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Thought-of-the-Day
June 2014 Archive

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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY
06/01/14"It is much easier to be critical than to be correct." - Benjamin Disraeli
06/02/14"The words a father speaks to his children in the privacy of the home are not overheard at the time, but, as in whispering galleries, they will be clearly heard at the end and by posterity." - Jean Paul Richter
06/03/14"To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind." - William Hazlitt
06/04/14"The purpose of anger is to let us know that something in our life needs changing and to provide the energy to make a change." - Garrison Wynn
06/05/14"Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time." - Margaret Bonanno
06/06/14"The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
06/07/14"The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another." - William James
06/08/14"Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid." - Frederick Buechner
06/09/14"I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets." - D.H. Lawrence
06/10/14"Without courage, you cannot practice any of the other virtues." - Maya Angelou
06/11/14"A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight." - Elizabeth Wurtzel
06/12/14"We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be." - Jane Austen
06/13/14"People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to." - George Allen
06/14/14"I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself." - D. H. Lawrence
06/15/14"My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me." - Jim Valvano
06/16/14"Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose." - Leo Buscaglia
06/17/14"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves." - Dr. Viktor E. Frankl
06/18/14"Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe - you can't take a taxi." - Alan Alda
06/19/14"If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment." - Harry Banks
06/20/14"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
06/21/14"Freedom is the last, best hope of earth." - Abraham Lincoln
06/22/14"Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance." - George Bernard Shaw
06/23/14"Hope is a waking dream." - Aristotle
06/24/14"The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude." - Aldous Huxley
06/25/14"The beautiful is a phenomenon which is never apparent of itself, but is reflected in a thousand different works of the creator." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
06/26/14"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity." - George Orwell
06/27/14"This may not be the best of all possible worlds, but to say that it is the worst is mere petulant nonsense." - Thomas Henry Huxley
06/28/14"The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly." - Abraham Lincoln
06/29/14"You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth." - H.L. Mencken
06/30/14"I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know." - Mark Twain


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