Motivational Quotes of the Day

Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - October 14, 2014
The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)  
I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
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Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719), 'The Spectator'  
I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself.
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Terence (185 BC - 159 BC)  
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
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The Dalai Lama (1935 - )  

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