50 Anne Frank Quotes – Her Wisest Words!
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ANNE FRANK QUOTES
1 – 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. Anne Frank
2 – In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit. Anne Frank
3 – I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn. Anne Frank
4 – How wonderful it is that nobody needs to wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. Anne Frank
5 – 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. Anne Frank
6 – 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.
Whenever you’re feeling lonely or sad, try going to the loft on a beautiful day and looking outside. Not at the houses and the rooftops, but at the sky. As long as you can look fearlessly at the sky, you’ll know that you’re pure within and will find happiness once more. Anne Frank
7- 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! Anne Frank
8 – The weak shall fall and the strong shall survive and not be defeated!
9 – Love, what is love? I don’t think you can really put it into words. Love is understanding someone, caring for him, sharing his joys and sorrows. This eventually includes physical love.
You’ve shared something, given something away and received something in return, whether or not you’re married, whether or not you have a baby.
Losing your virtue doesn’t matter, as long as you know that for as long as you live you’ll have someone at your side who understands you, and who doesn’t have to be shared with anyone else! Anne Frank
10 – Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. Anne Frank
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11 – There’s only one rule you need to remember: laugh at everything and forget everybody else! It sounds egotistical, but it’s actually the only cure for those suffering from self-pity. Anne Frank
12 – A quiet conscience gives you strength! Anne Frank
13 – Deep down, the young are lonelier than the old. Anne Frank
14 – Looking back, I realize that this period of my life has irrevocably come to a close; my happy-go-lucky, carefree school days are gone forever. I don’t even miss them. I’ve outgrown them. I can no longer just kid around, since my serious side is always there. Anne Frank
15 – Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness. Anne Frank
16 – Riches can all be lost, but that happiness in your own heart can only be veiled, and it will still bring you happiness again, as long as you live. As long as you can look fearlessly up into the heavens, as long as you know that you are pure within, and that you will still find happiness. Anne Frank
17- 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. Anne Frank
18 – 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. Anne Frank
19 – I have one outstanding character trait that must be obvious to anyone who’s known me for any length of time: I have a great deal of self-knowledge.
In everything I do, I can watch myself as if I were a stranger. I can stand c across from the everyday Anne and, without being biased or making excuses, watch what she’s doing, both the good and the bad.
This self-awareness never leaves me, and every time I open my mouth, I think, “You should have said that differently” or “That’s fine the way it is.” I condemn myself in so many ways that I’m beginning to realize the truth of Father’s adage: “Every child has to raise itself.” Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction.
Ultimately, people shape their own characters. In addition, I face life with an extraordinary amount of courage. I feel so strong and capable of bearing burdens, so young and free! When I first realized this, I was glad, because it means I can more easily withstand the blows life has in store. Anne Frank
20 – Go outside, to the country, enjoy the sun and all nature has to offer. Go outside and try to recapture the happiness within yourself; think of all the beauty in yourself and in everything around you and be happy. Anne Frank
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21 – When I write I can shake off all my cares. My sor-row disappears, my spirits are revived! But, and that’s a big question, will I ever be able to write something great, will I ever become a journalist or a writer?
I hope so, oh, I hope so very much, because writing allows me to record everything, all my thoughts, ideals and fantasies. Anne Frank
22 – What’s done can’t be undone, but at least you can keep it from happening again. Anne Frank
23 – We have many reasons to hope for great happiness, but. . . we have to earn it. And that’s something you can’t achieve by taking the easy way out. Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction. Anne Frank
24 – The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens, nature and God.
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.
As long as this exists, and it certainly always will, I know that then there will always be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be. And I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles. Anne Frank
25 – Where there’s hope, there’s life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again. Anne Frank
26 – An empty day, though clear and bright, is just as dark as any night. Anne Frank
27- 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! Anne Frank
28 – I can’t imagine how anyone can say: “I’m weak,” and then remain so. After all, if you know it, why not fight against it, why not try to train your character? The answer was: “Because it’s so much easier not to! Anne Frank
29 – People who are religious should be glad, since not everyone is blessed with the ability to believe in a higher order. You don’t even have to live in fear of eternal punishment; the concepts of purgatory, heaven and hell are difficult for many people to accept, yet religion itself, any religion, keeps a person on the right path.
Not the fear of God, but upholding your own sense of honor and obeying your own conscience. How noble and good everyone could be if, at the end of each day, they were to review their own behavior and weigh up the rights and wrongs.
They would automatically try to do better at the start of each new day and, after a while, would certainly accomplish a great deal. Everyone is welcome to this prescription; it costs nothing and is definitely useful. Those who don’t know will have to find out by experience that “a quiet conscience gives you strength! Anne Frank
30 – Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right path, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands. Anne Frank
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31 – As long as this exists…this sunshine and this cloudless sky, and as long as I can enjoy it, how can I be sad? Anne Frank
32 – Sometimes I’m so deeply buried under self-reproaches that I long for a word of comfort to help me dig myself out again. Anne Frank
33 – Crying can bring relief, as long as you don’t cry alone. Anne Frank
34 – 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. Anne Frank
35 – 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?…
Women, who struggle and suffer pain to ensure the continuation of the human race, make much tougher and more courageous soldiers than all those big-mouthed freedom-fighting heroes put together! Anne Frank
36 – I’ve reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, I can’t do anything to change events anyway. Anne Frank
37- I’ve learned one thing: you only really get to know a person after a fight. Only then can you judge their true character! Anne Frank
38 – 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. Anne Frank
39 – Ordinary people don’t know how much books can mean to someone who’s cooped up. Our only diversions are reading, studying and listening to the radio. Anne Frank
40 – Everyone thinks I’m showing off when I talk, ridiculous when I’m silent, insolent when I answer, cunning when I have a good idea, lazy when I’m tired, selfish when I eat one bite more than I should. Anne Frank
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41 – 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. Anne Frank
42 – 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. Anne Frank
43 – Whoever doesn’t know it must learn and find by experience that a quiet conscience makes one strong! Anne Frank
44 – Whoever is happy will make others happy too. Anne Frank
45 – Leave me alone, let me have at least one night when I don’t cry myself to sleep with my eyes burning and my head pounding. Let me get away, away from everything, away from this world!”
But I can’t do that. I can’t let them see my doubts, or the wounds they’ve inflicted on me. I couldn’t bear their sympathy or their good-humored derision. It would only make me want to scream even more. Anne Frank
46 – In the future I’m going to devote less time to sentimentality and more time to reality. Anne Frank
47- 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. Anne Frank
48 – 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. Anne Frank
49 – Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.
50 – People can tell you to shut up, but they can’t keep you from having an opinion. You can’t forbid someone from having an opinion…Anne Frank
BONUS: How wonderful it is that nobody needs to wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. Anne Frank
BONUS: He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery! Anne Frank
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Frances Vidakovic
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