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| DATE | THOUGHT OF THE DAY |
| 08/01/12 | "Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?" - George Carlin |
| 08/02/12 | "If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there'd be a shortage of sand." - Milton Friedman |
| 08/03/12 | "The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind." - William Blake |
| 08/04/12 | "Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order." - Arthur Helps |
| 08/05/12 | "It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit." - President Harry S. Truman |
| 08/06/12 | "If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery |
| 08/07/12 | "A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others." - Ayn Rand |
| 08/08/12 | "Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning." - Gloria Steinem |
| 08/09/12 | "One man with courage makes a majority." - Andrew Jackson |
| 08/10/12 | "A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep." - Saul Bellow |
| 08/11/12 | "The most wasted of all days is one without laughter." - e.e. cummings |
| 08/12/12 | "If there is no knowledge, there is no understanding; if there is no understanding, there is no knowledge." - The Talmud |
| 08/13/12 | "Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in." - Andrew Jackson |
| 08/14/12 | "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." - Leonardo da Vinci |
| 08/15/12 | "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - Alan Kay |
| 08/16/12 | "The government in a revolution is the despotism of liberty against tyranny." - Roberspierre |
| 08/17/12 | "The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken." - Samuel Johnson |
| 08/18/12 | "Government is not reason; it is not eloquent -- it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." - George Washington |
| 08/19/12 | "Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden |
| 08/20/12 | "The way to get started is to stop talking and begin doing." - Walt Disney |
| 08/21/12 | "He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses." - Horace |
| 08/22/12 | "We have a 'strategic' plan. It's called doing things." - Herb Kelleher |
| 08/23/12 | "The man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away." - Charles Schwab |
| 08/24/12 | "When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves'." - Lao Tzu |
| 08/25/12 | "We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time." - T.S. Eliot |
| 08/26/12 | "There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, pure, simple and useful life." - Booker T. Washington |
| 08/27/12 | "Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are." - Malcolm Forbes |
| 08/28/12 | "Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking." - John Maynard Keynes |
| 08/29/12 | "Some people have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can." - Willis R. Whitney |
| 08/30/12 | "Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." - Mark Twain |
| 08/31/12 | "In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer." - Albert Camus |
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