Archive for the ‘QOTD’ Category

QOTD October 15 2019

Tuesday, October 15th, 2019

Sir Winston Churchill: “However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.”

 

QOTD October 14 2019

Monday, October 14th, 2019

Seth Godin: “Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards–and living up to them–is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.”

 

QOTD October 13 2019

Sunday, October 13th, 2019

Eleanor Roosevelt: “Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.”

 

QOTD October 12 2019

Saturday, October 12th, 2019

Susan Sontag: “What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.”

 

QOTD October 11 2019

Friday, October 11th, 2019

Emily Dickinson: “I dwell in possibility…”

 

QOTD October 10 2019

Thursday, October 10th, 2019

Randall Munroe, xkcd: “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.”

 

QOTD October 9 2019

Wednesday, October 9th, 2019

Wilson Mizner: “Always be nice to people on the way up; because you’ll meet the same people on the way down.”

 

QOTD October 8 2019

Tuesday, October 8th, 2019

Arab Proverb: “Examine what is said, not him who speaks.”

 

QOTD October 7 2019

Monday, October 7th, 2019

Rob Sheridan: “Acting like someone you’re not is exactly what it takes to realize you’re capable of more than you ever knew.”

 

QOTD October 6 2019

Sunday, October 6th, 2019

Nathaniel Branden: “Self-esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.”

 

QOTD October 5 2019

Saturday, October 5th, 2019

Irma Kurtz: “Givers have to set limits because takers rarely do.”

QOTD October 3 2019

Thursday, October 3rd, 2019

Aristotle: “Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.”

 

QOTD October 2 2019

Wednesday, October 2nd, 2019

Saint Francis de Sales: “When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.”

 

QOTD October 1 2019

Tuesday, October 1st, 2019

Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran: “The point is that no matter what your feelings are, your children will be better off if you make them your central focus and work diligently at keeping the parenting relationship civil and cooperative.”

 

QOTD September 30 2019

Monday, September 30th, 2019

John Scalzi: “If the universe is bigger and stranger than I can imagine, it’s best to meet it with an empty bladder.”

 

QOTD September 29 2019

Sunday, September 29th, 2019

Helen Keller: “Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature…. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”

 

QOTD September 28 2019

Saturday, September 28th, 2019

Steve Jobs: “You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.”

 

QOTD September 25 2019

Wednesday, September 25th, 2019

John Ruskin: “The highest reward for man’s toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.”

 

QOTD September 24 2019

Tuesday, September 24th, 2019

Nigerian Proverb: “Hold a true friend with both hands.”

 

QOTD September 23 2019

Monday, September 23rd, 2019

Dag Hammarskjold: “Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible – not to have run away.”