Andrew McGivern - Motivational Quotes and Daily Inspiration | Quote of the Day

the Daily Quote - Positive Daily Inspiration and Motivational Quote of the Day

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Tune in daily to get a short dose of daily inspiration to kick start your day in a positive way.the Daily Quote brings you inspirational quotes to help motivate and inspire your day with positivity. Listen to the show for positive quotes from Albert Einstein, Maya Angelo, Seth Godin, Tony Robbins, Winston Churchill, Martin Luther King Jr, John Lennon, William Shakespeare, Lao Tzu, Confucius and more...Every single day you will hear a motivational quote to fire up your day.

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Andrew McGivern - Motivational Quotes and Daily Inspiration | Quote of the Day

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Oscar Wilde - Be yourself; everyone else is already taken 23.12.2025 2:01

Welcome to the Daily Quote – a podcast designed to kickstart your day in a positive way. I'm Andrew McGivern for December 23rd. Today is Festivus . For the rest of us. Festivus became famous through Seinfeld's 1997 episode "The Strike," but it was actually invented by writer Dan O'Keefe's father, Daniel O'Keefe, in 1966. The TV version features an aluminum pole, airin...

Matsuo Basho - Prefer vegetable broth to duck soup. Simplicity 22.12.2025 3:22

Welcome to the Daily Quote – a podcast designed to kickstart your day in a positive way. I'm Andrew McGivern for December 22nd. Today is National Haiku Poetry Day – celebrating the ancient Japanese art form that captures entire moments in just seventeen syllables. The haiku format is deceptively simple: three lines, with five syllables in the first, seven in the second, and five in the third....

Victor Hugo - Even the darkest night will end, and the sun will rise 21.12.2025 3:25

Welcome to the Daily Quote – a podcast designed to kickstart your day in a positive way. I'm Andrew McGivern for December 21st. Today is Winter Solstice – the longest night and shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. For thousands of years, humans have marked this astronomical event. Ancient peoples built monuments aligned to the solstice sun – Stonehenge, Newgrange, Machu Picchu....

Swedish proverb - Those who wish to sing always find a song 20.12.2025 1:43

Welcome to the Daily Quote – a podcast designed to kickstart your day in a positive way. I'm Andrew McGivern for December 20th. Today is Go Caroling Day . Gather friends. Walk the neighborhood. And sing. This is something I've only ever seen happen once when I was a kid. Someone knocked on our door and we answered and a group of carolers sung a song for us... But I've seen this happen...

Malcolm Gladwell - The fact of being an underdog changes people in ways that we often fail to appreciate. It opens doors and creates opportunities and enlightens and permits things that might... 19.12.2025 2:00

Welcome to the Daily Quote – a podcast designed to kickstart your day in a positive way. I'm Andrew McGivern for December 19th. Today is National Underdog Day . Celebrating everyone who's been counted out, overlooked, underestimated. Everyone loves to root for the underdog in the movies. And in real life it can be fun to be the underdog when you know that you have a chance to win! And that...

Marian Keyes - Baking makes me focus. On weighing the sugar. On sieving the flour. I find it calming and rewarding because, in fairness, it is sort of magic - you start off with..., 18.12.2025 4:22

Welcome to the Daily Quote – a podcast designed to kickstart your day in a positive way. I'm Andrew McGivern for December 18th. Today is Bake Cookies Day – perfectly timed for the holiday season when kitchens fill with the sweet smell of butter, sugar, and possibility. December is peak cookie season. Families dust off grandmother's recipes. Kids press shapes into dough. Neighbors exchange...

Robin Wall Kimmerer - The responsibility does not lie with the maples alone. The other half belongs to us: we participate in its transformation. It is our work, and our gratitude... 17.12.2025 5:00

Welcome to the Daily Quote – a podcast designed to kickstart your day in a positive way. I'm Andrew McGivern for December 17th. Today is National Maple Syrup Day – celebrating nature's sweetest gift and the patience required to create it. Real maple syrup is liquid gold, distilled from the sap of sugar maple trees. The process is ancient, dating back thousands of years to indigenous people...

Joanne Harris - Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive. 16.12.2025 4:13

Welcome to the Daily Quote – a podcast designed to kickstart your day in a positive way. I'm Andrew McGivern for December 16th. Today is National Chocolate Covered Anything Day – a deliciously absurd celebration that encourages you to dip literally anything in chocolate. The origins of this holiday remain delightfully mysterious, but the concept is simple: if it exists, you can cover it in cho...

Lin Yutang - There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life 15.12.2025 3:40

Welcome to the Daily Quote – a podcast designed to kickstart your day in a positive way. I'm Andrew McGivern for December 15th. Today is International Tea Day – a global celebration of the world's most consumed beverage after water. Tea has been cultivated for over 5,000 years, originating in China and eventually spreading across the world through trade routes and colonization. Today, tea...

Jane Goodall - Only if we understand, will we care. Only if we care, will we help. 14.12.2025 4:10

Welcome to the Daily Quote – a podcast designed to kickstart your day in a positive way. I'm Andrew McGivern for December 14th. Today is Monkey Day – an international celebration of our primate cousins. Created in 2000 by art students Casey Sorrow and Eric Millikin at Michigan State University, Monkey Day started as a joke scribbled on a friend's calendar. But this playful holiday has evol...

Henri Frederic Amiel - Love is like swallowing hot chocolate before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time. 13.12.2025 3:46

Welcome to the Daily Quote – a podcast designed to kickstart your day in a positive way. I'm Andrew McGivern for December 13th. Today is National Cocoa Day – celebrating the rich, warm beverage that has been bringing comfort to cold hands and weary souls for centuries. Hot cocoa dates back over 5,000 years to ancient Mesoamerica, where the Mayans and Aztecs consumed it as a bitter, spicy drink...

Albert Einstein - Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere 12.12.2025 3:38

Welcome to the Daily Quote – a podcast designed to kickstart your day in a positive way. I'm Andrew McGivern for December 12th. Today is Gingerbread House Day – celebrating the delicious tradition of building edible architecture. Gingerbread has been around for centuries, but the tradition of making gingerbread houses specifically began in Germany in the early 1800s. The Brothers Grimm fairy t...

Ansel Adams - No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied – it speaks in silence to the very core of your being 11.12.2025 3:45

Welcome to the Daily Quote – a podcast designed to kickstart your day in a positive way. I'm Andrew McGivern for December 11th. Today is International Mountain Day – a United Nations observance celebrating the importance of mountains to life on Earth. Mountains cover 27% of the planet's land surface and provide freshwater to half of humanity. They're home to incredible biodiversity, un...

C.S. Lewis - The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal, or two friends talking over a pint of beer 10.12.2025 3:08

Welcome to the Daily Quote – a podcast designed to kickstart your day in a positive way. I'm Andrew McGivern for December 10th. Today is National Lager Day – celebrating the crisp, cold beer that brings people together. Lager is the world's most popular beer style, accounting for over 90% of global beer production. The name comes from the German word "lagern," meaning "to st...

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. - There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise 09.12.2025 1:58

Welcome to the Daily Quote – a podcast designed to kickstart your day in a positive way. I'm Andrew McGivern for December 9th. Today is Christmas Card Day . Write one. Mail it. Connect. Christmas cards have been around for centuries so go buy some, make them yourself or get the kids to do it. There is no better time to get your Christmas Cards ready than Christmas Card Day. Grab some family pi...

H.G. Wells - We all have our time machines. Those that take us back are memories. Those that carry us forward are dreams 08.12.2025 1:51

Welcome to the Daily Quote – a podcast designed to kickstart your day in a positive way. I'm Andrew McGivern for December 8th. Today is Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day. Speak in old English. Wear futuristic clothes. Confuse everyone. Today is a day to have fun and pretend you have the Flux Capacitor or the original time machine by HG Wells... which brings us to today's quote from H.G. We...

Keanu Reeves - Letters are something from you. It's a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail 07.12.2025 1:52

Welcome to the Daily Quote – a podcast designed to kickstart your day in a positive way. I'm Andrew McGivern for December 7th. Today is National Letter Writing Day . Pen. Paper. Your thoughts. Nothing else required. Before the invention of the telephone followed by the internet, email, smart phones, and social media... hand writing a letter was the only way to communicate with other people acr...

Ralph Waldo Emerson - Nothing can bring you peace but yourself 06.12.2025 1:49

Welcome to the Daily Quote – a podcast designed to kickstart your day in a positive way. I'm Andrew McGivern for December 6th. Today is Put on Your Own Shoes Day. Teaching kids independence, one lace at a time. As an adult it sounds funny but when your trying to tie your laces for the first time it is a big deal. It's challenging and can be frustrating. The loop wraps around where and then...

Harry Gordon Johnson - The greatest accomplishment of a bartender lies in his ability to exactly suit his customer. 05.12.2025 3:20

Welcome to the Daily Quote – a podcast designed to kickstart your day in a positive way. I'm Andrew McGivern for December 5th. Today is National Bartender Day . Honoring the people who mix drinks and listen. Bartenders are known not just for their mixology skills but also for being a pseudo-psychologist. In other words they are good listeners. Which brings us to today's quote from bartendi...

Sandra Lee - Cookies are the sweetest little bit of comfort food. They are very bite-sized and personal 04.12.2025 2:07

Welcome to the Daily Quote – a podcast designed to kickstart your day in a positive way. I'm Andrew McGivern for December 4th. Today is National Cookie Day . Whether that's Chocolate chip, Sugar or Oatmeal Raison. They are all equally tasty today. Now if you've been paying attention you may have noticed a lot of the holidays have been related to food recently. And while that is true, I...

Jane Austen - Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness 03.12.2025 1:41

Welcome to the Daily Quote – a podcast designed to kickstart your day in a positive way. I'm Andrew McGivern for December 3rd. Today is National Apple Pie Day . Warm. Cinnamon-sweet. And delicious. Apple pies are the ultimate comfort food and when paired with some vanilla ice cream it is even better. This brings us to today's quote from Jane Austen who wrote: "Good apple pies are a co...

Laurie Colwin - A person cooking is a person giving. Even the simplest food is a gift 02.12.2025 1:44

Welcome to the Daily Quote – a podcast designed to kickstart your day in a positive way. I'm Andrew McGivern for December 2nd. Today is National Fritters Day . Deep-fried dough, filled with whatever you want. Apple. Corn. Zucchini. Pure comfort. Doesn't sound like the healthiest food but they sure taste good. And even if we are on a strict healthy diet we all deserve a cheat day... right?...

Unknown Author - An Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Away 01.12.2025 2:31

Welcome to the Daily Quote – a podcast designed to kickstart your day in a positive way. I'm Andrew McGivern for December 1st. Today is National Eat A Red Apple Day . Simple. Direct. Just eat an apple. And not just any apple a red apple. Why does it have to be a red apple, because green granny smith apples have their own day. That's why. And that brings us to today's quote from an unkn...

Nicolette M. Dumke - Dessert is one of the simple pleasures of life which have sustained people during difficult times 30.11.2025 1:45

Welcome to the Daily Quote – a podcast designed to kickstart your day in a positive way. I'm Andrew McGivern for November 30th. Today is National Mousse Day . Light. Airy. Gone in seconds. Mouse originated in France and was made by whipping eggs and cream together into a light airy foam. We associate it with desert but originally it was also made as a savory dish. That is interesting but I thi...

Forest Gump - Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what your going to get 29.11.2025 2:28

Welcome to the Daily Quote – a podcast designed to kickstart your day in a positive way. I'm Andrew McGivern for November 29th. Today is National Chocolates Day. Not candy. Not ice cream. Chocolate. Chocolate is one of those treats that makes you feel good and has some health benefits too, due to antioxidants like flavanols and polyphenols. These compounds help combat oxidative stress and supp...