Top 200 Anne Frank Quotes (2024 Update)

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

— Anne Frank

Featured in: Life Quotes, Happiness Quotes

2. “No one has ever become poor by giving.”

— Anne Frank

Featured in: Kindness Quotes

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

— Anne Frank

4. “Where there’s hope, there’s life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.”

— Anne Frank

5. “Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.”

— Anne Frank

Featured in: Quotes About Work

6. “Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because the regret is stronger than gratitude.”

— Anne Frank

Featured in: Gratitude Quotes, Regret Quotes

7. “What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven’t even happened yet.”

— Anne Frank

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

— Anne Frank

Featured in: Firsts Quotes, Choices Quotes

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

— Anne Frank

Featured in: Quotes About Writing, Quotes About Kids

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

— Anne Frank

11. “Whoever is happy will make others happy.”

— Anne Frank

12. “I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.”

— Anne Frank

13. “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

Featured in: Lonely Quotes

14. “And you can always, always, give kindness.”

— Anne Frank

Featured in: Kindness Quotes

15. “I don't have much in the way of money or worldly possessions, I'm not beautiful, intelligent or clever, but I'm happy, and I intend to stay that way! I was born happy, I love people, I have a trusting nature, and I'd like everyone else to be happy too. ”

— Anne Frank

16. “A quiet conscience makes one strong!”

— Anne Frank

17. “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

18. “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.”

— Anne Frank

19. “I think a lot, but I don’t say much.”

— Anne Frank

20. “Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.”

— Anne Frank

21. “You can always give something, even if it is only kindness.”

— Anne Frank

22. “I believe in the sun, even when it rains.”

— Anne Frank

23. “Give and you shall receive, much more that you ever thought possible. Give and give again. People who give will never be poor!”

— Anne Frank

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

— Anne Frank

25. “What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it happening again.”

— Anne Frank

26. “Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness.”

— Anne Frank

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

— Anne Frank

Featured in: Being Happy Quotes, Soulmate Quotes

28. “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

Featured in: Character Quotes

29. “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

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

— Anne Frank

31. “I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.”

— Anne Frank

Featured in: Healing Quotes

32. “I looked up in the sky and trusted in God.”

— Anne Frank

33. “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

34. “Why can’t people live with each other in peace? Why must everything be destroyed? Why must people go hungry while surplus food elsewhere in the world rots away? Oh why must people be so crazy?”

— Anne Frank

35. “An empty day, though clear and bright, Is just as dark as any night.”

— Anne Frank

36. “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

37. “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.”

— Anne Frank

38. “You can be lonely even when you are loved by many people, since you are still not anybody’s one and only.”

— Anne Frank

39. “You must work and should not be lazy if you want to be happy.”

— Anne Frank

40. “You must work and do good, not be lazy and gamble, if you wish to earn happiness. Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.”

— Anne Frank

41. “Crying can bring relief, as long as you don’t cry alone.”

— Anne Frank

42. “I love the time I spend with you. You make my living worth-while. Why dint I meet you before. I wish I could start my life From the beginning with you because the time I spend with you is never enough. I need you more everyday.”

— Anne Frank

43. “We’re all alive, but we don’t know why or what for; we’re all searching for happiness; we’re all leading lives which are different and yet the same.”

— Anne Frank

44. “I wish to go on living even after my death.”

— Anne Frank

45. “We can’t control our destiny, but we can control who we become.”

— Anne Frank

46. “Paper is more patient than man.”

— Anne Frank

47. “Not being able to go outside upsets me more than I can say, and I’m terrified our hiding place will be discovered and that we’ll be shot.”

— Anne Frank

48. “Memories mean more to me than dresses.”

— Anne Frank

49. “Ordinary people simply don’t know what books mean to us, shut up here. Reading, learning, and the radio are our amusements.”

— Anne Frank

Featured in: Book Quotes, Reading Quotes

50. “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