Motivational Quotes of the Day

Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - September 12, 2025
A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
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Dorothy L. Sayers (1893 - 1957)  
There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
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Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)  
It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.
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Scott Westerfeld, Peeps, 2005  
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
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Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)  

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