Motivational Quotes of the Day

Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - February 23, 2026
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
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Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)  
I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.
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Joan Didion (1934 - )  
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
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Sidney J. Harris  
Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.
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John Ruskin (1819 - 1900), The Seven Lamps of Architecture, 1849  

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