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Thought-of-the-Day
October 2018 Archive

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10/01/18"Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men." - Marcus Valerius Martialis
10/02/18"Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances." - Thomas Jefferson
10/03/18"Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast." - Epictetus
10/04/18"Always be nice to people on the way up; because you'll meet the same people on the way down." - Wilson Mizner
10/05/18"Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is." - Elbert Hubbard
10/06/18"Determine to live life with flair and laughter." - Maya Angelou
10/07/18"A friend is a second self." - Aristotle
10/08/18"In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield." - Warren Buffett
10/09/18"The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum." - Frances Willard
10/10/18"I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless." - Bette Davis
10/11/18"Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how...We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark." - Agnes de Mille
10/12/18"To win without risk is to triumph without glory." - Pierre Corneille
10/13/18"When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty." - John Muir
10/14/18"Everything has got a moral if you can only find it." - Lewis Carroll
10/15/18"Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world." - Thomas Guthrie
10/16/18"You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new." - Steve Jobs
10/17/18"Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change." - Andre Gide
10/18/18"Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast." - Harry S Truman
10/19/18"Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind." - Leonardo da Vinci
10/20/18"Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls." - Mother Teresa
10/21/18"Stop seeing the obstacles you face as reasons why you can't do something. See them as a reason why you can. And celebrate your accomplishments on a daily basis." - Ali Vincent
10/22/18"Every artist was first an amateur." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
10/23/18"It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers." - James Thurber
10/24/18"The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason." - T. S. Eliot
10/25/18"A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration." - Kurt Lewin
10/26/18"We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire...Give us the tools and we will finish the job." - Winston Churchill
10/27/18"Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose that you resolved to effect." - William Shakespeare
10/28/18"We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within... this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise." - Edward Sellner
10/29/18"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing." - Abraham Lincoln
10/30/18"This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
10/31/18"Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


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