Quotes

Quotes…
November - December - January -February - March - April - May - June

I just carry hope in my heart. Hope is not a feeling of certainty,
that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life
and work have meaning.
Vaclev Havel

The influence of a beautiful, helpful, hopeful character is contagious, and may revolutionize a whole town."
Eleanor H. Porter

If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein

December - The Power of Inclusion
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We have to improve life, not just for those who have the most skills and those who know how to manipulate the system. But also for and with those who often have so much to give but never get the opportunity.
Dorothy Height

Tell me, I'll forget. Show me, I may remember.
But involve me and I'll understand.
Chinese proverb

It takes two wings for a bird to fly.
Jesse Jackson

Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if everyone
shared a little of what he is good at.
Quincy Jones

January - The Power of Diversity
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Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together.
Chief Seattle

The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute.
Charles Darwin

Beware, as long as you live, of judging people by appearances.
Jean de la Fontaine

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
Mother Teresa

February - The Power of Mastery
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There are obviously two educations.
One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
James Truslow Adams

If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would
literally astound ourselves.
Thomas Alva Edison

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.
Seneca

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in the moments
of comfort and convenience, but where he stands in times
of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

March - The Power of Purpose
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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.
Ella Fitzgerald

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look
for the circumstances they want, and, if they
can't find them, make them.
George Bernard Shaw

In a world where there is so much to be done,
I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do.
Dorothea Dix

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
George Bernard Shaw

April - The Power of Independence
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Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of you intuition. You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.
Alan Alda

You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt

I believe in daring to be different-if different means looking up rather than putting down, in helping rather than hurting. I'll
be as different as I can.
Denis Waitley

Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit
makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
James Buckham

May - The Power of Acknowledgement
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Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
Gladys Browyn Stern

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
Booker T. Washington

Never look down on anybody unless you are helping him up.
Reverend Jesse Jackson

Appreciation is a wonderful thing;
it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
Voltaire

June - The Power of Wisdom
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Alread, Lord Tennyson

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.
Robert M. Pirsig

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
Unknown

Surround yourself with only people
who are going to lift you higher.
Oprah Winfrey