Quote Of The Day
A quote of the day is like seeing a lovely sunset. On the other hand, it is like being near the one you love. You always enjoy seeing them every day.
In this collection, you will find these quotes:
Happiness, courage, encouraging, wise, trust, kindness, to make you think, to live by.
Some of the quotes of the day is short and easy to remember. You will find these quotations quite useful in your written and verbal communications.
Many of these are just simply fun to have as a part of your expanding vocabulary.
Come back often because the quote of the day will continue to grow over the month and years.
January 1
We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
January 2
The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.
-Maureen Dowd
January 3
Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few more upon it.
-Albert Schweitzer
January 4
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
-George Bernard Shaw
January 5
No man can have society upon his own terms.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
January 6
The ideal man bears the accident of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
-Aristotle
January 7
Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
-Ervin Berlin
January 8
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it is best to let him run.
-Abraham Lincoln
January 9
Adapt o perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
-H.G. Wells
January 10
When I decided to go into politics I weighed the costs. I would get criticism. But I went ahead. So when virulent criticism came I wasn’t surprised. I was better able to handle it.
-Herbert Hoover
January 11
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
-Oscar Wilde
January 13
When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
January 14
The mere sense of living is joy enough.
-Emily Dickinson
January 15
Grateful for the blessing lent of simple taste and mind content!
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
January 16
A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contently.
-Benjamin Franklin
January 17
My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
-William Shakespeare
January 18
Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
-Charles Dickens
January 19
Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
-Mae West
January 20
You always admire what you really don’t understand.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
January 21
To most of us the real life is the life we do not lead.
-Oscar Wilde
January 22
I am thankful to all those who said no to me. It's because of them I did it myself.
-Albert Einstein
January 23
The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.
-Alexander Chase
January 24
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere.
-Carl Sagan
January 25
I always imagined I could be what I wanted to be.
-Chris Brown
January 26
I always imagined I could be what I wanted to be.
-Chris Brown
January 27
Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if...'; And then do it.
-Duane Michals
January 28
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
-Muhammad Ali
January 29
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-Stephen Covey
January 30
Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-Sun Tzu
January 31
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
-A. A. Milne
February 1
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
-Colin Powell
February 2
Don't let your ego get too close to your position so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.
-Colin Powell
February 3
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
-Steve Jobs
February 4
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
-Thomas A. Edison
February 5
It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.
-Tom Brokaw
February 6
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
-Walter Scott
February 7
I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
-Winston Churchill
February 8
The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.
-Michael Korda
February 9
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
-Napoleon Hill
February 10
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
-Napoleon Hill
February 11
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
-Robert H. Schuller
February 12
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
-Abraham Lincoln
February 13
To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
-Andre Malraux
February 14
One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
-Arnold H. Glasow
February 15
The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.
-Benjamin Jowett
February 16
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
-Charles Kettering
February 17
The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.
-Confucius
February 18
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
-Dale Carnegie
February 19
I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.
-Edward Appleton
February 20
There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
-Sam Walton
February 21
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
-Tacitus
February 22
Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.
-Theodore Isaac Rubin
February 23
Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.
-Thomas J. Watson
February 24
Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.
-Thomas J. Watson
February 25
Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.
-Tim Berners-Lee
February 26
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
-W. Clement Stone
February 27
Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
-W. Edwards Deming
February 28
Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
-Walt Disney
February 29
The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
-Walter Lippmann
March 1
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
-Walter Lippmann
March 2
In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
-Harold S. Geneen
March 3
Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.
-Henry Ford
March 4
The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
-Henry Ford
March 5
Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.
-Henry R. Luce
March 6
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
-Henry Ward Beecher
March 7
Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.
-Herbert Hoover
March 8
About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
-Herbert Hoover
March 9
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
-Howard Aiken
March 10
The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork.
-Igor Sikorsky
March 11
I buy when other people are selling.
-J. Paul Getty
March 12
If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
-J. Paul Getty
March 13
If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.
-Jane Fonda
March 14
There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.
-Jeff Bezos
March 15
I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act.
-Jennifer Aniston
March 16
As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.
-John Greenleaf Whittier
March 17
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
-John Greenleaf Whittier
March 18
If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
-Khalil Gibran
March 19
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca
March 20
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
-Paul Tournier
March 21
Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
-Peter Drucker
March 22
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
-Robert H. Schuller
March 23
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.
-Robert Orben
March 24
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
-John Keats
March 25
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
-John Stuart Mill
March 26
Experience is the teacher of all things.
-Julius Caesar
March 27
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
-M. Scott Peck
March 28
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
March 29
Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.
-Rita Mae Brown
March 30
The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.
-William Osler
March 31
If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.
-Abigail Van Buren
April 1
Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.
-Albert Bandura
April 2
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-Albert Camus
April 3
Knowledge is power.
-Francis Bacon
April 4
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
-Frederick Douglass
April 5
A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
-Henry Ward Beecher
April 6
Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.
-Nelson Rockefeller
April 7
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.
-Peace Pilgrim
April 8
When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.
-Susan Sarandon
April 9
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
-Victor Hugo
April 10
No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
-Barbara de Angelis
April 11
Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
-Bruce Lee
April 12
Women have to harness their power - it's absolutely true. It's just learning not to take the first no. And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner.
-Cher
April 13
Each underestimates her own power and overestimates the others.
-Deborah Tannen
April 14
The greatest power is often simple patience.
-E. Joseph Cossman
April 15
Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
April 16
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
-Epictetus
April 17
It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
-Epicurus
April 18
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
-Abraham Lincoln
April 19
Excessive fear is always powerless.
-Aeschylus
April 20
You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again.
-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
April 21
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
-Alice Walker
April 22
Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
-Alvin Toffler
April 23
Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
-Newt Gingrich
April 24
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
-Abraham Lincoln
April 25
If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my ax.
-Abraham Lincoln
April 26
I will prepare and someday my chance will come.
-Abraham Lincoln
April 27
If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.
-Abraham Lincoln
April 28
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
-Abraham Lincoln
April 29
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
-Abraham Lincoln
April 30
The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
-Abraham Lincoln
May 1
Whatever you are, be a good one.
-Abraham Lincoln
May 2
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
-Abraham Lincoln
May 3
Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.
-Abraham Lincoln
May 4
That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
-Abraham Lincoln
May 5
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
-Abraham Lincoln
May 6
I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.
-Abraham Lincoln
May 7
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
-Abraham Lincoln
May 8
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
-Albert Einstein
May 9
I've been lucky. Opportunities don't often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.
-Audrey Hepburn
May 10
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
-Audrey Hepburn
May 11
Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.
-Jim Rohn
May 12
We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
-Jim Rohn
May 13
The book you don't read won't help.
-Jim Rohn
May 14
When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.
-Jim Rohn
May 15
Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.
-Jim Rohn
May 16
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
-Benjamin Franklin
May 17
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
May 18
Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
May 19
Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
May 20
I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
May 21
You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
May 22
In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.
-Lucille Ball
May 23
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
-Lucille Ball
May 24
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
-John F. Kennedy
May 25
Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.
-John F. Kennedy
May 26
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
-John F. Kennedy
May 27
Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.
-John F. Kennedy
May 28
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
-John F. Kennedy
May 29
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
-Maya Angelou
May 30
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at it destination full of hope.
-Maya Angelou
May 31
I believe that every person is born with talent.
-Maya Angelou
June 1
Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
-Maya Angelou
June 2
All great achievements require time.
-Maya Angelou
June 3
The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
June 4
We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
June 5
The quality, not the longevity, of one's life, is what is important.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
June 6
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
June 7
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
June 8
Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
June 9
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
-Winston Churchill
June 10
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
-Winston Churchill
June 11
We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
-Winston Churchill
June 12
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
-Winston Churchill
June 13
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
-Winston Churchill
June 14
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
-Winston Churchill
June 15
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
-Winston Churchill
June 16
There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.
-Winston Churchill
June 17
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.
-Oprah Winfrey
June 18
Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.
-Oprah Winfrey
June 19
The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
-Oprah Winfrey
June 20
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
-Oprah Winfrey
June 21
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.
-Oprah Winfrey
June 22
We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
-Dalai Lama
June 23
Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
-Dalai Lama
June 24
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
-Dalai Lama
June 25
It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.
-Dalai Lama
June 26
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
-Brian Tracy
June 27
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
-Brian Tracy
June 28
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
-Brian Tracy
June 29
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
-Brian Tracy
June 30
Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.
-Brian Tracy
July 1
Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
-Helen Keller
July 2
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
-Helen Keller
July 3
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-Helen Keller
July 4
Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
-Helen Keller
July 5
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
-Helen Keller
July 6
I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.
-Helen Keller
July 7
I am only one, but still, I am one. I cannot do everything, but still, I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.
-Helen Keller
July 8
It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.
-Zig Ziglar
July 9
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
-Zig Ziglar
July 10
Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.
-Zig Ziglar
July 11
Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
-Zig Ziglar
July 12
You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.
-Zig Ziglar
July 13
Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.
-Zig Ziglar
July 14
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
-Zig Ziglar
July 15
I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top but should get you pretty near.
-Margaret Thatcher
July 16
Of course, it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
-Margaret Thatcher
July 17
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
-Margaret Thatcher
July 18
My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out.
-Ronald Reagan
July 19
We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.
-Ronald Reagan
July 20
There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.
-Ronald Reagan
July 21
Don't be afraid to see what you see.
-Ronald Reagan
July 22
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
-C. S. Lewis
July 23
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
-C. S. Lewis
July 24
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
-C. S. Lewis
July 25
We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
-C. S. Lewis
July 26
We are what we believe we are.
-C. S. Lewis
July 27
A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
-Muhammad Ali
July 28
It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.
-Muhammad Ali
July 29
It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.
-Muhammad Ali
July 30
I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.
-Muhammad Ali
July 31
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
-Muhammad Ali
August 1
The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.
-Muhammad Ali
August 2
When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better.
-Mae West
August 3
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
-Mae West
August 4
There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.
-Buddha
August 5
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act, but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
-Buddha
August 6
Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
-Buddha
August 7
We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
-Buddha
August 8
Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
-Buddha
August 9
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
-Buddha
August 10
When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream.
-John Lennon
August 11
You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!
-John Lennon
August 12
Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
-Jesse Jackson
August 13
We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
-Jesse Jackson
August 14
If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.
-Jesse Jackson
August 15
It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
-Jesse Jackson
August 16
If you run, you might lose. If you don't run, you're guaranteed to lose.
-Jesse Jackson
August 17
The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.
-Thomas Jefferson
August 18
Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.
-Thomas Jefferson
August 19
He who knows best knows how little he knows.
-Thomas Jefferson
August 20
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
-Thomas Jefferson
August 21
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
-Thomas Jefferson
August 22
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
-Thomas Jefferson
August 23
How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.
-Thomas Jefferson
August 24
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
-Thomas Jefferson
August 25
All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
-Thomas Jefferson
August 26
Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
-Thomas Jefferson
August 27
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
-Thomas Jefferson
August 28
One man with courage is a majority.
-Thomas Jefferson
August 29
It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
-Thomas Jefferson
August 30
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
August 31
Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.
-Abdul Kalam
September 1
You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
-Abdul Kalam
September 2
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan but also believe.
-Anatole France
September 3
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
-Christopher Reeve
September 4
All men of action are dreamers.
-James Huneker
September 5
As long as you continue to believe success will be yours!
-John Jones
September 6
Dream and give yourself permission to envision a you that you choose to be.
-Joy Page
September 7
Every day you work toward success puts you a day closer to your goal.
-John Jones
September 8
Hard work brings about the glory of success.
-John Jones
September 9
Stop complaining. There is always someone worst off than you.
-John Jones
September 10
The thrill success brings makes the hard work worthwhile.
-John Jones
September 11
Trust your instincts. He/she more often than not will not lead you to the wrong path.
-John Jones
September 12
Dreams are out there to be obtained. They don’t like to be confined in closed quarters.
-John Jones
September 13
Every day that we have the ability to breathe is another day worth using to succeed.
-John Jones
September 14
Get up. Make it happen. No one will bring you success except yourself.
-John Jones
September 15
If you want success, grow.
-John Jones
September 16
Open your eyes success may be just below your chin.
-John Jones
September 17
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
-Denis Diderot
September 18
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion
-Hegel
September 19
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them
-Alfred Adler
September 20
Rise above principle and do what’s right.
-Walter Heller
September 21
I know only that what is moral is what you feel good about and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
- Ernest Hemingway
September 22
My county is the world, and my religion is to do good.
-Thomas Paine
September 23
No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.
-Herbert Spencer
September 24
You shall not decide until you have heard what both have to say.
-Aristophanes
September 25
The journey not the arrival matters.
-Montaigne
September 26
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
September 27
A man’s character is his fate.
-Heraclitus
September 28
The thing I fear most is fear.
-Montaigne
September 29
If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
-Seneca
September 30
Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
-Bible
October 1
Forgive, and ye shall be forgiven.
-Bible
October 2
To err is human, to forgive, divine.
-Alexander Pope
October 3
Some people’s idea of [free speech] is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone says anything back, that is an outrage.
-Winston Churchill
October 4
The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man from falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
October 5
One friend in a life is much, two are many, three are hardly possible.
-Ibid
October 6
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud.
-Ibid
October 7
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
-Thomas Jefferson
October 8
I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
-Henrik Ibsen
October 9
A great man is always willing to be little.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
October 10
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
-Herodotus
October11
Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
-Shakespeare
October 12
It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness.
-Thomas Jefferson
October 13
To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
-Marcus Aurelius
October 14
The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
-La Rochefoucauld
October 15
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
-A. C. Benson
October 16
The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
-A. C. Benson
October 17
Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.
-A. C. Benson
October 18
The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.
-A. E. Housman
October 19
You can't be a victim and heal.
-A. J. Langer
October 20
If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.
-A. J. Liebling
October 21
Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.
-A. J. P. Taylor
October 22
Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
-A. J. P. Taylor
October 23
No war is inevitable until it breaks out.
-A. J. P. Taylor
October 24
Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
-A. Philip Randolph
October 25
Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political, and religious relationship.
-A. Philip Randolph
October 26
In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
-A. Philip Randolph
October 27
Freedom is never given; it is won.
-A. Philip Randolph
October 28
Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
-A. R. Ammons
October 29
Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want.
-Aaliyah
October 30
Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.
-Aaron Allston
October 31
Violence is the first refuge of the violent.
-Aaron Allston
November 1
No one wants to hear the truth if it isn't what they want to he
-Aaron Brown
November 2
Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness, I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.
-Aaron Copland
November 3
When it gets down to it you just have to act.
-Aaron Eckhart
November 4
Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.
-Aaron Hill
November 5
Don't call the world dirty because you forgot to clean your glasses.
-Aaron Hill
November 6
Reason gains all people by compelling none.
-Aaron Hill
November 7
Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.
-Aaron Klug
November 8
One cannot plan for the unexpected.
-Aaron Klug
November 9
And I'm not so in love with making people mad that I want to live my life around it.
-Aaron McGruder
November 10
I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.
-Aaron McGruder
November 11
Every morning I wake up and thank God.
-Aaron Neville
November 12
I owe it all to Jesus.
-Aaron Neville
November 13
Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
-Abba Eban
November 14
I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.
-Abba Eban
November 15
Time and again these governments have rejected proposals today - and longed for them tomorrow.
-Abba Eban
November 16
You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way.
-Abba Eban
November 17
It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.
-Abba Eban
November 18
Better to be disliked than pitied.
-Abba Eban
November 19
Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.
-Abba Eban
November 20
Illness has always brought me nearer to a state of grace.
-Abbe Pierre
November 21
What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences.
-Abbe Pierre
November 22
The question I asked Georges has now become a general one - You, who thought you were superfluous, who thought there was no place for you in society, not only are you not superfluous, you are needed and so those who were beggars become givers.
-Abbe Pierre
November 23
It's true that humanity has seen a succession of crises, wars and atrocities, but this negative side is offset by advances in technology and cultural exchanges.
-Abbe Pierre
November 24
Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.
Abbott L. Lowell
November 25
You will not accept credit that is due to another or harbor jealousy of an explorer who is more fortunate.
-Abbott L. Lowell
November 26
You will seek not a near but a distant objective, and you will not be satisfied with what you may have done.
-Abbott L. Lowell
November 27
All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
-Abbott L. Lowell
November 28
When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose.
-Abdallah II
November 29
Together, we can create a world in which peace is real; in which every human being can thrive; in which all share the promise of our century. I believe we can succeed.
-Abdallah II
November 30
Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.
-Abdallah II
December 1
Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.
-Abdallah II
December 2
In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes - a virtuous cycle of change.
-Abdallah II
December 3
If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium.
-Abdelaziz Bouteflika
December 4
A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated, and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankind's heritage.
-Abdelaziz Bouteflika
December 5
People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
-Abdolkarim Soroush
December 6
In order for answers to become clear, the questions have to be clear.
-Abdolkarim Soroush
December 7
In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the center of attention, but they inscribe some other name on their banner.
-Abdolkarim Soroush
December 8
If a group of people feels that it has been humiliated and that its honour has been trampled underfoot, it will want to express its identity and this expression of an identity will take different shapes and forms.
-Abdolkarim Soroush
December 9
Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.
-Abdolkarim Soroush
December 10
We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems.
-Abdolkarim Soroush
December 11
Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right until it reaches its snapping point.
-Abdoulaye Wade
December 12
Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.
-Abdul Kalam
December 13
My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
-Abdul Kalam
December 14
Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.
-Abdul Kalam
December 15
Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.
-Abdul Kalam
December 16
Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.
-Abdul Kalam
December 17
Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
-Abdul Kalam
December 18
To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.
-Abdul Kalam
December 19
If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother, and the teacher.
-Abdul Kalam
December 20
Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.
-Abdul Kalam
December 21
As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.
-Abdul Kalam
December 22
Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.
-Abdul Kalam
December 23
Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.
-Abdul Kalam
December 24
Do we not realize that self-respect comes with self-reliance?
-Abdul Kalam
December 25
Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.
-Abdul Kalam
December 26
We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.
-Abdul Kalam
December 27
You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
-Abdul Kalam
December 28
If we are not free, no one will respect us.
-Abdul Kalam
December 29
Some people are ok with doing nothing all day after they retire, but then some people if they had nothing to do would go mad and start banging their heads against a wall.
-Abdul Qadeer Khan
December 30
But I have always said that it's important we must make sure that justice is at all time be maintained.
-Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
December 31
You will be courteous to your elders who have explored to the point from which you may advance; and helpful to your juniors who will progress farther by reason of your labors.
-Abbott L. Lowell
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