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 4:16pm: To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship.
-Sallust (86 BC - 34 BC), The War with Catiline; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Min. Sandra Weeks on November 20, 2008 at 4:17pm: If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.
-Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784); ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Min. Sandra Weeks on November 20, 2008 at 4:17pm: Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
-Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC); ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Min. Sandra Weeks on November 20, 2008 at 4:17pm: Friends, in my experience, are like ladies' fashions. They come and go with the seasons, and are rarely of such stout stuff as bears repeated wearing.
-Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor, 1996; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Min. Sandra Weeks on November 20, 2008 at 4:18pm: Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.
-Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661); ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Min. Sandra Weeks on November 20, 2008 at 4:18pm: Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-Thomas Jones (1892 - 1969); ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Min. Sandra Weeks on November 20, 2008 at 4:19pm: We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.
-Thucydides (471 BC - 400 BC), Peloponnesian War; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Min. Sandra Weeks on November 20, 2008 at 4:19pm: I've learned that all a person has in life is family and friends. If you lose those, you have nothing, so friends are to be treasured more than anything else in the world.
-Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Prehistoric Ice Man, 1999; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Min. Sandra Weeks on November 20, 2008 at 4:20pm: Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
-Unknown, (often attributed to Albert Camus); ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Min. Sandra Weeks on November 20, 2008 at 4:20pm: I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
-Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892); ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Min. Sandra Weeks on November 20, 2008 at 4:21pm: We are advertis'd by our loving friends.
-William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616); ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Min. Sandra Weeks on November 20, 2008 at 4:24pm: You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it's a little thing, do something for others - something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.
-Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965); ▶ Reply to This