Motivational Quotes of the Day

Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - May 10, 2026
This became a credo of mine...attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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Bette Davis (1908 - 1989)  
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
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Epicurus (341 BC - 270 BC)  
Oh for a book and a shady nook...
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John Wilson (1785 - 1854)  
Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money. It lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), Speeches... in the Trial of Warren Hastings, May 5, 1789  

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