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

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.

Michel de Montaigne – “A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.”
byAndrew McGivern - Motivational Quotes and Daily Inspiration | Quote of the Day

Welcome to the Daily Quote, the podcast designed to kickstart your day in positive way. I'm your host Andrew McGivern and this episode is brought to you by the Great News podcast, because good news should be heard and the link is in the show notes.

Today's quote comes from Michel de Montaigne, 16th century French philosopher, statesman, and the man widely credited with inventing the personal essay as a literary form.

A man who spent much of his adult life in genuine physical pain, suffering from a severe hereditary kidney disease that caused him constant discomfort throughout his later years.

A man who knew real suffering deeply, and who, from that place, identified a second kind of suffering that most of us inflict entirely on ourselves.

From his Essays, he wrote:

”A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.”

There are two kinds of suffering in that sentence. Only one of them is real. The first is the suffering that arrives, the difficulty, the loss, the pain, the thing you were dreading that actually happens.

That suffering is real. It has weight and texture and it asks something genuine of you. You go through it, as Frost said. You root yourself in it, as Jung said. You face it honestly and move through it and come out changed on the other side.

The second kind of suffering is the one Montaigne is pointing at, the suffering that exists entirely in anticipation. The suffering of imagining the thing before it arrives. The sleepless night before the difficult conversation. The months of dread before the medical result. The years spent avoiding a decision because of what might happen if it goes wrong. The career unlived, the relationship unpursued, the opportunity untaken, all because the imagined suffering of failure felt too heavy to risk.

Here is what makes Montaigne's observation so devastating: the imagined suffering is often longer, heavier, and more exhausting than the real thing ever turns out to be. He wrote extensively throughout his Essays on the realities of illness, ageing, and death, precisely because he wanted to familiarize himself with their inevitability, to rid himself of fear's tyranny by looking at what he feared directly rather than flinching away from it.

He found, consistently, that the looking was less terrible than the not-looking. That the fear of the thing cost more than the thing itself. Modern psychology has a name for this pattern. Anticipatory anxiety, the mind's tendency to simulate negative future events with far more intensity and duration than those events, when they arrive, actually warrant. We are, by design, catastrophizers.

The brain rehearses danger to prepare for it, but it cannot distinguish between preparation and the experience itself. So it suffers. Before anything has happened. Sometimes for years before anything has happened.

And sometimes in anticipation of things that never happen at all. Montaigne's invitation is simple and radical: stop paying in advance for a debt that may never come due. The suffering you're carrying right now, how much of it is real, and how much of it is the shadow of something that hasn't arrived yet?

So here's the question: What are you currently suffering from, in anticipation, that hasn't actually arrived yet?

Because Montaigne isn't telling you the hard things won't come. Some of them will. He knew that better than most.

What he's telling you is that paying for them twice: once in fear and once in reality, is a choice. And the first payment is always optional. Stop suffering from what you fear. Save the cost for if it actually comes.

That's it for today. I'm Andrew McGivern and I'll see you in the next one with another Daily Quote.

Michel de Montaigne – “A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.”
Michel de Montaigne – “A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.”
May 26, 2026
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Unknown Author – “Anger is the punishment we give ourselves for someone else’s mistake.”
May 25, 2026
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Will Rogers – “Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
May 24, 2026
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John Lennon – “There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love…”
May 23, 2026
Andrew McGivern - Motivational Quotes and Daily Inspiration | Quote of the Day
Aristotle – “A friend to all is a friend to none.”
May 22, 2026
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Carl Jung – “No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.”
May 21, 2026
Andrew McGivern - Motivational Quotes and Daily Inspiration | Quote of the Day
André Gide – “Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.”
May 20, 2026
Andrew McGivern - Motivational Quotes and Daily Inspiration | Quote of the Day
Michelangelo – “The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.”
May 19, 2026
Andrew McGivern - Motivational Quotes and Daily Inspiration | Quote of the Day
Robert Frost – “The only way out is through.”
May 18, 2026
Andrew McGivern - Motivational Quotes and Daily Inspiration | Quote of the Day
Naval Ravikant – “It’s not 10,000 hours. It’s 10,000 iterations.”
May 17, 2026
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Great News | Inspiring Stories, Positive Developments and Good News
Great News | Inspiring Stories, Positive Developments and Good News

The Great News Podcast is your source for positive news, inspiring stories, and good news from around the world. We skip the doom and gloom of mainstream media to focus on scientific breakthroughs, environmental wins, and the inspiring news that proves the world is getting better. Join Andrew McGivern for a dose of optimism and uplifting stories that will change your perspective on human progress.
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Laser-Fast Internet and Epigenetic Health
byAndrew McGivern | Good News Podcast Host - Positive News and Inspiration

The Great News podcast is brought to you by the Daily Quote.

Today, a discovery that could turn our oceans into a source of clean, green fuel. That's our lead story today.

Plus, we’ll look at a ”molecular staple” for hard-to-treat cancers, a way to silence cholesterol without permanently altering your DNA, and a wireless system that’s twice as efficient as Wi-Fi.

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How Stapled Peptides Could Change Cancer Treatment

Turning Off Bad Genes

How Laser Tech Is Rewriting the Rules of WirelessAnd don’t forget to stick around for the speed round where we’ll celebrate a historic victory against an ancient disease.Chile Eliminates Leprosy

Revolutionizing Brain Research and Treatment!

China’s Gigantic Battery

How CAR T Therapy Is Learning to Fight Cancer Smarter

If you like the Great News Podcast, you will love the Great News Letter. Because the Great News Podcast is Great but the Great News Letter is Greater!

The Great News Letter is an email newsletter that you can subscribe to for FREE and get all the good news delivered to your email inbox.

For this episode we got some feedback from Brian de V. You can leave feedback for the show too by going to greatnewspodcast.com/feedback.

Or if you listen in Spotify – leave a comment right there as you listen.

Until next time… and there will be a next time.

Keep looking for the good in the world because no only is it there, its everywhere!

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    Michel de Montaigne – “A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.”

    byAndrew McGivernMay 26, 2026

    Unknown Author – “Anger is the punishment we give ourselves for someone else’s mistake.”

    byAndrew McGivernMay 25, 2026

    Will Rogers – “Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”

    byAndrew McGivernMay 24, 2026

    John Lennon – “There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love…”

    byAndrew McGivernMay 23, 2026
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    Laser-Fast Internet and Epigenetic Health
    byAndrew McGivern | Good News Podcast Host - Positive News and Inspiration

    The Great News podcast is brought to you by the Daily Quote.

    Today, a discovery that could turn our oceans into a source of clean, green fuel. That's our lead story today.

    Plus, we’ll look at a ”molecular staple” for hard-to-treat cancers, a way to silence cholesterol without permanently altering your DNA, and a wireless system that’s twice as efficient as Wi-Fi.

    Turning Sunlight and Seawater into Hydrogen

    How Stapled Peptides Could Change Cancer Treatment

    Turning Off Bad Genes

    How Laser Tech Is Rewriting the Rules of WirelessAnd don’t forget to stick around for the speed round where we’ll celebrate a historic victory against an ancient disease.Chile Eliminates Leprosy

    Revolutionizing Brain Research and Treatment!

    China’s Gigantic Battery

    How CAR T Therapy Is Learning to Fight Cancer Smarter

    If you like the Great News Podcast, you will love the Great News Letter. Because the Great News Podcast is Great but the Great News Letter is Greater!

    The Great News Letter is an email newsletter that you can subscribe to for FREE and get all the good news delivered to your email inbox.

    For this episode we got some feedback from Brian de V. You can leave feedback for the show too by going to greatnewspodcast.com/feedback.

    Or if you listen in Spotify – leave a comment right there as you listen.

    Until next time… and there will be a next time.

    Keep looking for the good in the world because no only is it there, its everywhere!

    Laser-Fast Internet and Epigenetic Health
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    April 14, 2026
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    The Longevity Revolution: Replicating Decades of Aging and Turning Nuclear Waste into Power
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