Random Quote Generator

The Random Quote Generator serves one to five quotes per click from a set of 658, sorted into eleven categories you can filter by: Motivational, Good Morning, Good Night, Love, Sad, Life, Short, Attitude, Family, Success and Friendship. Each category holds around 60 quotes. Results appear on colored cards labeled with the category, and each card has buttons to copy the text, download the card as an image, or share it.

Options

• Number of quotes – 1 to 5 per press.
• Type of quotes – Random (all 658) or one of the eleven categories. Random is the default.

Cards cycle through five colors (yellow, magenta, orange, green, red), which is mostly cosmetic but makes the downloaded image look finished enough to post. The download button renders the card to a PNG in your browser; nothing is uploaded.

What is in each category

Most quotes carry an attribution after a dash; about 470 of the 658 are attributed, and the rest are proverbs or anonymous lines. A sample from each category, taken from the middle of the list:

• Motivational – “Fall seven times and stand up eight.” (Japanese proverb). Also Walt Disney, Amelia Earhart, Florence Nightingale, Lao Tzu.
• Good Night – “There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.” (Homer)
• Love – “You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.” (Arthur Conan Doyle)
• Life – “Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.” (Seneca)
• Friendship – “Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.” (Aristotle)
• Short – “Life is trying things to see if they work.” (Ray Bradbury). Everything in this category fits on one line.
• Attitude – “Don't let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.” (Dalai Lama)
• Sad, Success, Family, Good Morning – a mix of attributed lines and the kind of short anonymous sayings that circulate as captions: “Family is the heart of a home,” “Success is not the absence of problems; it's the ability to overcome them.”

Attributions are as they were collected and have not been verified line by line. Quotes that get passed around the internet are often misattributed, so if you are putting a name on a slide or in print, confirm the source first.

Common uses

• Daily post or story. Pick Good Morning, generate one, download the card, post it. That is the whole workflow, and it is the reason the download button exists.
• Presentations and lesson openers. A Motivational or Life quote as the first slide; copy the text rather than the image so you can restyle it.
• Cards and messages. Love, Family and Friendship cover birthdays, anniversaries and thank-you notes. Short gives you something that fits in a text.
• Writing prompts. Generate five from Random and write for ten minutes on whichever one you disagree with.

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