Archive for the ‘QOTD’ Category

QOTD May 11 2017

Thursday, May 11th, 2017

Bernard M. Baruch: “Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.”

 

QOTD May 10 2017

Wednesday, May 10th, 2017

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg: “One’s first step in wisdom is to question everything – and one’s last is to come to terms with everything.”

 

QOTD May 9 2017

Tuesday, May 9th, 2017

Og Mandino: “Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.”

 

QOTD May 8 2017

Monday, May 8th, 2017

Benjamin Disraeli: “In a progressive country change is constant; …change… is inevitable.”

 

QOTD May 7 2017

Sunday, May 7th, 2017

W. S. Gilbert: “If you wish in this world to advance, your merits you’re bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or trust me, you haven’t a chance.”

 

QOTD May 6 2017

Saturday, May 6th, 2017

J. K. Rowling: “Hearing voices no one else can hear isn’t a good sign, even in the wizarding world.”

 

QOTD May 5 2017

Friday, May 5th, 2017

Sir Thomas Browne: “There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.”

 

QOTD May 4 2017

Thursday, May 4th, 2017

Barry Commoner: “Nothing ever goes away.”

 

QOTD May 3 2017

Wednesday, May 3rd, 2017

Oprah Winfrey: “Every time you state what you want or believe, you’re the first to hear it. It’s a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don’t put a ceiling on yourself.”

QOTD May 2 2017

Tuesday, May 2nd, 2017

Jorge Luis Borges: “Life itself is a quotation.”

 

QOTD May 1 2017

Monday, May 1st, 2017

Alan Saporta: “The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.”

 

QOTD April 30 2017

Sunday, April 30th, 2017

Mario Puzo: “Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.”

 

QOTD April 29 2017

Saturday, April 29th, 2017

Margaret Fuller: “If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.”

QOTD April 28 2017

Friday, April 28th, 2017

Maureen Dowd: “The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.”

 

QOTD April 27 2017

Thursday, April 27th, 2017

Dan Millman: “The time is now, the place is here. Stay in the present. You can do nothing to change the past, and the future will never come exactly as you plan or hope for.”

 

QOTD April 26 2017

Wednesday, April 26th, 2017

Cicero: “When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men’s minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.”

 

QOTD April 25 2017

Tuesday, April 25th, 2017

Francois de La Rochefoucauld: “When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.”

 

QOTD April 24 2017

Monday, April 24th, 2017

Mary Field Belenky: “Really listening and suspending one’s own judgment is necessary in order to understand other people on their own terms… This is a process that requires trust and builds trust.”

 

QOTD April 23 2017

Sunday, April 23rd, 2017

Emily Dickinson: “We turn not older with years, but newer every day.”

QOTD April 22 2017

Saturday, April 22nd, 2017

Helen Keller: “Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content.”