Category Archives: Thought For the Day

Thought For the Day: The Grand Paradox of Our Society Is This: We Magnify Man’s Right But We Minimize His Capacities

Posted on November 6, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“The grand paradox of our society is this: we magnify man’s right but we minimize his capacities.” – Joseph Wood Krutch (1893-1970)

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Thought For the Day: Freedom Is the Right Be Wrong, Not the Right To Do Wrong

Posted on November 5, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.” – John G. Diefenbaker (1895-1979)

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Thought For the Day: Excellence Demands Competition

Posted on November 4, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“Excellence demands competition. Without a race there can be no champion, no records broken, no excellence — in education or in any other walk of life.” – Ronald Reagan

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Thought For the Day: All Great Human Deeds Both Consume and Transform Their Doers

Posted on November 2, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“All great human deeds both consume and transform their doers. Consider an athlete, or a scientist, or an artist, or an independent business creator. In the service of their goals they lay down time and energy and many other choices … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: If People Knew How Hard I Worked To Get My Mastery, It Wouldn’t Seem So Wonderful After All

Posted on November 1, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful after all.” -Michelangelo Buonarroti, sculptor, painter, architect, and poet (1475-1564)

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Thought For the Day: Socialism Proposes No Adequate Substitute For the Motive of Enlightened Selfishness That Today Is the Basis of Human Labor and Effort

Posted on October 31, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.” – William Howard Taft (1857-1930)

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Thought For the Day: The Most Intense Conflicts…Are Needed To Produce Valuable and Lasting Results

Posted on October 30, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts, and their conflagration, which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.” – C. G. … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: Nothing Is So Difficult As Not Deceiving Oneself

Posted on October 29, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)

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Thought For the Day: Socialism of Any Type Leads To A Destruction of the Human Spirit

Posted on October 28, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“Socialism of any type leads to a total destruction of the human spirit.” – Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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Thought For the Day: If You Talk To A Man In A Language He Understands, That Goes To His Head. If You Talk To Him In His Language, That Goes To His Heart

Posted on October 27, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.” – Nelson Mandela, activist, South African president, Nobel laureate (b. 1918)

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