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Thought-of-the-Day
January 2019 Archive

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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY
01/01/19"If you would marry suitably, marry your equal." - Ovid
01/02/19"When you appeal to force, there's one thing you must never do - lose." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
01/03/19"Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world." - Eleanor Roosevelt
01/04/19"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." - Henry David Thoreau
01/05/19"Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth." - Walt Whitman
01/06/19"Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults." - Antisthenes
01/07/19"Life is an escalator: You can move forward or backward; you can not remain still." - Patricia Russell-McCloud
01/08/19"When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends." - Japanese Proverb
01/09/19"The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself." - Anna Quindlen
01/10/19"Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything." - Willa Cather
01/12/19"Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future." - Charles F. Kettering
01/13/19"You've got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old - whatever 'the old' means for you." - Sarah Ban Breathnach
01/14/19"What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!" - Nathaniel Hawthorne
01/15/19"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure." - Colin Powell
01/16/19"Truth is generally the best vindication against slander." - Abraham Lincoln
01/17/19"Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot." - D. H. Lawrence
01/18/19"My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert." - Meryl Streep
01/19/19"Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it." - Henry David Thoreau
01/20/19"When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid." - Oprah Winfrey
01/21/19"The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves." - Jane Goodall
01/22/19"No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person." - Willa Cather
01/23/19"Too many people think only of their own profit. But business opportunity seldom knocks on the door of self-centered people. No customer ever goes to a store merely to please the storekeeper." - Kazuo Inamori
01/24/19"A minute's success pays the failure of years." - Robert Browning
01/25/19"Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it." - Cicero
01/26/19"Help others get ahead. You will always stand taller with someone else on your shoulders." - Bob Moawad
01/27/19"Little by little, one travels far." - J. R. R. Tolkien
01/28/19"A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
01/29/19"Forever is composed of nows." - Emily Dickinson
01/30/19"So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity." - Andre Gide
01/31/19"What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence." - Samuel Johnson


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