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Thought-of-the-Day
October 2019 Archive

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10/01/19"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." - Confucious
10/02/19"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals." - Zig Ziglar
10/03/19"Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do." - Pope John XXIII
10/04/19"Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory." - George S. Patton
10/05/19"Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay." - Simone de Beauvoir
10/06/19"Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you." - Thomas Jefferson
10/07/19"Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character." - Heraclitus
10/08/19"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
10/09/19"Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important." - Bill Gates
10/10/19"The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next." - Abraham Lincoln
10/11/19"There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself." - Henry David Thoreau
10/12/19"Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do." - Pele
10/13/19"All good things which exist are the fruits of originality." - John Stuart Mill
10/14/19"I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm." - Calvin Coolidge
10/15/19"Fortune befriends the bold." - Publius Vergilius Maro )Virgil)
10/16/19"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.
10/17/19"Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't." - Margaret Thatcher
10/18/19"Knowledge is love and light and vision." - Helen Keller
10/19/19"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it." - Steve Jobs
10/20/19"My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style." - Maya Angelou
10/21/19"If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
10/22/19"Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible" - Francis of Assisi
10/23/19"Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world." - Malala Yousafzai
10/24/19"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared." - Buddha
10/25/19"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light." - Aristotle
10/26/19"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." - Henry David Thoreau
10/27/19"What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
10/28/19"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them." - John F. Kennedy
10/29/19"Believe you can and you're halfway there." - Theodore Roosevelt
10/30/19"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn." - Harriet Beecher Stowe
10/31/19"A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself." - Joseph Campbell from The Power of Myth


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