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DATE | THOUGHT OF THE DAY |
03/01/13 | "I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people." - Mohandas Gandhi |
03/02/13 | "Chance favors the prepared mind." - Louis Pasteur |
03/03/13 | " People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds; it is something one creates." - Thomas Szasz from The Second Sin (1973) p49. |
03/04/13 | "Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides." - Margaret Thatcher |
03/05/13 | "Higher taxes never reduce the deficit. Governments spend whatever they take in and then whatever they can get away with." - Milton Friedman |
03/06/13 | "The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be either good or evil." - Hannah Arendt |
03/07/13 | "Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain." - Friedrich Schiller |
03/08/13 | "The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." - Winston Churchill |
03/09/13 | "The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't." - Henry Ward Beecher |
03/10/13 | "He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears." - Michel de Montaigne |
03/11/13 | "Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts." - Blaise Pascal |
03/12/13 | "The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be." - Socrates |
03/13/13 | "It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed." - Jean Rostand |
03/14/13 | "Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia." - Alexis Carrel |
03/15/13 | "Genius is eternal patience." - Michelangelo |
03/16/13 | "The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts." - Edmund Burke |
03/17/13 | "If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." - Thomas Paine |
03/18/13 | "Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform." - Susan B. Anthony |
03/19/13 | "The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking." - A.A. Milne |
03/20/13 | "Talent develops in quiet, Character in the torrent of the world." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
03/21/13 | "A pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." - - Winston Churchill |
03/22/13 | "It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation." - Herman Melville |
03/23/13 | "Genius is talent set on fire by courage." - Henry van Dyke |
03/24/13 | "I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide." - Emily Bronte |
03/25/13 | "The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice." - Ernest Hemingway |
03/26/13 | "The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions." - Antony Jay |
03/27/13 | "Sincerity is everything. If you can fake that, you've got it made." - George Burns |
03/28/13 | "To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves." - Aldous Huxley |
03/29/13 | "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." - Thomas Edison |
03/30/13 | "Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which many men throw away." - Charles Caleb Colton |
03/31/13 | "Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow." - Mary Anne Radmacher |
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