Word of the Week 2006 Archive
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December 25-29
Never look down on anybody unless you are helping them up
December 18-22
Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving-----make everyday a holiday and celebrate just living
December 11-15
I think I began learning long ago that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
Booker T. Washington
November 27 - December 1
“Defeat is not the worst of failures-----Not to have tried is the true failure.”
George E. Woodberry
November 20-24
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today
Abraham Lincoln
November 13 -17
“Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.”
Soren Kierkegaard
November 6 - 10
“If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.”
Abraham Lincoln
October 30 - November 6
"If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.”
Gail Sheehy
October 16 - 20
“Opportunities are often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be listening.”
Author Unknown
October 9 - 13
…(A) Long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.
Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776
October 2-6
“Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently.”
Henry Ford
Sept 18-22
The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.
Solomon Ibn Gabriol
Sept 11-15
“One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
Sept 4-8
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
August 28- Sept 1
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Albert Einstein
August 21-25
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
Margaret Thatcher
August 14-18
The greatest problem in communication
Is the illusion that it has been accomplished.
Daniel W. Davenport
August 7-11
Most barriers to your success are man made. And most often, you’re the man who made them.
Frank Tyger
July 31 - August 4
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
John Locke
July 24-28
Those who want without effort will want for all eternity
Chinese Proverb
July 17-21
The mighty oak was once a little nut that stood its ground.
Unknown
July 10 - 14
Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all.
Sam Ewing
July 3- 7
If we applied the same ingenuity to education that we do to business, our society would succeed beyond our wildest dreams.
Martin Luther King III
June 26 - 30
The difference between a good day and a bad day isn’t about what changes in your day..
It’s about what changes in you…….
Anonymous
June 19-23
We do not receive wisdom. We must discover it from experiences which no one else can have for us and from which no one else can spare us.
Marcel Proust, French Author
June 12-16
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
Epictetus
June 5-9
The difference between the right word and the wrong word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.
Mark Twain
May 29 - June 2
Character is the ability to carry out a worthy decision after the emotion of making a decision has passed.
Hyrum W. Smith
May 22-26
When you start thinking about growth, be sure not to ignore the spandex rule: just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.
Scott Bedbury,CEO of Brandstream
May 15-19
Dreams are maps. The ability to think about the future is what drives us all to attain.
Dr.Irwin Redlener,
President and Cofounder of the Children’s Health Fund
May 8-12
Your dream determines your goals, your goals map out your actions. Your actions create results. And the results bring you success.
John Maxwell
May 1-5
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
Vincent T. Lombardi
Apr 17-21
A wise man once told me: don’t argue with fools. Because from a distance, people can’t tell who is who.
Anonymous
Apr 10-14
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
Robert H. Schuller
Apr 3 - 7
There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
John Adams
Mar 27-31
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
Robert Schuller
Mar 20 - 24
How much better a thing it is be envied than to be pitied.
Herodotus
Mar13 - 17
The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
Charles Du Bos
Mar 6 - 10
It’s the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance and sweeps away all obstacles.”
Claude M. Bristol
Feb 27 - Mar 3
Kanter’s Law:
“Everything can look like a failure in the middle.”
Rosabeth Moss Kanter, PhD, Harvard Business School
Feb 20-24
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
Bernard Baruch
Feb 6-10
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”
Benjamin Franklin
Jan 30- Feb 3
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but they don’t quit
Conrad Hilton
Jan 23-27
If you live in the past you will die in the present
Bill Belichick, Head Coach, New England Patriots
Jan 16-20
Life is like an ocean, you can see the beginning but not the end Anonymous
Jan 9-13
Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.
Mahatma Gandhi
Jan 2-6
If a man does his best what else is there?
General George S. Patton