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Thought-of-the-Day
August 2014 Archive

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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY
08/01/14"Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force." - Tom Blandi
08/02/14"Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts." - Richard Feynman
08/03/14"With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see." - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
08/04/14"The future is not in the hands of fate but in ours." - Jules Jusserand
08/05/14"Falling down is how we grow. Staying down is how we die." - Brian Vaszily
08/06/14"We don't know who we are until we see what we can do." - Martha Grimes
08/07/14"The only easy day was yesterday." - US Navy Seals Motto
08/08/14"The greater part of progress is the desire to progress." - Seneca
08/09/14"He who cannot forgive others destroys a bridge over which he himself must pass." - George Herbert
08/10/14"It's impossible to be loyal to your family, your friends, your country, and your principles, all at the same time." - Mignon McLaughlin
08/11/14"Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters." - Albert Einstein
08/12/14"Time is the coin of life. Only you can determine how it will be spent." - Carl Sandburg
08/13/14"You can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you." - Rwandan proverb
08/14/14"What is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after." - Ernest Hemingway
08/15/14"Maturity is reached the day we don't need to be lied to about anything." - Frank Yerby
08/16/14"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else." - Charles Dickens
08/17/14"I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself." - Pietro Aretino
08/18/14"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak." - Hans Hofmann
08/19/14"Expect people to be better than they are; it helps them to become better. But don't be disappointed when they are not; it helps them to keep trying." - Merry Browne
08/20/14"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right." - Thomas Paine
08/21/14"Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom." - Phyllis Theroux
08/22/14"Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve." - Napoleon Hill
08/23/14"The only way to do great work is to love what you do." - Steve Jobs
08/24/14"Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value." - Albert Einstein
08/25/14"Change your thoughts and you change your world." - Norman Vincent Peale
08/26/14"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover." - Mark Twain
08/27/14"It's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." - Abraham Lincoln
08/28/14"Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it." - John Maxwell
08/29/14"The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me." - Ayn Rand
08/30/14"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now." - Chinese Proverb
08/31/14"Do what you can, where you are, with what you have." - Teddy Roosevelt


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