"Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt."
~~~~~ Berthold Auerbach
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Thought for Today
"Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit."
~~~~~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Thought for Today
"Nobody understood better than Mr. Lincoln the obvious truth that in politics it does not suffice merely to nominate candidates. Something must also be done to elect them."
~~~~~ John George Nicolay
Monday, February 25, 2013
Thought for Today
"The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year."
~~~~~ John Foster Dulles
Sunday, February 24, 2013
Saturday, February 23, 2013
Thought for Today
"You don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream."
~~~~~ Michael Dell
Friday, February 22, 2013
Thought for Today
"The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments."
~~~~~ George Washington
Thursday, February 21, 2013
Thought for Today
"I've had three wives and three guitars. I still play the guitars."
~~~~~ Andres Segovia
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Thought for Today
"Every man should make up his own mind that if he expect to succeed, he must give an honest return for the other man's dollar."
~~~~~ Edward H. Harriman
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Thought for Today
"'Thou shalt not get found out' is not one of God's commandments; and no man can be saved by trying to keep it."
~~~~~ Leonard Bacon
Monday, February 18, 2013
Thought for Today
"A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away."
~~~~ Charles M. Schwab
Sunday, February 17, 2013
Thought for Today
"If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work."
~~~~~ Thomas J. Watson
Saturday, February 16, 2013
Thought for Today
"Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic."
~~~~~ Henry Adams
Friday, February 15, 2013
Thought for Today
"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires."
~~~~~ Susan B. Anthony
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Thought for Today
"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."
~~~~~ Frederick Douglass
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Thought for Today
"When the Supreme Court moved to Washington in 1800, it was provided with no books, which probably accounts for the high quality of early opinions."
~~~~~ Justice Robert Jackson
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Thought for Today
"A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of sudden impulse and accident than of that reason of which we so much boast."
~~~~~ Peter Cooper
Monday, February 11, 2013
Thought for Today
"If you want to succeed in the world, you don't have to be much cleverer than other people. You just have to be one day earlier."
~~~~ Leo Szilard
Sunday, February 10, 2013
Thought for Today
"As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth."
~~~~~ Boris Pasternak
Saturday, February 9, 2013
Thought for Today
"When the tempest rages, when the thunders roar, and the lightnings blaze around us it is then that the truly brave man stands firm at his post."
~~~~~ Luther Martin
Friday, February 8, 2013
Thought for Today
"The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it."
~~~~~ John Ruskin
Thursday, February 7, 2013
Thought for Today
"There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth."
~~~~~ Charles Dickens
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Thought for Today
"I know of no higher fortitude than stubbornness in the face of overwhelming odds."
~~~~~ Louis Nizer
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Thought for Today
"The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country."
~~~~~ James Otis
Monday, February 4, 2013
Thought for Today
"A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece."
~~~~~ Ludwig Erhard
Sunday, February 3, 2013
Thought for Today
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."
~~~~~ Walter Bagehot
Saturday, February 2, 2013
Thought for Today
"I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep."
~~~~~ Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Friday, February 1, 2013
Thought for Today
"Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish. Freedom is always wise."
~~~~~ Alexander Meiklejohn
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