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 Phyllis "Krystara" Swenson on December 13, 2008 at 7:15pm: "Setting goals for your game is an art. The trick is in setting them at the right level, neither too high nor too low." ~ Greg Norman; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Phyllis "Krystara" Swenson on December 13, 2008 at 7:16pm: "Nothing is too high for a man to reach, but he must climb with care and confidence." ~ Hans Christian Anderson; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Phyllis "Krystara" Swenson on December 13, 2008 at 7:20pm: "The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and will to carry on." ~ Walter Lippmann; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Phyllis "Krystara" Swenson on December 13, 2008 at 7:21pm: "Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing." ~ Mary D. Poole; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Phyllis "Krystara" Swenson on December 13, 2008 at 7:21pm: "Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder." ~ George Washington; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Phyllis "Krystara" Swenson on December 13, 2008 at 7:24pm: "A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say, 'We did it ourselves'." ~ Lao Tsu; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Phyllis "Krystara" Swenson on December 13, 2008 at 7:26pm: "A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless." ~ Charles De Gaulle; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Phyllis "Krystara" Swenson on December 13, 2008 at 7:29pm: "Leadership is not magnetic personality that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people, that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations." ~ Peter F. Drucker; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Phyllis "Krystara" Swenson on December 13, 2008 at 7:30pm: "Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them. They make the impossible happen." ~ Robert Jarvik; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Phyllis "Krystara" Swenson on December 13, 2008 at 7:32pm: "The main characteristics of effective leadership are intelligence, integrity, loyalty, mystique, humor, discipline, courage, self-sufficiency and confidence." ~ James L. Fisher; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Phyllis "Krystara" Swenson on December 13, 2008 at 7:34pm: "When the leadership is right and the time is right, people can always be counted upon to follow to the end and at all costs." ~ Harold J. Seymour; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Phyllis "Krystara" Swenson on December 13, 2008 at 7:35pm: "There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you." ~ William Hazlitt; ▶ Reply to This