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Archives - February 2012

February 1, 2012

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

– Jim Carrey

February 2, 2012

It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference

– Tom Brokaw

February 3, 2012

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing --- that's why we recommend it daily.

– Zig Ziglar

February 4, 2012

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.

– Jimmy Johnson

February 5, 2012

The purpose of life is not to be happy --- but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.

– Leo Rosten

February 6, 2012

Racism isn't born, folks, it's taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list.

– Dennis Leary

February 7, 2012

You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.

– Harriet Woods

February 8, 2012

There are two great days in a person's life --- the day we are born and the day we discover why.

– William Barclay

February 9, 2012

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

February 10, 2012

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

– Albert Einstein

February 11, 2012

Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.

– Martin Luther King Jr.

February 12, 2012

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.

– Abraham Lincoln

February 13, 2012

Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

– Ernest Gaines

February 14, 2012

Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.

– Ben Hecht

February 15, 2012

There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

– W. Somerset Maugham

February 16, 2012

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

– Don Herold

February 17, 2012

Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves.

– J. G. C. Brainard

February 18, 2012

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.

– Gore Vidal

February 19, 2012

I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.

– Morgan Freeman

February 20, 2012

Leadership is action, not position.

– Donald H. McGannon

February 21, 2012

Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.

– Max Frisch

February 22, 2012

It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.

– George Washington

February 23, 2012

Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.

– Paul Theroux

February 24, 2012

Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!

– J. K. Rowling, HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER'S STONE

February 25, 2012

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

– William James

February 26, 2012

If it doesn't feel right, don't do it. That's the lesson. That lesson alone, will save you a lot of grief. Even doubt means don't.

– Oprah Winfrey, Stanford Commencement Address, 2008

February 27, 2012

An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.

– Laurence J. Peter

February 28, 2012

Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete.

– Willie Shoemaker

February 29, 2012

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed.

– Sydney Smith