Quote of the Week Archive

Fall 2009:

Week Quote
1 Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!  Live the life you always imagined.                   
                                               -- Henry David Thoreau
2 The only constant is change.                   
                                               -- Heraclitus
3 The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds.
                                 -- Abraham Lincoln
4

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
                                -- Albert Einstein
5

I haven't failed.  I've found 10,000 ways that won't work.
                                 -- Benjamin Franklin
6 The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

.                                 -- Michelangelo
7 I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.
                                    -- Frank Howard Clark
8 Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
                                   --  Mahatma Gandhi
9 When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
                                   -- Jimi Hendrix
10 I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
                                 -- Bill Cosby
11   Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts.
                                -- Winston Churchill
12 The team with the best athletes doesn’t usually win.  It’s the team with the athletes who play best together.
                                -- Lisa Fernandez
13 Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then
choose that way with all his strength.
                               -- Hasidic saying
14 As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
                               -- John F. Kennedy

Spring 2009:

Week Quote
1 A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
                                  -- Lao-tzu
2 Knowledge is power.
                                  -- Francis Bacon
3 Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.
                                 -- African proverb
4 It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends.
                                 -- J.K. Rowling
5 Tell me, I forget.  Show me, I remember.  Involve me, I understand.
                                -- Ancient Chinese proverb
6 Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
                                -- Abraham Lincoln
7 It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
                                -- Eugene Ionesco
8 The cure for boredom is curiosity.  There is no cure for curiosity.
                                -- Dorothy Parker
9

In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decision on the next seven generations.
                                -- Great Law of the Iroquois
10

Never, never, never, never give up.
                                -- Winston Churchill
11 Security is mostly a superstition.  It does not exist in nature... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
                              -- Helen Keller
12 Share your knowledge.  It's a way to achieve immortality.
                             -- The Dalai Lama
13

If you want to feel rich, just count the things you have that money can't buy.
                             -- Proverb
14 What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
                             -- Henry David Thoreau
15 You never will be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life.
                             -- James G. Bilkey
16

It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
                             -- Ursula Le Guin

Fall 2008:

Week Quote
1 Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
                                                       -- Albert Einstein
2 We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.
                                              -- Oprah Winfrey
3 I can accept failure.  Everyone fails at something.  But I can't accept not trying.
                                             -- Michael Jordan
4 Ma ka hana ka 'ike.  Knowledge is gained by doing.
                                              -- Hawaiian Proverb
5
You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
                                  -- Rabindranath Tagore
6
Writing is thinking on paper.
                                  -- William Zinsser
7
Nothing in life is to be feared.  It is only to be understood.
                                  -- Marie Curie
8

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.  The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.
                                  -- Mark Twain
9

We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.
                                  --  Luciano de Crescenzo
10 What is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn?
                                  -- Peter Ustinov
11 Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.
                                  -- William E. Simon                          
12 Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
                                  -- Barack Obama
13

Inside everyone
is a great shout of joy
waiting to be born.
                                            -- David Whyte

14 Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. 
                                    -- William Arthur Ward
15 Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to  success when they gave up.
                                    --  Thomas Edison
16

Winning doesn’t always mean being first.  Winning means you’re doing better than you’ve ever done before.

                                    --  Bonnie Blair
Quote for the Season All we are saying is give peace a chance.
                                    --  John Lennon