Motivational Quotes of the Day

Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - April 16, 2016
At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.
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Dame Rose Macaulay (1881 - 1958)  
I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty.
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Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), letter to Count Diodati, 1807  
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
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Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)  
Abraham Lincoln and Millard Fillmore had the same title. They were both presidents of the United States, but their tenure in office and their legacy could not be more different.
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Barack Obama (1961 - ), Arizona State Commencement Speech, 2009  

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