Starting Today Quotes

• Life is so very short. Do now what you yearn to do in your life. You do not have to 'quit your day job' in order to do this. You may do so if you choose to, but you do not have to. Many people advance a vocation while holding down their 'regular job.' You can, too. Then ease into your vocation and turn it into your 'regular job.' But you must give energy to your vocation starting today. I mean, today.

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  Neale Donald Walsch

  Jobs   Mean   Order  

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• This much is certain... No initiative put in place starting today can have a substantial effect on the peak production year. No Caspian Sea exploration, no drilling in the South China Sea, no SUV replacements, no renewable energy projects can be brought on at a sufficient rate to avoid a bidding war for the remaining oil.

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  Kenneth S. Deffeyes

  War   Years   Sea  

  Kenneth S. Deffeyes (2008). “Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage (New Edition)”, p.149, Princeton University Press

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• Learn From Yesterday, Live for Today, hope for tomorrow.

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  Orison Swett Marden

  Cute   Positive   Leadership  

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• But while I'd be their daughter, while I'd eat the roast and come home from dates and wash the dishes, I would also be myself. I would love my mother, but I'd never want to be her again. I would never be what someone else wanted me to be. I would never laugh at a joke I didn't think was funny. I would never tell another lie. I would be the truth-teller, starting today. That would be tough. But I was tougher.

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  Judy Blundell

  Daughter   Mother   Lying  

  Judy Blundell (2011). “What I Saw and How I Lied”, p.250, Scholastic UK

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• The secret of being more vitally alive is to be more aware. Starting today, from this moment, become aware of awareness!

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  Wilferd Peterson

  Secret   Alive   Today  

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• Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.

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  Barack Obama

  Dust   America   Today  

  First Presidential Inaugural Address, Delivered 20 January 2009

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• I also request that, starting today, you refer to me by my new name and use the feminine pronoun (except in official mail to the confinement facility).

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  Chelsea Manning

  Names   Use   Mail  

  "Chelsea Manning announces gender transition - full statement", www.theguardian.com. August 22, 2010.

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• You can have a do-over starting today. But you have to get over the feeling that it's too late

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  Jean Chatzky

  Feelings   Too Late   Today  

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• Every conversation, every failure, every opportunity is a chance to get better. Starting today.

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  Gary W. Goldstein

  Opportunity   Get Better   Today  

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• The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

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  Henry David Thoreau

  Witty   Travel   Work  

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.52, Xist Publishing

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• Herman Cain said, starting today, if you buy into his 9-9-9 plan, he'll throw in a free 32-ounce soda.

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  David Letterman

  Cain   Soda   Today  

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• And if the Son has set us free Then we must be, free indeed Let the chains fall away, starting today. Everything has changed I'm finally free.

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  Nichole Nordeman

  Faith   Fall   Inspiration  

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