Posts from ‘July, 2009’

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Today’s Encouragement Quote:
“Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.”
Authored by: Napoleon Hill
I have to admit the I was inspired to write this post after I read another blog post about criticism [...]

Today’s encouragement quote is about remembering others.
Bob Hope: Quotes about Helping
If you haven’t any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.
How is your summer going? Are you thinking it is too hot, and you are miserable?
When you think of how miserable you are because it is just too hot [...]

Today’s encouragement quote is a YouTube video that I found while web surfing to see what is out there that is fun and cheery. Does the word paper airplane make you smile? Can you make them?
I remember never being all that great at making paper airplanes, but then there was always someone who [...]

Inspiration from this encouragement quote came from the Greek Philosopher, Plato.

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
Now just how is this an encouragement quote? At first I wondered about that, too, but then when I really stopped to think about it, it all [...]

Do you think that you can encourage others with random acts of kindness? What sort of reaction do you feel when someone shows you a random act of kindness? Can random acts of kindness, be simple words of encouragement? Would you go out of your way to help a stranger? After you’re done with this [...]

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How many of you have heard this encouragement quote? Keep the faith is one that is passed on from generation to generation, but no one really knows where it started. However “keep the faith” is a highly used phrase that never seems to go out of date.
Here is one quote [...]

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Happy July 4th to the USA! They said a Republic would never last this long. The USA is still fairly young, and we still have a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. I heard disturbing words of that this week though. Can it be [...]

I am fortunate to meet a lot of people in my day job. (I bet you thought I was lucky enough to sit around in my grunge clothes and write all day long. HA!)
No I am one of those horrible math teachers. Actually I am a very good math teacher.
Sometimes you get to know [...]

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Well today is the 2nd of July already, and I was thinking it was just the first. Wow time is flying by so fast. I was reading on Twitter this morning and there are several people there adding their quotes now. I see several a day, and [...]