Motivational Quotes of the Day

Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - June 24, 2016
If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.
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Immanuel Hermann Fichte  
We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century. During the period we may be tempted to abandon some of the time-honored principles and commitments which have been proven during the difficult times of past generations. We must never yield to this temptation. Our American values are not luxuries, but necessities - not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself.
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Jimmy Carter (1924 - ), in his farewell address  
My one aim was to do a thing well and to excel if possible.
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Josephine demott Robinson, O Magazine, December 2003  
If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now.
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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD)  

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