Motivational Quotes of the Day

Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - September 16, 2017
He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.
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Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)  
It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.
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John Gray, "Children Are From Heaven"  
In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?
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Kanye West, Rolling Stone, 2006  
Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.
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Louis Schwartzberg, TED, the hidden beauty of pollination, March 2011  

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