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Thought-of-the-Day
August 2019 Archive

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08/01/19"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
08/02/19"Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along." - George Herbert
08/03/19"Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
08/04/19"Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay." - Simone de Beauvoir
08/05/19"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
08/06/19"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can." - Arthur Ashe
08/07/19"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts." - Eleanor Roosevelt
08/08/19"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time." - Thomas A. Edison
08/09/19"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
08/10/19"Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory." - George S. Patton
08/11/19"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
08/12/19"Quality is not an act, it is a habit." - Aristotle
08/13/19"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
08/14/19"Don't give up. Don't lose hope. Don't sell out." - Christopher Reeve
08/15/19"The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'" - Martin Luther King Jr.
08/16/19"Never, never, never give up." - Winston Churchill
08/17/19"Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it." - Diane Sawyer
08/18/19"It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are." - Malala Yousafzai
08/19/19"We know what we are, but know not what we may be.Read more at." - William Shakespeare
08/20/19"It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up." - Vince Lombardi
08/21/19"A hero is somebody who voluntarily walks into the unknown." - Tom Hanks
08/22/19"True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us." - Socrates
08/23/19"People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically... No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in." - Rosa Parks
08/24/19"All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue." - Plato
08/25/19"I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine." - Neil Armstrong
08/26/19"One of the things you can always depend on - this is one of the truths of the universe, and you heard it first from here - whatever we decide we want to do is what we do." - Morgan Freeman
08/27/19"There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves." - Lyndon B. Johnson
08/28/19"Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure." - Jane Austen
08/29/19"To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. 'Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you. " - Issac Newton
08/30/19"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart." - Helen Keller


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