100+ Heartfelt Memorial Day Quotes for Honoring Loved Ones
Memorial Day is a poignant reminder to honor the sacrifices made by our loved ones who served courageously. It’s a day to remember their bravery and selflessness. This article presents a collection of heartfelt quotes to help you commemorate Memorial Day with deep reverence and appreciation for those who have passed. Each section offers a unique perspective on remembrance, love, and legacy. Dive into these words and find the perfect expression for your thoughts and feelings this Memorial Day.
"Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime." -Adlai Stevenson
"A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself." -Joseph Campbell
"True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else." -Clarence Darrow
"The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example." -Benjamin Disraeli
"The patriot's blood is the seed of freedom's tree." -Thomas Campbell
"A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle." -George William Curtis
"Liberty is the breath of life to nations." -George Bernard Shaw
"There is nothing nobler than risking your life for your country." -Nick Lampson
"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it." -Mark Twain
"In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it." -Barack Obama
"Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives." -John Adams
"Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened." -Billy Graham
"To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die." -Thomas Campbell
"The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them." -Czeslaw Milosz
"Death leaves a heartache no one can heal; love leaves a memory no one can steal." -From an Irish headstone
"We do not remember days, we remember moments." -Cesare Pavese
"Remembrance, like a candle, burns brightest at Christmastime." -Charles Dickens
"Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose." -From the TV show The Wonder Years
"There are places I’ll remember all my life, though some have changed." -The Beatles
"History fades, but truth always stays." -Vonnegut
"Gone yet not forgotten, although we are apart, your spirit lives within me, forever in my heart." -Anonymous
"The song has ended, but the melody lingers on." -Irving Berlin
"Life has to end, but love doesn’t." -Mitch Albom
"How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard." -A.A. Milne
"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"In valor there is hope." -Publius Cornelius Tacitus
"It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit." -J.R.R. Tolkien
"The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly." -Corra Harris
"Fortune favors the brave." -Virgil
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear." -Mark Twain
"The brave die never, though they sleep in dust: their courage nerves a thousand living men." -Minot J. Savage
"A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom." -Bob Dylan
"Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’" -Mary Anne Radmacher
"Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They’re just braver five minutes longer." -Ronald Reagan
"Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." -T.S. Eliot
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear." -Franklin D. Roosevelt
"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." -Nelson Mandela
"Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword never encountered automatic weapons." -Douglas MacArthur
"It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle." -Norman Schwarzkopf
"Bravery never goes out of fashion." -William Makepeace Thackeray
"Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to." -Mitch Albom
"For those who have fought for it, freedom has a flavor the protected will never know." -Anonymous
"The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear." -Nelson Mandela
"There is no greater love than to lay down one's life for one's friends." -John 15:13
"The willingness of America's veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude." -Jeff Miller
"Sometimes serving is better than leading." -Anonymous
"Our debt to the heroic men and valiant women in the service of our country can never be repaid." -Harry S. Truman
"Without heroes, we are all plain people, and don't know how far we can go." -Bernard Malamud
"The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example." -Benjamin Disraeli
"Carve your name on hearts, not stone." -Charles H. Spurgeon
"What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others." -Pericles
"Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them." -George Eliot
"My heroes are those who risk their lives every day to protect our world and make it a better place." -Sidney Sheldon
"The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind." -John Allston
"No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away." -Terry Pratchett
"Heroes live forever, but legends never die." -Anonymous
"You make your mark by embracing the eternal aspects of life rather than the temporary." -Marie Curie
"Heritage is what we leave, for we must leave." -Richard Peck
"A follower is told; a leader can explain. A follower is told, a leader shows." -Anonymous
"Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely." -Buddha
"Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party." -Herbert Hoover
"It's better to die on your feet than to live on your knees." -Emiliano Zapata
"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others." -Mahatma Gandhi
"You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor." -Aristotle
"Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others." -Winston Churchill
"It is not titles that honour men, but men that honour titles." -Niccolò Machiavelli
"Honour is simply the morality of superior men." -H.L. Mencken
"Without integrity and honour, having everything means nothing." -Robin Sharma
"The time to show your good character is when you are pestered the most." -Buddha
"Honour is not like the gold coin that you duel over; it is the treasure chest of a life well-spent." -Anonymous
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." -William James
"True honour lies in integrity and truthfulness." -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"The willingness of America's veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude." -Jeff Miller
"Gratitude is the memory of the heart." -Jean Baptiste Massieu
"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them." -John F. Kennedy
"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others." -Cicero
"In ordinary life, we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich." -Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." -Marcel Proust
"When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around." -Willie Nelson
"For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile." -Elie Wiesel
"No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks." -James Allen
"Gratitude turns what we have into enough." -Anonymous
"In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it's wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices." -Elizabeth Gilbert
"Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness." -Henri Frederic Amiel
"There is no remedy for love but to love more." -Henry David Thoreau
"Love is not singular except in syllable." -Marvin Taylor
"To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides." -David Viscott
"We are shaped and fashioned by what we love." -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart." -Jane Austen
"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies." -Aristotle
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage." -Lao Tzu
"Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs." -William Shakespeare
"True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning." -Nicholas Sparks
"A life lived in love will never be dull." -Leo Buscaglia
"Where there is love there is life." -Mahatma Gandhi
"Love is the flower you've got to let grow." -John Lennon
"Courage is grace under pressure." -Ernest Hemingway
"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are." -E.E. Cummings
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it." -Mark Twain
"Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself." -Charlie Chaplin
"Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what." -Harper Lee
"You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you." -Mary Tyler Moore
"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life." -Muhammad Ali
"We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action." -Dr. Henry Link
"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare." -Mark Twain
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts." -Winston Churchill
"We must build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear." -Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Courage is the resistance of fear, mastery of fear, not the absence of fear." -Mark Twain
"Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved." -Mattie Stepanek
"Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all." -Alexander the Great
"Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean." -Ryunosuke Satoro
"Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see." -Henry Adams
"Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit." -Khalil Gibran
"The beauty of the world lies in the diversity of its people." -Anonymous
"We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately." -Benjamin Franklin
"Even the weak become strong when they unite." -Friedrich Schiller
"All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall." -Alexandre Dumas
"We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided." -J.K. Rowling
"In union, there is strength." -Aesop
"Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking." -Mahatma Gandhi
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