Thought for Today

"It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement."

~~~~~ Anthony Trollope

Thought for Today

"Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost."

~~~~~ Chauncey Depew

Thought for Today

"The more I see of men the more I like dogs."

~~~~~ Madame de Stael

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

"The more help a person has in his garden, the less it belongs to him."

~~~~~ W. H. Davies

Thought for Today

"Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct."

~~~~~ Thomas Jefferson

Thought for Today

"Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character."

~~~~~ Henry Clay

Thought for Today

"A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company."

~~~~~ Charles Evans Hughes

Thought for Today

"There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start."

~~~~~ Charles Baudelaire

Thought for Today

"The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves."

~~~~~ William Ellery Channing

Thought for Today

"The man who can speak acceptably is usually given credit for an ability out of all proportion to what he really possesses."

~~~~~ Lowell Thomas

Thought for Today

"Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company."

~~~~~ Booker T. Washington

Thought for Today

"An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather."

~~~~~ Washington Irving

Thought for Today

"I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile."

~~~~~ Walter Chrysler

Thought for Today

"Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when faith dies."

~~~~~ Whittaker Chambers