Gracious Quotes is a community created to help you discover mysterious passion and unknown inspiration. We aim to collect the world’s wisdom in an easy-to-read image format, investing heavily in our infrastructure so you can enjoy a blazing-fast, lag-free experience.
How to Use This Community
We provide the space for you to indulge deeper into wisdom without the rush. Our quotes are structured strategically—reading from top to bottom like a storybook—so that by the time you reach the end, you feel as though you’ve had a deep conversation with a friend.
Why Image Quotes
In a digital age, wisdom should not be limited to text. We believe in making the world’s most powerful insights accessible and shareable through elegant image and video formats, perfect for the way we store and share information today.
Why Gracious Quotes
I first discovered the power of quotes in 2017 during a time of deep personal struggle. They gave me hope and acted as catalysts for life-changing possibilities. Today, I still use them daily to learn and stay motivated.
Our world has enough negativity. I believe in executing quotes with style and simplicity because the world needs more positivity. I want you to know that you are not alone, and I hope these words take deep root in your spirit as much as they did for me.
What I’m Doing Now
My passion for protecting and cultivating what matters has led to my latest professional chapter. When I’m not curating wisdom here, I am the Managing Director of ArkShield Cybersecurity & Advisory.
Just as Gracious Quotes provides a sanctuary for the mind, ArkShield provides a “shield” for Singapore SMEs—offering structured, enterprise-grade cybersecurity and compliance management to ensure their business continuity is never compromised.
Sincerely,
Jeremiah Say
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Questions & Answers
- Where are you from?
Born and raised in Singapore. A hot and humid country with extreme laws: no chewing gums, no feeding pigeons, and no walking in my own living room naked.
- What is your occupation?
(Updated on 6 August 2021) Part-time at Gracious Quotes. Part-time node operator on the Cardano network. Part-time investor. Full-time employee on a swab site in Singapore.
- What are your favorite non-fiction books?
My favorite non-fiction books are: Can’t Hurt Me, The Slight Edge, Man’s Search for Meaning, The Compound Effect & Grit.
For more books and self-improvement tools, check out the Resources page.
The Meaning of My Tattoo
Rose: Life is love and love is life but life and love can hurt sometimes
Compass: I need to understand my direction to know where I’m going in life
Pocket watch: Pointing to 07:24 (my favorite number). It reminds me that time is limited and I shouldn’t waste it.
Map: I’m just a traveler and it keeps me reminded to always explore unknown terrain. Don’t get stuck in just one place for too long.
Feather pen: Always pen down my journey and experience in a journal (be it digitally or hardcopy) so that I don’t forget when I grow up.
Watch mechanism: Things may be complicated but there’s a hidden gem in every complication.
Words (and their meanings): Freiheit, Bonheur, Amare, Coraje.
7 of My Favorite Quotes
The key to happiness is progress and growth and constantly working on yourself and developing something.
Lewis Howes
Do not be afraid of improving slowly. Be afraid of standing still.
Leo Babauta
Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
John D. Rockefeller
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
Joshua J. Marine
All things are difficult before they are easy.
Thomas Fuller
Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise.
Frank Ocean
About Gracious Quotes
GraciousQuotes.com is about inspiring people through the power of quotes. Quotes are powerful because they have the ability to summarize a life-long lesson in just a few words.
We know our work impacts lives, that is why we take pride in what we do.
Reading a good quote every day can improve a reader’s life hence we work diligently to curate the best quotes for our readers.
I surround myself with quotes because I believe in the power of words. The right person, reading the right quote, at the right time can be life-altering.
Jeremiah Say, Founder of Gracious Quotes
Why We Think Quotes Are Important
Most of us want to learn and gain inspiration quickly.
Quotes matter because not everyone is comfortable reading an entire book just to learn something and definitely not everyone has the time to travel the world to look for inspiration.
Words, in the form of quotes, can help people learn at a much quicker rate. Finding inspiration is also extremely common in the form of quotes so that is why we think Gracious Quotes are crucial.
It is still worth our time and effort to inspire people daily.
People matter and that is why we believe quotes matter.
How We Curate the Best Quotes
We do not just open a couple of quote websites and copy and paste all the quotes from different sources and title it “101 Quotes to Make You Smile.”
Though, the title isn’t too shabby, what we are focusing on is the quality of our content.
We want our readers to resonate with what they are searching and because of that, relevancy is key.
GraciousQuotes.com is structured in a blog format because we believe this can enhance our user experience.
We curate the best content not by focusing on quantity but on the quality of the quotes. We read and study all of our competitors and their quotes and we pick out only the best ones to place into our blog.
It is not a surprise that on some of our posts, we have significantly fewer quotes compared to other websites.
We curate the best quotes by focusing on QUALITY; not quantity.
Why We Love Quotes
Apart from why we think quotes are important…
We love quotes because reading quotes is the easiest way to learn about a person or a topic.
Reading an author’s quotes gives us a better understanding of the author’s personality. If we can resonate with the quotes, chances are, we can resonate with the rest of the book.
We love quotes because they are interesting.
They are like trailers for a movie except they are shown in words rather than in motion.
We love quotes because they affirm what we believe in.
Sometimes, we crave to have that extra security, and reading quotes give us the reassurance that we are in good company.
We are not alone. Someone somewhere is thinking exactly as we are. It makes us feel safe.
To sum it up, quotes summarize everything so we can have a glimpse of what we need to know. It saves us time and money.
What is there not to love about quotes?
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