Motivational Quotes of the Day

Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - May 12, 2023
No great deed, private or public, had ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty.
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Leon Wieseltier, in The New Republic  
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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William Faulkner (1897 - 1962)  
We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck... But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness.
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Ellen Goodman (1941 - )  
'Where and how can I make this meal better for me?' I asked myself that question before every meal—especially in the beginning.
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Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012  

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