Motivational Quotes of the Day

Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - August 25, 2019
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
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Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 - 1864)  
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
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Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)  
How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)  
That's the key to having it all: stop expecting it to look like what you thought it was going to look like.
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Cindy Chupack, Sex and the City, Plus One Is The Loneliest Number, 2002  

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