July 2012
5 posts
“A company is only as good as the people it keeps.” - Mary Kay Ash
“Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.” - Desmond Tutu
“There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.” - Christopher Morely
“It’s lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.” - Muhammad Ali
“This is the real secret of life - to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.” - Alan Watts
June 2012
9 posts
“Nothing is worth more than this day”
– Goethe
“The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.” - Oprah Winfrey
“Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it’s perhaps far more terrible than it’s ever been.” - Angela Davis
“Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.” - Maya Angelou
“Character isn’t something you were born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming.” - Jim Rohn
“You never know when a moment and afew sincere words can have an impact on a life.” - Zig Ziglar
“Riches do not respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.” - Napoleon Hill
“Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone’s task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.” - Viktor Frankl
“You cant have a plan for your day, til you have a plan for your life.” - Tony Robbins
May 2012
31 posts
“There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.” - Napoleon Hill
“Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.” - Aristotle
“Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.” - Maria Montessori
“If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves” - Thomas A. Edison
“While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man’s humanity to man.” - Maya Angelou
“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” - Buddha
“Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
“There are some people that you cannot change, you must either swallow them whole or leave them alone.” - Margot Asquith
“Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.” - Buddha
“Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.” - James Allen
“Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.” - Soren Kirkegaard
“Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission” - Zig Ziglar
“One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn’t do.” - Henry Ford
“When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.” - Zig Ziglar
“Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.” - H.G. Wells
“Of all the things I’ve done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal” - Walt Disney
7 tags
On education...
Author Gilbert Chesterton said that “Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.”
Reading this got me thinking…
What if this statement is true? If it is true, let’s think for a minute about what our current education system looks like? Does it reflect the soul of our society?
For teachers, how can you use this to inspire...
“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.”
– John Dewey
“Education is all a matter of building bridges”
– Ralph Ellison
“Children have to be educated, but they also have to be left to educate...”
– Ernest Dimnet
“Any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.” - Wislawa Szymborska
“Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.” - Maria Montessori
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” - Nelson Mandela
“If you’re not learning while you’re earning, you’re cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.” - Napoleon Hill
“Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.” - Martin Luther King
“Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.” - Lao Tzu
“Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.”
– Humphrey Bogart
(Casablanca)
“I readily absorb ideas from every source, frequently starting where the last person left off” - Thomas A. Edison
“Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.” - Pope John Paul II
“The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.” - Ronald Reagan
“A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.” - Steve Jobs
April 2012
40 posts
“If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.” - Ayn Rand
“There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help...”
– Viktor Frankl
(Man’s Search for Meaning)
“Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, ‘Make me feel important.’ Never forget this message when working with people.” - Mary Kay Ash
“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.” - Vincent Van Gogh
“One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.” - Abraham H. Maslow
