Motivational Quotes of the Day

Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - January 19, 2015
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
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Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973), The Joy of Children, 1964  
When I'm trusting and being myself... everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously.
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Shakti Gawain  
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
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Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)  
An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do.
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W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943  

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