Motivational Quotes of the Day

Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - July 02, 2014
Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
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Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), Song of the Open Road  
Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
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Richard M. Nixon (1913 - 1994), in his White House farewell  
A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
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Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999  
The whole point in bein' a hero is to do somethin' greater than yerself. It'd be easy to do it for the glory or the girls. We're bigger men than that.
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Alexander Woo, True Blood, Beyond Here Lies Nothing, 2009  

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