Motivational Quotes of the Day

Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - July 12, 2016
Character is forged in the smallest of struggles. Then, when the big challenges come, we’re ready.
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Waiter Rant, Waiter Rant weblog, 12-30-05  
Part of being a Master is learning how to sing in nobody else's voice but your own.
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Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 25. You have to find your own schtick., 08-22-04  
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
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e e cummings (1894 - 1962)  
There is no glory in the tepid smiles of the thousands. It is better to have the uproarious laughter of the hundreds.
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Monica Hesse, The Washington Post, 04-03-12  

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