Dan on May 29th 2023
One of the the best illustrations of the power of words is the fact that a single quote can actually cause you to take action: to get up out of your chair, to run farther, to do an extra rep, to burn the midnight oil, all in service of a goal. And clearly there is an appetite for motivational quotes: as of the writing of this post, there are 32,088,830 posts on Instagram with the hashtag #MondayMotivation.
For a bit of a different angle on #MondayMotivation for this Monday launch day for bonmots.com, below is a selection of 10 quotes from our database that I find inspiring. All these quotes pre-date the existence of the internet, and in some cases, pre-date the existence of the automobile, electricity or even the Iron Age.
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Hesiod. Ἔργα καὶ Ἡμέραι [Works and Days]. c. 700 BC, l. 289.
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Hesiod. "Works and Days." Theogony and Works and Days, translated by M. L. West. Oxford University Press, 2009, l. 289.
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Berryman, John. "A Point of Age." Poems. New Directions, 1942.
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John A. Shedd
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Salt from My Attic
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Shedd, John A. Salt from My Attic. Mosher Press, 1928.
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Beckett, Samuel. "Worstward Ho!" Nohow On. The Limited Editions Club, 1989.
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Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Oldtown Folks. Boston: Fields, Osgood, and Co., 1869, ch. 39.
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Stowe, Harriet Beecher. "Oldtown Folks." Harriet Beecher Stowe: Three Novels: Uncle Tom's Cabin; The Minister's Wooing; Oldtown Folks. Library of America, 1982, ch. 39.
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Francis Drake
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Drake, Francis. Dispatch to Francis Walsingham. 17 May 1587, Francis Drake's ship, Iberian coasts between Lisbon and Cape St. Vincent. Dispatch.
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Herodotus. Ἱστορίαι [Histories]. c. 430 BC, bk. 7, ch. 50.
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Herodotus. The Histories, translated by Robin Waterfield. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 7, ch. 50.
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