365 Quotes for your College Assembly
Here are
365 inspiring,
incredible and just plain interesting
quotes
to get the new year off to a great
start.
Sunday, January
1, 2017
New Year's Day
"I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear."
--Rosa Parks
"I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear."
--Rosa Parks
Monday, January
2, 2017
"Give me a stock clerk with a goal, and I will
give you a man who will make history. Give me a man without a goal, and I will
give you a stock clerk."
--James Cash Penny
--James Cash Penny
Tuesday, January
3, 2017
"A lot of the time the experts, the people who
are supposed to be able to tell you what to do, will tell you that you can't do
something even when you know you can. And a lot of the time it's your friends
... who tell you you can do it."
--Mark Zuckerberg
--Mark Zuckerberg
Wednesday,
January 4, 2017
World Braille Day
"Life is a daring adventure or it is nothing at all."
--Helen Keller
"Life is a daring adventure or it is nothing at all."
--Helen Keller
Thursday,
January 5, 2017
"Don't tell people how to do things; tell them
what to do and let them surprise you with their results."
--George S. Patton
--George S. Patton
Friday, January
6, 2017
True luck consists not in holding the best of the
cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go
home."
--John Hay
--John Hay
Saturday,
January 7, 2017
"Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is
an orphan."
--John F. Kennedy
--John F. Kennedy
Sunday, January
8, 2017
"Fall seven times and stand up eight."
--Anonymous
--Anonymous
Monday, January
9, 2017
"Life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90
percent of how I react to it."
--Charles Swindoll
--Charles Swindoll
Tuesday, January
10, 2017
"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career.
I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game winning
shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that
is why I succeed."
--Michael Jordan
--Michael Jordan
Wednesday,
January 11, 2017
"The most difficult thing is the decision to
act, the rest is merely tenacity."
--Amelia Earhart
--Amelia Earhart
Thursday,
January 12, 2017
"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says,
'I'm possible!'" --Audrey Hepburn
Friday, January
13, 2017
"It is during our darkest moments that we must
focus to see the light."
--Aristotle Onassis
--Aristotle Onassis
Saturday,
January 14, 2017
"I have been impressed with the urgency of
doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we
must do."
--Leonardo da Vinci
--Leonardo da Vinci
Sunday, January
15, 2017
"The successful warrior is the average man,
with laserlike focus."
--Bruce Lee
--Bruce Lee
Monday, January
16, 2017
Martin Luther King Jr. Day
"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
--Martin Luther King
"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
--Martin Luther King
Tuesday, January
17, 2017
"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up
someone else."
--Booker T. Washington
--Booker T. Washington
Wednesday,
January 18, 2017
"If there is no struggle, there is no
progress."
--Frederick Douglas
--Frederick Douglas
Thursday,
January 19, 2017
"Running a startup is like being punched in
the face repeatedly, but working for a large company is like being
waterboarded."
--Paul Graham
--Paul Graham
Friday, January
20, 2017
Inauguration Day
"I want to start by, as always, thanking my family. My kids, they're not kids anymore, but they're kids as far as I'm concerned. They'll always be my kids."
--Donald J. Trump
"I want to start by, as always, thanking my family. My kids, they're not kids anymore, but they're kids as far as I'm concerned. They'll always be my kids."
--Donald J. Trump
Saturday,
January 21, 2017
Women's March on Washington
"I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass."
--Maya Angelou
"I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass."
--Maya Angelou
Sunday, January
22, 2017
"Everything has beauty, but not everyone can
see."
--Confucius
--Confucius
Monday, January
23, 2017
"We can't help everyone, but everyone can help
someone."
--Ronald Reagan
--Ronald Reagan
Tuesday, January
24, 2017
"For me, the most fun is change or growth.
There are definitely elements of both that I like. Launching a business is kind
of like a motorboat: You can go very quickly and turn fast."
--Tony Hseih
--Tony Hseih
Wednesday,
January 25, 2017
"I alone cannot change the world, but I can
cast a stone across the water to create many ripples."
--Mother Teresa
--Mother Teresa
Thursday,
January 26, 2017
"What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
--Henry Haskins
--Henry Haskins
Friday, January
27, 2017
"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a
door."
--Milton Berle
--Milton Berle
Saturday,
January 28, 2017
Chinese New Year
"Everyone has a plan 'til they get punched in the mouth."
--Mike Tyson
"Everyone has a plan 'til they get punched in the mouth."
--Mike Tyson
Sunday, January
29, 2017
"I attribute my success to this: I never gave
or took any excuse."
--Florence Nightingale
--Florence Nightingale
Monday, January
30, 2017
"For small creatures such as we, the vastness
is bearable only through love."
--Carl Sagan
--Carl Sagan
Tuesday, January
31, 2017
"The crisis of today is the joke of
tomorrow."
--H.G. Wells
--H.G. Wells
Wednesday,
February 1, 2017
"I urge you to please notice when you are
happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, If this isn't nice, I
don't know what is."
--Kurt Vonnegut
--Kurt Vonnegut
Thursday,
February 2, 2017
"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do
what you can."
--Arthur Ashe
--Arthur Ashe
Friday, February
3, 2017
"Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody
wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At
the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it'll pay off. It
could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will
pay off."
--Michael Hart
--Michael Hart
Saturday,
February 4, 2017
Rosa Parks Day
"I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear."
--Rosa Parks
"I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear."
--Rosa Parks
Sunday, February
5, 2017
"Tough times never last, but tough people
do."
--Dr. Robert Schuller
--Dr. Robert Schuller
Monday, February
6, 2017
"The trouble in America is not that we are
making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few."
--Phil Knight
--Phil Knight
Tuesday,
February 7, 2017
"A year from now you may wish you had started
today."
--Karen Lamb
--Karen Lamb
Wednesday,
February 8, 2017
"Man is free at the instant he wants to
be."
--Voltaire
--Voltaire
Thursday,
February 9, 2017
"If you do not tell the truth about yourself
you cannot tell it about other people."
--Virgina Wolfe
--Virgina Wolfe
Friday, February
10, 2017
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
--Franklin D. Roosevelt
--Franklin D. Roosevelt
Saturday,
February 11, 2017
"Conditions are never perfect. 'Someday' is a
disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.... If it's important
to you and you want to do it 'eventually,' just do it and correct course along
the way."
--Tim Ferriss
--Tim Ferriss
Sunday, February
12, 2017
"Nothing works better than just improving your
product."
--Joel Spolsky, cofounder of Stack Overflow
--Joel Spolsky, cofounder of Stack Overflow
Monday, February
13, 2017
Lincoln's Birthday observed
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing."
--Abraham Lincoln
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing."
--Abraham Lincoln
Tuesday,
February 14, 2017
Valentine's Day
"It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it."
--John Crowe
"It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it."
--John Crowe
Wednesday,
February 15, 2017
Susan B Anthony's Birthday
"Independence is happiness."
--Susan B. Anthony
--Susan B. Anthony
Thursday,
February 16, 2017
"When I'm old and dying, I plan to look back
on my life and say, 'Wow, that was an adventure,' not 'Wow, I sure felt
safe.' --Tom PrestonWerner, cofounder of Github
Friday, February
17, 2017
"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot
coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets
burned."
--Anonymous
--Anonymous
Saturday,
February 18, 2017
"If you have knowledge, let others light their
candles in it."
--Margaret Fuller
--Margaret Fuller
Sunday, February
19, 2017
"Good is the enemy of great."
--Jim Collins
--Jim Collins
Monday, February
20, 2017
Presidents' Day
"No one has as much luck around the greens as one who practices a lot. --Chi Chi Rodriguez
"No one has as much luck around the greens as one who practices a lot. --Chi Chi Rodriguez
Tuesday,
February 21, 2017
"There are two ways of spreading light: to be
the candle or the mirror that reflects it."
--Edith Wharton
--Edith Wharton
Wednesday,
February 22, 2017
"Leadership is the art of getting someone else
to do something you want done because he wants to do it."
--Dwight Eisenhower
--Dwight Eisenhower
Thursday,
February 23, 2017
"A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work
if it isn't open."
--Frank Zappa
--Frank Zappa
Friday, February
24, 2017
"Choose a job you love, and you will never
have to work a day in your life."
--Anonymous
--Anonymous
Saturday,
February 25, 2017
"I can say the willingness to get dirty has
always defined us as an nation, and it's a hallmark of hard work and a hallmark
of fun, and dirt is not the enemy."
--Mike Rowe
--Mike Rowe
Sunday, February
26, 2017
"Death is very likely the single best
invention of life. It's life's change agent; it clears out the old to make way
for the new. Right now, the new is you. But someday, not too long from now, you
will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but
it's quite true. Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's
life."
--Steve Jobs
--Steve Jobs
Monday, February
27, 2017
"Every truth passes through three stages
before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed. In the second, it is
opposed. In the third, it is regarded as self-evident."
--Arthur Schopenhauer
--Arthur Schopenhauer
Tuesday,
February 28, 2017
Shrove Tuesday/Mardi Gras
"An American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi-Gras in New Orleans."
--Mark Twain
"An American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi-Gras in New Orleans."
--Mark Twain
Wednesday, March
1, 2017
Ash Wednesday
"Lent comes providentially to reawaken us, to shake us from our lethargy."
--Pope Francis
"Lent comes providentially to reawaken us, to shake us from our lethargy."
--Pope Francis
Thursday, March
2, 2017
Read Across America Day
"Today a reader, tomorrow a leader."
--Margaret Fuller
"Today a reader, tomorrow a leader."
--Margaret Fuller
Friday, March 3,
2017
Employee Appreciation Day
"There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise."
--Mary Kay Ash
"There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise."
--Mary Kay Ash
Saturday, March
4, 2017
"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid
of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the
light."
--Plato
--Plato
Sunday, March 5,
2017
"Champions keep playing until they get it
right."
--Billie Jean King
--Billie Jean King
Monday, March 6,
2017
"The last 10 percent it takes to launch
something takes as much energy as the first 90 percent."
--Rob Kalin, founder of Etsy
--Rob Kalin, founder of Etsy
Tuesday, March
7, 2017
"Being able to touch so many people through my
businesses, and make money while doing it, is a huge blessing."
--Magic Johnson
--Magic Johnson
Wednesday, March
8, 2017
"Always make a total effort, even when the
odds are against you."
--Arnold Palmer
--Arnold Palmer
Thursday, March
9, 2017
"As you start your journey, the first thing
you should do is throw away that store-bought map and begin to draw your
own."
--Michael Dell
--Michael Dell
Friday, March
10, 2017
"We must believe that we are gifted for
something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained."
--Marie Curie
--Marie Curie
Saturday, March
11, 2017
"I am not a product of my circumstances. I am
a product of my decisions."
--Stephen Covey
--Stephen Covey
Sunday, March
12, 2017
Daylight Saving Time starts
"Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart."
--Michael Ende
"Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart."
--Michael Ende
Monday, March
13, 2017
"Happiness is not the absence of problems;
it's the ability to deal with them."
--Steve Maraboli
--Steve Maraboli
Tuesday, March
14, 2017
"Happiness is not something ready made. It
comes from your own actions."
--Dalai Lama
--Dalai Lama
Wednesday, March
15, 2017
"The difference between ordinary and
extraordinary is that little extra."
--Jimmy Johnson
--Jimmy Johnson
Thursday, March
16, 2017
"Following is one of the most underrated
aspects of leadership.... I have seen many a good [organization] underachieve,
because someone...thought the commander was incompetent, and quietly worked to
undermine his authority."
--Admiral Bill McRaven
--Admiral Bill McRaven
Friday, March
17, 2017
St. Patrick's Day
"Creativity is intelligence having fun."
--Albert Einstein
"Creativity is intelligence having fun."
--Albert Einstein
Saturday, March
18, 2017
"Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune;
but great minds rise above them."
--Washington Irving
--Washington Irving
Sunday, March
19, 2017
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able
to entertain a thought without accepting it."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
Monday, March
20, 2017
International Day of Happiness
"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared."
--Gautama Buddha
"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared."
--Gautama Buddha
Tuesday, March
21, 2017
"A successful man is one who can lay a firm
foundation with the bricks that others throw at him."
--Sidney Greenberg
--Sidney Greenberg
Wednesday, March
22, 2017
"Don't let winning make you soft. Don't let
losing make you quite. Don't let your teammates down in any situation."
--Larry Bird
--Larry Bird
Thursday, March
23, 2017
"I watched a small man with thick calluses on
both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the
bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the
language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the
simple eloquence of his example."
--Mario Cuomo
--Mario Cuomo
Friday, March
24, 2017
"The best revenge is massive success."
--Frank Sinatra
--Frank Sinatra
Saturday, March
25, 2017
"We learn wisdom from failure much more than
from success; we often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do;
and probably he who never make a mistake never made a discovery."
--Samuel Smiles
--Samuel Smiles
Sunday, March
26, 2017
"Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my
own life that the more I exercise it, the more natural it becomes to not let my
fears run me. --Arianna Huffington
Monday, March 27,
2017
"I don't lose any sleep at night over the
potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word."
--James Mattis
--James Mattis
Tuesday, March
28, 2017
"If you can dream it, you can achieve
it."
--Zig Ziglar
--Zig Ziglar
Wednesday, March
29, 2017
"You can be the ripest, juciest peach in the
world, and there are still going to be some people who hate peaches."
--Dita Von Teese
--Dita Von Teese
Thursday, March
30, 2017
"There are no traffic jams along the extra
mile."
--Roger Staubach
--Roger Staubach
Friday, March
31, 2017
César Chávez Day
"There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance."
--Cesar Chavez
"There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance."
--Cesar Chavez
Saturday, April
1, 2017
April Fool's Day
"I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish. --Daniel DayLewis, only threetime winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor
"I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish. --Daniel DayLewis, only threetime winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor
Sunday, April 2,
2017
"The secret of getting ahead is getting
started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming
tasks into smaller manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one."
--Mark Twain
--Mark Twain
Monday, April 3,
2017
"It's hard work making movies. It's like being
a doctor: you work long hours, very hard hours, and it's emotional, tense work.
If you don't really love it, then it ain't worth it."
--George Lucas
--George Lucas
Tuesday, April
4, 2017
"Being an optimist after you've got the very
thing you want doesn't count."
--Ken Hubbard
--Ken Hubbard
Wednesday, April
5, 2017
"You know you're in love when you don't want
to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
--Dr. Seuss
--Dr. Seuss
Thursday, April
6, 2017
"Numbing the pain for a while will only make
it worse when you finally feel it."
--Albus Dumbledore, "Harry Potter" character
--Albus Dumbledore, "Harry Potter" character
Friday, April 7,
2017
"We must never be afraid to go too far, for
success lies just beyond."
--Marcel Proust
--Marcel Proust
Saturday, April 8,
2017
"There are two kinds of failures: those who
thought and never did, and those who did and never thought."
--Laurence J. Peter
--Laurence J. Peter
Sunday, April 9,
2017
"I'm a designer, and I work very hard at that.
People sometimes want to put down fashion by saying it's frivolous or
superficial, but it's not that way at all. It's actually very hard work."
--Donatella Versace
--Donatella Versace
Monday, April
10, 2017
"Success at the highest level comes down to
one question: Can you decide that your happiness can come from someone else's success? --Bill
Walton
Tuesday, April
11, 2017
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every
opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
--Sir Winston Churchill
--Sir Winston Churchill
Wednesday, April
12, 2017
International Day of Human Space Flight
"It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract."
--Alan Shepard
"It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract."
--Alan Shepard
Thursday, April
13, 2017
Thomas Jefferson's Birthday
"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
--Thomas Jefferson
"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
--Thomas Jefferson
Friday, April
14, 2017
"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to
win glorious triumphs - even though checkered by failure - than to rank with
those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in
a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."
--Theodore Roosevelt
--Theodore Roosevelt
Saturday, April
15, 2017
"May I never be complete. May I never be
content. May I never be perfect."
--Chuck Palahniuk
--Chuck Palahniuk
Sunday, April
16, 2017
Easter Sunday
"Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life." --S. D Gordon
"Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life." --S. D Gordon
Monday, April
17, 2017
Emancipation Day observed
"I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves."
--Harriet Tubman
"I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves."
--Harriet Tubman
Tuesday, April
18, 2017
Tax Day
"Taxes are what we pay for civilized society."
--Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr."
"Taxes are what we pay for civilized society."
--Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr."
Wednesday, April
19, 2017
"Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who
can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the
world."
--Oscar Wilde
--Oscar Wilde
Thursday, April
20, 2017
Chinese Language Day
"I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It's chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one."
--Paul Simon
"I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It's chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one."
--Paul Simon
Friday, April
21, 2017
"The best way out is always through."
--Robert Frost
--Robert Frost
Saturday, April
22, 2017
"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
Sunday, April
23, 2017
World Book and Copyright Day
"Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light."
--Vera Nazarian
"Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light."
--Vera Nazarian
Monday, April
24, 2017
"Power means happiness; power means hard work
and sacrifice."
--Beyonce Knowles
--Beyonce Knowles
Tuesday, April
25, 2017
"Death is something inevitable. When a man has
done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can
rest in peace. I believe I have made that effort and that is, therefore, why I
will sleep for the eternity."
--Nelson Mandella
--Nelson Mandella
Wednesday, April
26, 2017
"When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days
a week, I get lucky."
--Dr. Armand Hammer
--Dr. Armand Hammer
Thursday, April
27, 2017
Take our Daughters and Sons to Work Day
"Do not bring people in your life who weigh you down. And trust your instincts ... good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don't hurt. They're not painful. That's not just with somebody you want to marry, but it's with the friends that you choose. It's with the people you surround yourselves with."
--Michelle Obama
"Do not bring people in your life who weigh you down. And trust your instincts ... good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don't hurt. They're not painful. That's not just with somebody you want to marry, but it's with the friends that you choose. It's with the people you surround yourselves with."
--Michelle Obama
Friday, April
28, 2017
"It's hard work to make a four-minute program
look effortless and elegant."
--Katarina Witt
--Katarina Witt
Saturday, April
29, 2017
"You are never too old to set another goal or
to dream a new dream."
--Les Brown
--Les Brown
Sunday, April
30, 2017
International Jazz Day
"Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon."
--Nat Wolff
"Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon."
--Nat Wolff
Monday, May 1,
2017
"[W]ith extreme wealth comes extreme
responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new
businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues
where we can make a difference."
--Richard Branson
--Richard Branson
Tuesday, May 2,
2017
"You miss 100 percent of the shots you don't
take."
--Wayne Gretzky
--Wayne Gretzky
Wednesday, May
3, 2017
World Press Freedom Day
"Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets."
--Napoleon Bonaparte
"Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets."
--Napoleon Bonaparte
Thursday, May 4,
2017
Rhode Island Independence Day
"The greatest crime in the world is not developing your potential. When you do what you do best, you are helping not only yourself, but the world."
--Roger Williams (founder of Rhode Island, which is your humble writer's home state)
"The greatest crime in the world is not developing your potential. When you do what you do best, you are helping not only yourself, but the world."
--Roger Williams (founder of Rhode Island, which is your humble writer's home state)
Friday, May 5,
2017
National Nurses Day
"Nursing encompasses an art, a humanistic orientation, a feeling for the value of the individual, and an intuitive sense of ethics, and of the appropriateness of action taken."
--Myrtle Aydelotte
"Nursing encompasses an art, a humanistic orientation, a feeling for the value of the individual, and an intuitive sense of ethics, and of the appropriateness of action taken."
--Myrtle Aydelotte
Saturday, May 6,
2017
"There are no secrets to success. It is the
result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure."
--Colin Powell
--Colin Powell
Sunday, May 7,
2017
"I honestly think it is better to be a failure
at something you love than to be a success at something you hate."
--George Burns
--George Burns
Monday, May 8,
2017
Truman Day
"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit."
--Harry S. Truman
"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit."
--Harry S. Truman
Tuesday, May 9,
2017
"When you find an idea that you just can't
stop thinking about, that's probably a good one to pursue."
--Josh James
--Josh James
Wednesday, May
10, 2017
"What is harder than rock, or softer than
water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere."
--Ovid
--Ovid
Thursday, May
11, 2017
"Winners are the ones who really listen to the
truth of their hearts."
--Sylvester Stalone
--Sylvester Stalone
Friday, May 12,
2017
"Everything has beauty, but not everyone can
see."
--Confucius
--Confucius
Saturday, May
13, 2017
"If you aren't going all the way, why go at
all? --Joe Namath
Sunday, May 14,
2017
Mother's Day
"An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy."
--Rudyard Kipling
"An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy."
--Rudyard Kipling
Monday, May 15,
2017
Peace Officers Memorial Day
"Police officers and firemen are so visible in their daily work, there's no mistaking they're there - and that presence makes people feel secure."
--Irwin Redlener
"Police officers and firemen are so visible in their daily work, there's no mistaking they're there - and that presence makes people feel secure."
--Irwin Redlener
Tuesday, May 16,
2017
"People will forget what you said, people will
forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
--Maya Angelou
--Maya Angelou
Wednesday, May
17, 2017
"The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you.
You just got to find the ones worth suffering for."
--Bob Marley
--Bob Marley
Thursday, May
18, 2017
"The question isn't who is going to let me;
it's who is going to stop me."
--Ayn Rand
--Ayn Rand
Friday, May 19,
2017
"When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's
favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the
police."
--Flavor Flav
--Flavor Flav
Saturday, May
20, 2017
Armed Forces Day
"Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons."
--Douglas MacArthur
"Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons."
--Douglas MacArthur
Sunday, May 21,
2017
"You must not only aim right, but draw the bow
with all your might."
--Henry David Thoreau
--Henry David Thoreau
Monday, May 22,
2017
Harvey Milk Day
"Hope will never be silent."
--Harvey Milk
"Hope will never be silent."
--Harvey Milk
Tuesday, May 23,
2017
"I never took a day off in my 20s. Not
one."
--Bill Gates
--Bill Gates
Wednesday, May
24, 2017
"The true test of character is not how much we
know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do."
--John Holt
--John Holt
Thursday, May
25, 2017
"What we hope to do with ease, we must first
learn to do with diligence."
--Samuel Johnson
--Samuel Johnson
Friday, May 26,
2017
"Always look for the fool in the deal. If you
don't find one, it's you."
--Mark Cuban
--Mark Cuban
Saturday, May
27, 2017
Ramadan starts "Sometimes you don't realize
how special something is until you lose it. Thats how I feel about Ramadan
every year."
--Omar Suleiman
--Omar Suleiman
Sunday, May 28,
2017
"I know you've heard it a thousand times
before. But it's true--hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to
practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do
it."
--Ray Bradbury
--Ray Bradbury
Monday, May 29,
2017
Memorial Day
"Who sows virtue reaps honor."
--Leonardy da Vinci
"Who sows virtue reaps honor."
--Leonardy da Vinci
Tuesday, May 30,
2017
"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and
five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things
differently."
--Warren Buffet
--Warren Buffet
Wednesday, May
31, 2017
World No Tobacco Day
"Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times."
--Mark Twain
"Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times."
--Mark Twain
Thursday, June
1, 2017
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are
looking at the stars. --Oscar Wilde
Friday, June 2,
2017
"The only person you should try to be better
than is the person you were yesterday."
--Anonymous
--Anonymous
Saturday, June
3, 2017
"I know the price of success: dedication, hard
work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen."
--Frank Lloyd Wright
--Frank Lloyd Wright
Sunday, June 4,
2017
"Happiness is an inside job."
--Anonymous
--Anonymous
Monday, June 5,
2017
"Everyone wants to live on top of the
mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing
it."
--Andy Rooney
--Andy Rooney
Tuesday, June 6,
2017
D-Day
There on the beaches of Normandy I began to reflect on the wonders of these ordinary people whose lives were laced with the markings of greatness."
--Tom Brokaw
There on the beaches of Normandy I began to reflect on the wonders of these ordinary people whose lives were laced with the markings of greatness."
--Tom Brokaw
Wednesday, June
7, 2017
"Fall seven times and stand up eight."
--Anonymous
--Anonymous
Thursday, June
8, 2017
"Life doesn't run away from nobody. Life runs
at people."
--Joe Frazier
--Joe Frazier
Friday, June 9,
2017
"I say that the most liberating thing about
beauty is realizing that you are the beholder."
--Salma Hayek
--Salma Hayek
Saturday, June
10, 2017
"The road to success is not easy to navigate,
but with hard work, drive and passion, it's possible to achieve the American
dream."
--Tommy Hilfiger
--Tommy Hilfiger
Sunday, June 11,
2017
"Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only
empty heads and empty hearts can do that."
--Norman Vincent Peale
--Norman Vincent Peale
Monday, June 12,
2017
"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a
single moment before starting to improve the world."
--Anne Frank
--Anne Frank
Tuesday, June
13, 2017
"I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars-I look
for 1-foot bars that I can step over."
--Warren Buffett
--Warren Buffett
Wednesday, June
14, 2017
Army Birthday (also Flag Day)
"I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion."
--Alexander the Great
"I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion."
--Alexander the Great
Thursday, June
15, 2017
"Not everything that can be counted counts,
and not everything that counts can be counted."
--William Bruce Cameron
--William Bruce Cameron
Friday, June 16,
2017
"Nothing is more expensive than a missed
opportunity."
--H. Jackson Brown Jr."
--H. Jackson Brown Jr."
Saturday, June
17, 2017
"I think in terms of evolutions, not
revolutions. Failure is not part of my vocabulary."
--Shelia Lirio Marcelo, founder of Care.com
--Shelia Lirio Marcelo, founder of Care.com
Sunday, June 18,
2017
Father's Day
"I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection."
--Sigmund Freud
"I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection."
--Sigmund Freud
Monday, June 19,
2017
"The best way to predict the future is to
invent it."
--Alan Kay
--Alan Kay
Tuesday, June
20, 2017
"Even if you fall on your face, you're still
moving forward."
--Victor Kiam
--Victor Kiam
Wednesday, June
21, 2017
"The more I want to get something done, the
less I call it work."
--Richard Bach
--Richard Bach
Thursday, June
22, 2017
"There is no such thing as luck. There is only
adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe. --Robert
A. Heinlein
Friday, June 23,
2017
"It is not because things are difficult that
we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."
--Seneca
--Seneca
Saturday, June
24, 2017
"I wish I could tell you the secret to being
forever young, but no one's figured that out yet. But if you see the glass half
full, simplify your life, and give yourself to a worthy cause, you will be
forever happy."
--Bert Jacobs
--Bert Jacobs
Sunday, June 25,
2017
"Some of the world's greatest feats were
accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible."
--Doug Larson
--Doug Larson
Monday, June 26,
2017
"It is never too late to be what you might
have been."
--George Elliott
--George Elliott
Tuesday, June
27, 2017
"Life is not measured by the number of breaths
we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
--Maya Angelou
--Maya Angelou
Wednesday, June
28, 2017
"Plant your garden and decorate your own soul,
instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers."
--Jose Luis Borges
--Jose Luis Borges
Thursday, June
29, 2017
"It doesn't matter how far you might rise. At
some point, you are bound to stumble.... If you're constantly pushing yourself
higher...the law of averages, not to mention the Myth of Icarus, predicts that
you will at some point fall. And when you do, I want you to know this, remember
this: There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us
in another direction."
--Oprah Winfrey
--Oprah Winfrey
Friday, June 30,
2017
"Running a startup is like eating glass. You
just start to like the taste of your own blood."
--Sean Parker
--Sean Parker
Saturday, July
1, 2017
"Nothing in the world can take the place of
persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with
talent. Genius will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence
and determination alone are omnipotent. The phrase 'press on' has solved and
always will solve the problems of the human race."
--Calvin Coolidge
--Calvin Coolidge
Sunday, July 2,
2017
"Build something 100 people love, not
something 1 million people kind of like."
--Brian Chesky, cofounder of Airbnb
--Brian Chesky, cofounder of Airbnb
Monday, July 3,
2017
"There is only one way to avoid criticism: do
nothing, say nothing, and be nothing."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
Tuesday, July 4,
2017
Independence Day
"America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand."
--Harry S Truman
"America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand."
--Harry S Truman
Wednesday, July
5, 2017
"No matter what people tell you, words and
ideas can change the world."
--Robin Williams
--Robin Williams
Thursday, July
6, 2017
"Life is a series of problem-solving
opportunities. The problems you face will either defeat you or develop you
depending on how you respond to them."
--Rick Warren
--Rick Warren
Friday, July 7,
2017
"Don't worry about failure; you only have to
be right once."
--Drew Houston
--Drew Houston
Saturday, July
8, 2017
"Obstacles can't stop you. Problems can't stop
you. Most of all, other people can't stop you. Only you can stop you."
--Jeffrey Gitomer
--Jeffrey Gitomer
Sunday, July 9,
2017
"Think of how stupid the average person is,
and realize half of them are stupider than that."
--George Carlin
--George Carlin
Monday, July 10,
2017
"Happiness is not a goal. It's a by-product of
a life well-lived."
--Eleanor Roosevelt
--Eleanor Roosevelt
Tuesday, July
11, 2017
"Embrace what you don't know, especially in
the beginning, because what you don't know can become your greatest asset. It
ensures that you will absolutely be doing things different from everybody
else."
--Sara Blakely
--Sara Blakely
Wednesday, July
12, 2017
"I knew all the rules but the rules did not
know me."
--Eddie Vedder
--Eddie Vedder
Thursday, July
13, 2017
"You don't become enormously successful
without encountering some really interesting problems."
--Mark Victor Hansen
--Mark Victor Hansen
Friday, July 14,
2017
"Yesterday's home runs don't win today's
games."
--Babe Ruth
--Babe Ruth
Saturday, July
15, 2017
"You never know what worse luck your bad luck
has saved you from."
--Cormac McCarthy
--Cormac McCarthy
Sunday, July 16,
2017
"Just keep going. Everybody gets better if
they keep at it."
--Ted Williams
--Ted Williams
Monday, July 17,
2017
"Education, actual learning--it is hard work.
It's very personal. Your parents don't teach you anything. Your teachers don't
teach you anything. The government doesn't teach you anything. You read it. You
don't understand it; you read it again. You break a pencil and read it
again."
--Dean Kamen
--Dean Kamen
Tuesday, July
18, 2017
"Composing music is hard work."
--John Williams
--John Williams
Wednesday, July
19, 2017
"If I have made a mistake in the design, then
I'm the one who should pay for it. I certainly would not ask somebody else to
fly a plane if I were afraid to do it myself."
--Howard Hughes
--Howard Hughes
Thursday, July
20, 2017
"Constant dripping hollows out a stone."
--Lucretius
--Lucretius
Friday, July 21,
2017
"Once you choose hope, anything's
possible."
--Christopher Reeve
--Christopher Reeve
Saturday, July
22, 2017
"Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot;
but make it hot by striking."
--William B. Sprague
--William B. Sprague
Sunday, July 23,
2017
"If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship,
don't ask what seat! Just get on."
--Sheryl Sandberg
--Sheryl Sandberg
Monday, July 24,
2017
"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
--Margaret Thatcher
Tuesday, July
25, 2017
"There is no security on the Earth, there is
only opportunity."
--Douglas MacArthur
--Douglas MacArthur
Wednesday, July
26, 2017
"Opportunity is missed by most people because
it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
--Thomas Edison
--Thomas Edison
Thursday, July
27, 2017
"Winners embrace hard work. They love the
discipline of it, the trade-off they're making to win. Losers, on the other
hand, see it as punishment. And that's the difference."
--Lou Holtz
--Lou Holtz
Friday, July 28,
2017
"Be the kind of person that you want people to
think you are."
--Socrates
--Socrates
Saturday, July
29, 2017
"If you want happiness for an hour take a nap.
If you want happiness for a day, go fishing. If you want happiness for a year,
inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone
else."
--Anonymous
--Anonymous
Sunday, July 30,
2017
"It doesn't matter if you try and try and try
again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try
again."
--Charles Kettering
--Charles Kettering
Monday, July 31,
2017
"The road to Easy Street goes through the
sewer."
--John Madden
--John Madden
Tuesday, August
1, 2017
"It wasn't raining when Noah built the
ark."
--Howard Ruff
--Howard Ruff
Wednesday,
August 2, 2017
"Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid
that it will never begin."
--Grace Hansen
--Grace Hansen
Thursday, August
3, 2017
"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with
what you can do."
--John Wooden
--John Wooden
Friday, August
4, 2017
"Risk more than others think is safe. Dream
more than others think is practical."
--Howard Schultz
--Howard Schultz
Saturday, August
5, 2017
"There are two educations. One should teach us
how to make a living and the other how to live."
--John Adams
--John Adams
Sunday, August
6, 2017
"People talk about getting lucky breaks in
their careers. I'm living proof that the 'lucky breaks' theory is simply wrong.
You get to make your own luck.... The world is run by those who show up...not
those who wait to be asked."
--Steve Blank
--Steve Blank
Monday, August
7, 2017
Purple Heart Day
"The only medal that I am certain I deserved is the Purple Heart."
--Sen. Bob Kerrey (Medal of Honor recipient)
"The only medal that I am certain I deserved is the Purple Heart."
--Sen. Bob Kerrey (Medal of Honor recipient)
Tuesday, August
8, 2017
"Let me tell you the secret that has led me to
my goals: my strength lies solely in my tenacity."
--Louis Pasteur
--Louis Pasteur
Wednesday,
August 9, 2017
"Everything you've ever wanted is on the other
side of fear."
--George Addair
--George Addair
Thursday, August
10, 2017
"My first job was washing dishes in the
basement of a nursing home for $2.10 an hour, and I learned as much about the
value of hard work there as I ever did later."
--Douglas Preston
--Douglas Preston
Friday, August
11, 2017
"Ambition is the path to success. Persistence
is the vehicle you arrive in."
--Bill Bradley
--Bill Bradley
Saturday, August
12, 2017
"I think the thing about that was I was always
willing to work; I was not the fastest or biggest player but I was determined
to be the best football player I could be on the football field and I think I
was able to accomplish that through hard work."
--Jerry Rice
--Jerry Rice
Sunday, August
13, 2017
"A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is
not intent on arriving."
--Lao Tzu
--Lao Tzu
Monday, August
14, 2017
Victory Day (commemorates the end of World War II)
"I don't think journalists in World War II were objective about the Nazis, and I don't think they should have been."
--Sebastian Junger
"I don't think journalists in World War II were objective about the Nazis, and I don't think they should have been."
--Sebastian Junger
Tuesday, August
15, 2017
"We live in the kind of society where, in
almost all cases, hard work is rewarded."
--Neil deGrasse Tyson
--Neil deGrasse Tyson
Wednesday,
August 16, 2017
"The greater part of our misery or unhappiness
is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition."
--Martha Washington
--Martha Washington
Thursday, August
17, 2017
"Music expresses that which cannot be put into
words."
--Victor Hugo
--Victor Hugo
Friday, August
18, 2017
Statehood Day (Hawaii)
"Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace."
--Paul Theroux
"Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace."
--Paul Theroux
Saturday, August
19, 2017
"A man who gives you less than what he has to
give is telling you what he thinks of you, and telling you what he thinks of
himself."
--Pete Carill
--Pete Carill
Sunday, August
20, 2017
"When everything seems to be going against
you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."
--Henry Ford
--Henry Ford
Monday, August
21, 2017
"I'm not happy on vacation. In those rare
times when I have three hours with no work I have to do, I'm terribly
uncomfortable."
--Scott Adams, Dilbert creator
--Scott Adams, Dilbert creator
Tuesday, August
22, 2017
"I think of doing a series as very hard work.
But then I've talked to coal miners, and that's really hard work."
--William Shatner
--William Shatner
Wednesday,
August 23, 2017
"Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep
pushing while you're praying."
--Mason Cooley
--Mason Cooley
Thursday, August
24, 2017
"Failure is success if we learn from it."
--Malcolm Forbes
--Malcolm Forbes
Friday, August 25,
2017
"I never dreamt of success. I worked for
it."
--Estee Lauder
--Estee Lauder
Saturday, August
26, 2017
Women's Equality Day
"The best protection any woman can have... is courage."
--Elizabeth Cady Stanton
"The best protection any woman can have... is courage."
--Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Sunday, August
27, 2017
Lyndon Johnson Day
"The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man feels safe on his streets and in the house of his friends."
--Lyndon Johnson
"The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man feels safe on his streets and in the house of his friends."
--Lyndon Johnson
Monday, August
28, 2017
"When you miss a shot, never think of what you
did wrong. Take the next shot thinking of what you must do right."
--Tony Alfonso
--Tony Alfonso
Tuesday, August
29, 2017
"Luck can only get you so far."
--J.K. Rowling
--J.K. Rowling
Wednesday,
August 30, 2017
"When one door closes another door opens; but
we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do
not see the ones which open for us."
--Alexander Graham Bell
--Alexander Graham Bell
Thursday, August
31, 2017
"Don't live the same year 75 times and call it
a life."
--Robin Sharma
--Robin Sharma
Friday,
September 1, 2017
"Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've
never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something
else: hard work -- and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't."
--Lucille Ball
--Lucille Ball
Saturday,
September 2, 2017
"Anything in life worth having is worth
working for."
--Andrew Carnegie
--Andrew Carnegie
Sunday,
September 3, 2017
"Either write something worth reading or do
something worth writing."
--Benjamin Franklin
--Benjamin Franklin
Monday,
September 4, 2017
Labor Day
"I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living."
--John D. Rockefeller
"I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living."
--John D. Rockefeller
Tuesday,
September 5, 2017
"It isn't hard to be good from time to time.
What is tough is being good every day."
--Willie Mays
--Willie Mays
Wednesday, September
6, 2017
"My family would be supportive if I said I
wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat
tree bark."
--Casey Affleck
--Casey Affleck
Thursday,
September 7, 2017
"Everything should be made as simple as
possible, but not simpler."
--Albert Einstein
--Albert Einstein
Friday,
September 8, 2017
"There will come a time when you believe
everything is finished. That will be the beginning."
--Louis L'Amour
--Louis L'Amour
Saturday,
September 9, 2017
"The common denominator of success is in
forming the habit of doing the things that failures don't like to do."
--Albert Gray
--Albert Gray
Sunday,
September 10, 2017
National Grandparents Day
"Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children."
--Alex Haley
"Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children."
--Alex Haley
Monday,
September 11, 2017
Patriot Day
"These acts of mass murder were intended to frighten our nation into chaos and retreat.But they have failed; our country is strong."
--George W. Bush
"These acts of mass murder were intended to frighten our nation into chaos and retreat.But they have failed; our country is strong."
--George W. Bush
Tuesday,
September 12, 2017
"Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it
to enjoy it."
--Bernard Meltzer
--Bernard Meltzer
Wednesday,
September 13, 2017
International Programmers' Day
"Complexity kills. It sucks the life out of developers, it makes products difficult to plan, build and test, it introduces security challenges, and it causes end-user and administrator frustration."
--Ray Ozzie
"Complexity kills. It sucks the life out of developers, it makes products difficult to plan, build and test, it introduces security challenges, and it causes end-user and administrator frustration."
--Ray Ozzie
Thursday,
September 14, 2017
"To conquer fear is the beginning of
wisdom."
--Bertrand Russell
--Bertrand Russell
Friday,
September 15, 2017
"I'm a big believer in the power of
inexperience. It was the greatest asset I had when I started TFA. If I had
known at the outset how hard it was going to be, I might never have
started. --Wendy Kopp
Saturday,
September 16, 2017
"The way to get started is to quit talking and
start doing."
--Walt Disney
--Walt Disney
Sunday,
September 17, 2017
"You are never too good for anything. Always
be willing to do everything."
--Thomas Parkinson
--Thomas Parkinson
Monday,
September 18, 2017
Air Force Birthday
"The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it."
--Winston Churchill
"The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it."
--Winston Churchill
Tuesday, September
19, 2017
"In order to discover new lands, one must be
willing to lose sight of the shore for a very long time."
--Anonymous
--Anonymous
Wednesday,
September 20, 2017
"I would rather die of passion than of
boredom."
--Vincent Van Gogh
--Vincent Van Gogh
Thursday,
September 21, 2017
Rosh Hashana
"Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word."
--Goran Persson
"Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word."
--Goran Persson
Friday,
September 22, 2017
"The future belongs to those who prepare for
it today."
--Malcolm X
--Malcolm X
Saturday,
September 23, 2017
"Your income is directly related to your
philosophy, not the economy."
--Jim Rohn
--Jim Rohn
Sunday,
September 24, 2017
Gold Star Mothers' Day
"A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself."
--Joseph Campbell
"A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself."
--Joseph Campbell
Monday,
September 25, 2017
"I made a resolve then that I was going to
amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount
of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me. And I have
done that ever since, and I win by it. I know."
--Harlan Sanders, founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken
--Harlan Sanders, founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken
Tuesday,
September 26, 2017
"There are those who look at things the way
they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why
not? --Robert F. Kennedy
Wednesday,
September 27, 2017
World Tourism Day
"Life is short, and the world is wide."
--Simon Raven
"Life is short, and the world is wide."
--Simon Raven
Thursday,
September 28, 2017
"Nature gave men two ends... one to sit on and
one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent
on the one he used most."
--George R. Kilpatrick
--George R. Kilpatrick
Friday,
September 29, 2017
"Someday is not a day of the week."
--Denise BrennanNelson
--Denise BrennanNelson
Saturday,
September 30, 2017
"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a
matter of choice."
--William Jennings Bryan
--William Jennings Bryan
Sunday, October
1, 2017
"Remember that the happiest people are not
those getting more, but those giving more."
--H. Jackson Brown Jr."
--H. Jackson Brown Jr."
Monday, October
2, 2017
"Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you
sweat, the luckier you get."
--Ray Kroc
--Ray Kroc
Tuesday, October
3, 2017
"Movies are hard work. The public doesn't see
that. The critics don't see it. But they're a lot of work. A lot of work."
--Robert DeNiro
--Robert DeNiro
Wednesday,
October 4, 2017
Feast of St Francis of Assisi
"St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it."
--Alan Paton
"St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it."
--Alan Paton
Thursday,
October 5, 2017
"I knew that if I failed I wouldn't regret
that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying."
--Jeff Bezos
--Jeff Bezos
Friday, October
6, 2017
"If everything seems under control, you're
just not going fast enough."
--Mario Andretti
--Mario Andretti
Saturday,
October 7, 2017
"People seldom do what they believe in. They
do what is convenient, then repent."
--Bob Dylan
--Bob Dylan
Sunday, October
8, 2017
"Diligence is the mother of good luck."
--Benjamin Franklin
--Benjamin Franklin
Monday, October
9, 2017
Indigenous People's Day
"All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports."
--Chief Seattle
"All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports."
--Chief Seattle
Tuesday, October
10, 2017
"Everybody has a great idea for a startup, and
so do their relatives, and they tell me, 'You gotta build it.' I say, 'I have
to believe in it.' --Ashton Kutcher
Wednesday,
October 11, 2017
"To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at
first."
--William Shakespeare
--William Shakespeare
Thursday,
October 12, 2017
"The biggest temptation is to settle for too
little."
--Thomas Merton
--Thomas Merton
Friday, October
13, 2017
"I'm intimidated by the fear of being
average."
--Taylor Swift
--Taylor Swift
Saturday,
October 14, 2017
"If you focus on results you'll never change.
If you focus on change, you'll get results."
--Jack Dixon
--Jack Dixon
Sunday, October
15, 2017
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence,
then, is not an act, but a habit."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
Monday, October
16, 2017
Boss's Day
"Don't blame the boss. He has enough problems."
--Donald Rumsfeld
"Don't blame the boss. He has enough problems."
--Donald Rumsfeld
Tuesday, October
17, 2017
"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want
to go far, go together."
--Anonymous
--Anonymous
Wednesday,
October 18, 2017
"If you don't set goals, you can't regret not
reaching them."
--Yogi Berra
--Yogi Berra
Thursday,
October 19, 2017
"This too, shall pass."
--Anonymous
--Anonymous
Friday, October
20, 2017
"They said, we have education, but what about
jobs? So I started telling them, you should be taking a pledge, and the pledge
should be: 'I'm not a job seeker; I'm a job giver.' Prepare yourself to be a
job giver."
--Muhammad Yunus
--Muhammad Yunus
Saturday,
October 21, 2017
"You know you are truly alive when you're
living among lions. --Karen Blixen
Sunday, October
22, 2017
"If you are willing to do more than you are
paid to do, eventually you will be paid to do more than you do."
--Anonymous
--Anonymous
Monday, October
23, 2017
"Optimism is the one quality more associated
with success and happiness than any other."
--Brian Tracy
--Brian Tracy
Tuesday, October
24, 2017
"If something is important enough, even if the
odds are against you, you should still do it."
--Elon Musk
--Elon Musk
Wednesday,
October 25, 2017
"If it scares you, it might be a good thing to
try."
--Seth Godin
--Seth Godin
Thursday,
October 26, 2017
"Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an
art. It is a practice."
--Peter Drucker
--Peter Drucker
Friday, October
27, 2017
"If you want your children to turn out well,
spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money."
--Abigail Van Buren
--Abigail Van Buren
Saturday,
October 28, 2017
"If you are not embarrassed by the first
version of your product, you've launched too late."
--Reid Hoffman
--Reid Hoffman
Sunday, October
29, 2017
"Those who don't believe in magic will never
find it."
--Roald Dahl
--Roald Dahl
Monday, October
30, 2017
"Never be afraid to try something new.
Remember, amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic."
--Anonymous
--Anonymous
Tuesday, October
31, 2017
Halloween
"Fear is only as deep as the mind allows."
--Anonymous
"Fear is only as deep as the mind allows."
--Anonymous
Wednesday,
November 1, 2017
All Saints' Day
"Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you."
--Saint Augustine
"Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you."
--Saint Augustine
Thursday,
November 2, 2017
"Performance-wise, you really need to be down
in the trenches; you need to do the hard work, for a lot of reasons: To build
yourself as a performer, to get a sense of the audience, to work hard and to
wonder, 'Do I really want to do this?' --Joan Jett
Friday, November
3, 2017
"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years
ago. The second best time is now."
--Anonymous
--Anonymous
Saturday,
November 4, 2017
"If you do what you've always done, you'll get
what you've always gotten."
--Tony Robbins
--Tony Robbins
Sunday, November
5, 2017
Daylight Saving Time ends
"Time is what we want most, but what we use worst."
--William Penn
"Time is what we want most, but what we use worst."
--William Penn
Monday, November
6, 2017
"There is no elevator to success --
you have to take the stairs."
--Anonymous
--Anonymous
Tuesday,
November 7, 2017
Election Day (New Jersey and Virginia governors)
"The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men."
--Lyndon Johnson
"The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men."
--Lyndon Johnson
Wednesday,
November 8, 2017
"Every great dream begins with a dreamer.
Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the
passion to reach for the stars to change the world."
--Harriet Tubman
--Harriet Tubman
Thursday,
November 9, 2017
"Both my mother and I were determined that we
weren't going to stay on welfare. We always worked toward doing better, toward
having a better life. We never had any doubts that we would."
--Larry Ellison
--Larry Ellison
Friday, November
10, 2017
Marine Corps Birthday
"The deadliest weapon in the world is a MARINE and his rifle!" --Gen. John Pershing
"The deadliest weapon in the world is a MARINE and his rifle!" --Gen. John Pershing
Saturday,
November 11, 2017
Veterans Day
"I am convinced that America's great sea of goodwill can be, in fact, a rising tide, a tide that could lift every veteran and every family of our wounded and fallen."
--Admiral Michael Mullen
"I am convinced that America's great sea of goodwill can be, in fact, a rising tide, a tide that could lift every veteran and every family of our wounded and fallen."
--Admiral Michael Mullen
Sunday, November
12, 2017
"If you are lucky enough to find a way of life
you love, you have to find the courage to live it.
--Bette Davis
Monday, November
13, 2017
"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing
is not enough; we must do."
--Goethe
--Goethe
Tuesday,
November 14, 2017
"The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest
upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other
somewhat higher."
--Thomas Huxley
--Thomas Huxley
Wednesday,
November 15, 2017
"Think of what you have rather than of what
you lack. Of the things you have, select the best and then reflect how eagerly
you would have sought them if you did not have them."
--Marcus Aurelius
--Marcus Aurelius
Thursday,
November 16, 2017
World Philosophy Day
"Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open."
--Ludwig Wittgenstein
"Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open."
--Ludwig Wittgenstein
Friday, November
17, 2017
"Flaming enthusiasm, backed by horse-sense and
persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success."
--Dale Carnegie
--Dale Carnegie
Saturday,
November 18, 2017
"The most common way people give up their
power is by thinking they don't have any."
--Alice Walker
--Alice Walker
Sunday, November
19, 2017
World Toilet Day
"Certain things in life are more important than the usual crap that everyone strives for."
--James Taylor
"Certain things in life are more important than the usual crap that everyone strives for."
--James Taylor
Monday, November
20, 2017
Africa Industrialization Day
"Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors."
--African proverb
"Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors."
--African proverb
Tuesday,
November 21, 2017
World Television Day
"All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching? --Nicholas Johnson
"All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching? --Nicholas Johnson
Wednesday,
November 22, 2017
"The only place success comes before work is
in the dictionary."
--Vidal Sassoon
--Vidal Sassoon
Thursday,
November 23, 2017
Thanksgiving Day
"Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully remember how you would crave for them if they were not yours."
--Marcus Aurelius
"Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully remember how you would crave for them if they were not yours."
--Marcus Aurelius
Friday, November
24, 2017
"Life is what we make it, always has been,
always will be."
--Grandma Moses
--Grandma Moses
Saturday,
November 25, 2017
"We ask ourselves: Who am I to be brilliant,
gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child
of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing
enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around
you. We are all meant to shine, as children do."
--Marianne Williamson
--Marianne Williamson
Sunday, November
26, 2017
"People who say it cannot be done should not
interrupt those who are doing it."
--George Bernard Shaw
--George Bernard Shaw
Monday, November
27, 2017
"In order to succeed you must fail so that you
know what not to do the next time."
--Anthony J. D'Angelo
--Anthony J. D'Angelo
Tuesday,
November 28, 2017
"Every child is an artist. The problem is how
to remain an artist once he grows up."
--Pablo Picasso
--Pablo Picasso
Wednesday,
November 29, 2017
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no
one thinks of changing himself."
--Leo Tolstoy
--Leo Tolstoy
Thursday,
November 30, 2017
"My parents had always preached the virtues of
hard work. But hard work is one thing; economic struggle is another."
--Sargent Shriver
--Sargent Shriver
Friday, December
1, 2017
"Change will not come if we wait for some
other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are
the change that we seek."
--Barack Obama
--Barack Obama
Saturday,
December 2, 2017
International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
"Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the very same time the beginning of his freedom and development of his reason."
--Erich Fromm
"Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the very same time the beginning of his freedom and development of his reason."
--Erich Fromm
Sunday, December
3, 2017
"The history of the world is the history of a
few people who had faith in themselves."
--Swami Vivekananda
--Swami Vivekananda
Monday, December
4, 2017
"Happy people are beautiful. They become like
a mirror and they reflect that happiness."
--Drew Barrymore
--Drew Barrymore
Tuesday,
December 5, 2017
"Things may come to those who wait, but only
the things left by those who hustle."
--Abraham Lincoln
--Abraham Lincoln
Wednesday,
December 6, 2017
"Life's too mysterious, don't take it
serious."
--George Gershwin
--George Gershwin
Thursday,
December 7, 2017
"No matter how long it may take us to overcome
this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might will
win through to absolute victory."
--Franklin Delano Roosevelt
--Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Friday, December
8, 2017
"Your vision will become clear only when you
look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside,
awakens."
--Carl Jung
--Carl Jung
Saturday,
December 9, 2017
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy
making other plans. --John Lennon
Sunday, December
10, 2017
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It
does."
--William James
--William James
Monday, December
11, 2017
"Perseverance is the hard work you do after
you get tired of doing the hard work you already did."
--Newt Gingrich
--Newt Gingrich
Tuesday,
December 12, 2017
"My father gave me the greatest gift anyone
could give another person; he believed in me."
--Jim Valvano
--Jim Valvano
Wednesday,
December 13, 2017
Chanukah/Hanukkah (first day)
"The proper response, as Hanukkah teaches, is not to curse the darkness but to light a candle."
--Irving Greenberg
"The proper response, as Hanukkah teaches, is not to curse the darkness but to light a candle."
--Irving Greenberg
Thursday,
December 14, 2017
"You can't go around building a better world
for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it's
just a cage."
--Terry Pratchett
--Terry Pratchett
Friday, December
15, 2017
"I think that my biggest attribute to any
success that I have had is hard work. There really is no substitute for working
hard."
--Maria Bartiromo
--Maria Bartiromo
Saturday,
December 16, 2017
"Action may not always bring happiness; but
there is no happiness without action."
--Benjamin Disraeli
--Benjamin Disraeli
Sunday, December
17, 2017
Wright Brothers Day
"No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris."
--Orville Wright
"No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris."
--Orville Wright
Monday, December
18, 2017
"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get
run over if you just sit there."
--Will Rogers
--Will Rogers
Tuesday,
December 19, 2017
"Faith is the art of holding on to things your
reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods."
--C.S. Lewis
--C.S. Lewis
Wednesday,
December 20, 2017
"If people knew how hard I worked to achieve
my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful after all."
--Michaelengo
--Michaelengo
Thursday,
December 21, 2017
"If they can make penicillin out of moldy
bread, they can sure make something out of you."
--Muhammad Ali
--Muhammad Ali
Friday, December
22, 2017
"Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes
a stand, the spines of others are stiffened."
--Billy Graham
--Billy Graham
Saturday,
December 23, 2017
"Talent is cheaper than table salt. What
separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard
work."
--Stephen King
--Stephen King
Sunday, December
24, 2017
Christmas Eve
"For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself."
--Charles Dickens
"For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself."
--Charles Dickens
Monday, December
25, 2017
Christmas Day
"Peace on earth will come to stay, When we live Christmas every day."
--Helen Steiner Rice
"Peace on earth will come to stay, When we live Christmas every day."
--Helen Steiner Rice
Tuesday,
December 26, 2017
Kwanzaa (until Jan 1)
"The seven principles of Kwanzaa - unity, self-determinat ion, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity and faith -- teach us that when we come together to strengthen our families and communities and honor the lesson of the past, we can face the future with joy and optimism."
--William J. Clinton
"The seven principles of Kwanzaa - unity, self-determinat ion, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity and faith -- teach us that when we come together to strengthen our families and communities and honor the lesson of the past, we can face the future with joy and optimism."
--William J. Clinton
Wednesday,
December 27, 2017
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly
trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thursday,
December 28, 2017
"Success is often achieved by those who don't
know that failure is inevitable."
--Coco Chanel
--Coco Chanel
Friday, December
29, 2017
"It is not what you do for your children, but
what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful
human beings."
--Ann Landers
--Ann Landers
Saturday,
December 30, 2017
"What would you attempt to do if you knew you
would not fail? --Robert Schuller
Sunday, December
31, 2017
New Year's Eve
"An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves."
--Bill Vaughn
"An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves."
--Bill Vaughn
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