Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving.
– Dennis Waitley
Thought for Today
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.
– Vince Lombardi
– Vince Lombardi
Thought for Today
"Understand the financial risks of all contracts and make sure these risks are protected before you sign. This can often mean getting an expert to advise you on the risks."
A Thought for Today
"If only the sun-drenched celebrities are being noticed and worshiped, then our children are going to have a tough time seeing the value in the shadows, where the thinkers, probers and scientists are keeping society together."
-Rita Dove, poet (b. 28 Aug 1952)
A Thought for Today
"If you go out looking for friends, you're going to find they are very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere."
- Zig Ziglar
Thought for Today
A savvy entrepreneur will not always look for investment money, first.
-Daymond John
Thought for Today
When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.
-William Least Heat-Moon, travel writer (b. 27 Aug 1939)
-William Least Heat-Moon, travel writer (b. 27 Aug 1939)
Thought for Today
We can pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
-John Buchan, poet, novelist, and politician (26 Aug 1875-1940)
-John Buchan, poet, novelist, and politician (26 Aug 1875-1940)
A Thought for Today
The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly.
-Ogden Nash, poet (1902-1971)
-Ogden Nash, poet (1902-1971)
Thought for Today
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
-Aristotle, philosopher (384-322 BCE)
-Aristotle, philosopher (384-322 BCE)
Thought for Today
"When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it."
- Jim Rohn
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY
Who will consider that no dictionary of a living tongue ever can be perfect, since, while it is hastening to publication, some words are budding, and some falling away; that a whole life cannot be spent upon syntax and etymology, and that even a whole life would not be sufficient; that he, whose design includes whatever language can express, must often speak of what he does not understand.
-Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)
-Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)
Thought for Today
"A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up."
- Albert Schweitzer
A Thought for Today
"Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Thought for Today
"You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong."
- Warren Buffett
Thought for Today
"No one lights a lamp and puts it in a place where it will be hidden, or under a bowl. Instead he puts it on its stand, so that those who come in may see the light."
- Jesus Christ
A Thought for Today
"If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress."
- Barack Obama
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