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 Dorothy M. Neddermeyer, PhD on July 5, 2009 at 5:39pm: "I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something.
And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do." Edward Everett Hale; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Dorothy M. Neddermeyer, PhD on July 5, 2009 at 5:42pm: "Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers." Author Unknown; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Dorothy M. Neddermeyer, PhD on July 7, 2009 at 11:41am: "If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced." ~ Vincent Van Gogh; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Ken Tallman on July 7, 2009 at 11:48am: A Smile gos a long way toward reaching your dreams; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Dorothy M. Neddermeyer, PhD on July 7, 2009 at 1:59pm: "I wanted to try to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why is that so difficult?" -Hermann Hesse (1877-1962); ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Dorothy M. Neddermeyer, PhD on July 7, 2009 at 2:00pm: "Promptings come from the true self all the time. But are we listening? Are we responding? There is so much clutter and confusion in the world that too often we aren't tuning in to that still small voice inside. And yet that's where all the wisdom is, with the true self. First we need to listen, and then we can live in accord with those promptings." -Lissa Coffey; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Dorothy M. Neddermeyer, PhD on July 8, 2009 at 7:43am: "I have often noticed that when chickens quit quarreling over their food they often find that there is enough for all of them. I wonder if it might not be the same with the human race." ~ Don Marquis; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Dorothy M. Neddermeyer, PhD on July 8, 2009 at 7:45am: "Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia."
~ Charles Schulz; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Dorothy M. Neddermeyer, PhD on July 8, 2009 at 4:16pm: "Society has no bribe for me, neither in politics, nor church, nor college, nor city."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882); ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Dorothy M. Neddermeyer, PhD on July 8, 2009 at 4:19pm: "Society challenges us all the time. We're here in this human existence to learn and to grow, and facing these challenges is one way for us to do that. What wins out, temptation or conviction? Integrity has a lot to do with it. Like Jiminy Cricket sings: "always let your conscience be your guide."" -Lissa Coffey; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Dorothy M. Neddermeyer, PhD on July 9, 2009 at 2:07am: "Let us permit nature to have her way; she understands her business better than we do."

~ Michel Eyquem de Montaigne; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Dorothy M. Neddermeyer, PhD on July 10, 2009 at 2:24am: "Polonius: This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man."
-Shakespeare (1564-1616), Hamlet; ▶ Reply to This