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Thought-of-the-Day
January 2011 Archive

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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY
01/01/11"Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man." - Benjamin Franklin
01/02/11"I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright." - Tony Robbins
01/03/11"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
01/04/11"The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority." - Kenneth Blanchard
01/05/11"Probably nothing in the world arouses more false hopes than the first four hours of a diet." - Samuel Beckett
01/06/11"If you can't change your fate, change your attitude." - Amy Tan
01/07/11"It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It's what we do consistently." - Tony Robbins
01/08/11"Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting." - Elizabeth Bibesco
01/09/11"There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way." - Christopher Morley
01/10/11"People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have." - Anne Tyler
01/11/11"If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life." - Frank Lloyd Wright
01/12/11"Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success." - Swami Vivekananda
01/13/11"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself." - William Faulkner
01/14/11"Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts." - Albert Einstein
01/15/11"Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product." - Eleanor Roosevelt
01/16/11"The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get." - Jim Rohn
01/17/11"Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience." - Eleanor Hibbert
01/18/11"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.' " - Mary Anne Radmacher
01/19/11"Even the smallest victory is never to be taken for granted. Each victory must be applauded, because it is so easy not to battle at all, to just accept and call that acceptance inevitable." - Audre Lorde
01/20/11"Patience and time do more than strength or passion." - Jean de LaFontaine
01/21/11"You may easily play a joke on a man who likes to argue -- agree with him." - Edgar Watson Howe
01/22/11"The respect of those you respect is worth more than the applause of the multitude." - Arnold Glasow
01/23/11"A man doesn't begin to attain wisdom until he recognizes that he is no longer indispensable." - Richard Byrd
01/24/11"Fear paralyzes; curiosity empowers. Be more interested than afraid." - Patricia Alexander
01/25/11"I do not have what I own, nor do I have what I do. I only have what I am." - D. Trinidad Hunt
01/26/11"Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul." - John Dryden
01/27/11"Power is the ability not to have to please." - Elizabeth Janeway
01/28/11"Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment and learn again to exercise his will -- his personal responsibility." - Albert Schweitzer
01/29/11"Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, get better answers." - Tony Robbins
01/30/11"We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice." - Jack Herbert
01/31/11"Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel." - George MacDonald


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