Memorable Great Depression Quotes

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"It is better to be a has-been than a never-was."
George A. McCutcheon
"The depression was all about hard work, people. Nobody enjoyed it, but everybody worked hard to survive."
Maya Angelou
"We must be willing to get rid of the life we planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us."
Joseph Campbell
"A pessimism of the intellect, but optimism of the will."
Antonio Gramsci
"What we need is a little more 'cat' in our lives."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself."
Michel de Montaigne
"Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety."
William Shakespeare
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"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
Oscar Wilde
"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul."
Emily Dickinson
"There is no remedy for love but to love more."
Henry David Thoreau
"The best way out is always through."
Robert Frost
"Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day."
William Shakespeare
"Never, never, never give up."
Winston Churchill
"The only way to deal with this is to face it head-on."
Golda Meir
"The dark night of the soul comes just before revelation."
Joseph Campbell
"We must choose to live in faith, not in fear."
Karen A. S. Sweeney
"Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together."
Unknown
"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."
Abraham Lincoln
"In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity."
Sun Tzu
"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappeared and obstacles vanished."
John Quincy Adams
"You can’t make a revolution with kid gloves."
David Dellinger
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"The best way to predict your future is to create it."
Abraham Lincoln
"The measure of intelligence is the ability to change."
Albert Einstein
"Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."
Winston Churchill
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"If you’re in a poor community, it’s very hard to be optimistic. But there’s no way you can do a great job if you’re not optimistic."
C. Everett Koop
"The Great Depression was a time when many people learned to get by on very little."
James Thomas Flexner
"There’s no use in doing a lot of barking if you ain’t gonna bite."
Calvin Coolidge
"The depression has caused a lot of hard work and energy to be wasted. People have become discouraged, they have lost faith."
Harry Hopkins
"Our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our greatest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure."
Marianne Williamson
"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
Albert Einstein
"We must use time creatively, and forever realize that the time is always right to do right."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"A man can be destroyed but not defeated."
Ernest Hemingway
"The hardest part of the job is to keep going when you want to turn back."
Vince Lombardi
"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."
Søren Kierkegaard
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"Despair is a sin."
Martin Luther
"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try."
Beverly Sills
"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."
Charles Darwin
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it."
Albert Einstein
"Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them, we gain confidence in ourselves and the future."
Ben Carson
"Sometimes the bravest and most important thing you can do is just show up."
Brene Brown
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
Alan Kay
"You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."
Maya Angelou
"Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you."
Walt Whitman
"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."
John Lennon
"In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit."
Anne Frank
"We may end up with the same old thing; we may end up with worse, but at least we won't be frightened. We are not afraid of the thing that frightens us."
John Steinbeck
"This is the beginning of a new era for our country."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"The Great Depression was a time of despair and hope, of disillusionment and determination."
Amity Shlaes
"It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it."
Lou Holtz
"Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden."
Orson Scott Card
"When the time comes to die, make sure that all you have to do is die."
Gertrude Stein
"The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces."
Will Rogers
"We can't always do what we want to do; we can only do what we must do."
Dorothy Day
"Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking."
William Butler Yeats
"Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently."
Maya Angelou
"There is no disaster that can’t become a blessing."
Buddha
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."
Winston S. Churchill
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind."
William James
"Out of clutter, find simplicity."
Albert Einstein
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."
Helen Keller
"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it."
Margaret Thatcher
"Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness."
Desmond Tutu
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up."
Vince Lombardi
"A bend in the road is not the end of the road… unless you fail to make the turn."
Anonymous
"Only during hard times do we learn to be this creative."
John Steinbeck
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do."
Tim Ferriss
"Every day may not be good, but there's something good in every day."
Alice Morse Earle
"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."
Albert Camus
"We've got to face the facts. There is no alternative for the American economy."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"The Great Depression was a lot like a long binge; the hangover did not come until years later."
William McChesney Martin
"The crisis is not coming, the crisis is here."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"This nation asks for action, and action now."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"I think that we may have turned the corner, but we must not rest."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"We must do everything to conquer this crisis, and that means being prepared to act quickly."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"The world has never known of a calamity as great as this has been."
Herbert Hoover
"It is not how far we have to go to get to the end of the road, but a matter of following the road to where it may lead."
Katherine Anne Porter
"The Great Depression was a tragedy, not only for the people affected, but for the lessons it taught us about capitalism and society."
David K. E. Bruce
"The lessons of suffering and hardship have a way of lifting us to higher ground."
Oren Harari
"Every dark cloud has a silver lining."
John Milton
"Even in the depths of the Great Depression, people still found ways to create and innovate."
Daniel Okrent
"Out of every crisis, every adversity, every failure, every painful experience, can come the best."
Harold S. Geneen
"The Great Depression was a time when the need to help others became more recognized."
Michelle Obama
"The challenge is not so much how to push forward, but how to sustain upward momentum."
W. Edwards Deming
"Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good practitioner can scarce afford to miss."
Mark Twain
"A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"In times of crisis, the people who are the best will also rise to the top."
Joe Biden
"Depression is a flaw in chemistry."
E. D. Morel
"The Great Depression strengthened the belief in the importance of social reform and government responsibility."
Floyd E. Smith
"You can't get a job if you don't have money, and you can't get money if you don't have a job."
Robert Kiyosaki
"There is no substitute for hard work."
Thomas A. Edison
"Future generations will be wise to consider the lessons of the Great Depression."
Lyndon B. Johnson
"We must not allow fear to dictate our actions or decisions in times of crisis."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"In the field of economic endeavor, each of us is a cog in a great machine."
John Steinbeck
"It is a great tragedy when a family isn't getting a legitimate income that allows them to exist."
Dorothy Day
"A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money."
W.C. Fields
"What we are experiencing is a financial panic, and panics of the kind are usually the direct result of an ill-advised relationship between credit and monetary policy."
William Jennings Bryan
"I know this is a great depression, but if you don’t work, you don’t eat."
Harry Hopkins
"The Great Depression was a limiting of our options."
Dorothy Day
"The American people are not accustomed to being dragged down into the mud."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"It's the economy, stupid!"
James Carville
"Poverty has a way of swallowing up our youth and sending us to work before we are ready."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"One of the greatest resources of the nation is the imaginative power of its people."
Herbert Hoover
"Perhaps too much of my own life has been spent in the atmosphere of a great depression."
John Steinbeck
"The soul of this nation has been seeking a friend for a long time."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"To put money in the pocket of the average man is to give him a new confidence."
John Maynard Keynes
"There is no doubt that we must follow the principle of demand, to save the economy."
Roosevelt
"The scars of the Great Depression have touched every person in America."
Harry S. Truman
"In a time of crisis, every person has the power to be a hero."
Gerald R. Ford
"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."
Aristotle Onassis
"This is not a collapse, but an opportunity."
Winston Churchill
"With every obstacle, every broken dream, I should have known it would be better to work together to overcome it."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"In the face of hardship, the human spirit can rise like a phoenix from the ashes."
Maya Angelou
"The Great Depression is a test. A test of our hunger for freedom."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining."
John F. Kennedy
"Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise."
Victor Hugo
"In every crisis, there is an opportunity."
C. Northcote Parkinson
"Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen."
Socrates
"You must do the things you think you cannot do."
Eleanor Roosevelt
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