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Confucius – Wherever you go, go with all your heart

byAndrew McGivernMarch 21, 2025February 19, 2026
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Confucius – It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop

byAndrew McGivernSeptember 22, 2024February 19, 2026
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Confucius – The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones

byAndrew McGivernJune 13, 2024February 19, 2026
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Confucius – Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated

byAndrew McGivernApril 24, 2024February 19, 2026
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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.

Unknown Author – “Remember, being happy doesn’t mean you have it all. It simply means you’re thankful for all you have.”
byAndrew McGivern - Motivational Quotes and Daily Inspiration | Quote of the Day

Welcome to the Daily Quote, the podcast designed to kickstart your day in a positive way. I'm your host Andrew McGivern and this episode is brought to you by the Great News podcast. Link is in the show notes.

Today's quote has no confirmed original author and it belongs to that quiet category of modern wisdom that travels without a name attached. But as you'll hear, the science behind it is anything but anonymous.

The quote is:

”Remember, being happy doesn't mean you have it all. It simply means you're thankful for all you have.”

Most of us have been operating under a version of happiness that goes something like this: when I have more… more money, more success, more security, more of whatever currently feels out of reach, then I'll be happy.

Happiness as a destination. Something you arrive at once enough conditions have been met. The problem is that the conditions keep moving. You reach one threshold and another appears just beyond it. The house gets bigger, the target gets bigger. The income grows, the lifestyle grows to match it.

The goalposts never stop moving and the happiness that was supposed to arrive when you got there keeps getting deferred to the next milestone. Dr. Robert Emmons, nicknamed the ”father of gratitude” and professor of psychology at UC Davis has spent decades scientifically studying what actually makes people happy.

And what his research consistently shows is that happiness is far less connected to what we have than to how we relate to what we already have. In a landmark series of experiments, Emmons found that when people consciously practiced grateful living, their happiness increased and their ability to withstand negative events improved, as did their immunity to anger, envy, resentment and depression. Participants who kept a weekly gratitude journal simply writing down things they felt thankful for reported higher levels of positive emotion, more energy, and greater optimism than those who recorded neutral events or daily frustrations.

After ten weeks, the gratitude group was 25% happier and exercised 1.5 hours more per week than the control group. Not because their circumstances had changed. Because their attention had. That's the insight at the heart of today's quote.

Emmons puts it plainly: you cannot feel envious and grateful at the same time. They are incompatible feelings. Gratitude and the restless hunger for more cannot occupy the same space simultaneously. When you are genuinely thankful for what you already have, the craving for what you don't have loses its grip. Not because ambition disappears but because the present moment stops feeling like a waiting room for something better. Happiness was never at the next milestone. It was always available right here — in the relationship with what's already in your hands.

So here's the question: What are you currently looking past — in your work, your relationships, your daily life — because you're waiting for something more before you'll allow yourself to feel happy?Because the science is clear and the wisdom is simple. Happiness isn't waiting at the end of the next achievement. It's available right now — in the deliberate decision to notice, and be genuinely thankful for, what's already here.

You don't need it all. You just need to see what you already have. That's it for today. I'm Andrew McGivern — I'll see you in the next one with another Daily Quote.

Unknown Author – “Remember, being happy doesn’t mean you have it all. It simply means you’re thankful for all you have.”
Unknown Author – “Remember, being happy doesn’t mean you have it all. It simply means you’re thankful for all you have.”
May 10, 2026
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Unknown Author – “Remember, the life you’re comparing yours to might be built on borrowed money.”
May 9, 2026
Andrew McGivern - Motivational Quotes and Daily Inspiration | Quote of the Day
George Carlin – “Some people have no idea what they’re doing, and a lot of them are really good at it.”
May 8, 2026
Andrew McGivern - Motivational Quotes and Daily Inspiration | Quote of the Day
Lee Iacocca – “Even a correct decision is wrong when it was taken too late.”
May 7, 2026
Andrew McGivern - Motivational Quotes and Daily Inspiration | Quote of the Day
Kurt Vonnegut – “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
May 6, 2026
Andrew McGivern - Motivational Quotes and Daily Inspiration | Quote of the Day
Jean-Paul Sartre – “Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.”
May 5, 2026
Andrew McGivern - Motivational Quotes and Daily Inspiration | Quote of the Day
Dan Sullivan – “Your eyes can only see and your ears can only hear what your brain is looking for.”
May 4, 2026
Andrew McGivern - Motivational Quotes and Daily Inspiration | Quote of the Day
Martin Short -“No one is any one thing.”
May 3, 2026
Andrew McGivern - Motivational Quotes and Daily Inspiration | Quote of the Day
Colin Kaepernick – “Pressure comes from a lack of preparation.”
May 2, 2026
Andrew McGivern - Motivational Quotes and Daily Inspiration | Quote of the Day
Paulo Coelho – “Do something instead of killing time because time is killing you.”
May 1, 2026
Andrew McGivern - Motivational Quotes and Daily Inspiration | Quote of the Day
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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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Keep looking for the good in the world, because it is not only there – its everywhere.

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
Laser-Fast Internet and Epigenetic Health
April 14, 2026
Andrew McGivern | Good News Podcast Host - Positive News and Inspiration
The Longevity Revolution: Replicating Decades of Aging and Turning Nuclear Waste into Power
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Reversing Blindness with Cellular Rejuvenation and the Beating Heart-on-a-Chip
April 1, 2026
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Self-Spreading CRISPR and the Sun Battery That Outperforms Lithium-Ion
March 18, 2026
Andrew McGivern | Good News Podcast Host - Positive News and Inspiration
Cancer-Eating Bacteria, 10-Passenger Flying Taxis, and the First Moon Harvest
March 9, 2026
Andrew McGivern | Good News Podcast Host - Positive News and Inspiration
Can We Bottle the Sun? Plus the AI Tool Outperforming Doctors in Rare Disease Diagnosis
March 7, 2026
Andrew McGivern | Good News Podcast Host - Positive News and Inspiration
Lower Crime and More Energy
March 3, 2026
Andrew McGivern | Good News Podcast Host - Positive News and Inspiration
Saving the Banana and Reversing Brain Aging
February 28, 2026
Andrew McGivern | Good News Podcast Host - Positive News and Inspiration
Mushroom Boxes and Bacterial Mating
February 25, 2026
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How AI is Designing Custom Antibodies and Curing Cancer
February 21, 2026
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    Unknown Author – “Remember, being happy doesn’t mean you have it all. It simply means you’re thankful for all you have.”

    byAndrew McGivernMay 10, 2026

    George Carlin – “Some people have no idea what they’re doing, and a lot of them are really good at it.”

    byAndrew McGivernMay 8, 2026

    Lee Iacocca – “Even a correct decision is wrong when it was taken too late.”

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    Kurt Vonnegut – “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”

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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!

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