Motivational Quotes of the Day

Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - October 26, 2014
When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.
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Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)  
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
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David McCullough (1933 - )  
We try to grab pieces of our lives as they speed past us. Photographs freeze those pieces and help us remember how we were. We don't know these lost people but if you look around, you'll find someone just like them.
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Gene McSweeney, Grey Water Photography, 06-04-2006  
We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering him up. It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery. I should have thought the worship most pleasing to him was to do your best according to your lights.
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W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943  

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