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 Kevin Waaka on January 27, 2009 at 7:17pm: Without sweat and toil no work is made perfect.
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Permalink Reply by Kevin Waaka on January 27, 2009 at 7:17pm: Success in life is a matter not so much of talent or opportunity as of concentration and perseverance.
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Permalink Reply by Kevin Waaka on January 27, 2009 at 7:17pm: I hold a doctrine, to which I owe not much, indeed, but all the little I ever had, namely, that with ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.
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Permalink Reply by Kevin Waaka on January 27, 2009 at 7:18pm: Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince or peasant.
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Permalink Reply by Kevin Waaka on January 27, 2009 at 7:18pm: It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
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Permalink Reply by Kevin Waaka on January 27, 2009 at 7:18pm: Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
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Permalink Reply by Kevin Waaka on January 27, 2009 at 7:18pm: The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.
Lucretius 95 BC - From Perseverance: (persistence...endurance...persevere... ) - Happy Otter; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Kevin Waaka on January 27, 2009 at 7:18pm: He who would do some great thing in this short life, must apply himself to the work with such a concentration of his forces as to the idle spectators, who live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity.
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Permalink Reply by Kevin Waaka on January 27, 2009 at 7:19pm: Do not think that what is hard for thee to master is impossible for man; but if a thing is possible and proper to man, deem it attainable by thee.
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Permalink Reply by Kevin Waaka on January 27, 2009 at 7:19pm: It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.
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Permalink Reply by Kevin Waaka on January 27, 2009 at 7:19pm: When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
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Permalink Reply by Kevin Waaka on January 27, 2009 at 7:20pm: Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
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