Anne Frank Quotes

German - Writer June 12, 1929 - 1945

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.

Family, Friend, Good, Myself, Home, Time

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. - Anne Frank

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Beauty, Be Happy, Happy, Think, You

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.

Day, Change, Sky, Peace, Look, Suffering

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.

Character, Power, People, Lie, Greatness

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. - Anne Frank

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Inspirational, Moment, World, Nobody

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!

Inspirational, Love, Good, Great, You

Whoever is happy will make others happy too. - Anne Frank

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Inspirational, Happy, Will, Others, Make

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction. - Anne Frank

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

Work, Satisfaction, Attractive, Laziness

Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart. - Anne Frank

Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.

Good, Heart, Believe, People, I Believe

The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands. - Anne Frank

The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Character, Brainy, Hands, Person, Own

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In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit. - Anne Frank

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.

Long, Run, Spirit, Gentle, Kind, Weapon

No one has ever become poor by giving. - Anne Frank

No one has ever become poor by giving.

Poor, Giving, Become, Ever

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.

Nature, Alone, God, Best, Lonely, Feel

He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery! - Anne Frank

He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!

Faith, Courage, Never, Will, Misery, He

I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains. - Anne Frank

I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

Beauty, Think, Misery, Still, Remains

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!

Death, People, Never, Enjoyment, Go

Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl? - Anne Frank

Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?

Girl, Soul, Think, Young, Who, Much

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.

Experience, Me, Someone, Writing, Never

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

Happy, Live, Being Happy, Different, Our

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.

Child, Feel, Ideas, My Own, Person, Mad

If I haven't any talent for writing books or newspaper articles, well, then I can always write for myself.

Myself, Talent, Writing, Newspaper, Well

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.

Hope, Death, Peace, Think, Foundation

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.

Good, War, Good Times, Trouble, First

Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that 'a quiet conscience makes one strong!'

Experience, Strong, Know, Find, Learn

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

Will, Only, Matter, Prevent, Being, Even

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.

You, March, Win, Down, Hide, Push

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