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"The only way to have a friend is to be one."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Delivered: October 16, 2024

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Delivered: October 15, 2024

"The greatest gift is the ability to forget - to forget the bad things and focus on the good."

Joe Biden

Delivered: October 14, 2024

"We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve."

Bill Gates

Delivered: October 13, 2024

"If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them."

Bruce Lee

Delivered: October 12, 2024

"I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five."

Steven Wright

Delivered: October 11, 2024

"Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected."

Steve Jobs

Delivered: October 10, 2024

"The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made."

Groucho Marx

Delivered: October 9, 2024

"If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost."

Barack Obama

Delivered: October 8, 2024

"We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately."

Benjamin Franklin

Delivered: October 7, 2024

"We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone."

Ronald Reagan

Delivered: October 6, 2024

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."

Helen Keller

Delivered: October 5, 2024

"Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."

Theodore Roosevelt

Delivered: October 4, 2024

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."

Henry David Thoreau

Delivered: October 3, 2024

"I'm Southern, I'm gay, I'm little - I get Ma'am'd a lot on the phone."

Leslie Jordan

Delivered: October 2, 2024

"I am God's vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live."

Kanye West

Delivered: October 1, 2024

"No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar."

Abraham Lincoln

Delivered: September 30, 2024

"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."

Maya Angelou

Delivered: September 29, 2024

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."

Mark Twain

Delivered: September 28, 2024

"The curse of covetousness is that it destroys manhood by substituting money for character."

Lucy Larcom

Delivered: September 27, 2024

"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings."

Anais Nin

Delivered: September 26, 2024

"A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man."

e. e. cummings

Delivered: September 25, 2024

"One of the key qualities a leader must possess is the ability to detach from the chaos, mayhem, and emotions in a situation and make good, clear decisions based on what is actually happening."

Jocko Willink

Delivered: September 24, 2024

"Everybody needs somebody."

Mahalia Jackson

Delivered: September 23, 2024

"I dare not stay home while Quichuas perish. What if the well-filled church in the homeland needs stirring? They have the Scriptures, Moses, and the prophets, and a whole lot more. Their condemnation is written on their bank books and in the dust on their Bible covers."

Jim Elliot

Delivered: September 22, 2024