Quotes by Anne Frank

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

I live in a crazy time.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

I simply can’t build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death… I think… peace and tranquillity will return again.

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.

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!

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

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.

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.