Motivational Quotes of the Day

Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - January 25, 2012
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)  
Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
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Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC)  
To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.
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Peter McWilliams, Life 101  
We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
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Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)  

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