Best Anne Frank Quotes

This is a collection of some of the most inspiring and best Anne Frank Quotes. Annelies Marie Frank was her full name and she lived from 1929 to 1945. She was a victim of the holocaust and her most famous work "The Diary of a Young Girl" was published after her death. It remains one of the most inspiring books of all time despite its dark setting during the holocaust.

Anne Frank Quotes

• “It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”


• "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."

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

• “I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”

• “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.”

• “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 longs 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.”

• “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!”

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

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More Anne Frank Quotes

• "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."

• "No one has ever become poor by giving."

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

• “How noble and good everyone could be if, every evening before falling asleep, they were to recall to their minds the events of the whole day and consider exactly what has been good and bad. Then without realizing it, you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day.”

• “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.”

• “I love you, with a love so great that it simply couldn't keep growing inside my heart, but had to leap out and reveal itself in all its magnitude.”

• “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!”

• “A person who's happy will make others happy; a person who has courage and faith will never die in misery”

• “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.”

• “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!”

Even More Anne Frank Quotes

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

• “In the future I'm going to devote less time to sentimentality and more time to reality.”

• “Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices. Then our choices make us.”

• “A person can be lonely even if he is loved by many people, because he is still not the "One and Only" to anyone.”

• “What I condemn are our system of values and the men who don't acknowledge how great, difficult, but ultimately beautiful women's share in society is.

• “People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion.”

• “Riches can all be lost, but that happiness in your own heart can only be veiled, and it will bring you happiness again, as long as you live.”

• “Paper is more patient than people.”

• “Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.”

• “I could spend hours telling you about the suffering the war has brought, but I'd only make myself more miserable. All we can do is wait, as calmly as possible, for it to end...the whole world is waiting, and many are waiting for death.”

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