Saturday, August 30, 2014

#1485 Uncommon results

TEAM: Together Everyone Achieves More.  ~ unknown

Teamwork makes the dream work.  ~ Bang Gae

Teamwork: simply stated, it is less me and more we.  ~ unknown

Teamwork is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.  ~ Andrew Carnegie

Gettin' good players is easy.  Gettin' em to play together is the hard part.  ~ Casey Stengel

No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quotes about teamwork

- Where could some teamwork help to enrich your life and, possibly, others?

Friday, August 29, 2014

#1484 There's your treasure

Was it you or I who stumbled first? It does not matter. The one of us who finds the strength to get up first, must help the other. ~ Vera Nazarian

Remember we all stumble, everyone of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand-in-hand. ~ Emily Kimbrough

I believe God lets us stumble along, slowly finding our way, and giving us chances to pick each other up. ~ Anna White

In the end it all comes to choices to turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones. ~ Amber Frey

Where you stumble, there your treasure lies.   ~Joseph Campbell

Quotes about stumbling

- When have you stumbled?
- What treasure may lie there?
- How sensitive are you to help someone through a difficulty?

Thursday, August 28, 2014

#1483 A little voice

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.  ~ Dan Rather

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.  ~ Raymond Lindquist

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.  ~ George Smith Patton

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.  ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

Courage doesn't always roar.  Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow.  ~ Mary Anne Radmacher

Quotes about courage

- How do you build up your reserve of courage?

Wednesday, August 27, 2014

#1482 Made some marmalade

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.  ~Louisa May Alcott

There are few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.  ~ Andre Gide

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.  ~ African proverb

I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade.  It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges and scrub the floor.  ~ D. H. Lawrence

If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it.  ~ Toni Morrison

Quotes about overcoming fears

- What helps to calm you and to manage your fears?

Tuesday, August 26, 2014

#1481 A stepping stone

Find a place where there is joy and the joy will burn out the pain.   ~ Joseph Campbell

Use pain as a stepping stone, not a camp ground.  ~Alan Cohen

Your pain is an opportunity for you to learn about yourself.   ~ Gary Zukav

Be patient and tough; some day this pain will be useful to you.  ~ Ovid

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.  ~ Bob Dylan

Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.  ~ C. S. Lewis

Quotes about pain

- What can you learn from your pain?

Monday, August 25, 2014

#1480 Emotional awareness

What really matters for success, character, happiness and life long achievements is a definite set of emotional skills – your EQ — not just purely cognitive abilities...   ~Daniel Goleman

It is very important to understand that emotional intelligence is not the opposite of intelligence, it is not the triumph of heart over head — it is the unique intersection of both.  ~David Caruso

Emotional intelligence is the ability to sense, understand, and effectively apply the power and acumen of emotions as a source of human energy, information, connection, and influence.  ~Robert K. Cooper.

When awareness is brought to an emotion, power is brought to your life.  ~Tara Meyer Robson

Quotes about emotional intelligence

- How sensitive are you to the emotional signals around you?
- How can your EQ help to enrich your life and others?

Saturday, August 23, 2014

#1479 Igniting the circuits

It's never too late to be who you might have been.  ~ George Eliot

It's not enough just to have potential.  You also need to know what to do with it.  ~ Susan Gale

Sometimes success is due less to ability than zeal.  The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.  ~  Charles Buxton

There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential.  ~ Rusty Berkus 

Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.  ~ Henry David Thoreau

Quotes about potential

- Who helped you to reach your full potential?
- Whom could you motivate?
- What future project awaits for you?