Hartford, CT…John Pierpont Morgan Sr. April 17, 1837 – March 31, 1913 The father of modern finance & banking. His firm helped provide the capital as the US Economy became the largest in the world. His power was such at its zenith that he and a group of bankers actually saved the US monetary system […]
Haarlem, Netherlands…Cornelia Arnolda Johanna “Corrie” ten Boom 15 April 1892 – 15 April 1983. Holocaust Survivor & helped many Jews escape the Nazis. “Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.” “Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too […]
Washington, DC…Thomas Jefferson April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826 a Founding Father & third President of the United States “Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law’ because law is often but […]
Henry Clay Sr. April 12, 1777 – June 29, 1852. American Secretary of State, Senator & Congressman “The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity.” “Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in […]
Jerusalem, Israel…A Bit of Wisdom from Christ on Good Friday. The Head of Christ painting by Warner Sallman, 1941 “But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the […]
Tuskegee, AL…Booker T. Washington April 5, 1856 – November 14, 1915. A Bit of Wisdom from Booker T. Washington on his Birthday. “Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote […]
Auvers-sur-Oise, France…Vincent van Gogh 30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890 “It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.” “The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, […]
Bentonville, AR…Samuel Moore Walton (March 29, 1918 – April 5, 1992) The father of Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart was a different and many would say better company with him at the helm. “If you love your work, you’ll be out there every day trying to do it the best you possibly can, and pretty soon everybody around […]
Bennington, VT…Poet Robert Lee Frost March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963. “Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.” “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled […]
Bridgeport, CT…Fanny J. Crosby, March 24, 1820 – February 12, 1915. Was the blind “Queen of Gospel Song Writers” who wrote over 8,000 hymns & gospel songs. “God will answer you prayers better than you think. Of course, one will not always get exactly what he has asked for….We all have sorrows and disappointments, but […]
Los Angeles, CA…Wyatt Earp March 19, 1848 – January 13, 1929. American lawman and gambler in the American West, including Dodge City, Deadwood, Tombstone & Alaska. “Fast is fine, but accuracy is final. You must learn to be slow in a hurry.” “Are you going to do something or just stand there and bleed?” “The […]
County Down, Northern Ireland…Saint Patrick 386 – March 17th, 461. The Patron Saint of Ireland “I plainly told them, ‘Be ye sincerely converted, and with your whole heart, to the Lord our God, for nothing is impossible to Him, that He may today send you food on your road, even until you are satisfied, because […]
Nashville, TN…Andrew Jackson, March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845 General & Seventh President of the United States from 1829 to 1837. “The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer… form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty […]
Santa Monica, CA…Lawrence Welk, March 11, 1903 – May 17, 1992. American bandleader, who hosted The Lawrence Welk Show from 1951 to 1982. He was the Champagne Music King. “Freedom is without a doubt the greatest blessing we have in America so let us protect it and defend it with all our hearts and all […]
Santa Rosa, CA…Luther Burbank March 7, 1849 – April 11, 1926 The botanist, horticulturist and pioneer in agricultural science developed more than 800 strains and varieties of plants over his 55-year career. “It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. For those who do not […]
Beinn Bhreagh, Nova Scotia…Alexander Graham Bell March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922. He gave us the telephone and much more. “In this experiment, made on the 9th of October, 1876, actual conversation, backwards and forwards, upon the same line, and by the same instruments reciprocally used, was successfully carried on for the first time […]
La Jolla, CA…Theodor Seuss Geisel March 2, 1904 – September 24, 1991. A Bit of wisdom from Dr. Seuss today on the legendary children’s author and cartoonist’s birthday. “How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How […]
Philadelphia, PA…A Bit of Wisdom for today from my favorite founding father. Considered the first American by many. He also through his writings and Poor Richard’s Almanac created the uniquely American identity. “The U. S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.” “Without freedom of […]
Maranello, Italy…Enzo Ferrari, 20 February 1898 – 14 August 1988. Italian racing driver and entrepreneur, founder Scuderia Ferrari Grand Prix motor racing team & Ferrari automobile marque. “I have yet to meet anyone quite so stubborn as myself and animated by this overpowering passion that leaves me no time for thought or anything else. I […]
George Washington February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799. The first president of the United States and founding father of our country. “It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.” “Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and […]
New York, NY…Thomas John Watson Sr., February 17, 1874 – June 19, 1956 was the chairman and CEO of IBM. He oversaw the company’s growth into an international force from 1914 to 1956. “You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. […]
Chicago, IL…Cyrus McCormick, February 15, 1809 – May 13, 1884 was an American inventor and founded the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, later to become the International Harvester Company. Through his and other inventions allowed the American Farmer to feed the world. “Trying to do business without advertising is like winking at a pretty girl through […]
Grass Valley, CA…Brigadier General Charles Elwood Yeager, February 13, 1923 – December 7, 2020. The first man to break the sound barrier & maybe his words can help you break a few barriers yourself. “I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane […]
Gettysburg, PA…Abraham Lincoln, February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865. While it was delivered 5 years before our country officially started celebrated Decoration Day which became Memorial Day. The Gettysburg Address remains one of the most eloquent of tributes to those who gave their all that we might be free. It is also as good […]
Menlo Park, NJ…Thomas Alva Edison, February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931. The Iconic American inventor of the light bulb, phonograph, motion picture camera & more. “Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go […]
Amiens, France…Jules Verne, 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905. French author of Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1872) & much more. “Nothing can astound an American. It has often been asserted that the word ‘impossible’ is not […]
London, UK…Charles John Huffam Dickens, 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870. He created some of the world’s best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. “The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is […]
Los Angeles, CA…Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004. A Bit of Wisdom from the 40th President. “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.” ~ […]
Chicago, IL…A Bit of Wisdom from Dwight L. Moody. Dwight L. Moody February 5, 1837 – December 26, 1899 “We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won’t need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don’t fire cannons to call attention to their shining – they just shine.” “We can […]
New York, NY…A Bit of Wisdom from russian born Ayn Rand on Her Birthday. Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum (Ayn Rand) February 2, 1905 – March 6, 1982. Her work and world views were shaped by spending her youth during the rise and early years of the communists in Russia. “Individual rights are not subject to a […]
