Thought for Today

"I have found out one thing and that is, if you have an idea, and it is a good idea, if you only stick to it you will come out all right."

~~~~~ Cecil Rhodes

Thought for Today

"Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more."

~~~~~ Edward H. Harriman

Thought for Today

"I will act as if what I do makes a difference."

~~~~~ William James

Thought for Today

"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."

~~~~~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

Thought for Today

"Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it."

~~~~~ Josephus Daniels

Thought for Today

"I'd look at one of my stonecutters hammering away at the rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet, at the hundred and first blow it would split in two, and I knew it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before."

~~~~~ Jacob August Riis

Thought for Today

"I know of no higher fortitude than stubbornness in the face of overwhelming odds."

~~~~~ Louis Nizer

Thought for Today

"It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe."

~~~~~ Robert W. Service

Thought for Today

"The state of Israel must, from time to time, prove clearly that it is strong, and able and willing to use force, in a devastating and highly effective way. If it does not prove this, it will be swallowed up, and perhaps wiped off the face of the earth."

~~~~~ Moshe Sharett

Thought for Today

"All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today."

~~~~~ Pope Paul VI

Thought for Today

"Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance."

~~~~~ Bruce Barton

Thought for Today

"Nothing is given to man on earth – struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible – the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen."

~~~~~ Andrew Bernstein

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

"Never forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination."

~~~~~ Evelyn Underhill

Thought for Today

"The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done."

~~~~~ Arnold Palmer

Thought for Today

"One way or the other, if you want to find reasons why you shouldn't keep on, you'll find 'em. The obstacles are all there; there are a million of 'em."

~~~~~ Benny Goodman

Thought for Today

"When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it."

~~~~~ Jacob Riis

Thought for Today

"Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success."

~~~~~ Thornton Wilder

Thought for Today

"Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man."

~~~~~ Iain Duncan Smith

Thought for Today

"Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down."

~~~~~ Constance Baker Motley