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Thought-of-the-Day
March 2020 Archive

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03/01/20"Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history. The great debates of the past, all stirred great passions. They all made somebody angry, and at least once led to a terrible war. What is amazing, is that despite all the conflict, our experiment in democracy has worked better than any form of government on earth." - Barack Obama
03/02/20"You can be pleased with nothing when you are not pleased with yourself." - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
03/03/20"Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience." - Hyman Rickover
03/04/20"After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one." - Cato the Elder
03/05/20"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers." - Charles W. Eliot
03/06/20"I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me instead of looking within myself to see what was there." - Belle Livingstone
03/07/20"Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly." - Epictetus
03/08/20"Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot." - Josh Billings
03/09/20"Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming." - John Wooden
03/10/20"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome." - Booker T. Washington
03/11/20"Fortune befriends the bold." - Emily Dickinson
03/12/20"The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do." - Kobe Bryant
03/13/20"I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day." - Vincent Van Gogh
03/14/20"Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
03/15/20"You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive." - Maya Angelou
03/16/20"Correction does much, but encouragement does more." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
03/17/20"You've done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination." - Ralph Marston
03/18/20"Look at people for an example, but then make sure to do things your way. Surround yourself with positive people." - Queen Latifah
03/19/20"I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it's proactive and there is positive intent behind it." - Michael J. Fox
03/20/20"But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious. And for that I am grateful." - Elizabeth Edwards
03/21/20"Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind." - Henry David Thoreau
03/22/20"The positive aspects of modernity are to be acknowledged unreservedly: we are all grateful for the marvellous possibilities that it has opened up for mankind and for the progress in humanity that has been granted to us." - Pope Benedict the XVI
03/23/20"Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground." - Theordore Roosevelt
03/24/20"Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
03/25/20"If you can dream it, you can do it." - Walt Disney
03/26/20"If you don't ask, you don't get." - Stevie Wonder
03/27/20"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts." - Eleanor Roosevelt
03/28/20"Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin
03/29/20"Quality is not an act, it is a habit." - Aristotle
03/30/20"Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible." - Tonny Robbins
03/31/20"Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible." - Dalai Lama


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