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 Min. Sandra Weeks on November 20, 2008 at 3:19pm: Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
-Robert Frost (1874 - 1963); ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Min. Sandra Weeks on November 20, 2008 at 3:20pm: Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes, in the nature of the case, different points of view.
-Robert Hutchins (1899 - 1977); ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Min. Sandra Weeks on November 20, 2008 at 3:20pm: The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
-Russell Green; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Min. Sandra Weeks on November 20, 2008 at 3:21pm: Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.
-Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895); ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Min. Sandra Weeks on November 20, 2008 at 3:21pm: Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
-Will Durant (1885 - 1981); ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Min. Sandra Weeks on November 20, 2008 at 3:21pm: I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
-Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933); ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Min. Sandra Weeks on November 20, 2008 at 3:22pm: Education is like a double-edged sword. It may be turned to dangerous uses if it is not properly handled.
-Wu Ting-Fang; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Min. Sandra Weeks on November 20, 2008 at 3:54pm: He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
-Ali ibn-Abi-Talib (602 AD - 661 AD), A Hundred Sayings; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Min. Sandra Weeks on November 20, 2008 at 3:54pm: Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
-Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Eudemian Ethics; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Min. Sandra Weeks on November 20, 2008 at 3:55pm: Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
-Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Nichomachean Ethics; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Min. Sandra Weeks on November 20, 2008 at 3:55pm: A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.
-Arthur Brisbane, "The Book of Today"; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Min. Sandra Weeks on November 20, 2008 at 3:55pm: Arthur Brisbane, "The Book of Today"
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
-Carl Jung (1875 - 1961); ▶ Reply to This