Motivational Quotes of the Day

Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - July 10, 2016
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
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Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)  
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
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H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946)  
The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it's on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when the nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.
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Alan Bennett  
I can safely say, that the happiest part of my life has been spent on board a ship.
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Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818  

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