# Quote of the Day for September 2, 2026

> Source: https://positivity.org/quotes/daily-quotes/2026-09-02

Wednesday, September 2, 2026 · twelve hand-picked quotes for today.

## Quote of the day

> “Beauty awakens the soul to act.”

— **Dante Alighieri** · [Beauty Quotes](https://positivity.org/quotes/beauty-quotes)

## Eleven more for today

- “Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic.” — Rosalind Russell · Beauty Quotes

- “Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.” — Victor Hugo · Beauty Quotes

- “Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.” — David Herbert Lawrence · Beauty Quotes

- “Not only is women's work never done, the definition keeps changing.” — Bill Copeland · Change

- “There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.” — Stephen Covey · Change

- “Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.” — Annie Lennox · Change

- “How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.” — Benjamin Franklin · Strength

- “A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.” — George Bernard Shaw · Strength

- “Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.” — E. M. Forster · Strength

- “A wise woman knows how to summon her courage and do what is right, rather than what is easy.” — Suze Orman · Strength

- “The surprising thing about fatherhood was finding my inner mush. Now I want to share it with the world.” — Christopher Meloni · Family

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