Motivational Quotes of the Day
Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations September 13, 2007 Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions. Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC) Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear. Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972), August 8, 1950 Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
掩飾微疵，世人會想像最壞的。
Marcus Valerius Martialis (40 AD - 103 AD) Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told, 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'
生命最喜愛乾脆的宣告說： 「我了解你，小鬼頭。讓我們走罷！」
Maya Angelou (1928 - ), in Daily News
September 14, 2007 I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
我必須創造一個系統，不然就得為他人的系統所奴役。
William Blake (1757 - 1827) Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
懶惰只不過是一種在你覺得疲憊以前的休息習慣。
Jules Renard (1864 - 1910) Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
應用，不要濫用：節制或過度都不會令一個人快樂。
Voltaire (1694 - 1778) Each moment in time we have it all, even when we think we don't.
每一個時刻我們都及時擁有一切，甚至於在我們認為我們沒有擁有的時候。
Melody Beattie
September 15, 2007 If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
假如我們期望女人做像男人一樣的工作，我們必須教她們一樣的事情。
Plato (427 BC - 347 BC) I've learned that all a person has in life is family and friends. If you lose those, you have nothing, so friends are to be treasured more than anything else in the world. Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Prehistoric Ice Man, 1999 Feel the fear and do it anyway.
感到恐懼但是無論如何還是做了。
Susan Jeffers, Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway, 1988 The deeper sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain. Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
September 16, 2007 A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it. Barbra Streisand (1942 - ) It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin. Katharine Butler Hathaway Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you. Harold Bloom (1930 - ), O Magazine, April 2003 Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therein to be content. Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
September 17, 2007 Defer not till tomorrow to be wise, tomorrow's sun to thee may never rise. William Congreve (1670 - 1729) The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel. Piet Mondrian (1872 - 1944) Good food ends with good talk. Geoffrey Neighor, Northern Exposure, Duets, 1993 I’m not going to die because I failed as someone else. I’m going to succeed as myself. Margaret Cho, I'm The One That I Want, 1999
September 18, 2007 What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
不費心神的寫作通常也是閱讀無趣。
Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784) Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar. Edward R. Murrow (1908 - 1965) Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down. Hector Berlioz (1803 - 1869) Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors. Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
September 19, 2007 The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means. Sir Henry Taylor If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke. Brendan Francis The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape... Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973) Good manners are just a way of showing other people that we have respect for them. Bill Kelly, Blast from the Past, 1999
September 20, 2007 So if it seems that some of what I'll have to say in the pages to come doesn't reflect the mellowing of age, that's only because I've never found that life and memories respond to time the way that tobacco does. Caleb Carr, 'The Angel of Darkness', 1997 I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic. Lisa Alther, Kinflicks, 1975 The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it. Wilfred A. Peterson Love cannot survive if you just give it scraps of yourself, scraps of your time, scraps of your thoughts. Mary O'Hara
September 21, 2007 Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. John Quincy Adams (1767 - 1848) To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them. Charles Buxton Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. Carl Jung (1875 - 1961) Your idea doesn't have to be big. It just has to be yours alone. The more the idea is yours alone, the more freedom you have to do something really amazing. The more amazing, the more people will click with your idea. The more people click with your idea, the more it will change the world.
Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 2, 08-22-04
September 22, 2007 We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are. 我們天生堅持，我們因此而發現自我。 Tobias Wolff, 'In Pharaoh's Army' If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work. 假如我們終年遊樂如假日；運動可能就像工作一樣單調無聊。 William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'The First Part of King Henry the IV' Getting there isn't half the fun - it's all the fun. 達到目標的過程，並非只有一半的樂趣 - 是所有的樂趣所在。 Robert Townsend Having a dream is what keeps you alive. Overcoming the challenges make life worth living. 有夢想使我們保持生命的活力。克服挑戰使得生命值得生活。 Mary Tyler Moore (1936 - )
September 23, 2007 It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides. George Sand (1804 - 1876) What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense, we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself. Anna Jameson Hope is necessary in every condition. Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784) It comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much. 這緣由於對一千件事說不以確定我們沒有走錯路或嘗試太多次。 Steve Jobs (1955 - ), BusinessWeek Online, Oct. 12, 2004
September 24, 2007 We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words. Anna Sewell (1820 - 1878), Black Beauty, 1877 The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence. Robert J. Shiller, Irrational Exuberance You've got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old - whatever 'the old' means for you. Sarah Ban Breathnach By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with... the earth and the wonders thereof - the sea - the sun. Katherine Mansfield (1888 - 1923)
September 25, 2007 ...it is as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you. Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924) Reprove thy friend privately; commend him publicly. Solon (638 BC - 559 BC) I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart. Alice Walker (1944 - ) The things that make us safest from others make us least from ourselves. Danah Boyd, apophenia, 01-08-07
September 26, 2007 Give all to love; obey thy heart. 將所有一切給予愛；遵從你的心。 Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness. Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719), The Spectator, July 12, 1711 Do not speak of repulsive matters at table. 在餐桌上不要談論令人厭惡的事。 Amy Vanderbilt (1908 - 1974) Justice does not come from the outside. It comes from inner peace. 正義不是源自外在，是源自內心的平和。 Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000
September 27, 2007 He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines or managers about plays - cynical, but hopeful. 他對書的感覺就像醫生對醫藥或者管理者對遊樂的感覺一樣─不信任但卻充滿希 望。 Dame Rose Macaulay (1881 - 1958), Crewe Train, 1926 Be not extravagantly high in expression of thy commendations of men thou likest, it may make the hearer's stomach rise. Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661) I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught. Georgia O'Keeffe (1887 - 1986) How soon was it that the dead are brought to deity in the eyes of those who in life found them little regard? Linda Berdoll, Mr. Darcy Takes A Wife, 2004
September 28, 2007 To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone. 孤獨就是要與眾不同，要與眾不同就是要孤獨。 Suzanne Gordon, Lonely in America, 1976 Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. 莫用籬笆保護你自己，而是用你的諸友。 Czech Proverb If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong. 假如你的生活準則令你沉悶，依賴它，它們是錯的。 Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894) There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. 假如我們所信仰的和我們所做的不同那就可能沒有幸福。 Freya Madeline Stark
September 29, 2007 He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit. 爬上高樹的人贏得摘果的權利。 Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832) Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome. 成功是一個旅程，不是一個目的。行動通常比結果來的重要。 Arthur Ashe So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832) Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along. This applies to play as well as work. A day merely survived is no cause for celebration. You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine. No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow! Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
September 30, 2007 Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. 想想仍然留存環繞在你身邊所有美好的事物就應感到快樂。 Anne Frank (1929 - 1945), Diary of a Young Girl, 1952 Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power. 勿令任何人想像自己毫無影響力。不論他是什麼，不論他置身何處，一個思考的人 就有光和力量。 Henry George (1839 - 1897) But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way. 但是當一個年輕的女士要成為女英雄，環繞在家庭周遭的四十個反常也無法禁絕 她。某些事一定會也將會在她的方向上丟入一個男英雄。 Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Northanger Abbey Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. 歡愉是禱文，歡愉即力量，歡愉即是愛，歡愉是用以捕捉靈魂的愛之網。 Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997)