February 28th
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.
— Brigham Young
February 27th
There are countless ways of achieving greatness, but any road to achieving one's maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to excellence, and a rejection of mediocrity.
— Buck Rodgers
February 26th
When I hear somebody sigh, "Life is hard," I am always tempted to ask, "Compared to what?"
— Sydney Harris
February 25th
You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder.
— Israel Zangwill, CHILDREN OF THE GHETTO [Book II, Chapter 16]
February 24th
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
— P. J. O'Rourke
February 23rd
Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.
— Michael Korda
February 22nd
A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
— George Washington
February 21st
The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches the first prize.
— Saul Bellow
February 20th
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
— Joseph Addison
February 19th
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
— Gail Godwin
February 18th
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
— Jean Giraudoux, THE ENCHANTED, 1933
February 17th
Exercise alone provides psychological and physical benefits. However, if you also adopt a strategy that engages your mind while you exercise, you can get a whole host of psychological benefits fairly quickly.
— James Rippe, M.D.
February 16th
The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
February 15th
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
— Nathaniel Borenstein
February 14th
True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
— Erich Segal
February 13th
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
— Leo Buscaglia
February 12th
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
— Abraham Lincoln
February 11th
Adversity cause some men to break; others to break records.
— William A. Ward
February 10th
Taxation WITH representation ain't so hot either.
— Gerald Barzan
February 9th
If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characterizes children before they are deformed by adult society.
— Jean Piaget
February 8th
That's what learning is, after all: not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it, and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning.
— Richard Bach
February 7th
The world at large does not judge us by who we are and what we know; it judges us by what we have.
— Joyce Brothers
February 6th
Cyberspace: A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation.
— William Gibson
February 5th
If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.
— Edward W. Howe
February 4th
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.
— Jane Austen, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
February 3rd
Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.
— Daniel Hudson Burnham
February 2nd
Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.
— John MacNaughton
February 1st
The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
— David Russell
