Motivational Quotes of the Day

Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - October 16, 2016
Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing,
Beloved from pole to pole.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)  
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
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Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)  
Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.
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Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)  
Some of the most devastating things that happen to you will teach you the most.
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Ellen DeGeneres, Tulane Commencement Speech, 2009  

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