Motivational Quotes of the Day

Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - March 31, 2017
Personally I have struggled massively with the dilemma of talent vs desire. Choosing desire may not always be the easiest thing to do. It may seem a waste to leave those natural talents behind and strike out in a new direction. But at least you’ll feel alive.
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Meri Williams, Talent vs Desire, 05-29-06  
Think enthusiastically about everything; but especially about your job. If you do, you'll put a touch of glory in your life. If you love your job with enthusiasm, you'll shake it to pieces. You'll love it into greatness.
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Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)  
You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.
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Barack Obama (1961 - ), Arizona State Commencement Speech, 2009  
It's all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself living through them heroically, but it's not so nice when you really come to have them, is it?
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L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908  

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