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Thought-of-the-Day
June 2019 Archive

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06/01/19"Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step." - Lao Tzu
06/02/19"The secret of getting ahead is getting started." - Mark Twain
06/03/19"Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again." - Og Mandino
06/04/19"Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious." - Stephen Hawking
06/05/19"A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others." - Ayn Rand
06/06/19"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club." - Jack London
06/07/19"Quality is not an act, it is a habit." - Aristotle
06/08/19"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand." - Woodrow Wilson
06/09/19"When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor." - Elon Musk
06/10/19"If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success." - John D. Rockefeller
06/11/19"The most effective way to do it, is to do it." - Amelia Earhart
06/12/19"If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy." - Dale Carnegie
06/13/19"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph." - Thomas Paine
06/14/19"Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn." - Harriet Beecher Stowe
06/15/19"Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future." - William Wordsworth
06/16/19"The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand." - Vince Lombardi
06/17/19"There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword." - Ulysses S. Grant
06/18/19"Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going." - Tennessee Williams
06/19/19"True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us." - Socrates
06/20/19"My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent." - Ruth Bader Ginsburg
06/21/19"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
06/22/19"People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die." - Plato
06/23/19"When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society." - Orson Welles
06/24/19"It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small." - Neil Armstrong
06/25/19"You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage. Instead, it's important for you to understand that your experience facing and overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages." - Michelle Obama
06/26/19"I feel like if you're a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what." - Lady Gaga
06/27/19"Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family." - Kofi Annan
06/28/19"There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all." - Jackie Kennedy
06/29/19"To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction." - Isaac Newton
06/30/19"Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm." - Hippocrates


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