DATE | THOUGHT OF THE DAY |
2/1/13 |
"When I was a young man, I observed that nine out of 10 things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did 10 times more work." - George Bernard Shaw
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2/2/13 |
"About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends." - Herbert Hoover
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2/3/13 |
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." - Theodore Roosevelt
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2/4/13 |
"I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it." - Rita Mae Brown
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2/5/13 |
"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." - Scott Adams
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2/6/13 |
"No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit." - Andrew Carnegie
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2/7/13 |
"It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull." - H.L. Mencken
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2/8/13 |
"The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it." - Henry David Thoreau
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2/9/13 |
"A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts." - Harold Macmillan
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2/10/13 |
"What we see depends mainly on what we look for." - John Lubbock
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2/11/13 |
"The art of happiness lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things." - Henry Ward Beecher
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2/12/13 |
"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, and then stand firm." - Abraham Lincoln
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2/13/13 |
"He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself." - Thomas Fuller
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2/14/13 |
"Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!" - Thomas Hood
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2/15/13 |
"To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe." - Marilyn vos Savant
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2/16/13 |
"To have ideas is to gather flowers; to think is to weave them into garlands." - Anne Sophie Swetchine
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2/17/13 |
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." - Abraham Lincoln
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2/18/13 |
"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence." - George Washington
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2/19/13 |
"Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for." - Marian Wright Edelman
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2/20/13 |
"Solitude is the salt of personhood. It brings out the authentic flavor of every experience." - May Sarton
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2/21/13 |
"What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof." - Christopher Hitchens
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2/22/13 |
"Affection is the most important thing. And the quality of affection - with your friends, your lovers, your family. But particularly for your own generation." - Allen Ginsberg
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2/23/13 |
"Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious." - B.C. Forbes
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2/24/13 |
"The height of cleverness is being able to conceal it." - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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2/25/13 |
"As time passes we all get better at blazing a trail through the thicket of advice." - Margot Bennett
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2/26/13 |
"Those who do not move do not notice their chains." - Rosa Luxemburg
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2/27/13 |
"If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality." - Walter Gropius
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2/28/13 |
"A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit." - Desiderius Erasmus
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