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Norman Vincent Peale

"Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/MtO9yjV via IFTTT

Abraham Lincoln

"The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/hk7rpus via IFTTT

Ogden Nash

"Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/vHiD0rn via IFTTT

Samuel Johnson

"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/A7Uo6M8 via IFTTT

Sue Grafton

"It never pays to deal with the flyweights of the world. They take far too much pleasure in thwarting you at every turn." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/YXbGo4c via IFTTT

Lois McMaster Bujold

"" from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/eTgvhtF via IFTTT

Ambrose Bierce

"Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/eLuH5Os via IFTTT

Ronald Reagan

"I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/593xHeh via IFTTT

Edgar Allan Poe

"Convinced myself, I seek not to convince." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/0qaR37f via IFTTT

Miriam Beard

"Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/n42fM9e via IFTTT

John Cage

"If you think something is boring, try doing it for two minutes. If you still think it's boring, try it for four. If you still think it's boring, try it for eight, then sixteen, then thirty-two, and so on and so forth. Soon enough you'll find that it's really not boring at all." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/B6QC37m via IFTTT

Mignon McLaughlin

"No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/u58e1br via IFTTT

Sir Richard Francis Burton

"The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/TxtelYQ via IFTTT

Sir Winston Churchill

"I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/4DTJ2f1 via IFTTT

Hank Green

"I deal with stress in two ways because there are two kinds of stress. There's stress that you can take care of and there's stress that you can't. The first one, I take care of it as fast as possible, because putting it off always makes it worse. Things that I can't fix? I think about the fact that I can't fix them. I think about why I can't fix them and I come to terms with the fact that this is a problem that I'm not going to overcome and that the world is not a wish granting factory." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/To2YkZX via IFTTT

John Updike

"Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/PLJZGuQ via IFTTT

Rabbinical Saying

"Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/FJwxnlD via IFTTT

George Fabricius

"Death comes to all/ But great achievements raise a monument/ Which shall endure until the sun grows old." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/hIlvoOr via IFTTT

Evan Esar

"Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits that under analysis some of them won't stand up either." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/UAb836T via IFTTT

Robert Graves

"The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/AomJ1bB via IFTTT

Al McGuire

"I think the world is run by 'C' students." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/k62nlxs via IFTTT

Umberto Eco

"I felt like poisoning a monk." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/6hPJfYI via IFTTT

Theodore Roosevelt

"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/RftH2rb via IFTTT

Tommy Cooper

"Last night I dreamed I ate a ten-pound marshmallow, and when I woke up the pillow was gone." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/bqyNAs9 via IFTTT

Victor Hugo

"Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/UZLkzNu via IFTTT

Ernest Hemingway

"That is the greatest fallacy, the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/a5pH6QZ via IFTTT

Honore de Balzac

"Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/2JbhaLv via IFTTT

Arthur C. Clarke

"Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/8DTxYsw via IFTTT

Voltaire

"To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/4z961Pi via IFTTT

John Sheffield

"'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/RBrcKpu via IFTTT

Lyle Alzado

"I don't really trust a sane person." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/uXBAOcG via IFTTT

Nikita Khrushchev

"Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/qKIZGeS via IFTTT

Suzanne Gordon

"To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/cvWPhS9 via IFTTT

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

"A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/vC4twJ7 via IFTTT

Charles M. Schulz

"Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/ijVWUcm via IFTTT

Marguerite de Valois

"Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/Oz1Q3R5 via IFTTT

Ed Gardner

"Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/glVyhu0 via IFTTT

Charles De Secondat

"I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/ID8mfRk via IFTTT

G. M. Trevelyan

"Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/z37MiRw via IFTTT

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

"The secret of eternal youth is arrested development." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/2xTLhg4 via IFTTT

Thomas Jefferson

"Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/UzieIbx via IFTTT

Dame Rose Macaulay

"At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/75tQpqU via IFTTT

Samuel Goldwyn

"A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/xjhIyoC via IFTTT

Scottish Proverb

"What may be done at any time will be done at no time." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/WqaAfIl via IFTTT

Ernest Haskins

"Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/bjiv02G via IFTTT

Denis Watley

"The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/63FtdyM via IFTTT

Dylan Thomas

"An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/dYCiXfM via IFTTT

Russel Lynes

"Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/1RJkSLc via IFTTT

Ambrose Bierce

"Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/TRaH6Wb via IFTTT

Paula Poundstone

"I don't have a bank account, because I don't know my mother's maiden name." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/1WA3Q4h via IFTTT

Charles Churchill

"Genius is of no country." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/KWSkjYH via IFTTT

Anonymous

"God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/8ZvBkbj via IFTTT

George Eliot

"The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/QOfLB86 via IFTTT

Amy Carter

"No." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/2DJ5PHC via IFTTT

Thomas Jones

"Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/gWyCD94 via IFTTT

John Muir

"We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love. God does not appear, and flow out, only from narrow chinks and round bored wells here and there in favored races and places, but He flows in grand undivided currents, shoreless and boundless over creeds and forms and all kinds of civilizations and peoples and beasts, saturating all and fountainizing all." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/5sa4Atw via IFTTT

Anna Jameson

"What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense, we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/tCQrBzc via IFTTT

George Sewell

"Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/MDyEB9u via IFTTT

Beverly Sills

"I really do believe I can accomplish a great deal with a big grin, I know some people find that disconcerting, but that doesn't matter." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/Ahej0lD via IFTTT

W. Edwards Deming

"Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/LcmoYkV via IFTTT

Ronald Reagan

"Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/kY7Uf89 via IFTTT

Mae West

"Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/oVGQJzt via IFTTT

Amelia Burr

"Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/qAy9JxV via IFTTT

Edmund Spenser

"Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/b4j9yXc via IFTTT

Casey Stengel

"The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/R5W7ahw via IFTTT

King Whitney Jr.

"Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/xb0oKLA. via IFTTT

Johnny Carson

"Nancy Reagan fell down and broke her hair." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/PmXvT4I via IFTTT

Clifton Fadiman

"Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/to0wuK5 via IFTTT

Irv Kupcinet

"What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?" from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/YJMVRjD via IFTTT

W. Somerset Maugham

"When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/dZumLcP via IFTTT

Aneurin Bevan

"Virtue is its own punishment." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/AqbBXtN via IFTTT

Earl Mac Rauch

"And remember, no matter where you go, there you are." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/9kNLp1l via IFTTT

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/a2MXfPw via IFTTT

Paul Goodman

"Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/6I0Zn4S via IFTTT

George Bernard Shaw

"The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/WN6LpRJ via IFTTT

Lewis Thomas

"The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/pLM3sSw via IFTTT

Colin Powell

"Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/DT8nYLk via IFTTT

African Proverb

"If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/DRJL18p via IFTTT

Robert Frost

"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/o7ZwMIV via IFTTT

Philip Guedalla

"Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/3fSqJCo via IFTTT

Jean Sibelius

"Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic!" from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/aqGLtE1 via IFTTT

Marita Bonner

"She did not talk to people as if they were strange hard shells she had to crack open to get inside. She talked as if she were already in the shell. In their very shell." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/xuse3bt via IFTTT

Woody Allen

"Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/wJV41gN via IFTTT