Word of the Week 2005 Archive
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December 26-29
Twenty years from now you will be disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines—sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore! Dream! Discover!
Mark Twain
December 19-23
“Dreams can often become challenging, but challenges are what we live for.”
Travis White
December 12 - 16
At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
Albert Schwietzer
December 5 - 9
“We are all born ignorant but one must work hard to remain stupid.”
Benjamin Franklin
November 21-25 and November 28 - December 2
Even if you’re on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.
Will Rogers
November 14 - 18
“You are never given a wish without also given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.”
Richard Bach
November 7 - 11
Being a role model means more than having others look up to you. A role model is someone who accepts responsibility for getting others to do great things.
Tiger Woods
October 31 - November 4
Pain is temporary; the success it brings can be everlasting………
Chinese Proverb
October 24-28
The more we give of anything the more we shall get back
Grace Speare
October 17-21
You learn more by falling than by the fear of falling.
Chinese proverb
October 10-14
Individual commitment to a group effort-that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work..
Vince Lombardi
October 3-7
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try
Beverly Sills
September 26-30
It's never too late to be what you might have been.
George Elliot
September 19 - 23
The only place you'll find success before work is in the dictionary.
May B. Smith
September 12 - 15
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it arrives."
Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman and Prime Minister
September 5 - 8
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
August 29 - September 2
"You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor."
Aristotle
August 22 - 26
The purpose of life is to live a life of purpose...
Anonymous
August 16-19
The difference between a professional and an amateur is a professional provides reliable results especially in times of adversity.
Anonymous
August 8-12
Life is a coin. You can spend it anyway you wish, but you can only spend it once.
Anonymous
August 1-5
Sometimes the slightest shift in the way you look at things, a seemingly insignificant change in perspective can alter your life forever.
Anonymous
July 25-29
Anything that is worth achieving is worth fighting for
Andrew Carnegie
July 18-22
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it...
Moliere
July 11-15
When things go bad, don't go with them
Chinese Proverb
July 4-8
"Only mediocre people are always at their best."
Somerset Maughan
June 27 - July 1
“I’m a pessimist about tomorrow but I’m an optimist about the day after tomorrow.”
Eric Sevareid
June 20 - 24
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life:
It goes on..."
Robert Frost
June 13 - 17
"Success consists of getting up more times than you fall."
Oliver Goldsmith, 18th-century English novelist
June 6 - 10
"You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can
find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it."
Bill Cosby
May 30 - June 3
“So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.”
Christopher Reeve
May 23, 2005 - May 27, 2005
“ Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”
Oprah Winfrey
May 16, 2005 - May 20, 2005
“You don’t have to do great things, but the little things you doing in your sphere of influence can be done with great conviction, great wisdom, great beauty, and great love.”
Ruth Krehbiel Jacobs
May 9, 2005 - May 13, 2005
"The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people."
Theodore Roosevelt
May 2, 2005 - May 6, 2005
“If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business!”
B.C. Forbes
April 18, 2005 - April 22, 2005
“Build for character not for fame.”
Unknown
April 11,2005-April 15,2005
"Books are like lighthouses erected on the sea of time."
Unknown
April 4,2005-April 10,2005
Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and wrong…because sometime in your life you will have been all of these.
Unknown
March 28, 2005 - Apr 1,2005
“However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.”
Winston Churchill