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 STRAIGHTALK --> www.151years.com on October 30, 2008 at 6:06pm: Quote: There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress in existence by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow.
Author: Samuel Johnson
Source: The Book of Positive Quotation; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by STRAIGHTALK --> www.151years.com on October 30, 2008 at 6:07pm: Quote: Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
Author: Samuel Johnson
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Permalink Reply by Michel on October 30, 2008 at 6:07pm: Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
-- Helen Keller; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by STRAIGHTALK --> www.151years.com on October 30, 2008 at 6:07pm: Quote: An Italian philosopher said that "time was his estate"; an estate which will produce nothing without cultivation, but will always abundantly repay the labors of industry, and generally satisfy the most extensive desires, if no part of it be suffered to lie in waste by negligence, to be overrun with noxious plants, or laid out for show rather than for use.
Author: Samuel Johnson
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Permalink Reply by Greg on October 30, 2008 at 6:07pm: As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
- Andrew Carnegie -; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by STRAIGHTALK --> www.151years.com on October 30, 2008 at 6:07pm: Quote: Nothing at all will be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Author: Samuel Johnson
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Permalink Reply by Greg on October 30, 2008 at 6:07pm: Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
- Theodore Roosevelt -; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by STRAIGHTALK --> www.151years.com on October 30, 2008 at 6:07pm: Quote: Those who attain any excellence commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often granted upon easier terms.
Author: Samuel Johnson
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Permalink Reply by Michel on October 30, 2008 at 6:08pm: Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught.
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Permalink Reply by Greg on October 30, 2008 at 6:08pm: You will never plough a field if you only turn it over in your mind.
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Permalink Reply by STRAIGHTALK --> www.151years.com on October 30, 2008 at 6:08pm: Quote: Courage is the greatest of all the virtues. Because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
Author: Samuel Johnson
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Permalink Reply by STRAIGHTALK --> www.151years.com on October 30, 2008 at 6:08pm: Quote: Moderation is commonly firm, and firmness is commonly successful.
Author: Samuel Johnson
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