July 1st
Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.
- Henry David Thoreau
July 2nd
The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it.
- Elaine Agather
July 3rd
Cynically speaking, one could say that it is true to life to be cynical about it.
- Paul Tillich, THE COURAGE TO BE
July 4th
It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism.
- J. Horace McFarland
July 5th
Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains.
- Diane Ackerman
July 6th
Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening.
- Dorothy Sarnoff
July 7th
The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night's sleep.
- E. Joseph Cossman
July 8th
Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau
July 9th
He who believes that the past cannot be changed has not yet written his memoirs.
- Torvald Gahlin
July 10th
Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
- Robert G. Ingersoll
July 11th
You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
- J. K. Rowling, HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX
July 12th
Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?
- James Thurber
July 13th
…All of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon --- instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
- Dale Carnegie
July 14th
When an arguer argues dispassionately he thinks only of the argument.
- Virginia Woolf
July 15th
Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.
- Bergen Evans
July 16th
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
- Steve Jobs
July 17th
Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.
- Annie Dillard
July 18th
I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.
- Lillian Hellman
July 19th
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.
- Ed Parker
July 20th
Any ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.
- Augustine Birrell
July 21st
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J. K. Rowling
July 22nd
Peace is costly, but it is worth the expense.
- Kenyan Proverb
July 23rd
He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
-M. C. Escher
July 24th
Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man's values, it has to be earned.
- Ayn Rand, ATLAS SHRUGGED
July 25th
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
- Carl Jung
July 26th
I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart: I am, I am, I am.
- Sylvia Plath
July 27th
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
- Tobias Wolff, IN PHARAOH'S ARMY
July 28th
Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of.
- Charles Richards
July 29th
As for butter versus margarine, I trust cows more than chemists.
- Joan Gussow
July 30th
Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.
- Richard Carlson
July 31st
I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself.
- J. K. Rowling
