around me would be much smaller, but what does that matter, as long as they’re sincere?”
“You can be lonely even when you are loved by many people, since you are still not anybody’s one and only.”
“Sympathy, love, fortune… We all have these qualities but still tend to not use them!”
“Have my parents forgotten that they were young once? Apparently, they have. At any rate, they laugh at us when we’re serious, and they’re serious when we’re joking.”
“We can’t control our destiny, but we can control who we become.”
“Sometimes I think God is trying to test me, both now and in the future. I’ll have to become a good person on my own, without anyone to serve as a model or advise me, but it’ll make me stronger in the end.”
“If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example.”
“Just imagine what would happen if all eight of us were to feel sorry for ourselves or walk around with the discontent clearly visible on our faces. Where would that get us?”
“I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains….My advice is: Go outside, to the fields, enjoy nature and the sunshine, go out and try to recapture happiness in yourself and in God. Think of all the beauty that’s still left in and around you and be happy!”
“I’ve asked myself again and again whether it wouldn’t have been better if we hadn’t gone into hiding; if we were dead now and didn’t have to go through this misery, especially so that the others could be spared the burden. But we all shrink from this thought. We still love life, we haven’t yet forgotten the voice of nature, and we keep hoping, hoping for…everything.”
“Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.”
“I’m honest and tell people right to their faces what I think, even when it’s not very flattering. I want to be honest; I think it gets you further and also makes you feel better about yourself.”
“Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters.”

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