Motivational Quotes of the Day

Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - August 28, 2014
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
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Elizabeth Goudge  
When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.
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Aaron McGruder, Boondocks, 07-04-04  
They say you just stand over there, he'll say thank you and you walk back off and that's what I thought was gonna happen, but in my head, I had for five or six years known that he was gonna call me over.
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Ellen DeGeneres, Commenting on being called over to sit with Johnny Carson back in 1986  
For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
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Henri-Frédéric Amiel  

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