Today’s quote is on the right: one line from a writer worth reading, with their name and the book it comes from. It changes at midnight, and everyone sees the same quote on the same day.
Turn it into a square image for a post or a slide, or a short animated video for your Story, in one click. The quotes rotate through 410 hand-picked lines by 125 writers, all in the public domain.
Quote of the day ·
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after.
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The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city.
Trust him little who praises all, him less who censures all, and him least who is indifferent about all.
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature.
No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such.
Pride is a vice which pride itself inclines every man to find in others and overlook in himself.
Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
Short enough to open a stand-up, a team newsletter or a Monday message in Slack or Teams. Paste the text, or post it as an image: press Make a video, choose a 1:1 size, and export a PNG instead.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
On learning, curiosity and effort, for a classroom board, a revision wall or the top of a worksheet.
Out of sight out of mind.
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Deep vers’d in books, and shallow in himself.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
The first and last thing which is required of genius is love of truth.
Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous.
One line each, under ninety characters: easy to read on a phone lock screen or a sticky note.
Energy is Eternal Delight.
To bear is to conquer our fate.
A man of pleasure is a man of pains.
The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
Let us make hay while the sun shines.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Dry wit from Twain, Wilde and friends, for a lighter start to the day.
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
I can resist everything except temptation.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
There is none so blind as they that won’t see.
Fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.
Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.
Make a video opens the quote video maker instead, where the words animate in, with music if you like. Want a different line? The random quote generator draws from the whole library, and the Bible verses by topic have a verse of the day of their own.
From quote.video’s public-domain quote library. The 410 quotes in the daily rotation were picked by hand from books published before 1929, each credited to its author and, where known, the work it comes from. Lines that old collections only attribute to someone, without a source, are left out.
Yes. Each date has its own quote, worked out from the date itself, so a colleague in the same time zone sees exactly what you see. The quote changes at midnight where you are.
This week’s quotes are listed above, and the quote of the day archive has every day of recent months plus a box to look up any date, such as a birthday.
Yes. Every quote is in the public domain, so you can put it in a newsletter, a slide, a poster or a product. Crediting the author is good manners, not a legal requirement.
Not for a long time: the 410 quotes are shown once each, in a fixed shuffled order, before the cycle starts again.