🗓️ Whether you're starting your day or winding it down, a good quote isn’t just decoration—it’s fuel for thought, a challenge to rise, or a comfort in hard times.
This July, take one each day. Reflect on it. Let it sit with you. And if a few stay in your mind? Even better.
📢 Help Me Choose the Top 12 Quotes for My 2026 Wall Calendar
I’m putting together a wisdom calendar for 2026, and I want your help.
👇 Comment below and tell me:
Your favourite quote from this list
Or a quote you love that isn’t listed here
Together, we’ll pick the 12 best for each month—quotes that last, that say something, that matter.
🧾 The 31 Quotes of July
The unexamined life is not worth living. – Socrates
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.– Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. – Albert Einstein
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. – Steve Jobs
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. – André Gide
The best way out is always through. – Robert Frost
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts. – Winston Churchill
To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. – Eleanor Roosevelt
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. – Lao Tzu
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals. – Zig Ziglar
The mind is everything. What you think you become. – Buddha
Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans. – John Lennon
Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions. – Dalai Lama
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. – Mahatma Gandhi
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. – Martin Luther King Jr.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison. – Victor Hugo
Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems. – Epictetus
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear. – Mark Twain
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. – Jimi Hendrix
Don’t count the days, make the days count. – Muhammad Ali
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. – Mark Twain
Discipline equals freedom. – Jocko Willink
You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. – Rabindranath Tagore
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it. – Molière
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. – Greek Proverb
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. – John Wooden
When you're going through hell, keep going. – Winston Churchill
Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. – Albert Einstein
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. – Socrates
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. – Mahatma Gandhi
📬 If one of these struck a chord—let me know in the comments.
💬 What’s your favourite?
🧠 What quote would you add?
📅 Which ones belong in the 2026 calendar?