Motivational Quotes of the Day

Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - October 13, 2016
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
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G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)  
Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.
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Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)  
It seems the misfortune of one can plow a deeper furrow in the heart than the misfortune of millions.
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Kirby Larson, Hattie Big Sky, 2006  
We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with high and resolute courage. For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.
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Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919), Address at the opening of the gubernatorial campaign, New York City, October 5, 1898  

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