From Theodore Roosevelt: “Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty.”
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Quote of the day 04/06/26
From Mark Twain: “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.”
Quote of the day 03/31/26
From Benjamin Franklin: “Energy and persistence conquer all things.”
Quote of the day 07/04/25
From Thomas Paine: “The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow.”
Quote of the day 11/27/23
From Ralph Waldo Emerson: “All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.”
Quote of the day 11/26/23
From Ralph Waldo Emerson: “He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.”
Quote of the day 11/24/23
From Henry David Thoreau: “You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.”
Quote of the day 11/23/23
From Henry David Thoreau: “Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.”
Quote of the day 11/22/23
From Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.”
Quote of the day 11/21/23
From Ralph Waldo Emerson: “To be great is to be misunderstood.”
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