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byAndrew McGivernApril 13, 2024February 19, 2026
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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.

William James – “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
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. Because good news should be heard and the link is right here in the show notes.

Today's quote comes from William James: philosopher, psychologist, and widely regarded as the father of American psychology. A man who spent years in the grip of depression and existential paralysis before making one decisive choice that turned his life around.

He once wrote:

”Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”Twelve words. The first ten are the instruction. The last two are the answer to every excuse for not following it.Most of us have felt, at some point, the quiet and corrosive suspicion that what we do doesn't really matter. That we are too small, too unknown, too ordinary for our choices to register in any meaningful way. That the world is too large and too indifferent for one person's effort, one person's kindness, one person's daily decision to show up and try to actually make a dent in anything.James understood that feeling from the inside. He spent years paralyzed by depression, unable to act, unable to see any reason why his choices mattered at all. Until one day he made a single defiant decision: his first act of free will would be to believe in free will. He acted as if his actions mattered. And in doing so discovered that they did. That's the mechanism James spent his career documenting. His central insight was that it isn't our feelings that guide our actions but it's our actions that shape our feelings. You don't wait to feel that you matter before you act as if you do. You act as if you do, and the feeling follows. The belief is built by the behaviour, not the other way around.He put it directly in The Principles of Psychology: ”We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar. Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out.” Nothing is wiped out. Every action registers: in you, in the people around you, in the fabric of what you're building, in the person you are becoming one choice at a time. The ripples may be invisible. They are never absent.It does matter. That's not reassurance. That's the conclusion of a life's work.So here's the question: Where in your life are you holding back and waiting to feel certain that what you do matters before you'll fully commit to doing it?Because James isn't asking you to feel it first. He's asking you to act first. The certainty follows the action. It always has.Act as if what you do makes a difference.It does.That's it for today. I'm Andrew McGivern and I'll see you in the next one with another Daily Quote.

William James – “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
William James – “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
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    Epictetus – “The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.”

    byAndrew McGivernMay 30, 2026

    Unknown Author – “Trust the process, even when it seems like it’s not processing.”

    byAndrew McGivernMay 29, 2026

    Denzel Washington – “Do what you have to do… to do what you want to do.”

    byAndrew McGivernMay 28, 2026

    Steve Martin – “Be so good they can’t ignore you.”

    byAndrew McGivernMay 27, 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!

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