Quote of the Week Archive

Spring 2012:

Week

 Quote

1

 The distance is nothing; it's only the first step that is difficult.
                    -- Marquise du Deffand                                                                                                    Talk, write, or do something related to this quote!

2

 People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other;
they don't know each other because they have not communicated with each other.
                   -- Martin Luther King Jr.                                                                                                    Talk, write, or do something related to this quote!
3 We have the best government that money can buy.
                   -- Mark Twain                                                                                                                    Talk, write, or do something related to this quote!
4

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
                   -- Dr. Seuss                                                                                                                       Talk, write, or do something related to this quote!
5 You don’t understand anything until you learn it more than one way.
                   -- Marvin Minsky                                                                                                                Talk, write, or do something related to this quote!

Fall 2011:

Week

 Quote

1

 A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
                        -- Oliver Wendell Holmes                                                                                                    Talk, write, or do something related to this quote!

2

 Action expresses priorities.
                               -- Mahatma Gandhi                                                                                                      Talk, write, or do something related to this quote!
3 There is no labor a person does that is undignified, if they do it right.
                                                -- Bill Cosby                                                                                                  Talk, write, or do something related to this quote!
4 Replace fear of the unknown with curiosity.
                                                      -- Unknown                                                                                              Talk, write, or do something related to this quote!
5 A true friend remembers the song in your heart when you have forgotten the lyrics.
                                                      -- old Cuban saying                                                                               Talk, write, or do something related to this quote!
6

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.  
                                                     -- Noam Chomsky                                                                                   Talk, write, or do something related to this quote!
7

Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.
                                                     -- Mattie Stepanek                                                                                  Talk, write, or do something related to this quote!
8

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
                                                     -- Steve Jobs
9 The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
                                                    -- Alice Walker                                                                                        Talk, write, or do something related to this quote!
10 If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.
                                   -- Buddhist saying                                                                                                   Talk, write, or do something related to this quote!
11 To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
                                   -- Joseph Chilton Pearce                                                                                       Talk, write, or do something related to this quote!
12 I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, "Mother, what was war?"
                                   -- Eve Merriam                                                                                                        Talk, write, or do something related to this quote!
13

There's nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it.
                                   -- Mickey Hart                                                                                                          Talk, write, or do something related to this quote!
14

If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.
                                   -- Mother Teresa                                                                                                     Talk, write, or do something related to this quote!
15 Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.
                                   -- Willie Nelson                                                                                                         Talk, write, or do something related to this quote!
16 Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness.
To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect.
                                    -- Oren Arnold                                                                                                        Talk, write, or do something related to this quote!

 

Spring 2011:

Week

 Quote

1

 Motivation is what gets you started.  Habit is what keeps you going.
                            -- Jim Rohn (motivational speaker)

2

 Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
                            -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
3 Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
                            -- Thomas Edison
4 The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.
                            -- Claude Levi-Strauss
5 You're never a loser till you quit trying.
                            -- Anonymous
6 All you need is love.  But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.
                            -- Charles M. Schulz, "Peanuts" cartoonist
7 In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
                                            -- Thomas Jefferson
8 Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
                                            -- Richard Steele
9 Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
                                            -- Victor Borge
10 He who sees the calamity of other people finds his own calamity light.
                                            -- Arabian Proverb
11 The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power.  You just take it.
                                            -- Roseanne Barr
12 Time will come when you feel you are being pushed into the background. Never allow this to happen -- stand always on your own foundation. But you will have to make that foundation.
                                            -- Bernice Pauahi Bishop
13 Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times
because they had nobody to talk about.
                                                        -- Agnes Repplier
14 You can tell how high a society is by how much of its garbage is recycled.
                                                        -- Dhyani Ywahoo (Native American)
15 The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work.
                                                        -- Oprah Winfrey
16 You must remember never to cease to act because you fear you may fail.
                                                        -- Queen Liliuokalani

Fall 2010:

Week

 Quote

1

 Whatever you are, be a good one.
                    -- Abraham Lincoln

2

 He who is afraid to ask is ashamed of learning.
                    -- Danish Proverb

3

 Goals are dreams with deadlines.
                    -- Diana Hunt
4 Nobody is as smart as everybody.
                    -- Kevin Kelly
5 Always make new mistakes.
                    -- Esther Dyson
6 There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world.  Love of books is the best of all.
                    -- Jacqueline Kennedy
7 A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.
                   -- Dorothea Lange
8 A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
                   -- Duke Ellington
9 It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
                   -- Albert Einstein
10 Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.
                   -- Eleanor Hibbert
11 If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
                   -- James Madison
12 The more we sweat in peace, the less we bleed in war.
                   -- Vijaya Lakshmi Nehru Pandit
13 The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.
                   -- St. Augustine
14 We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
                   -- Cynthia Ozick
15 The Hawaiian people have been from time immemorial lovers of poetry and song.
                   -- Queen Lili'uokalani
16 I'm not telling you it is going to be easy -- I'm telling you it's going to be worth it.
               -- Art Williams  (former professional basketball player)

Spring 2010:

Week

 Quote

1

 We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.  
                                               -- Dale Carnegie

2

 Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
                                 Martin Luther King, Jr.

3

 Go down deep enough into anything and you will find mathematics. 
                                 Dean Schlicter
4 ... in the United States of America, no one should go broke because they chose to go to college.
                                 President Barack Obama, State of the Union Address, January 27, 2010
5 Dreams are necessary to life.
                   Anais Nin
6 Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
                                      Confucius
7 Begin challenging your own assumptions.  Your assumptions are your windows on the world.  Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.  
                                     Alan Alda
8 Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
                                     Plato
9 There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.
                                  --  Mahatma Gandhi
10 The secret of success in conversation is to be able to disagree without being disagreeable.
                                  -- Author unknown
11 If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.   
                                  -- Herodotus  (484 BC - 430 BC)
12

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, not the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
                                  -- Charles Darwin
13 Work, love, and play are the great balance wheels of man's being.
                                  -- Orison Swett Marden
14 everything has rhythm.  everything dances.
                                -- Maya Angelou
15 If you think you can do it, you can.
                               -- John Burroughs
16 Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
                             -- The Dalai Lama

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
15 We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.                                                                     
                               -- Friedrich Koenig
16 Trust yourself.  You know more than you think you do.
                               -- Benjamin Spock
Quote for the Season While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
                    -- St. Francis of Assisi

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