Category Archives: Quote of the Day

On Fighting For Liberty

I had reasoned this out in my mind; there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty, or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other; for no man should take me alive; I should fight for my liberty as long as my strength lasted, and when the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.

 

Harriet Tubman

 

On Truth and Soap

“The truth isn’t easily pinned to a page. In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hold than the soap and much more difficult to find.”

 

Terry Pratchett

 

Quote of the Day: 3-March-2021 – On Light vs Dark

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

 

Terry Prachett

 

Quote of the Day: 2-March2021: On Being Blessed

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.

 

George Eliot

 

Quote of the Day 9-Apr-2018: On Self Worth

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Courtesy Wikipedia

“If only you could sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.”

Fred Rogers

Quote of the Day 16-Mar-2018: On Strength

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Courtesy Wikipedia

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.

Marie Curie

Quote of the Day 7-Mar-2018: On Change

 

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Mahatma Gandhi (Picture courtesy Wikipedia

“You must be the change you want to see in the world.”

Gandhi

Quote of the Day 4-Mar-2018: On Playing Your Hand

1240“Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.” 

Jack London

Quote of the Day 27-Feb-2018: On Stress And Worry

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When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.

Winston Churchill

Quote of the Day 15-Sept-2017: On Honor

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Game of Thrones by George R R Martin

“You wear your honor like a suit of armor, Stark. You think it keeps you safe, but all it does is weigh you down and make it hard for you to move. Look at you now. You know why you summoned me here. You know what you want to ask me to do. You know it has to be done … but it’s not honorable, so the words stick in your throat.”

– Lord Petyr Baelish, Master of Coin, to Lord Eddard Stark, Lord of Winterfell, Warden of the North, Hand of the King, and Protector of the Realm, from Game of Thrones by George R R Martin.