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

"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

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

~~~~~ Booker T. Washington

Thought for Today

"Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was."

~~~~~ Richard L. Evans

Thought for Today

"You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth."

~~~~~ Jean Paul

Thought for Today

"A reputation for a thousand years may depend upon the conduct of a single moment."

~~~~~ Ernest Bramah

Thought for Today

"Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself."

~~~~~ Sidney Lanier

Thought for Today

"However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure."

~~~~~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Thought for Today

"If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days."

~~~~~ Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Thought for Today

"The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing."

~~~~~ Henry Adams

Thought for Today

"Bear in mind that brains and learning, like muscle and physical skill, are articles of commerce. They are bought and sold. You can hire them by the year or by the hour. The only thing in the world not for sale is character."

~~~~~ Justice Antonin Scalia

Thought for Today

"It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error."

~~~~~ Robert Jackson

Thought for Today

"Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind – listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody."

~~~~~ Eubie Blake

Thought for Today

"You must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong."

~~~~~ Knute Nelson

Thought for Today

"A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does."

~~~~~ Anton Chekhov

Thought for Today

"Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition."

~~~~~ Arthur Rubinstein

Thought for Today

"Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music."

~~~~~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Thought for Today

"Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself."

~~~~~ Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Thought for Today

"Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable."

~~~~~ Francis Bacon

Thought for Today

"He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven."

~~~~~ Nathaniel Parker Willis