Today's quote is from Willie Nelson, who was born on this date in 1933:
"Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results."

Today's quote is from Duke Ellington, who was born on this date in 1899:
"My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never."

Today's quote is from Harper Lee, who was born on this date in 1926:
"Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."

Today's quote is from Edward Gibbon, who was born on this date in 1737:
"We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win."

Today's quote is from Anne McLaren, who was born on this date in 1927:
"You don't destoy the mystery of a rainbow by understanding the light processes that form it."

Today's quote is from Edward R. Murrow, who was born on this date in 1908:
"Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts."

Today's quote is from Shirley MacLaine, who was born on this date in 1934:
"Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power."

Today's quote is from Bud Wilkinson, who was born on this date in 1916:
"If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team."

Today's quote is from Immanuel Kant, who was born on this date in 1724:
"It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably."

Today's quote is from Elaine May, who was born on this date in 1932:
"The only safe thing is to take a chance."

Today's quote is from Stanley Marcus who was born in 1905: "No matter what you sell, you've got to sell satisfaction."

Today's quote is from Angelo Donghia: "Assumption is the mother of screw-up.

Today's quote is from Clarence Darrow, who was born on this date in 1857: "The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it."

Today's quote is from Cynthia Ozick, who was born on this date in 1928:
"The engineering is secondary to the vision."

Today's quote is from Anatole France, who was born on this date in 1844:
"To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all."

Today's quote is from Bliss Carman, who was born on this date in 1851: "Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art."

Today's quote is from the Roman philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca, who was born in the 4th Century BC: "Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment."

Today's quote is from Frank Woolworth, who was born on this date in 1852: "Dreams never hurt anybody if he keeps working right behind the dreams to make as much of them become real as he can."

Today's quote is from Josh Billings, who was born on this date in 1818: "As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand."

Today's quote is from Leo Rosten, who was born on this date in 1908: "Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined."

Today's quote is from John Madden, who was born on this date in 1936: "The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer."

Today's quote is from Charles P. Steinmetz, who was born on this date in 1865: "No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions."

Today's quote is from Mary Pickford, who was born on this date in 1892: "If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "Failure" is not the falling down but the staying down."

Today's quote is from Gabriela Mistral, who was born on this date in 1889: "All Nature is a desire to serve. The cloud serves, the wind serves, the furrow serves. . . There is joy in being healthy and in being just; but there is also, above all, the beautiful, the immense joy of serving. One person may criticize, another may destroy, but you be the one to serve."

Today's quote is from Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, who was born on this date in 1671: "Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue."

Today's quote is from Booker T. Washington, who was born on this date in 1856: "I think I have learned that the best way to lift one's self up is to help someone else."

Today's quote is from Maya Angelou, who was born on this date in 1928: "Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it."

Today's quote is from Helmut Kohl, who was born on this date in 1930: "I have been underestimated for decades. I've done very well that way."

Today's quote is from Walter Chrysler, who was born on this date in 1875: "To me every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle."

Today's quote is from Otto von Bismarck, who was born on this date in 1815: "Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied."