Motivational Quotes of the Day

[Today's Quotes] [Yesterday's Quotes] [Archive]
Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - June 13, 2026
Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
[info][add][mail][note]
Margaret Atwood (1939 - ), Cat's Eye, 1988  
I never feel that I have comprehended an emotion, or fully lived even the smallest events, until I have reflected upon it in my journal; my pen is my truest confidant, holding in check the passions and disappointments that I dare not share even with my beloved.
[info][add][mail][note]
Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor, 1996  
- More quotations on: [Writing]
People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as any of us can come to being happy.
[info][add][mail][note]
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990  
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
[info][add][mail][note]
William Faulkner (1897 - 1962)  
Subscribe to Motivational Quotes of the Day with our Email Service or with your newsreader: (what's this?)
RSS feed Subscribe with Bloglines Subscribe with My Yahoo Subscribe with My MSN

If an author's name is highlighted, you can click it for more quotations by that author. Click on a quotation for more information about it, or click on the icons next to each quotation:

  • [info] View further information about the quote or link to it on its own page
  • [mail] Email the quotation to yourself, or to a friend
  • [notes] View notes about the quotation

Note: These quotes are randomly selected from my collection by an automatic routine once a day. If you want more quotes, try the Quotations by Author page to browse our entire collection, or try the Random Quotations Page, which chooses new quotes each time you load it.