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It’s Terrific Quote Day ~ January 20, 2021
Wednesday, January 20, 2021 in quotes | Tags: Barack Obama, dawn strength, Eleanor Roosevelt, hope, Lailah Gifty Akita, Martin Luther King Jr., nation, Nelson Mandela, new beginning, new day | Leave a comment
JUST BROWSING THE INTERNET AND
FOUND A FEW TERRIFIC QUOTES
“Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”. ~ Martin Luther King Jr.
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“May the people walking in darkness see the dawn of a glorious light.”
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
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“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
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“Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation – not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.” ~ Barack Obama
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“For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.” ~ Nelson Mandela
It’s Terrific Quote Day ~ June 24, 2020
Wednesday, June 24, 2020 in Uncategorized | Tags: Barack Obama, caution, J.K. Rowling, John Stuart Mill, safety, seasons, Summer, Thomas S. Monson, Yoko Ono | Leave a comment
JUST BROWSING THE INTERNET AND
FOUND A FEW TERRIFIC QUOTES
“The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.” ~ J. K. Rowling
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“Choose your friends with caution; plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith.” ~ Thomas S. Monson
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“A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.” ~ John Stuart Mill
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“Understand, our police officers put their lives on the line for us every single day. They’ve got a tough job to do to maintain public safety and hold accountable those who break the law.” ~ Barack Obama
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“Spring passes and one remembers one’s innocence.
Summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance.
Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence.
Winter passes and one remembers one’s perseverance.”
~ Yoko Ono
It’s Terrific Quote Day ~ April 29, 2020
Wednesday, April 29, 2020 in quotes | Tags: ancestors, Barack Obama, George Moore, hope, Laurence Overmire, Mitch Albom, mortality, Passion, Soren Kierkegaard, travel | Leave a comment
JUST BROWSING THE INTERNET AND
FOUND A FEW TERRIFIC QUOTES
“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.” ~ George Moore
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“All of our ancestors give us the precious gift of life. Do we use it wisely? Do we use it well? Do we make a name for ourselves and for our children of which we can be proud?” ~ Laurence Overmire
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“Hope is passion for what is possible.” ~ Soren Kierkegaard
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“Mortality means you don’t have forever to work things out. You can live your life unexamined but then on the last day you’re going to think: ‘I’ve left things a little late.” ~ Mitch Albom
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“The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.”
~ Barack Obama
It’s Terrific Quote Day ~ August 2, 2017
Wednesday, August 2, 2017 in quotes | Tags: architect of decay, awkwardly, Barack Obama, chance, change, George Bernard Shaw, grow old, Harold Wilson, inevitable, laughing, Lemony Snicket, losing, love, progress, Robert C. Gallagher | Leave a comment
JUST BROWSING THE INTERNET AND FOUND A FEW TERRIFIC QUOTES
“If you run you stand a chance of losing, but if you don’t run you’ve already lost.” ~ Barack Obama
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“Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.” ~ Lemony Snicket
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“He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.” ~ Harold Wilson
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“Change is inevitable — except from a vending machine.” ~ Robert C. Gallagher
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“You don’t stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
It’s Terrific Quote Day – Jan 18, 2017
Wednesday, January 18, 2017 in quotes | Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Barack Obama, by the people, equality, freedom, George Washington, government, honesty, Leadership, Lyndon Johnson, presidential, Ronald Reagan | Leave a comment
JUST BROWSING THE INTERNET AND FOUND A FEW TERRIFIC QUOTES
“When one side only of a story is heard and often repeated, the human mind becomes impressed with it insensibly.” – George Washington
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“It is now our generation’s task to carry on what those pioneers began. For our journey is not complete until our wives, our mothers and daughters can earn a living equal to their efforts. Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law – for if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well.” – Barack Obama
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“A president’s hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.” – Lyndon Johnson
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“This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.” – Abraham Lincoln
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“We the people tell the government what to do, it doesn’t tell us.” – Ronald Reagan