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Index_card_top This Quote Was Our Daily Quote On: 03/27/08
“Just go out there and do what you've got to do.”
 
Martina Navrátilová (born 1956);
Chzec American Tennis Player


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Index_card_top This Quote Was Our Daily Quote On: 05/08/08
“Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.”
 
Colleen C. Barrett (born 1944);
President And Ceo, Southwest Airlines Company


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Index_card_top This Quote Was Our Daily Quote On: 06/02/09
“I believe that friends are quiet angels who sit on our shoulders and lift our wings when we forget how to fly.”
 
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Index_card_top This Quote Was Our Daily Quote On: 08/26/09
“There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life—happiness, freedom, and peace of mind—are always attained by giving them to someone else.”
 
Peyton C. March (1864-1955);
General, Us Army


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Index_card_top This Quote Was Our Daily Quote On: 09/18/09
“Believe in your dreams and they may come true; believe in yourself and they will come true.”
 
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Index_card_top This Quote Was Our Daily Quote On: 12/08/09
“The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.”
 
Ralph Waldo Emmerson (1803-1882);
Philosopher, Poet, Author, Essayist
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Index_card_top “Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.”
 
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592);
Essayist, Author


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Index_card_top “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It's not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
 
Nelson Mandela (born 1918);
Former President Of South Africa
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Index_card_top “What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life - to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories.”
 
George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans] (1819-1880);
Novelist, Editor
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Index_card_top “Know in your heart that all things are possible. We couldn't conceive of a miracle if none had ever happened.”
 
Libbie Fudim -


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Index_card_top “I guess I can’t really change the past since it’s now history and I certainly cannot change tomorrow, for I am not promised it, but I can change the way I live today. This realization in itself is the root of not only who I want to be tomorrow, but who I am working on being today. Never again do I want to fail anything without an attempt; I want push myself to my fullest potential, and if that means that I fall a few times along the way then so be it, but I will no longer allow myself to just give up. I deserve better, and it is time that I start believing that. ”
 
Nadia Kelifa (born 1992);

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Index_card_top “The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.”
 
Charles Swindoll (1934-0);
Founder Of Insight For Living
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Index_card_top “Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground. Let their spirit ignite a fire within you to leave this world better than when you found it.”
 
Wilferd A. Peterson (1900-1995);
Author, Businessman
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Index_card_top “Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.”
 
John R. Wooden (1910-2010);
Basketball Coach, Author
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Index_card_top “We do not remember days; we remember moments.”
 
Cesare Pavese (1908-1950);
Poet, Novelist


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Index_card_top “Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.”
 
Robert Brault - Poet
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Index_card_top “There's only us, there's only this. Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. No other road, no other way, no day but today.”
 
Jonathan Larson (1960-1996);
Composer; Playwright; Creator Of Broadway Musical Rent


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Index_card_top “Success is nothing more or less than being who you want to be; progressing toward your ideal each day.”
 
Jaren L. Davis -
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Index_card_top “There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.”
 
Nelson Mandela (born 1918);
Former President Of South Africa
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Index_card_top “Creativity doesn't wait for that perfect moment. It fashions its own perfect moments out of ordinary ones.”
 
Bruce Garrabrandt (born 1955);
Artist, Writer


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Index_card_top This Quote Was Our Daily Quote On: 08/05/10
“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. ”
 
F. Scott Fiztgerald (1896-1940);
Novelist, Screenwriter
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Index_card_top “There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible. ”
 
Mother Teresa (1910-1997);
Founder Of The Missionaries Of Charity
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Index_card_top “Life's ups and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals. Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones.”
 
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Index_card_top This Quote Was Our Daily Quote On: 08/24/10
“When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.”
 
Susan Sarandon (born 1946);
Actress


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Index_card_top This Quote Was Our Daily Quote On: 10/15/10
“The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.”
 
Helen Keller (1880-1968);
Author, Lecturer, Activist
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Index_card_top “I showed the America I knew and observed to others who might not have noticed.”
 
Norman Rockwell (1894-1978);
Painter, Illustrator


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Index_card_top This Quote Was Our Daily Quote On: 01/27/11
“Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.”
 
Charles Lindbergh (1902-1974);
Aviator


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Index_card_top This Quote Was Our Daily Quote On: 03/04/11
“I learned that inspiration does not always come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic, striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time. ”
 
Brenda Ueland (1891-1985);
Journalist, Editor, Teacher


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“It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey. ”
 
Wendell Berry (born 1934);
Farmer, Writer, Academic


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Index_card_top This Quote Was Our Daily Quote On: 06/21/11
“If I had influence with the good fairy, I would ask that her gift to each child be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life. ”
 
Rachel Carson (1907-1964);
Marine Biologist And Conservationist


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Index_card_top This Quote Was Our Daily Quote On: 07/18/11
“Your spark can become a flame and change everything. ”
 
E.D. Nixon (1899-1987);
American Civil Rights Leader


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Index_card_top This Quote Was Our Daily Quote On: 12/16/11
“Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.”
 
Ella Jane Fitzgerald (1917-1996);
Jazz Vocalist
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Index_card_top This Quote Was Our Daily Quote On: 03/13/12
“Happiness is a how, not a what; a talent, not an object. ”
 
Hermann Hesse (1877-1962);
Writer, 1946 Nobel Prize In Literature Recipient


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Index_card_top This Quote Was Our Daily Quote On: 07/02/12
“Embrace the faith that every challenge surmounted by your energy; every problem solved by your wisdom; every soul stirred by your passion; and every barrier to justice brought down by your determination will ennoble your own life, inspire others, serve your country, and explode outward the boundaries of what is achievable on this earth.”
 
Madeleine Albright (born 1937);
Former United States Secretary Of State


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Index_card_top This Quote Was Our Daily Quote On: 11/09/12
“Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground. Let their spirit light a fire within you to leave this world better than when you found it..”
 
Wilfred Peterson (1900-1995);
Author


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Index_card_top This Quote Was Our Daily Quote On: 12/11/12
“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
 
Albert Einstein (1879-1955);
Theoretical Physicist, Philosopher, Nobel Prize Winner
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Index_card_top This Quote Was Our Daily Quote On: 01/30/13
“For it's not light that is needed, but fire; it's not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind and the earthquake in our hearts.”
 
Frederick Douglass (1818-1895);
American Social Reformer, Abolitionist


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Index_card_top This Quote Was Our Daily Quote On: 04/23/13
“There are no such things as limits to growth, because there are no limits on the human capacity for intelligence, imagination and wonder.”
 
Ronald Reagan (1911-2004);
40th U.S. President
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The Foundation for a Better Life began as a simple idea to promote positive values. We believe that people are basically good and just need a reminder. And that the values we live by are worth more when we pass them on.