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| DATE | THOUGHT OF THE DAY |
| 11/01/00 | "It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity." - Publius Syrus |
| 11/02/00 | "As a man begins to live more seriously within, he begins to live more simply without." - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| 11/03/00 | "Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success." - Brian Adams |
| 11/04/00 | "If you would marry suitably, marry your equal." - Ovid |
| 11/05/00 | "The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty." - Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
| 11/06/00 | "Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense." - Arnold Bennett |
| 11/07/00 | "The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind." - William James |
| 11/08/00 | "You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus." - Mark Twain |
| 11/09/00 | "People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly." - Brendan Francis |
| 11/10/00 | "A man can do all things if he but wills them." - Leon Battista Alberti |
| 11/11/00 | "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." - Walter Bagehot |
| 11/12/00 | "You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself." - John Ruskin |
| 11/13/00 | "We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give." - Winston Churchill |
| 11/14/00 | "When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary." - Thomas Paine |
| 11/15/00 | "No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently." - Agnes DeMille |
| 11/16/00 | "To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun?" - Katharine Graham |
| 11/17/00 | "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind." - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| 11/18/00 | "Change your thoughts and you change your world." - Norman Vincent Peale |
| 11/19/00 | "Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something." - Henry David Thoreau |
| 11/20/00 | "Beware of the man who won't be bothered with details." - William Feather |
| 11/21/00 | "He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit." - Sir Walter Scott |
| 11/22/00 | "Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot." - George Herbert |
| 11/23/00 | "A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last." - Joseph F. Newton |
| 11/24/00 | "If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people." - Oriental Proverb |
| 11/25/00 | "Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties." - Aesop |
| 11/26/00 | "Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us." - Charlotte Brontë aka: Charlotte Bronte |
| 11/27/00 | "Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us." - Henri Matisse |
| 11/28/00 | "The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught." - H.L. Mencken |
| 11/29/00 | "Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them." - Cardinal Newman |
| 11/30/00 | "Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain." - Mark Twain |
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