Motivational Quotes of the Day

Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - August 17, 2025
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
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George S. Patton (1885 - 1945)  
September tries its best to have us forget summer.
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Bern Williams  
The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and torturous.
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Anna Quindlen (1953 - ), O Magazine, May 2003  
Only two things you ignore: things that aren't important and things you wish weren't important, and wishing never works.
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David Shore, House M.D., Not Cancer, 2008  

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