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Thought-of-the-Day
September 2016 Archive

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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY
09/01/16"Good leaders have vision and inspire others to help them turn vision into reality. Great leaders have vision, share vision, and inspire others to create their own." - Roy Bennett
09/02/16"Write with nouns and verbs, not with adjectives and adverbs. The adjective hasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tight place." - William Strunk and E. B. White
09/03/16"A halo has to fall only a few inches to be a noose." - Dan McKinnon
09/04/16"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity." - Amelia Earhart
09/05/16"If you don't build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs." - Dhirubhai Ambani
09/06/16"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." - Scott Adams
09/07/16"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." - John Cage
09/08/16"Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." - Marcel Proust
09/09/16"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life." - Steve Jobs
09/10/16"We can pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves." - John Buchan
09/11/16"When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window." - Ogden Nash
09/12/16"Let me tell you the secret that has led to my goal: My strength lies solely in my tenacity." - Louis Pasteur
09/13/16"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." - Mahatma Gandhi
09/14/16"There are no big things, only a logical accumulation of little things done at a very high standard of performance." - John Wooden
09/15/16"People forget years and remember moments." - Ann Beattie
09/16/16"The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership." - Colin Powell
09/17/16"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
09/18/16"Growth demands a temporary surrender of security." - Gail Sheehy
09/19/16"Never let yesterday use up too much of today." - Will Rogers
09/20/16"Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." - Alice Walker
09/21/16"A great secret of success is to go through life as a person who never gets used up." - Albert Schweitzer
09/22/16"You are never too old to be what you might have been." - George Eliot
09/23/16"Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self." - Millicent Fenwick
09/24/16"He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing." - Epicurus
09/25/16"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love." - Marcus Aurelius
09/26/16"The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it." - Eckhart Tolle
09/27/16"We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures." - Thornton Wilder
09/28/16"People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them." - Epictetus
09/29/16"If you're unhappy with your life, change your thinking." - Charles Fillmore
09/30/16"Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse." Thomas Szasz


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