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Thought-of-the-Day
May 2019 Archive

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05/01/19"It always seems impossible until it's done." - Nelson Mandela
05/02/19"If you're going through hell, keep going." - Winston Churchill
05/03/19"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated." - Maya Angelou
05/04/19"If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success." - John D. Rockefeller
05/05/19"Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible." - Dalai Lama
05/06/19"Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin
05/07/19"I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want." - Muhammad Ali
05/08/19"Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you." - Thomas Jefferson
05/09/19"You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do." - Henry Ford
05/10/19"It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are." - Malala Yousafzai
05/11/19"If you don't ask, you don't get." - Stevie Wonder
05/12/19"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart." - Helen Keller
05/13/19"Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you." - M. B. Whitman from 1908, The Melody of the Heart, Selected by J.E. & H.S., Quote Page 103, Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York.
05/14/19"Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory." - George S. Patton
05/15/19"The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence." - Confucius
05/16/19"Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it." - Oprah Winfrey
05/17/19"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning." - Albert Einstein
05/18/19"Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important." - Bill Gates
05/19/19"I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time." - Charles Dickens
05/20/19"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." - Dr. Seuss
05/21/19"Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster." - Elon Musk
05/22/19"The truth is more important than the facts. " - Frank Lloyd Wright
05/23/19"We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience." - George Washington
05/24/19"Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world." - Harriet Tubman
05/25/19"If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants." - Isaac Newton
05/26/19"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default." - J. K. Rowling
05/27/19"Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken." - Ludwig van Beethoven
05/28/19"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty." - Mahatma Gandhi
05/29/19"The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further than that and our opportunities are unlimited." - Neil Armstrong
05/30/19"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things." - Peter Drucker
05/31/19"I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together." - Queen Elizabeth II


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