Today's quote is from Harry S. Truman, who was born on this date in 1884:
"Intense feeling too often obscures the truth."

Today's quote is from Joseph Joubert, who was born on this date in 1754:
"Without duty, life is soft and boneless; it cannot hold itself together."

Today's quote is from Willie Mays, who was born on this date in 1931:
"In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism. Without one-hundred percent dedication, you won't be able to do this."

Today's quote is from Soren Kierkegaard, who was born on this date in 1813:
"To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself."

Today's quote is from Randy Travis, who was born on this date in 1959:
"There's a constant contradiction between what feels good and what feels right. But you live with decisions that you make in your life. "

Today's quote is from Golda Meir, who was born on this date in 1898:
"You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity."

Today's quote is from Catherine the Great, who was born on this date in 1729:
"The more a man knows, the more he forgives."

Today's quote is from Morris Kline, who was born on this date in 1908:
"Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence."

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."

Today's quote is from René Descartes, who was born on this date in 1596: "It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well."

Today's quote is from Vincent Van Gogh, who was born on this date in 1853: "What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?"

Today's quote is from Sam Walton, who was born on this date in 1918: "Capital isn't scarce; vision is."

Today's quote is from Maxim Gorky, who was born on this date in 1868: "A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains."

Today's quote is from James Callaghan, who was born on this date in 1912: "A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice."

Today's quote is from Viktor Frankl, who was born on this date in 1905: "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life - daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual."

Today's quote is from Flannery O'Connor, who was born on this date in 1925: "Conviction without experience makes for harshness."

Today's quote is from Malcolm Muggeridge, who was born on this date in 1903: "Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it."

Today's quote is from Erich Fromm, who was born on this date in 1900: "One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."

Today's quote is from Louis L'Amour, who was born on this date in 1908: "Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more."

Today's quote is from Jean Paul Richter, who was born on this date in 1763: "A variety of nothing is better than a monotony of something."

Today's quote is from Ovid, who was born on this date in 43 BC: "Be patient and tough; some day this pain will be useful to you."

Today's quote is from David Livingstone, who was born on this date in 1813: "I will go anywhere, as long as it be forward."

Today's quote is from Francis Lieber, who was born on this date in 1798: "There is no right without a parallel duty, no liberty without the supremacy of the law, no high destiny without earnest perseverance, no greatness without self-denial."

Today's quote is from Thomas Chalmers, who was born on this date in 1780: "Live for something. Do good, and leave behind you a monument of virtue that the storms of time can never destroy."

Today's quote is from Daniel Moynihan, who was born on this date in 1927: "To strip our past of glory is no great loss, but to deny it honor is devastating."

Today's quote is from Andrew Jackson, who was born on this date in 1767: "Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error."

Today's quote is from Albert Einstein, who was born on this date in 1879: "How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people."

Today's quote is from Joseph Priestly, who was born on this date in 1733: "As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that thank Heaven nobody is reporting in this fashion on us."

Today's quote is from Earl Nightingale, who was born on this date in 1921: "For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself, there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become."

Today's quote is from Lawrence Welk, who was born on this date in 1903: "I have a tremendous desire to learn, and to grow, and to develop whatever I have that will make for any kind of improvement in me."

Today's quote is from Azar Nafisi, who was born in 1955: "Saul Bellow wrote, 'everything that can be imagined is bound to be realized at least once--everything that mankind is capable of conceiving it seems compelled to do.' For me that is one of the most important aspects of the American dream: to be able to actualize, to make something great out of nothing. This country could not exist without the vision of some amazing people who thought they could create something out of nothing."

Today's quote is from Mickey Spillane, who was born on this date in 1918: "Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it's a letdown, they won't buy anymore. The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book."

Today's quote is from Warren Bennis, who was born on this date in 1925: "Managers are people who do things right, and leaders are people who do the right thing."

Today's quote is from Willard Scott, who was born on this date in 1934: "Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question."

Today's quote is from Elizabeth Barrett Browning, who was born on this date in 1806: "Light tomorrow with today."

Today's quote is from Larry Bossidy, who was born on this date in 1935: "I am convinced that