Category: On this day in history

Art is never finished, only abandoned” ~ Leonardo da Vinci

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness” ~ Dalai Lama

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has” ~ Margaret Mead

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought” ~ Albert Szent-Györgyi

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks” ~ John Muir

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish” ~ John Quincy Adams

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind” ~ William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it” ~ Robert Swan

If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it” ~ Toni Morrison

Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world” ~ Desmond Tutu

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out” ~ Vaclav Havel

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality” ~ John Lennon

Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we’d give blood ~ Charles Dickens

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.” ~ John F. Kennedy

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you” ~ Carl Sandburg

If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to you, you’re allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.” ~ Shannon L. Alder

Upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all” ~ Alexander The Great

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived, this is to have succeeded” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, 1841

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops” ~ Henry Adams

Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game” ~ Babe Ruth

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because, without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently” ~ Maya Angelou

It is far better to dare mighty things, even though we fail, than to live in a gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat” ~ Theodore Roosevelt

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest” ~ Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1748

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Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny” ~ C.S. Lewis

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have little” ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt, Speeches, 1937

Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it” ~ George Orwell

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better” ~ Albert Camus, The Rebel, 1951

Do just once what others say you can’t do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again” ~ James Cook, Expedition journals, 1778