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Thought-of-the-Day
August 2016 Archive

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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY
08/01/16"When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out." - I.F. Stone
08/02/16"The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret." - Henri Amiel
08/03/16"If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live." - Lin Yutang
08/04/16"Life is an adventure in forgiveness." - Norman Cousins
08/05/16"In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell
08/06/16"Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade in public. Never clothe them in vulgar and shoddy attire." - George W. Crane
08/07/16"Every student needs someone who says, simply, 'You mean something. You count.' " - Tony Kushner
08/08/16"What we observe is not nature herself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning." - Werner Heisenberg
08/09/16"It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves." - Edmund Hillary
08/10/16"If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine - it is lethal." - Paulo Coelho
08/11/16"Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek." - Mario Andretti
08/12/16"If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work." - Thomas Watson
08/13/16"There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living." - Nelson Mandela
08/14/16"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." - Winston Churchill
08/15/16"Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things." - Amelia Earhart
08/16/16"Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you." - Margaret Thatcher
08/17/16"You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life." - Steve Jobs
08/18/16"Self-trust is the first secret of success." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
08/19/16"Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence." - Vince Lombardi
08/20/16"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand." - Albert Einstein
08/21/16"A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers." - Robert Quillen
08/22/16"I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up." - Beverly Sills
08/23/16"A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business." - Henry Ford
08/24/16"The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow." - Seth Godin
08/25/16"Everyone sits in the prison of his own ideas; he must burst it open." - Albert Einstein
08/26/16"The only way to do great work is to love what you do." - Steve Jobs
08/27/16"Never prove people right. Never prove them wrong. Prove instead that you make your own path in life." - Katina Ferguson
08/28/16"Being tolerant does not mean that I share another one's belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one's right to believe, and obey, his own conscience." - Dr. Viktor E. Frankl
08/29/16"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." - John Wooden
08/30/16"If today were the last day of your life, would you want to be doing what you're doing?" - Steve Jobs
08/31/16"Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable." - Theodore Vail


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