Thought for Today

"If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done."

~~~~~ Norman Vincent Peale

Thought for Today

"The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former."

~~~~~ Alfred A. Montapert

Thought for Today

"I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees."

~~~~~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

Thought for Today

"Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying."

~~~~~ William Pitt

Thought for Today

"If you aren't rich you should always look useful."

~~~~~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Thought for Today

"No nation ever yet found any inconvenience from too close an inspection into the conduct of its officers, but many have been brought to ruin and reduced to slavery by suffering gradual impositions and abuses."

~~~~~ Edward Livingston

Thought for Today

"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late."

~~~~~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thought for Today

"A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package."

~~~~~ Harry Emerson Fosdick

Thought for Today

"To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind."

~~~~~ Thomas Hood

Thought for Today

"Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another."

~~~~~ Arthur Conan Doyle

Thought for Today

"Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones."

~~~~~ Charlotte Bronte

Thought for Today

"Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true."

~~~~~ Honore de Balzac

Thought for Today

"A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not."

~~~~ Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Thought for Today

"Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats."

~~~~~ Josephus Daniels

Thought for Today

"Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth."

~~~~~ Anna Jameson

Thought for Today

"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."

~~~~~ Eric Hoffer

Thought for Today

"The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself."

~~~~~ Thomas Szasz

Thought for Today

"When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on."

~~~~~ Heinrich Heine

Thought for Today

"Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind."

~~~~~ Daphne du Maurier

Thought for Today

"Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can."

~~~~ Paul Tournier

Thought for Today

"The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation."

~~~~~ Isaac D'Israeli

Thought for Today

"A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within."

~~~~~ Ariel Durant

Thought for Today

"When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt."

~~~~~ Henry J. Kaiser

Thought for Today

"If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion."

~~~~~ Friedrich August von Hayek

Thought for Today

"Misery is almost always the result of thinking."

~~~~~ Joseph Joubert

Thought for Today

"If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends."

~~~~~ Orson Welles

Thought for Today

"The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you."

~~~~~ Soren Kierkegaard

Thought for Today

"Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit."

~~~~~ W. Clement Stone

Thought for Today

"A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around."

~~~~~ Edgar Watson Howe

Thought for Today

"In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best."

~~~~ Robert Hall

Thought for Today

"No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority."

~~~~ Joseph Addison