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

"A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment."

~~~~~ Marshall Field

Thought for Today

"A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment."

~~~~~ Marshall Field

Thought for Today

"In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you."

~~~~~ Amy Tan

Thought for Today

What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.

~~~~~ Victor Cherbuliez

Thought for Today

"Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open."

~~~~~ Alexander Graham Bell

Thought for Today

"Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions – it only guarantees equality of opportunity."

~~~~~ Irving Kristol

Thought for Today

"What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, of uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully."

~~~~~ Victor Cherbuliez

Thought for Today

"Procrastination is opportunity's assassin."

~~~~~ Victor Kiam

Thought for Today

"Problems are only opportunities in work clothes."

~~~~~ Henry J. Kaiser