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Thought-of-the-Day
July 2019 Archive

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07/01/19"Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike." - Alexander Hamilton
07/02/19"Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school." - Bill Gates
07/03/19"How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children." - Charles Darwin
07/04/19"Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits." - Thomas Jefferson
07/05/19"Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning." - Desmond Tutu
07/06/19"Saying nothing... sometimes says the most." - Emily Dickinson
07/07/19"Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind" - . F. Scott Fitzgerald
07/08/19"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will." - George Bernard Shaw
07/09/19"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
07/10/19"All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason." - Immanuel Kant
07/11/19"Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life." - Jackie Robinson
07/12/19"The challenge that so many people have is not knowing how to take that first step of reaching out to another person for help." - Kate Middleton
07/13/19"Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people." - Lee Iacocca
07/14/19"A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales." - Marie Curie
07/15/19"It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects." - Nikola Tesla
07/16/19"Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
07/17/19"This is important: to get to know people, listen, expand the circle of ideas. The world is crisscrossed by roads that come closer together and move apart, but the important thing is that they lead towards the Good." - Pope Francis
07/18/19"What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
07/19/19"There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence." - Susan B. Anthony
07/20/19"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." - T. S. Eliot
07/21/19"Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work." - Vince Lombardi
07/22/19"To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle." - Walt Whitman
07/23/19"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals." - Zig Zigla
07/24/19"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can." - Arthur Ashe
07/25/19"Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy." - Norman Vincent Peale
07/26/19"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time." - Thomas A. Edison
07/27/19"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
07/28/19"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
07/29/19"It always seems impossible until it's done." - Nelson Mandela
07/30/19"Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines." - Robert H. Schuller
07/31/19"Things do not happen. Things are made to happen." - John F. Kennedy


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