Do Your Best If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly. (G. K. Chesterton, 19th-20th century English writer). Students are often challenged to do their best, to always strive for excellence, so, Chesterton’s statement seems so contradictory. Of course, we...
Keep Trying For us there is only the trying. The rest is none of our business. (T. S. Eliot, 20th century essayist) How do you respond when you try to do something, and it doesn’t work? Do you give up, thinking it’s no use to keep trying? Singer-songwriter Jared Leto...
Know Yourself The person I look up to most is the person who isn’t defined by what others think. (Author unknown) In a self-centered world like ours, many people find their identity and worth in what other people think about them. They make their choices and plan...
The Future To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: "Leave no stone unturned." (Edward Bulwer Lytton, 19th century English politician) When it’s difficult to think and plan ahead, it’s so easy just to give up and let...
Value When everything is free, nothing has value. (Ben Stein, economic commentator) One certain way to get attention, perhaps to introduce a new product, is to emphasize “FREE” in your advertising. Many of us use certain software, not because it may be the best on the...
Memory Nothing is new, it is just forgotten (Marie Antoinette, 18th century and last queen of France) The older we become, the more we battle with memory loss. But for many people, it may be that they just don’t want to remember some things from the past. At other...
The Good Life The good life is not found in luxury; rather it is found in a life that enriches the life of another human. (Jeff Shinabager, financial author) In the bustle of modern life, so many people seem to be busy, running here and there either to gain popularity...
Training At the moment of truth, you will not rise to the level of expectation, but will fall to the level of training. (Classroom banner) We are often disappointed when something or someone fails to achieve the heights we had anticipated. Expectations are often much...
Influence Leaders change the world around them. (Todd Henry, motivational speaker) Probably everybody thinks at one time or another that they’d like to change the world. They have a clever idea or a new slant on things that would dramatically change life for the good...
Choices II We do what we do with others because of the way we think. (Charles Swindoll, pastor & author) Swindoll continues, “Our attitude, therefore, is crucial . . . We have full control of which attitude we shall have: charming and gracious or restrictive and...
Choices I The choices we make every minute of every day can contribute to making someone's life a little bit better or worse even without intending to. (Chikamso Efobi, British nature writer) Making choices is one of the few things we can control. And Efobi reminds us...
Serving True heroism is remarkably sober, very unromantic. (Arthur Ashe, late tennis champion) Ashe continues, “It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.” Now, that’s a different slant on being a hero,...