Little Box of Quotes
Daily quotes. No noise.
- The inability to think logically is a form of bondage. The refusal to think logically is proof of already being bound. ~ Kareem Abdul-Jabar
- If boys don’t learn, men won’t know. ~ Douglas Wilson
A daily quote. Simple.
Above are the two most-recent quotes sent. Yes, it updates here every day.
No nonsense, no noise, no hooks, no ads. Just one quote each day.
Want to see more of the quotes? The most-recent 20 are at the bottom!
Origin of my collection
A long long time ago I began collecting inspirational quotes and aphorisms.
I kept them on the first version of my web site, where they were displayed randomly. But as time went on, I realized I wanted them where I would see them. Eventually I copied the fledgeling collection onto 3×5 cards and put them in a small box. As I find new ones, I add cards.
I keep the box on my desk with one card showing — just wedged in so it stands up readable. I change the card randomly, whenever the urge strikes.
Countless times I’ve pulled another card and found it eerily appropriate to the challenges of the day.
Countless times I’ve returned to my desk and felt inspired upon rediscovering an old card’s whispered counsel.
Countless times, just as I was about to throw in the towel, I was saved by an echo from the little box on my desk.
Who am I?
Hello 👋 I’m Craig Constantine.
My mission is creating better conversations to spread understanding and compassion. I want us to go from simply having conversations, to actively creating better conversations. You can learn more about me and all my projects at, https://craigconstantine.com.
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Latest 20 quotes
Here are the last 20 quotes sent via email. Yes, it updates here every day.
- The inability to think logically is a form of bondage. The refusal to think logically is proof of already being bound. ~ Kareem Abdul-Jabar
- If boys don’t learn, men won’t know. ~ Douglas Wilson
- Your past is a story. …and once you realize this, it has no power over you. ~ Chuck Palahniuk
- [H]ad I my life to arrange over again, I would do again as I have done. Only those who have lived at the full stretch seven days a week for a long time can appreciate the full beauty of a regular recurring idleness. Moreover, I am ageing. And it is a question of age. In cases of a bounding youth and exceptional energy and desire for effort I should say unhesitatingly: Keep going, day in, day out. ~ Arnold Bennett
- A step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction. ~ Kurt Vonnegut
- We live in the age of philosophy, science, and intellect. Huge libraries are open for everyone. Everywhere we have schools, colleges, and universities which give us the wisdom of the people from many previous millennia. And what then? Have we become wiser for all this? Do we better understand our life, or the meaning of our existence? Do we know what is good for our life? ~ Jean Jacques Rousseau
- After a long conversation, stop and try to remember what you have just discussed. Don’t be surprised if many things, sometimes even everything you have discussed, were meaningless, empty, and trivial, and sometimes even bad. ~ Leo Tolstoy
- A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. ~ Robert Heinlein
- Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. It has arrested ten thousand lightning flashes of genius, which, unless thus fixed and arrested, might have been as bright, but would have also been as quickly passing and perishing, as the lightning. ~ Richard Chenevix Trench
- By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; And third, by experience, which is bitterest. ~ Confucius
- The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. ~ Robert Hughes
- It ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. ~ “Rocky Balboa“
- I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence. ~ Frederick Douglass
- Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist. ~ Pablo Picasso
- Society is not some grand abstraction, my friends. It’s just us. It’s the words we use, which are the thoughts we have, which determine the actions we take. ~ Umair Haque
- Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by being responsible. ~ Viktor Frankl
- To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of questions. ~ Sam Keen
- Every man has some peculiar train of thought which he falls back upon when he is alone. This, to a great degree, molds the man. ~ Dugald Stewart
- Very often people are proud of the purity of their conscience only because their memory is too short. ~ Zanizad Rafaezsky
- Indeed, the grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older; Societies better. ~ Bovee