# Quote of the Day for September 4, 2026

> Source: https://positivity.org/quotes/daily-quotes/2026-09-04

Friday, September 4, 2026 · twelve hand-picked quotes for today.

## Quote of the day

> “Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while.”

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

## Eleven more for today

- “A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder.” — Stephen King · Beauty Quotes

- “Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.” — Mary Wollstonecraft · Beauty Quotes

- “Most people already know what they're doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.” — Joel Osteen · Change

- “If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.” — Michael Jordan · Change

- “Change your opinions, keep to your principles change your leaves, keep intact your roots.” — Victor Hugo · Change

- “We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.” — Martin Luther King, Jr. · Strength

- “The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.” — Robert Green Ingersoll · Strength

- “It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.” — Horace · Strength

- “While President Bush likes to project an image of strength and courage, the real truth is that in the presence of his large financial contributors, he is a moral coward.” — Al Gore · Strength

- “A dramatic thing, the first time you stand up to your dad.” — Lenny Kravitz · Family

- “My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow.” — Joel Osteen · Family

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