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 February 22, 2009 at 5:00pm: The first element of greatness is fundamental humbleness (this should not be confused with servility); the second is freedom from self; the third is intrepid courage, which, taken in its widest interpretation, generally goes with truth; and the fourth --the power to love --although I have put it last, is the rarest.

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Permalink Reply by KARYNE Add me as a friend! on February 22, 2009 at 5:01pm: Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

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Permalink Reply by KARYNE Add me as a friend! on February 22, 2009 at 5:01pm: To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

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Permalink Reply by KARYNE Add me as a friend! on February 22, 2009 at 5:02pm: People are capable of doing an awful lot when they have no choice and I had no choice. Courage is when you have choices.

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Permalink Reply by KARYNE Add me as a friend! on February 22, 2009 at 5:02pm: Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

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Permalink Reply by KARYNE Add me as a friend! on February 22, 2009 at 5:03pm: The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

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Permalink Reply by KARYNE Add me as a friend! on February 22, 2009 at 5:03pm: What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

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Permalink Reply by KARYNE Add me as a friend! on February 22, 2009 at 5:03pm: It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

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Permalink Reply by KARYNE Add me as a friend! on February 22, 2009 at 5:04pm: The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

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Permalink Reply by KARYNE Add me as a friend! on February 22, 2009 at 5:05pm: Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence; he actually suffers a loss of energy in its presence. The effect of the ugly can be measured with a dynamometer. Whenever man feels in any way depressed, he senses the proximity of something ''ugly.'' His feeling of power, his will to power, his courage, his pride -- they decline with the ugly, they increase with the beautiful.

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Permalink Reply by KARYNE Add me as a friend! on February 22, 2009 at 5:05pm: Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

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Permalink Reply by KARYNE Add me as a friend! on February 22, 2009 at 5:05pm: Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

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