I enjoy looking for inspirational quotes for these posts.  I feel sort of, well, inspired!!  I hope you enjoy these I found this week.
The less you speak, the more you will hear.
Alexander Solshenitsen

No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.
Aesop

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate.
Albert Schweitzer

You can make more friends in two months by becoming really interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. Which is just another way of saying that the way to make a friend is to be one.
Dale Carnegie

I make progress by having people around who are smarter than I am and listening to them. And I assume that everyone is smarter about something than I am.
Henry J. Kaiser


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Develop your people skills
The people with whom you work reflect your own attitude. If you are suspicious, unfriendly and condescending, you will find these unlovely traits echoed all about you. But if you are on your best behavior, you will bring out the best in the persons with whom you are going to spend most of your working hours.
Beatrice Vincent

People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.
Abigail Van Buren

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply. They're either speaking or preparing to speak. They're filtering everything through their own paradigms, reading their autobiography into other people's lives.
Stephen Covey

If you want to please people who are mistaken, you can't simply tell the truth. You're always going to have to add some sort of padding to protect their misconceptions from bumping against reality.
Paul Graham
 
 
Let's start the week on a positive note.  I dug out 10 quotes about work for us to mull over:
  • All things are difficult before they are easy - Thomas Fuller
  • Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still? - J Paul Getty
  • Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all -Sam Ewing 
  • Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction - Anne Frank
  • Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work - Thomas A Edison
  • The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today - Elbert Hubbard
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  • The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office - Robert Frost
  • The harder I work, the luckier I get - Samuel Goldwyn
  • The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play - Arnold J. Toynbee
  • We work to become, not to acquire - Elbert Hubbard

 
 
  1. A stumble may prevent a fall (English Proverb)
  2. If at first you do not succeed, try not to look too surprised (Anon)
  3. It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final (Anon)
  4. Yesterday's failures are today's seeds that must be diligently planted to be able to abundantly harvest tomorrow's success. (Anon)
  5. Motivating gets you going and habit gets you there.  Make motivating a habit and you will get there more quickly and have more fun on the trip.
  6. To respond is positive, to react is negative.
  7. I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try and please everyone (Bill Cosby)
  8. In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time (Paul Cummings)
  9. Keep these concepts in mind:  you've failed many times although you don't remember.  You fell down the first time you tried to walk.  You almost drowned the first time you tried to swim...  don't worry about failure.  My suggestion to each of you:  Worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.  (Sherman Finesilver)
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10.  Life's real failure is when you do not realise how close you were to success when you gave up.  (Thomas Edison, right)