Motivational Quotes of the Day

Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - August 11, 2014
Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.
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Lillian Hellman (1905 - 1984), An Unfinished Woman, 1969  
Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.
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Kathleen Norris, Hands Full of Living, 1931  
I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.
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Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881), campaign speech at High Wycombe, England, November 27, 1832  
Pride is a powerful narcotic, but it doesn't do much for the auto-immune system.
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Stuart Stevens, Northern Exposure, Brains, Know-How, and Native Intelligence, 1990  

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