Quaker Quotes

As a Quaker, I aspire to be a pacifist.

— Sheila Hancock

Whatever you do, you need courage.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best recreation is to do good.

— William Penn

So upright Quakers please both man and God.

— Alexander Pope

However, I spent most of my time in a Quaker school.

— Brian De Palma

I'm really a timid person - I was beaten up by Quakers

— Woody Allen

As the Quakers say, "When you pray, move your feet."

— Eric Butterworth

My dad was Quaker and a businessman.

— Eva Marie Saint

My luck is getting worse and worse. Last night, for instance, I was mugged by a quaker.

— Woody Allen

To Turn all the treasures we possess into the channel of universal love becomes the business of our lives.

— John Woolman

The likeness we bear to Jesus is more essential than our notions of him.

— Lucretia Mott

“... her Quaker instincts led her to apologize for wrongs not her own to minimize conflict.”

— Joyce Carol Oates

There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

My parents were Quaker, and they were part of that old self-improving working class.

— David Starkey

I'm not a good Quaker, really I'm not, but it's a lovely thing to aspire to.

— Sheila Hancock

By background I'm both a Quaker and a Yorkshireman, which I like to call double jeopardy.

— Jeremy Grantham

Wherefore, brethren, let us be careful neither to out-go our guide, nor yet loiter behind him; since he that makes haste, may…

— William Penn

In those days, slavery was not looked upon, even in Quaker Philadelphia, with the shudder and abhorrence one feels towards it now.

— John Sergeant Wise

“I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good things, therefore, that I can do, any good kindness that I…

— Stephen Grellet

I was a catastrophe at Science and Games, but the good thing about Quaker schools is that they encourage you in those…

— Richard Rodney Bennett

For when I came into the silent assemblies of God's people I felt a secret power among them which touched my heart;…

— Robert Barclay

My mother was born in your state, Mr. Walter, and my mother was a Quaker, and my ancestors in the time of…

— Paul Robeson

I don't suggest that the observations are surprising or profound. Rather, they seem to me the merest truisms. I was not aware…

— Noam Chomsky

The Quakers have a saying: "An enemy is one whose story we have not heard." To communicate to post-Christians, I must first…

— Philip Yancey

For the real difference between happiness and joy is that one is grounded in this world, the other in eternity. Happiness cannot…

— Elise M. Boulding

The love of God again makes us free, for it draws us to set a low value on those things wherein we…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

As for us, we were never concerned with the Kantian-priestly and vegetarian-Quaker prattle about the "sacredness of human life." We were revolutionaries…

— Leon Trotsky

I give myself this advice: Do not fear truth, let it be ever so contrary to inclination and feeling. Never give up…

— Elizabeth Fry

There is a spirit which I feel that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure…

— James Nayler

All that you seek is already within you. In Hinduism it is called the Atman, in Buddhism the pure Buddha-Mind. Christ said,…

— Ram Dass

Looking back at his career, Mr. Rustin, a Quaker, once wrote: ‘The principal factors which influenced my life are 1) nonviolent tactics;…

— Bayard Rustin

Quakers are known for wanting to give back. Ban the bomb and the civil rights movement and the native American struggle for…

— Bonnie Raitt

If the churches ever did reunite, it would have to be into something that was as sacramental and liturgical and authoritative as…

— Peter Kreeft

The Meeting is actually like the Gunpowder Meeting, or some of the earlier American Quaker MeetingsThe long house form is something that…

— James Turrell

I thought a lot about Nixon's personal history and the changes in America during his lifetime and tried to craft stories, which…

— A.M. Homes

That which the people called Quakers lay down as a main fundamental in religion is this- That God, through Christ, hath placed…

— William Penn

“Having grown up knowing the formerly-mentioned historical figures are part of my family lineage, I was interested to learn that at least…

— Hope Bradford

If I were not a Jew I would be a Quaker.

— Albert Einstein

NON-COMBATANT, n. A dead Quaker.

— Ambrose Bierce

Men not living to what they know, cannot blame God, that they know no more.

— William Penn