Motivational Quotes of the Day

Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - April 13, 2015
Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)  
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
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Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964), As quoted in The Observer (30 April 1950)  
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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Anaïs Nin (1903 - 1977)  
If I really wanted to pray I'll tell you what I'd do. I'd go out into a great big field all alone or into the deep, deep, woods, and I'd look up into the sky—up—up—up—into that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its blueness. And then I'd just FEEL a prayer.
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L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908  

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