Archive for the ‘QOTD’ Category

QOTD May 2 2015

Saturday, May 2nd, 2015

John Green: “The best way to get people to like you is not to like them too much.”

QOTD May 1 2015

Friday, May 1st, 2015

Mason Cooley: “Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.”

QOTD April 30 2015

Thursday, April 30th, 2015

Nelson Mandela: “For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”

 

QOTD April 29 2015

Wednesday, April 29th, 2015

W. Somerset Maugham: “Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.”

QOTD April 28 2015

Tuesday, April 28th, 2015

Larry Page: “You know what it’s like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don’t have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it’s important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it.”

 

QOTD April 27 2015

Monday, April 27th, 2015

Aristotle: “For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”

 

QOTD April 26 2015

Sunday, April 26th, 2015

Margot Fonteyn: “If I have learnt anything, it is that life forms no logical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?”

 

QOTD April 25 2015

Saturday, April 25th, 2015

Al Capp: “Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.”

 

QOTD April 24 2015

Friday, April 24th, 2015

Robert Fripp: β€œMusic is the wine that fills the cup of silence.”

QOTD April 23 3015

Thursday, April 23rd, 2015

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata: “There is nothing better than birthday cake. It’s like a slice of concentrated love with buttercream frosting.”

QOTD April 22 2015

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2015

Sallust: “Every man is the architect of his own fortune.”

QOTD April 21 2015

Tuesday, April 21st, 2015

Oprah Winfrey: “If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.”

 

QOTD April 20 2015

Monday, April 20th, 2015

Barack Obama: “The elevation of appearance over substance, of celebrity over character, of short term gains over lasting achievement displays a poverty of ambition. It distracts you from what’s truly important.”

QOTD April 19 2015

Sunday, April 19th, 2015

Mark Twain: “It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.”

QOTD April 18 2015

Saturday, April 18th, 2015

Chuck Sigars: “Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.”

QOTD April 17 2015

Friday, April 17th, 2015

Jimmy Wales: “Most people are good. They may not be saints, but they are good.”

QOTD April 16 2015

Thursday, April 16th, 2015

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

QOTD April 15 2015

Wednesday, April 15th, 2015

W. E. B. Du Bois: “Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life.”

 

QOTD April 14 2015

Tuesday, April 14th, 2015

William Jennings Bryan: “Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”

 

QOTD April 13 2015

Monday, April 13th, 2015

Franklin D. Roosevelt: “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.”