Archive for March, 2018

QOTD March 31 2018

Saturday, March 31st, 2018

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.”

 

QOTD March 30 2018

Friday, March 30th, 2018

Oprah Winfrey: “Partake of some of life’s sweet pleasures. And yes, get comfortable with yourself.”

 

QOTD March 29 2018

Thursday, March 29th, 2018

Anna Quindlen: “Don’t ever confuse the two, your life and your work. That’s what I have to say. The second is only a part of the first.”

 

QOTD March 28 2018

Wednesday, March 28th, 2018

Estee Lauder: “Touch your customer, and you’re halfway there.”

 

QOTD March 27 2018

Tuesday, March 27th, 2018

Randy K. Milholland: “In the end, we decide if we’re remembered for what happened to us or for what we did with it.”

 

QOTD March 26 2018

Monday, March 26th, 2018

Henry L. Stimson: “The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust.”

 

QOTD March 25 2018

Sunday, March 25th, 2018

Meredith Willson: “You pile up enough tomorrows and you’ll be left with nothing but a bunch of empty yesterdays. I don’t know about you, but I’d like to make today worth remembering.”

 

QOTD March 24 2018

Saturday, March 24th, 2018

Whitney Young: “The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.”

 

QOTD March 23 2018

Friday, March 23rd, 2018

Thich Nhat Hanh: “Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life…, our way of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment, we are alive.”

 

QOTD March 22 2018

Thursday, March 22nd, 2018

Kevin Smith: “My father taught me how to be a man – and not by instilling in me a sense of machismo or an agenda of dominance. He taught me that a real man doesn’t take, he gives; he doesn’t use force, he uses logic; doesn’t play the role of trouble-maker, but rather, trouble-shooter; and most importantly, a real man is defined by what’s in his heart, not his pants.”

 

QOTD March 21 2018

Wednesday, March 21st, 2018

Anna Quindlen: “When you leave college, there are thousands of people out there with the same degree you have; when you get a job, there will be thousands of people doing what you want to do for a living. But you are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life.”

QOTD March 20 2018

Tuesday, March 20th, 2018

Lynn Johnston: “The most profound statements are often said in silence.”

 

QOTD March 19 2018

Monday, March 19th, 2018

William Hazlitt: “He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.”

 

QOTD March 18 2018

Sunday, March 18th, 2018

Chris Messina: “Look at what your idea of success would be. The more that you take in external motivators, the more it reduces your ultimate satisfaction because it doesn’t come from inside.”

 

QOTD March 17 2018

Saturday, March 17th, 2018

Thomas Moore: “To the soul, there is hardly anything more healing than friendship.”

 

QOTD March 16 2018

Friday, March 16th, 2018

Cecil B. DeMille: “Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.”

 

QOTD March 15 2018

Thursday, March 15th, 2018

Elizabeth Aston: “There was no escaping by means of any journey, however adventurous, one took one’s problems and sorrows with one.”

 

QOTD March 14 2018

Wednesday, March 14th, 2018

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata: “You can’t change what you’ve done, so you might as well just take pride in it.

 

QOTD March 13 2018

Tuesday, March 13th, 2018

Mahatma Gandhi: “Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.”

 

QOTD March 12 2018

Monday, March 12th, 2018

George S. Patton: “Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.”