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Thought-of-the-Day
December 2014 Archive

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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY
12/01/14"A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants and how much more unhappy he might be than he really is." - Joseph Addison
12/02/14"He who opens a school door, closes a prison." - Victor Hugo
12/03/14"Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts." - Luc de Clapiers
12/04/14"Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing." - Albert Schweitzer
12/05/14"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often." - Winston Churchill
12/06/14"There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest." - Elie Wiesel
12/07/14"Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments." - Isaac Asimov
12/08/14"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why." - Mark Twain
12/09/14"He who stops being better stops being good." - Oliver Cromwell
12/10/14"Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts." - Erskine Bowles
12/11/14"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from that of their social environment." - Albert Einstein
12/12/14"Nature uses as little as possible of anything." - Johannes Kepler
12/13/14"Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer." - Jean de La Fontaine
12/14/14"It is never too late to be what you might have been." - George Eliot
12/15/14"Managers help people see themselves as they are; Leaders help people to see themselves better than they are." - Jim Rohn
12/16/14"The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another." - Quentin Crisp
12/17/14"The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it." - Jean-Paul Sartre
12/18/14"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened." - Winston Churchill
12/19/14"One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency." - Arnold H. Glasgow
12/20/14"Most people have to talk so they won't hear." - May Sarton
12/21/14"The mind is the effect, not the cause." - Daniel C. Dennett
12/22/14"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill
12/23/14"Focus on making yourself better, not on thinking that you are better." - Bohdi Sanders
12/24/14"Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind." - Mary Ellen Chase
12/25/14"Giving opens the way for receiving." - Florence Scovel Shinn
12/26/14"How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct." - Benjamin Disraeli
12/27/14"There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted." - Washington Irving
12/28/14"A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
12/29/14"The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love." - William Wordsworth
12/30/14"Beware of the man who won't be bothered with details." - William Feather
12/31/14"Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret." - Ambrose Bierce


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