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Thought-of-the-Day
January 2015 Archive

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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY
01/01/15"Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering 'it will be happier'... " - Alfred Tennyson
01/02/15"Victory is in the quality of competition, not the final score." - Mike Marshall
01/03/15"A lexicographer's business is solely to collect, arrange, and define the words that usage presents to his hands. He has no right to proscribe words; he is to present them as they are." - Noah Webster
01/04/15"It is easy to sit up and take notice. What is difficult is getting up and taking action." - Al Batt
01/05/15"Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get." - Dave Gardner
01/06/15"I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep." - Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord
01/07/15"Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out." - Robert Collier
01/08/15"When all else is lost, the future still remains." - Christian Nestell Bovee
01/09/15"One must have a mind of winter to regard the frost and the boughs of the pine trees crusted with snow, and have been cold a long time to behold the juniper shagged with ice, the spruces rough in the distant glitter of the January sun, and not to think of any misery in the sound of the wind, in the sound of a few leaves, which is the sound of the land full of the same wind that is blowing in the same bare place for the listener, who listens in the snow and, nothing himself, beholds nothing that is not there, and the nothing that is." - Wallace Stevens
01/10/15"Action is eloquence." - William Shakespeare
01/11/15"I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught." - Winston Churchill
01/12/15"The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection." - Henri Nouwen
01/13/15"In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments -- there are consequences." - Robert Ingersoll
01/14/15"The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it." - Arnold Glasow
01/15/15"Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for." - Joseph Addison
01/16/15"Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience." - Clarence Day
01/17/15"The secret of joy in work is contained in one word -- excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it." - Pearl Buck
01/18/15"To know oneself, one should assert oneself." - Albert Camus
01/19/15"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." - Martin Luther King Jr.
01/20/15"We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure." - Sydney Harris
01/21/15"The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
01/22/15"The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress." - Charles Kettering
01/23/15"Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, happiness, which is everything in this world." - Blaise Pascal
01/24/15"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none." - William Shakespeare
01/25/15"I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun." - Katharine Hepburn
01/26/15"Give a good deed the credit of a good motive; and give an evil deed the benefit of the doubt." - Brander Matthews
01/27/15"When you re-read a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in yourself than there was before." - Clifton Fadiman
01/28/15"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't." - Erica Jong
01/29/15"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any." - Alice Walker
01/30/15"The secret to getting ahead is getting started." - Mark Twain
01/31/15"Nothing happens until something moves." - Albert Einstein


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