Positive Quote Of The Day April 2022

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"No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad."- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881) Scottish Writer

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"As long as a person doesn't admit he is defeated, he is not defeated -- he's just a little behind and isn't through fighting."- Darrell Royal (1924 - 2012) American Football Coach, University of Texas

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No man was ever wise by chance. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place. - Josh Billings

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"Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world."- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881) Scottish Writer whose book The French Revolution: A History was the inspiration for Charles Dickens' novel A Tale of Two Cities

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Moral courage is a virtue of higher cast and nobler origin than physical. It springs from a consciousness of virtue and renders a man, in the pursuit or defense of right, superior to the fear of reproach, opposition, or contempt."- Samuel Goodrich (1793 - 1860) American author

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"They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea."- Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626) English Philosopher, Lawyer and Politician

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"We shall not flag or fail. We shall fight in France, we shall fight in the seas or oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender. - speaking in the House of Commons on British resistance to the Nazis, June 1940"- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965) British Politician

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Our patience will achieve more than our force. - Edmund Burke

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"To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind."- William Hazlitt (1778 - 183 English Essayist

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Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. - Auguste Rodin

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The good man is the friend of all living things. - Mahatma Gandhi

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All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people. - Alexis Carrel

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:thumbsup: For sure

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"Our greatest happiness in life does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits."- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826) Third President of the United States

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"What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think."- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) American essayist and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.

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It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself. - Eleanor Roosevelt

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"Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in your humdrum routine, as perhaps it may be thought, the true poetry of life."- Sir William Osler (1849 - 1919) Canadian Physician



HAPPY EASTER!

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He is Risen!

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Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not. - Henri Frederic Amiel

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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another. - John Dewey

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It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help. - Epicurus

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I truly believe that everything that we do and everyone that we meet is put in our path for a purpose. There are no accidents; we're all teachers - if we're willing to pay attention to the lessons we learn, trust our positive instincts and not be afraid to take risks or wait for some miracle to come knocking at our door. - Marla Gibbs

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Work hard for what you want because it won't come to you without a fight. You have to be strong and courageous and know that you can do anything you put your mind to. If somebody puts you down or criticizes you, just keep on believing in yourself and turn it into something positive. - Leah LaBelle

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"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have."- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865) 16th President of the United States

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When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing. - Joseph Roux

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Good one

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"In doing your work in the great world, it is a safe plan to follow a rule I once heard on the football field: Don't flinch, don't fall; hit the line hard."- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919) 26th President of the United States

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A favorite TR quote!

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"Some day, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long continued process."- Phillips Brooks (1835 - 1893) American Episcopal clergyman, particularly remembered as lyricist of the Christmas hymn, "O Little Town of Bethlehem".

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"Yours is not the less noble because no drum beats before you when you go out into your daily battlefields, and no crowds shout about your coming when you return from your daily victory or defeat."- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894) Scottish Novelist

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Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better. - Albert Camus

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"I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and women trample themselves and die. Something magnificent is taking place here amidst the cruelties and tragedies, and the supreme challenge to intelligence is that of making the noblest and best in our curious heritage prevail."- Charles A. Beard (1874 - 1948) American historian

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"To know a truth well, one must have fought it out."- Novalis (Georg Friedrich Philipp von Hardenberg) (1772 - 1801) German Poet