Motivational Quotes of the Day

Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - October 25, 2014
Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.
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Edward Everett Hale (1822 - 1909)  
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
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Stephen Vincent Benet (1898 - 1943), Litany for Dictatorships, 1935  
Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.
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Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999  
Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wrong when we get too comfortable, when we fail to take risks or seize opportunities.
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Susan Rice, Stanford University Commencement, 2010  

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