Motivational Quotes of the Day

Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - May 13, 2026
Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.
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Hal Lancaster, in The Wall Street Journal  
You've got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old - whatever 'the old' means for you.
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Sarah Ban Breathnach  
No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.
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Elizabeth Moon, The Speed of Dark, 2003  
I'm the world's least happy atheist. I miss having religious faith, but trying to have it seems like trying to be in love with someone that you're not in love with.
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Lisa Williams, Learning the Lessons of Nixon, 03-29-08  

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