Inspirational Quote Post

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I personally read 3-5 quotes every 2 hours during the business day to remind myself to reach for greatness, and I look forward to turning this discussion into a section of the network that will inspire us all.

"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get."
Dale Carnegie

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Permalink Reply by KARYNE Add me as a friend! on December 9, 2008 at 6:32pm: Although there was a point with the Tijuana Brass where we were playing for such huge crowds that I kind of lost contact. At one point, the only connection I had with the audience was with people out there lighting cigarettes.

Herb Alpert

Permalink Reply by KARYNE Add me as a friend! on February 26, 2009 at 11:25pm: Seth Parker - “You may not have saved a lot of money in your life, but if you have saved a lot of heartaches for other folks, you are a pretty rich man.”

Permalink Reply by KARYNE Add me as a friend! on February 26, 2009 at 11:28pm: William Lyon Phelps - “You can be deprived of your money, your job and your home by someone else, but remember that no one can ever take away your honor.”

Permalink Reply by KARYNE Add me as a friend! on February 26, 2009 at 11:28pm: Michael Phillips - “Money will come to you when you are doing the right thing.”

Permalink Reply by KARYNE Add me as a friend! on February 26, 2009 at 11:29pm: Pablo Picasso - “I'd like to live like a poor man with lots of money.”

Permalink Reply by KARYNE Add me as a friend! on February 26, 2009 at 11:29pm: Plato - “... you did not seem to me over-fond of money. And this is the way in general with those who have not made it themselves, while those who have are twice as fond of it as anyone else. For just as poets are fond of their own poems, and fathers of their own children, so money-makers become devoted to money, not only because, like other people, they find it useful, but because it’s their own creation.”

Permalink Reply by KARYNE Add me as a friend! on November 7, 2008 at 11:20am: Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that a son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farm workers can become the president...

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Permalink Reply by KARYNE Add me as a friend! on November 7, 2008 at 11:25am: The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.

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Permalink Reply by KARYNE Add me as a friend! on November 7, 2008 at 11:26am: Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.

Laurence J. Peter

Permalink Reply by KARYNE Add me as a friend! on November 7, 2008 at 11:26am: The system -- the American one, at least -- is a vast and noble experiment. It has been polestar and exemplar for other nations. But from kindergarten until she graduates from college the girl is treated in it exactly like her brothers. She studies the same subjects, becomes proficient at the same sports. Oh, it is a magnificent lore she learns, education for the mind beyond anything Jane Austen or Saint Theresa or even Mrs. Pankhurst ever dreamed. It is truly Utopian. But Utopia was never meant to exist on this disheveled planet.

Phyllis Mcginley

Permalink Reply by KARYNE Add me as a friend! on November 7, 2008 at 11:26am: He is to be educated not because he's to make shoes, nails, and pins, but because he is a man.

William Ellery Channing

Permalink Reply by KARYNE Add me as a friend! on February 26, 2009 at 11:45pm: Jean Jacques Rousseau - “Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.”