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PROVERBS
AND QUOTATIONS, NINTH YEAR CYCLE
GOAL 9:
VALUE, GOAL, AND DECISION MOTIVATION
FIRST SEMESTER
Week One. Theme: Wisdom, Knowledge, Communication
1.
"Wisdom
is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get
understanding." Solomon, Proverbs
4:7
2.
"The
doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own
ignorance." Spurgeon
3.
"Wisdom
is only found in truth." Goethe
4.
"Never
mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps
you make a living; the other helps you make a life." Anonymous
5.
"People
are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges." Joseph F. Newton
Week Two. Theme: The dignity of labor (Labor Day tie-in)
6.
"Strike
the right of associating for the sake of labor from the privileges of a free
man, and you may as well at once bind him to a master." William Cullen Bryant
7.
"Honor
lies in honest toil." Grover
Cleveland
8.
"A
truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that
honor lies in honest toil."
President Grover Cleveland
9.
“The
laborer is worthy of his hire.” Luke
10:7
10.
"No
race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a
field as in writing a poem." Booker T. Washington
Week Three. Theme: Autobiography, Writing
11.
"I,
on my side, require of every writer, first and last, a simple and sincere
account of his own life." Thoreau
12.
"Every
person born into this world represents something new, something that never
existed before, something original and unique." Martin Buber
13.
"In
a very real sense, the writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand
himself, to satisfy himself."
Alfred Kazin
14.
"The
world is a great mirror. It reflects
back to you what you are. If you are
loving, if you are friendly, if you are helpful, the world will prove loving
and friendly and helpful to you. The
world is what you are." Thomas
Dreier
15.
"Everyone
has inside himself a piece of good news!
The good news is that you really don't know how great you can be, how
much you can love, what you can accomplish and what your potential is." Anne Frank
Week Four. Theme: Value and Significance of the Individual
16.
"It
is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner
knows not of." Jonathan Swift
17.
"To
have one's individuality completely ignored is like being pushed quite out of
life. Like being blown out as one blows
out a light." Evelyn Scott
18.
"The
thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which
must also make you lonely." Lorraine Hansberry
19.
"Every
one lives by selling something."
Robert Louis Stevenson
20.
"For
what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own
soul?" Mark 8:36, Jesus
Week Five. Theme: Listening/Language
21.
"The
greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention." Richard Moss, M.D.
22.
“As
I get older, I’ve learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of
things.” Po Bronson
23.
"Language
is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade."
Anonymous
24.
"The
limits of my language mean the limits of my world." Ludwig Wittgenstein
25.
"When
a dullard speaks in a slovenly way, his speech suffers not merely from dullness
but from ignorance, and his whole life, in a sense, suffers—though he may not
feel pain." E. B. White
Week Six. Theme: Conflict Avoidance
26.
"Never
does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge and
dares to forgive an injury." E. H.
Chapin
27.
"Write
injuries in dust, benefits in marble."
Benjamin Franklin
28.
“Doing
an injury puts you below your enemy; revenging one makes you but even with him;
forgiving it sets you above him.”
Benjamin Franklin
29.
"Education
is the vaccine for violence."
Edward James Olmos
30.
"He
who has not forgiven an enemy has not yet tasted one of the most sublime
enjoyments of life." Johann Lavater
Week Seven. Theme: Conflict Avoidance
31.
"A
soft answer turneth away wrath: but
grievous words stir up anger."
Solomon, Proverbs 15:1
32.
"It
is an honor for a man to cease from strife:
but every fool will be meddling."
Solomon, Proverbs 20:3
33.
"Whoso
keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles." Solomon, Proverbs 21:23
34.
"When
a man's ways please the Lord, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with
him." Solomon, Proverbs 16:7
35.
"Blessed
are the peacemakers: for they shall be
called the children of God." Matthew
5:9
Week Eight. Theme: Standing Alone
36.
"Keep
away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really
great make you feel that you, too, can become great." Mark Twain
37.
"It
is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are
shooting at you." Woodrow Wilson
38.
"He
that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his
own." Aesop
39.
"The
strongest man is the one who stands most alone." Henrik Ibsen, An Enemy of the People
40.
"That
man will do little in the world who can be terrified by clamor, or who
surrenders convictions because all are not agreed as to their truth." John Urquhart
Week Nine. Theme: Standing Alone and Controversy
41.
"You
shall not follow a crowd to do evil." Exodus 23:2
42.
“Follow
your honest convictions and be strong.” William Makepeace Thackeray
43.
"Through
the centuries, controversy has been the servant of education. There can be no education without
controversy." H. R. Gaither
44.
“No
great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without
controversy.” Lyman Beecher
45.
“If
a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so
much as an injudicious defense of it by its friends.” Charles Colton
Week Ten. Theme: Failure
46.
“The
only time you don’t want to fail is the last time you try.” Charles F.
Kettering
47.
"Failure
is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently." Henry Ford
48.
"It
is no disgrace to fail; it is a disgrace to do less than your best to keep from
failing." Dr. Bob Jones, Sr.
49.
"There
are no secrets to success. It is the
result of preparation and hard work, learning from failure." General Colin L. Powell
50.
"Never
let the sense of failure corrupt your new action." Oswald Chambers
Week Eleven. Theme: Politics (Key to
election time)
51.
"All
that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." Edmund Burke
52.
"The
penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be
governed by men worse than themselves."
Plato
53.
"Bad
officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote." George Jean
Nathan
54.
"Nothing
is politically right which is morally wrong." Daniel O'Connell
55.
"If
fifty million people say a foolish thing it is still a foolish
thing." Anatole France
Week Twelve. Theme: Consequences
56.
"One
of the hardest things to teach a child is that the truth is more important than
the consequences." O. A. Battista
57.
"We
have to give our children, especially black boys, something to lose. Children
make foolish choices when they have nothing to lose." Jawanza Kunjufu
58.
"Freedom,
after all, is simply being able to live with the consequences of your
decisions." James X. Mullen
59.
"I
tell the honest truth in my paper, and leave the consequences to
God." James Gordon Bennett
60.
"If
you don't risk anything, you risk even more." Erica Jong
Week Thirteen. Theme: Decisions
61.
"Nothing great was ever done without an act of
decision." Arthur Bryant
62.
"The more decisions that you are forced to make
alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose." Thornton Wilder
63.
“Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action
arrives, stop thinking and go in.” Andrew Jackson
64.
“Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.” Sophocles
65.
“When, against one’s will, one is high pressured into
making a hurried decision, the best answer is always No, because No is more
easily changed to Yes, than Yes is changed to No.” Charles E. Nielson
Week Fourteen. Theme: Thankfulness (Key to Thanksgiving Week)
66.
"Reflect
upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past
misfortunes, of which all men have some."
Charles Dickens
67.
"Gratitude
to God makes even a temporal blessing a taste of heaven." William Romaine
68.
"O
God, Thou hast given so much to us, give one thing more--a grateful
heart." George Herbert
69.
"We
should spend as much time in thanking God for His benefits as we do in asking
Him for them." St. Vincent de Paul
70.
"A
thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other
virtues." Cicero
Week Fifteen. Theme: Decision Making
71.
“Deliberate with
caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness or oppose with
firmness.” Charles Hole
72.
“When possible make decisions now, even if action is in
the future. A reviewed decision usually is better than one reached at the last
moment.” William B. Given, Jr.
73.
“In many lines of work, it isn’t how much you do that
counts, but how much you do well and how often you decide right.” William
Feather
74.
“When you approach a problem, strip yourself of
preconceived opinions and prejudice, assemble and learn the facts of the
situation, make the decision which seems to you to be the most honest, and then
stick to it.” Chester Bowles
75.
“Before
you begin, get good counsel; then, having decided, act promptly.” Sallust
Week Sixteen. Theme: Decision Making/Goals
76.
“Man ultimately decides for himself. And in the end,
education must be education toward the ability to decide.” Viktor E. Frankl
77.
“Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot
by striking.” Oliver Cromwell
78.
“Don’t be afraid to take a big step when one is
indicated. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.” David Lloyd George
79.
“Long-range
planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present
decisions.” Peter Drucker
80.
"No
one ever accomplishes anything of consequence without a goal. Goal setting is the strongest human force for
self-motivation." Paul Myer
Week Seventeen. Theme: Christmas
81.
"Christ
is the great central fact in the world's history; to him everything looks
forward or backward. All the lines of
the world's history converge upon him.
The greatest and most momentous fact which the history of the world
records is the fact of his birth."
Charles H. Spurgeon
82.
"The
whole world that knows about Christ's coming dates its whole life from it. Such is the splendor and importance of the
advent of Jesus Christ." Phillips
Brooks
83.
"Rich
gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind."
Shakespeare
84.
“The
Christmas spirit brings home to us—or should bring home to us—the profound
Biblical truth that it is more blessed to give than to receive. Anything which
inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all
for Christmas.” B. C. Forbes
85.
"For
somehow, not only at Christmas, But all the year through, The joy that you give
to others Is the Joy that comes back to you." John Greenleaf Whittier
Week Eighteen.
Theme: New Year and Personal Improvement
86.
"No
one ever regarded the first of January with indifference." Charles Lamb
87.
"January
2 is when most people find that it is easier to break a resolution than a habit." Farm
Journal
88.
"If
every year we would root out one vice, we should soon become perfect
men." Thomas A'Kempis
89.
"Short
as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time." Victor Hugo
90.
"We
always have time for the things we put first." Anonymous
Week Nineteen. Theme: Reading, Time, Dr.
Martin Luther King
91.
"In
spite of our protestations that we are "too busy" to do any serious
reading, we might as well honestly admit that it is...either because we do not
organize our time to fit in reading, or that we do not utilize our odd
hours." Robert R. Updegraff
92.
"Time
is the coin of your life. It is the only
coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it
for you." Carl Sandburg
93.
"We
must use time creatively and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do
right." Martin Luther King, Jr.
94.
"Human
progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability." Martin Luther King, Jr.
95.
"The
aftermath of violence is tragic bitterness." Martin Luther King, Jr.
Week Twenty. Theme: Dr. Martin Luther King
96.
"Get
the weapon of non-violence, the breastplate of righteousness, the armor of
truth, and just keep marching."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
97.
"Men
must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools." Martin Luther King, Jr.
98.
"Along
the way of life, someone must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off
the chain of hate. This can only be done
by projecting the ethic of love to the center of our lives." Martin Luther King, Jr.
99.
"The
quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important." Martin Luther King, Jr.
100.
“The means by which we live have
outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our
spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.” Martin Luther
King, Jr.
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