Motivational Quotes of the Day

Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - January 25, 2017
Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.
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Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745), Miscellanies, 1711  
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
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Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)  
Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.
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Paxton Hood  
Photographers do this for a living, every single day -- they point their lenses toward every single corner of our world and somehow make the mundane mesmerizing through their artistic eye. It's all a matter of being aware of your surroundings and realizing that there are some really amazing and interesting things to look at, even if it may just be something so simple as a wall being covered up by paint.
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Ward Jenkins, Ward-O-Matic, 03-14-2005  

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