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THOUGHT-OF-THE-DAY ARCHIVE
"Our life is what our thoughts make it."
- Marcus Aurelius

AUG 2022


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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY
8/1/22      "Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus." - Alexander Graham Bell
8/2/22      "As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see." - Julius Caesar
8/3/22      "The miracle or the power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance under the promptings of a brave, determined spirit." - Mark Twain
8/4/22      "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
8/5/22      "You ask me why I do not write something... I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results." - Florence Nightingale
8/6/22      "Consciously or unconsciously we all strive to make the kind of a world that we like." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
8/7/22      "We can afford to lose money - even a lot of money. But we can't afford to lose reputation - even a shred of reputation." - Warren Buffett
8/8/22      "The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others." - Robert Baden-Powell
8/9/22      "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." - Thomas Edison
8/10/22      "Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning." - Bill Gates
8/11/22      "Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster." - Theodore Roosevelt
8/12/22      "Great talents ripen late; the highest notes are hard to hear." - Lao Tzu
8/13/22      "I have great confidence in the common sense of mankind in general." - Thomas Jefferson
8/14/22      "Whenever you share love with others, you'll notice the peace that comes to you and to them." - Mother Teresa
8/15/22      "When peace has been broken anywhere, the peace of all countries everywhere is in danger." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
8/16/22      "People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little." - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
8/17/22      "All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us." - J. R. R. Tolkien
8/18/22      "Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think." - A. A. Milne
8/19/22      "The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom — these are the pillars of society." - Henrik Ibsen
8/20/22      "To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others." - Albert Camus
8/21/22      "Our children are the rock on which our future will be built, our greatest asset as a nation. They will be the leaders of our country, the creators of our national wealth, those who care for and protect our people." - Nelson Mandela
8/22/22      "I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented." - Elie Wiesel
8/23/22      "I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well." - Johann Sebastian Bach
8/24/22      "Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth." - John F. Kennedy
8/25/22      "You never can tell whether bad luck may not after all turn out to be good luck." - Winston Churchill
8/26/22      "The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule." - Albert Einstein
8/27/22      "It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it." - Eleanor Roosevelt
8/28/22      "Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will." - Mahatma Gandhi
8/29/22      "Love is the most durable power in the world. This creative force is the most potent instrument available in mankind's quest for peace and security." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
8/30/22      "Every people may establish what form of government they please, and change it as they please, the will of the nation being the only thing essential." - Thomas Jefferson
8/31/22      "We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already. We have the power to imagine better." - J.K. Rowlings


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