Quote of the Week Archive
Spring 2013:
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Week |
Quote |
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1 |
The beginning is the most important part of the work. -- Plato Talk, write, or do something related to this quote! |
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2 |
There is a great difference between knowing and
understanding: one can know a lot about something and not really
understand it. -- Charles F Kettering Talk, write, or do something related to this quote! |
| 3 |
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great
a burden to bear. -- Martin Luther King Jr. Talk, write, or do something related to this quote! |
| 4 |
One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the
opportunity to more intelligently begin again. -- Henry Ford Talk, write, or do something related to this quote! |
| 5 |
Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do
it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. -- Howard Thurman Talk, write, or do something related to this quote! |
| 6 |
The important thing in science is not so
much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
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| 7 |
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and,
under a just God, can not long retain it. -- Abraham Lincoln Talk, write, or do something related to this quote! |
| 8 |
If there is no struggle, there is no
progress. |
| 9 |
Remember our heritage is our power; we can know ourselves and our
capacities by seeing that other women have been strong. -- Judy Chicago Talk, write, or do something related to this quote! |
| 10 |
It’s always too early to quit. -- Norman Vincent Peale Talk, write, or do something related to this quote! |
| 11 |
Be yourself; everyone else is already
taken. -- Oscar Wilde Talk, write, or do something related to this quote! |
| 12 |
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week. -- Spanish proverbTalk, write, or do something related to this quote! |
| 13 |
When you're finished changing, you're finished. -- Benjamin Franklin Talk, write, or do something related to this quote! |
| 14 |
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed
is always to try just one more time. -- Thomas Edison Talk, write, or do something related to this quote! |
| 15 |
We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.
--
Margaret Mead |
| 16 |
If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it, even if I did not have the ability in the beginning.
-- Mahatma Gandhi |
Fall 2012:
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Week |
Quote |
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1 |
Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you
can. -- Arthur Ashe Talk, write, or do something related to this quote! |
|
2 |
Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know. -- Daniel J. Boorstin Talk, write, or do something related to this quote! |
| 3 |
Change is the end result of all true learning. -- Leo Buscaglia Talk, write, or do something related to this quote! |
| 4 |
Learning
another language is not only learning different words for the same
things, but learning another way to think about things. |
| 5 |
Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person's physical,
emotional, and mental states. -- Carol Welch Talk, write, or do something related to this quote! |
| 6 |
The dread of doing a task uses up
more time and energy than doing the task itself. -- Rita Emmett Talk, write, or do something related to this quote! |
| 7 |
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. -- Helen Keller Talk, write, or do something related to this quote! |
| 8 |
Science is organized knowledge. -- Herbert Spencer Talk, write, or do something related to this quote! |
| 9 |
He who teaches children learns more than they do. |
| 10 |
Treat your family like friends and your friends like family. -- Proverb Talk, write, or do something related to this quote! |
| 11 |
In every job that must be done
There is an element of fun You find the fun and - SNAP! The job’s a game! -- Disney’s Mary Poppins Talk, write, or do something related to this quote! |
| 12 |
Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a
dawn or a dusk. -- William Arthur Ward Talk, write, or do something related to this quote! |
| 13 |
My first wish is to see this plague of
mankind, war, banished from the earth. -- George Washington Talk, write, or do something related to this quote! |
| 14 |
There are people in the world so hungry,
that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. -- Mahatma Gandhi Talk, write, or do something related to this quote! |
| 15 |
It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up. -- Babe Ruth Talk, write, or do something related to this quote! |
| 16 |
It always seems impossible until it’s done. |
Spring 2012:
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Week |
Quote |
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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! |
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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. |
| 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! |
| 6 |
To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses
first. -- Janeane Garofalo Talk, write, or do something related to this quote! |
| 7 |
Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. -- Malcolm Forbes Talk, write, or do something related to this quote! |
| 8 |
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. |
| 9 |
I think the key is for women not to set any limits.-- Martina Navratilova Talk, write, or do something related to this quote! |
| 10 |
Feminism's agenda is basic: it asks that women not be forced to choose
between |
| 11 |
Women will only have true equality when men share with them the
responsibility of bringing up the next generation. -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg Talk, write, or do something related to this quote! |
| 12 |
You learn something every day if you
pay attention. -- Ray LeBlond Talk, write, or do something related to this quote! |
| 13 |
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start
from now and make a brand new ending. -- Carl Bard Talk, write, or do something related to this quote! |
| 14 |
The best time to plant a tree is
twenty years ago. The second best time is now. -- Chinese Proverb Talk, write, or do something related to this quote! |
| 15 |
Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may
never happen. Keep in the sunlight. -- Benjamin Franklin Talk, write, or do something related to this quote! |
| 16 |
There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an
examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the
moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti |
Fall 2011:
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Week |
Quote |
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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! |
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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. |
| 7 |
Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things
can be achieved. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 14 |
If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed
one. |
| 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:
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Week |
Quote |
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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:
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Week |
Quote |
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1 |
Whatever you are, be a good one. -- Abraham Lincoln |
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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. |
| 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.
|
| 5 |
I haven't
failed. I've found 10,000 ways that won't work.
|
| 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. |
| 10 |
Never, never, never,
never give up. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
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.
|
| 6 |
Writing is thinking on paper.
|
| 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. |
| 9 |
We are
each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing
one another. |
| 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 |
| 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 |