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Thought-of-the-Day
October 2017 Archive

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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY
10/01/17"Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom." - John Adams
10/02/17"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain." - Maya Angelou
10/03/17"I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart." - e e cummings
10/04/17"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes." - Mahatma Gandhi
10/05/17"Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it." - Martin Luther King Jr.
10/06/17"I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love." - Mother Teresa
10/07/17"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." - Plato
10/08/17"I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago." - Edgar Allan Poe
10/09/17"Learn to value yourself, which means: to fight for your happiness." - Ayn Rand
10/10/17"Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So. . . get on your way." - Dr. Seuss
10/11/17"A woman is like a tea bag- you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water." - Eleanor Roosevelt
10/12/17"All great change in America begins at the dinner table." - Ronald Reagan
10/13/17"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future." - John F. Kennedy
10/14/17"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved." - Helen Keller
10/15/17"Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected." - Steve Jobs
10/16/17"A republican government is slow to move, yet once in motion its momentum becomes irresistible." - Thomas Jefferson
10/17/17"A companion's words of persuasion are effective." - Homer
10/18/17"In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield." - Warren Buffett
10/19/17"A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril." - Winston Churchill
10/20/17"I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn." - Albert Einstein
10/21/17"Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing." - Thomas Jefferson
10/22/17"Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity." - Louis Pasteur
10/23/17"America will never run... And we will always be grateful that liberty has found such brave defenders." - George W. Bush
10/24/17"Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it." - Confucius
10/25/17"I have never been hurt by anything I didn't say." - Calvin Coolidge
10/26/17"As a cure for worrying, work is better than whisky." - Thomas A. Edison
10/27/17"A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
10/28/17"A good conscience is a continual Christmas." - Benjamin Franklin
10/29/17"Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
10/30/17"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing." - Abraham Lincoln
10/31/17"I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve." - Barack Obama


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