Friday, Jun 28, 2024“Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints - they are your public.”
Saint John Vianney, T.O.S.F. (aka the "Curé d'Ars")
French parish priest and patron saint of parish priests.
(1786 - 1859)
Thursday, Jun 27, 2024“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan Press On! has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.”
Calvin Coolidge
30th President of the United States of America.
(1872 - 1933)
Wednesday, Jun 26, 2024“It doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.”
Lucille Désirée Ball
American actress, comedian, producer, and studio executive.
(1911 - 1989)
Tuesday, Jun 25, 2024“Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded - and once they are suspended, it is not difficult for anyone who has assumed such emergency powers to see to it that the emergency will persist.”
F. A. Hayek
Nobel Prize winning economist and philosopher.
(1899 - 1992)
Monday, Jun 24, 2024“Stand for something. Always have class and be humble.”
John Madden
American NFL football coach and sports commentator.
(1936 - 2021)
Friday, Jun 21, 2024“Consider your possessions loaned to you by God.”
Saint Catherine of Siena
Mystic, activist, author & One of the Thirty-Seven Doctors of the Catholic Church.
(1347 - 1380)
Wednesday, Jun 19, 2024“Hope is necessary in every condition.”
Samuel Johnson
English writer, poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer.
(1709 - 1784)
Tuesday, Jun 18, 2024“The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance.”
Albert Einstein
German-born Nobel prize winning theoretical physicist and developer of the general theory of relativity.
(1879 - 1955)
Monday, Jun 17, 2024“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”
Socrates
Greek philosopher & Plato's teacher.
(470BC - 399BC)
Friday, Jun 14, 2024“...always be guided by the truth-by the truth about God who created and redeemed us, and by the truth about the human person, made in the image and likeness of God and destined for a glorious fulfillment in the kingdom to come. Always be convincing witnesses to the truth.”
Saint John Paul II
Priest, Bishop, Cardinal & Servant of the Servants of God.
(1920 - 2005)
Thursday, Jun 13, 2024“The only thing more expensive than education is ignorance.”
Benjamin Franklin
One of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America.
(1706 - 1790)
Wednesday, Jun 12, 2024“Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also in our day and generation may not perform something worthy to be remembered.”
Daniel Webster
Considered one of the five greatest U.S. Senators.
(1782 - 1852)
Tuesday, Jun 11, 2024“Government cannot provide values to persons who have none, or who have lost those they had. It cannot provide inner peace.”
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
U.S. Senator, sociologist, and diplomat.
(1927 - 2003)
Monday, Jun 10, 2024“They can conquer who believe they can.”
Virgil
Roman poet.
(70BC - 19BC)
Friday, Jun 07, 2024“Three things we owe God: love, service and reverence.”
Saint John of God
Portuguese Founder of the Hospitaller Order of Saint John of God whose members make solemn vows of poverty, chastity, obedience and service to the sick for life in their hospitals.
(1495 - 1550)
Wednesday, Jun 05, 2024“I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.”
Thomas Jefferson
Principal author of the Declaration of Independence & Third President of the United States.
(1743 - 1826)
Tuesday, Jun 04, 2024“Show me the man and I'll find you the crime.”
Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria
Head of Soviet Union Secret Police under Joseph Stalin.
(1899 - 1953)
Monday, Jun 03, 2024“Character and fate are two words for the same thing.”
Novalis (the pen name of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg)
German aristocrat, poet, author, mystic and philosopher.
(1772 - 1801)