Word of the Week 2007 Archive
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December 24-28
“A friendly look, a kindly smile, one good act, and life’s worthwhile“
Author Unknown
December 17-21
“Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
Robert H. Schuller
December 10-14
“A healthy attitude is contagious but don’t wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.”
Unknown
December 3-7
The most damaging phrase in the language is: “It’s always been done that way.”
Rear Admiral Grace Hopper
November 26-30
“We keep moving forward, opening up new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths."
Walt Disney
November 19-23
“You can’t anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about it’s width and depth.”
Shira Tehrani
November 12-16
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
Chinese Proverb
November 5 - 9
The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential-----these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
Coach Eddie Robinson
October 29 - November 2
“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”
Benjamin Franklin
October 22-26
The bad news is time flies----The good news is you’re the pilot.
Michael Althsuler
October 15-19
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
October 8-12
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
John Powell
October 1-5
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Andy Warhol
September 24-28
Be kind------for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
Plato
September 17-21
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today
Abraham Lincoln
September 10-14
I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
Bill Cosby
September 3 -7
“You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-term failures.”
Charles Noble
August 27-31
“Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.”
Reggie Leach
August 20-24
“There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.”
General Douglas MacArthur
August 13 - 17
"Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently.”
Henry Ford
August 6 - 10
“There’s a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore.” Steven Wright
July 30 - August 3
“Most people burn out because they have never been on fire.”
David Head, management consultant
July 23 - 27
“How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.”
George Washington Carver
July 16-20
“We must indeed all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.”
Benjamin Franklin
July 9 - 13
You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something—your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
Steve Jobs
July 2-6
Individual commitment to a group effort—that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
Vince Lombardi
June 25-29
Competition is a painful thing, but it produces great results.
Jerry Flint
June 18-22
“Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak.”
Epictetus
June 11 -15
“If you spend too much time working on your weaknesses, all you end up with is a lot of strong weaknesses.”
Dan Sullivan, Business Coach
June 4 - 8
“The present is what slips by us while we’re pondering the past and worrying about the future.”
Tom Wilson, In his Ziggy comic strip
May 28 - June 1
“Fall seven times. Stand up eight.”
Japanese Proverb
May 21 - 25
“We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.”
Calvin Coolidge, American President
May 14-18
“Why not to go out on a limb---isn’t that where all the fruit is?”
Frank Scully
May 7 - 11
A THOUGHT reaps an action
An ACTION reaps a habit
A HABIT reaps character
CHARACTER reaps a destiny
April 30- May 4
We cannot be what we want to be by remaining what we are.
Max DePree
April 23-27
Words may show a man’s wit, but actions his meaning
Ben Franklin
April 16-20
“There are few things as powerful as a well-placed question.”
Bobb Biehl, Founder of the MasterPlanning Group
April 9-13
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
April 2-6
Some people think it’s holding on that makes one strong; sometimes it’s letting go.”
Sylvia Robinson
March 26-30
If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up somewhere else.”
Yogi Berra
March 19-23
The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that is it too low and we hit it.
Michaelangelo
March 12-16
And remember: life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes.
March 5-9
Time is Like a River…..
You can’t touch the same river twice
Because the flow that has passed will never pass again
So enjoy every moment of your life
Feb 26-Mar 2
“Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.”
Napolean Hill
February 19-23
“The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.”
William James
February 12-16
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
February 5-9
I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be.
Author Unknown
January 29 - February 2
There’s an important difference between giving up and letting go.
Jessica Hatchigan
January 22-26
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
Abraham Lincoln
January 8-12
It’s the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance and sweeps away all obstacles.
Claude M. Bristol