QOTD - Anonymous

“I am learning that what I choose is the real me.” – Anonymous

QOTD - Henry Ward Beecher

“Death is not an end. It is a new impulse.” – Henry Ward Beecher

QOTD - William Shakespeare

“Who seeks, and will not take when once ‘tis offered, shall never find it more.” – William Shakespeare

QOTD - George P. Burnham

“‘I can’t do it’ never yet accomplished anything; ‘I will try’ has performed wonders.” – George P. Burnham

QOTD - Robert Louis Stevenson

“You cannot run away from a weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?” – Robert Louis Stevenson

QOTD - Jawaharlal Nehru

“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” – Jawaharlal Nehru

QOTD - Edward Abbey

“Wilderness is not a luxury, but a necessity of the human spirit.” – Edward Abbey

QOTD - Anonymous

“A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.” – Anonymous

QOTD - Stephen King

“Read whatever they’re trying to keep out of your eyes and your brain, because that’s exactly what you need to know.” – Stephen King

QOTD - John Henry Newman

“A great memory does not make a philosopher any more than a dictionary can be called grammar.” – John Henry Newman

QOTD - Albert Einstein

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” – Albert Einstein

QOTD - Samuel Longfellow

“However things may seem, no evil thing is success, and no good thing is failure.” – Samuel Longfellow

QOTD - Sir John Lubbock

“A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.” – Sir John Lubbock, The Use of Life (1894)

QOTD - Abraham Lincoln

"I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down." – Abraham Lincoln

QOTD - Lula Lyne Eames

“Keep your courage up, and, conversely, it will keep you up.” – Lula Lyne Eames

QOTD - Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.

QOTD - Walt Whitman

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you." – Walt Whitman

QOTD - George Washington (sort of)

“It is better to be alone than in bad company.” – attributed to George Washington, originally from Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation

From George Washington's Mount Vernon –

Towards the end of his schooling, George Washington copied out 110 “Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation.” These rules were drawn from a popular English text, Youth’s Behaviour, or Decency in Conversation Amongst Men, which was itself an adaptation of a 1595 work written by French Jesuit priests. The rules instruct students to practice consideration and respect towards others, by paying careful attention to body language, dress, and speech.

Read the full page https://www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/rules-of-civility/

QOTD - Winston Churchill

“I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.” – Winston Churchill

QOTD - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“What your heart thinks great, is great. The soul’s emphasis is always right.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

QOTD - Coco Chanel

“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.” – Coco Chanel

QOTD - Rachel Carson

“In nature, nothing exists alone.” – Rachel Carson

QOTD - Eric Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury

“Most of us can, if we choose, make this world either a palace or a prison.” – Eric Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury

QOTD - Nikita Gill

“Some people survive chaos and that is how they grow. And some people thrive in chaos, because chaos is all they know.” – Nikita Gill, “Chaos”

QOTD - Shel Silverstein

“Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.” – Shel Silverstein

QOTD - Virginia Woolf

“Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.” – Virginia Woolf

QOTD - Henri Matisse

“Art should be something like a good armchair in which to rest from physical fatigue.” – Henri Matisse

QOTD - Lucy Maud Montgomery

“Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.” – Lucy Maud Montgomery, The Golden Road (1913)

QOTD - Agatha Christie

“You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.” – Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)

QOTD - Theodore Roosevelt

“It is hard to fail; but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” – Theodore Roosevelt