Archive for the ‘QOTD’ Category

QOTD March 31 2013

Sunday, March 31st, 2013

Epictetus: “Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.”

QOTD March 30 2013

Saturday, March 30th, 2013

Whoopi Goldberg: “When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they’ll remember and be kind to someone else. And it’ll become like a wildfire.”

QOTD March 29 2013

Friday, March 29th, 2013

Erica Eisdorfer: “Having a baby’s sweet face so close to your own, for so long a time as it takes to nurse ’em, is a great tonic for a sad soul.”

QOTD March 28 2013

Thursday, March 28th, 2013

Rene Descartes: “If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.”

QOTD March 27 2013

Wednesday, March 27th, 2013

Real Live Preacher: “See things as they are and write about them. Don’t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.”

QOTD March 26 2013

Tuesday, March 26th, 2013

Colette: “I love my past. I love my present. I’m not ashamed of what I’ve had, and I’m not sad because I have it no longer.”

QOTD March 25 2013

Monday, March 25th, 2013

Steve Jobs: “It comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don’t get on the wrong track or try to do too much.”

QOTD March 24 2013

Sunday, March 24th, 2013

Noela Evans: “Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth…Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”

QOTD March 23 2013

Saturday, March 23rd, 2013

Hugh Elliott: “If there’s one thing I know it’s God does love a good joke.”

QOTD March 22 2013

Friday, March 22nd, 2013

Norman Vincent Peale: “Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy”

QOTD March 21 2013

Thursday, March 21st, 2013

Sylvia Robinson: “Some think it’s holding on that makes one strong; sometimes it’s letting go.”

QOTD March 20 2013

Wednesday, March 20th, 2013

John Dryden: “Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.”

QOTD March 19 2013

Tuesday, March 19th, 2013

Edward L. Flom: “One of the hardest tasks of leadership is understanding that you are not what you are, but what you’re perceived to be by others.”

QOTD March 18 2013

Monday, March 18th, 2013

Mark Twain: “The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.”

QOTD March 17 2013

Sunday, March 17th, 2013

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider: “I guess what I’m trying to say is, I don’t think you can measure life in terms of years. I think longevity doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with happiness. I mean happiness comes from facing challenges and going out on a limb and taking risks. If you’re not willing to take a risk for something you really care about, you might as well be dead.”

QOTD March 16 2013

Saturday, March 16th, 2013

Cherie Carter-Scott: “Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.”

QOTD March 15 2013

Friday, March 15th, 2013

Susan Rice: “If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.”

QOTD March 14 2013

Thursday, March 14th, 2013

Ghandi (on Steak & Blow Job day, before he turned vegetarian): “If only there were more Steaks and Blow Jobs in the world, we would have no War…”

QOTD March 13 2013

Wednesday, March 13th, 2013

Maya Angelou: “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”

QOTD March 12 2013

Tuesday, March 12th, 2013

Randall Munroe: “You don’t become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.”