Positive Quote Of the Day January 2023

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“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.” —Albert Einstein





HAPPY NEW YEAR!

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"The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave - speech to the Virginia Convention, March 23, 1775."- Patrick Henry (1736 - 1799) American Lawyer, Patriot

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"Life leaps like a geyser for those willing to drill through the rock of inertia."- Alexis Carrel (1873 - 1944) French surgeon and biologist

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""But try," you urge, "the trying shall suffice; The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!""- Robert Browning (1812 - 1889) English poet and playwright

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"Remember that if the opportunities for great deeds should never come, the opportunities for good deeds are renewed day by day. The thing for us to long for is the goodness, not the glory."- F.W. Faber (1814 - 1863) English hymn writer and theologian

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"I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me."- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865) 16th President of the United States

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"...we could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world."- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968) American Writer

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"A day dawns, quite like other days; in it, a single hour comes, quite like other hours; but in that day and in that hour the chance of a lifetime faces us."- Maltbie Babcock (1858 - 1901) American Presbyterian Minister

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"When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view."- Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850 - 1919) American author and poet

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"Every man stamps his value on himself... man is made great or small by his own will."- J.C.F. von Schiller (1759 - 1805) German poet

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Strong people and strong teams know how to borrow strengths from, and lend strengths to, other people. - James Brook

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"Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blue prints of your ultimate accomplishments."- Napoleon Hill (1883 - 1970) American Motivational Speaker

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"Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much can be done if we are always doing - advising his daughter Martha, 1787."- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) Third President of the United States

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"Everything in space obeys the laws of physics. If you know these laws and obey them, space will treat you kindly. And don't tell me that man doesn't belong out there. Man belongs wherever he wants to go; and he'll do plenty well when he gets there."- Wernher von Braun (1912 - 1977) German rocket engineer who came to the U.S. to work on the space program.

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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do. - Voltaire

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Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. - Martin Luther King Jr.

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"Do not be afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact."- William James (1842 - 1910) American Philosopher and Psychologist

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"Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages. Just because the rains descend, and the winds blow, we cannot afford to build on shifting sands."- Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887) American Presbyterian Minister

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"Education is not the taming or domestication of the soul's raw passions, not suppressing them or excising them, which would deprive the soul of its energy, but forming and informing them as art."- Allan Bloom (1930 - 1992) American Academic and Author

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"Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress."- Nicholas Murray Butler (1862 - 1947) American philosopher

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"Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing."- John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873) English Philosopher, Economist

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A well balanced person has a far greater ability on focusing their attention and energy on attaining their goals, taking productive action and moving forward in a meaningful way. -Diana Elmessiri

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"Never neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening. It may be -- usually is, in fact -- a false alarm that leads to nothing, but it may on the other hand be the clue provided by fate to lead you to some important advance."- Sir Alexander Fleming (1881 - 1955) British microbioligist who discovered penicillin.

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"Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience."- James Freeman Clarke (1810 - 1888) American Unitarian Minister and Author

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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. - Oscar Wilde

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"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference."- Robert Frost (1874 - 1963) American Poet

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A true friendship is when you consider your friend's problems as your problems. - Imshi Saini

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"Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero or a saint."- Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887) American Presbyterian Minister

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Maintaining a positive attitude is the key to success in life: If you want to experience success in life, you need to maintain a positive mental attitude. - Dr. D. K. Olukoya

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To be at peace with the world, we must first be at peace with ourselves. - Tiddy Rowan

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"Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in circumstances confronting him."- St. Thomas Aquinas (1225 - 1274) Italian Dominican friar

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