Motivational Quotes of the Day

Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - June 26, 2019
Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
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Robert Service (1874 - 1958)  
If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
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Herodotus (484 BC - 430 BC), The Histories of Herodotus  
Brains, like hearts, go where they are appreciated.
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Robert S. McNamara (1916 - ), former U.S. Secretary of Defense  
The best way to learn to be an honest, responsible adult is to live with adults who act honestly and responsibly.
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Claudia Jewett Jarrett, Adopting the Older Child, 1978  

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