Motivational Quotes of the Day

Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - August 29, 2025
You ask me why I do not write something....I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results.
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Florence Nightingale (1820 - 1910), in Cecil Woodham-Smith, Florence Nightingale, 1951  
Do or do not. There is no try.
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Yoda, 'The Empire Strikes Back'  
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.
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Pearl Bailey (1918 - 1990)  
Twilight, again. Another ending. No matter how perfect the day is, it always has to end.
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Stephenie Meyer, Twilight, 2005  

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