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Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - October 30, 2025

Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.: Welsh Proverb
There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to; and that is, every now and then to be completely idle - to do nothing at all.: Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)
Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), "Self-Reliance", 1841
I'm well aware when they fired the starting gun I was halfway down the track, but I still ran as fast as I could for 25 years.: Joss Whedon, Entertainment Weekly, 08-30-13

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