Motivational Quotes of the Day

Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - July 06, 2024
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD), Moral Letters to Lucilius, 64 A.D.  
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), (attributed)  
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
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Colin Powell (1937 - )  
The size of your audience doesn't matter. What's important is that your audience is listening.
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Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon Commencement Speech, 2008  

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