WAYANGAN DALAM RANGKA HUT SMAN 1 GIRIMARTO

Girimarto. Voice of Wonogiri (VoW) Wayangan di SMAN 1 Girimarto diselenggarakan di serambi  sekolah berlangsung  meriah tepatnya di hari Sabtu 15/12/21012 pukul 9.00 sampai selesai.  Kemeriahan acara  karena dihadiri oleh ratusan orang. Sedangkan pejabat yang hadir adalah  KADINAS PENDIDIKAN Kab Wonogiri, Drs. H Siswanto, M. Pd, bapak-bapak Muspika kec. Girimarto dan para pengurus komite serta wali murid dari kls X sampai XII.

"Dumateng poro bapak lan ibu supados mboten kundur rumiyin, sinten sing kundur rumiyin mboten pikantuk berkat" Itulah kalimat yang disampaikan MC Mas Katno Giri.

Acara juga dimeriahkan dengan pembagian hadiah, pembagian sembako juga  pengobatan massal , serta acara pentas seni bagi yang mendapat juara 1 untuk kategori seni.

Sayang sekali sebenarnya,  sudah diumumkan oleh Maskatno Giri  bahwa para hadirin supaya tidak pulang dulu sebelum wayangan selesai ternyata sudah banyak yang pulang.

Yang jelas acara HUT SMAN 1 Girimarto akan dilangsungkan secara meriah setiap dua tahun sekali. Demikian juga, acara HUT akan dimeriah dengan wayangan. Acara HUT tdiak akanterlepas juga dengan bakti sosal untuk menanam kebaikan. Dengan harapan SMAN 1 Girimarto semakin jaya dan bermakna

WISE WORDS FOR EDUCATION (KATA BIJAK UNTUK PENDIDIKAN)

Pendidikan bukan persiapan untuk hidup

Pendidikan adalah hidup itu sendiri

(John Dewey)

Tujuan pendidikan adalah mempersiapkan generasi muda

Untuk mendidik diri mereka sendiri seumur hidup mereka.

(Robert Maynard Hutchins)

Pendidikan bukanlah sesuatu yang diperoleh seseorang,

Tapi pendidikan adalah sebuah proses seumur hidup

(Gloria Steinem)

Yang hebat didunia ini bukanlah tempat dimana kita berada

Melainkan arah yang kita tuju

(Oliver Wendell Holmes)

Arah yang diberikan pendidikan

Untuk mengawali hidup seseorang akan menentukan masa depannya

(Plato)

Murid yang dipersenjatai dengan informasi

Akan selalu memenangkan pertempuran

(Meladee McCarty)

Seorang Guru

Menggandeng tangan, Membuka pikiran

Menyentuh hati, Membentuk masa depan

Seorang Guru berpengaruh selamanya

Dia tidak pernah tahu kapan pengaruhnya berakhir

(Henry Adam)

Kebajikan atau pengetahuan saja takkan cukup sebagai modal menjadi Guru

Anugrah mengajar adalah bakat yang khas dan melibatkan kebutuhan

Serta hasrat dalam diri sang Guru sendiri.

(John Jay Chapman)

Salah satu tanda seorang pendidik yang hebat

Adalah kemampuan memimpin murid-murid

Menjelajahi tempat-tempat baru

Yang bahkan belum pernah didatangi sang pendidik

(Thomas Groome)

Mengajar berarti belajar lagi

(Oliver Wendell Holmes)

Guru biasa memberitahukan

Guru baik menjelaskan

Guru ulung memeragakan

Guru hebat mengilhami

(William Arthur Ward)

Aku menyentuh masa depan. Aku mengajar

(Christa McAuliffe)

Kita tidak selalu bisa membangun masa depan bagi generasi muda

Tapi kita bisa membangun generasi muda untuk masa depan.

( Franklin D Roosevelt)

Kita tidak bisa mengajari orang apapun

Kita hanya bisa membantu mereka menemukannya di dalam diri mereka

(Galileo Galilei)

Jika kau memberi tahu mereka

Mereka hanya akan melihat gerakan bibirmu

Jika kau menunjukan kepada mereka

Mereka akan tergoda untuk melakukannya sendiri

(Maria Montessori)

Yang penting bukan bagaimana caramu hidup

Tapi hidup siapa yang kamu ubah dengan hidupmu

Seorang majikan bisa memberitahumu apa yang ia harapkan darimu

Tapi seorang Guru membangkitkan pengharapanmu sendiri

(Patricia Neal)

Seni mengajar dalah seni membantu penemuan

(Mark Van Doren)

Aku bukan seorang Guru tapi seorang pembangkit

(Robert Frost)

Tujuan mengajar adalah untuk membuat anak bisa maju tanpa Gurunya

(Elbert Hubbard)

Jangan pernah meragukan keberhasilan

Sekelompok kecil orang yang bertekad mengubah dunia

Karena hanya kelompok seperti itulah yang pernah berhasil melakukannya

(Margaret Mead)

Setiap orang berbakat di bidang tertentu

Kita hanya harus menemukan apa bakatnya

(Evelyn Blose Holman)

Aku bukan seoarang Guru hanya sesama musafir yang kau tanyai arah

Aku menujuk ke arah depan—kedepan diriku sendiri dan ke depan dirimu

(George Bernard Shaw)

Apa yang ingin dipelajari murid

Sama pentingnya dengan apa yang ingin diajarkan Guru

(Lois E.LeBar)

Bertindaklah seolah apa yang kau lakukan membuat perbedaan

Karena kenyataannya memang begitu

Ajari murid-murid menggunakan bakat apapun yang mereka miliki.

Hutan akan sunyi jika yang berkicau

Hanyalah burung-burung yang paling merdu kicaunya

Kita cemas akan jadi apa anak kita nantinya

Namun kita lupa bahwa ia sudah jadi seseorang sekarang

(Stacia Tusher)

Mengajar bukan profesi. Mengajar adalah kegemaran

Aku telah mencapai sebuah kesimpulan yang menakutkan bahwa aku

adalah unsur penentu di dalam kelas.

Pendekatan pribadikulah yang menciptakan iklimnya

Suasana hatikulah yang membuat cuacanya.

Sebagai seorang Guru, aku memiliki kekuatan yang sangat besar

untuk membuat hidup seseorang menderita atau gembira.

Aku bisa menjadi alat penyiksa atau pemberi ilham,

bisa bercanda atau mempermalukan,

melukai atau menyembuhkan.

Dalam semua situasi, reaksikulah yang menentukan

apakah sebuah krisis akan memuncak atau mereda

dan apakah seseorang akan diperlakukan sebagai manusia atau direndahkan.

( Haim Ginott)

Anak-anak di dalam kelas kita mutlak lebih penting

daripada pelajaran yang kita ajarkan kepada mereka

(Meladee McCArty)

Aku seorang Guru

Guru adalah seorang pemimpin

Tidak ada keajaiban dalam pekerjaanku

Aku tidak berjalan di atas air

Aku tidak membelah lautan

Aku hanya mencintai anak-anak

(Marva Collins)

Kau bisa membayar orang untuk mengajar

tapi kau tak bisa membayar mereka untuk peduli

(Marva Collins)

Salah satu hal yang bisa dilakukan seorang Guru

adalah mengirim pulang seorang murid di siang hari

dalam keadaan menyukai diri mereka

sedikit lebih daripada ketika ia datang di pagi hari

(Ernest Melby)

Anak-anak adalah sumber alam kita yang paling berharga

(Herbert Hoover)

Setiap murid bisa belajar,

hanya saja tidak pada hari yang sama atau dengan cara yang sama

(George Evans)

Jika kau harus berteriak, lakukanlah untuk membangkitkan semangat seseorang

Rahasia pendidikan adalah menghormati sang murid

(Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Mengajari anak-anak berhitung memang bagus, tapi yang terbaik adalah mengajari mereka apa yang perlu diperhitungkan

(Bob Talbert)

Masuklah kedalam dunia mereka
Bawalah mereka keduniamu!

POKOKNYA PERCAYA DIRI SAJA Oleh Maskatno Giri

JANGAN TAKUT, JANGAN MINDER, JANGAN KUATIR JANGAN BERSEDIH, Kenapa? Karena kita akan ditolong oleh Rajanya manusia Dialah Allah s.w.t. Syaratnya kita harus pada relNya, kita hanya mencari ridloNYa. Kita perlu tahu, bahwa banyak orang hidupnya nekat, penuh semangat, bicara lantang padahal belum tentu ada pada relNya. Mau cari contohnya?

Makanya, cari info di media masa! banyak pejabat nekat ada yang konangan, ada yg tidak mereka ternyata penghisab darah rakyat, mereka mudah berbuat maksiat di atas penderitaan rakyat. Namun, mereka bicaranya penuh semangat membara, penuh percaya diri.

Kenapa anda, orang yang baik-baik, tak punya nyali? Minder? Tak PD? Mudah bersedih? Mari bersama-sama belajar menjadi manusia pemberani.  Maksudnya pemberani karena  dasarnya anda  benar bukan manusia yang licik

Sekali lagi, mari kita menjadi pribadi percaya diri, lantanglah bicara, jadilah penggembira dan pembuat bahagia bagi sesama manusian yang mungkin saat ini bari kurang beruntung nasibnya. Jangan menjadi manusia sumber sengsara. Ingat kita hidup tidak selamanya.

Yang terakhir, bila kita bertindak modalnya nekat tanpa pertimbangan akal sehat, dan niat positif, karena dendam misalnya. Berati anda kena bujukan nafsu setan. Kita perlu ragu jangan-jangan hidup kita hanya menunggu untuk terjungkal ke jurang yang dalam karena kita disetir setan.

Mohon maaf salah kata, tak ada manusia sempurna. Kini aku belajar merangakai kata. Siapa tahu menjadi motivator yang baik  di blog.

KENAPA AKU HARUS BERSYUKUR? ( ditulis pukul 1.48 Kamis dini hari 13/12/012)

Guruku  berkata.  “Selamat berbahagia, bagi anda yang mudah menerima nasihat kesyukuran. Pasti, pasti dan pasti anda tinggal menunggu masa-masa indah dan bahagia di masa-masa mendatang". Syukur tidak saja diartikan sebagai  artian ayng sempit. Syukur berarti menggunakan waktu kehidupan ini secara lebih maksimal dan bermakna buat diri sendiri dan untuk orang lain.

Jujur saja, aku belum bersyukur secara ideal dan istiqomah. Kenapa  aku terkadang   tergerak  sekali mau menjadi pribadi penuh kesyukuran? Salah satunya  aku  merasa ada kekuatan luar biasa di  atas segala kekuatan,  yakni yang bersumber dari kekuatan   Ilahi  robi.  Dia sanggup memberi  banyak kenikmatan  dan mencabut kenikmatan  pada manusia. 

Kadang aku juga heran sendiri, karena aku belum bersyukur secara maksimal padahal kenikmatan yang telah diberikan kepadaku sangat luar biasa banyaknya. Dengan  aku menulis , menasihati dan memotivasi, secara otomatis aku menasihati diriku sendiri juga bahwa  aku perlu bersyukur secara istiqomah.  Aku  bisa membayangkan , membandingkan dengan orang  yang kondisinya lebih memprihatinkan . Aku  bisa melihat banyak orang yang hidup dalam kesengsaraan, kemskinan, keputusasaaan dll, Bukan mereka  orang yang   malas. Tapi memang kondisi yang memaksa mereka dalam kesulitan yang berkepanjangan. Kondisi ini bisa ditemukan di belahan bumi  mana saja.

Tidaklah kita mau berpikir ,. Sehingga kita semakin hari semakin baik karena menjadi pribadi penuh kesyukuran?

GADIS CANTIK “EFFECT” oleh Maskatno Giri

Ada kisah nyata, seorang bapak yang hobinya berjudi , nogkrong dan tidak peduli arti barang haram atau halal. Beribadah? Boro-boro ngibadah, dia termasuk anti.

Bergulirnya waktu, lahirlah gadis sangat cantik dalam keluarga bapak tadi. Hari berganti ganti hari, singkat cerita gadis cantik tumbuh menjadi remaja. Dan remaja tadi kena pengaruh teman pergaulannya dan gurunya

yang baik-baik. Luar biasa, gadis tumbuh semakin terlihat cantik namun, dia menjadi pribadi yang baik, tidak neko-neko apalagi sombong dengan kecantikannya,...dan Insya Allah shalihah.

Apa dampaknya gadis cantik bagi keluarga bapak yang suka judi tadi?

Kini, bapak yang suka judi, nongkrong tadi berubah total 180 derajat. Dia sekarang rajin beribadah,bersyukur. Bapak tadi sulit dinasihati orang lain, tapi sangat mudah diberi contoh yang baik oleh anaknya yang sholihah tadi.

Gadis cantik tadi adalah salah satu muridnya maskatno Giri tetapi diberi hidayah oleh Ilahi robbi.

MENYAMBUT KEBAHAGIAAN MELALUI BELAJAR oleh Maskatno Giri

Seperti kemarin sore, masa remajaku berlalu. Tak terasa, kini aku sudah tua. Memang, setiap manusia pasti akan mengalami ketuaan. Idealnya manusai itu merasakan keindahan di waktu muda sampai tua. Namun, tidak ada manusia yang merasakan keindahan seumur hidup. Setahuku, orang merasakan keindahan dan kebahagiaan itu dari hasil pembandingan pernah merasakan kesengsaraan. Bahagia dan sengsara itu ada karena sebagai  Sunatullah. Jadi, kayaknya hampir tidak mungkin selama hidup bahagia terus. Guruku  pernah berkata bahwa berakit-rakit kehulu berenang-renang kemudian.

Guruku menambahkan bahwa masa muda yang dihabiskan untuk sia-sia,berfoya-foya berarti tinggal menunggu masa tua sengsara. Masa muda yang digunakan  untuk belajar, bekerja, berkarya, hidup bermakana, mereka tinggal memetik hasil jerih payahnya di masa tua.

Kini, nasihat guruku kutularkan untuk para siswa dan anak-anakku tercinta.

Hidup adalah belajar.

Belajar bersyukur.. Meski belum cukup,

Belajar ikhlas.. Meski tidak rela,

Belajar taat.. Meski berat

Belajar memahami.. Meski tidak sehati,

Belajar sabar.. Meski terbebani,

Belajar setia.. Meski tergoda,

Belajar memberi.. Meski tak seberapa,

Belajar mengasihi.. Meski disakiti,

Belajar tenang.. Meski gelisah,

Belajar percaya keberadaanAllah.. Meski ragu,

Belajar menahan.. Meski bernafsu,

Hidup plus belajar, tinggal memanen kebahagiaan, sebaliknya hidup dengan kemalasan tinggal menunggu kesengsaraan.Namanya belajar bisa bermakna luas, bisa melalui guru kita, dari buku, dari pengalaman diri sendiri da juga dari orang lain.Betapa indahnya bila kita bisa mudah menemukan sumber belajar. Maksudnya di lingkungan belajar yang mendukung kebaikan. Mari kita dekat-dekat dengan sumber pembelajaran yang baik, bukan lingkungan yang buruk.

Allahu a’lamu bisahwab

HYPNOTEACHING DAN SEMINAR PENDIDIKAN KARAKTER DI SMAN 1 GIRIMARTO

Girimarto. Voice of Wonogiri (VoW). Senin, 10/12/2012, SMAN 1 Girimarto, bidang kesiswaan mengadakan seminar tentang urgensi pendidikan karakter dan  seminar hypno teaching.  Seminar yang luar biasa ini terselenggara sebagai special event HUT SMAN 1 Giirmarto ke 18. Peserta seminar meliputi  kepala sekolah dan guru-guru SMP di wilayah Girimarto. Seminar  pendidikan yang  baru pertama kali dengan hypno teaching  ini  dimulai pukul 10 .00 dimoderatori oleh  Maskatno Giri.

"Luhur dalam budi pekeri maju dalam prestasi" itulah lkata kunci yang ditekankan oleh pembicara seminar 1 bp. Drs, H.  Siawanto, M. Pd. Beliau menambahkan buat apa berprestasi kalau moralnya rusak.

Sedangkan pembeicara 2 , yakni pakar hypnoteaching bp. Didik Hermawan S. Pd, CH T, M CH., menekankan bahwa pendidikan mestinya menekankan pada pembelajaran yang positif yang bisa terekam jangka panjang melalui optimalisasi subconcious mind. Keberhasilan  pembelajaran banyak ditentukan oleh optimalisasi subconsciuos mind / otak bawah sadar  dengan prosentasi 88%. Sedangkan conscious hanya berperan 12 %.

Sesi akhir dalam seminar diramaikan dengan tanya jawab yang lucu dan menarik. Si moderator  menyampaikan bahwa hypno teachinng kali ini baru tahapan perkenalan, atau istilahnya level I. Diharapkan kedepannya hyipnoteaching dapat di terapkan lebih sempuran. maksudnya  hypnoteaching bisa diaplikasikan dalan setiap mata pelajaran

KURIKULUM 2013 MASIH PENUH TANDA TANYA oleh Maskatno Giri (mas guru SMAN 1 Girimarto Wonogiri)

Kurikulum 2013 masih misteri. Menurut sebagian orang angka 13 identik dengan angka  sial. Ada sebagian  orang berusaha menghindari  angka    13, misalnya dalam memilih nomor kamar hotel, dalam  memilih tanggal pernikahan , dll. Tapi banyak juga yang menyatakan bahwa  tak ada misteri tentang angka 13. Termasuk kurikulum 2013.

Kurikulum 2013 dalam waktu cepat  akan mengganti KTSP. Timbul pertanyaan sebenarnya, apakah ada penelitian bahwa  KTSP gagal? Gagalnya dimana? Kenapa? Sependek  saya  ketahui belum ada semacam penelitian  tentang kegagalan KTSP, kalau dikatakan gagal, gagalnya dimana?

Dalam kenyataanya, pelaksanaan KTSP pun juga tidak sesuai harapan. Pemerintah juga berperan merusaknya.  Fakta dengan adanya ujian nasional pelaksanaan  KTSP tidak sesuai yang diidealkan. Demikian juga,  pelaksanaan kurikulum 2013  disinyalir dirusak oleh pemerintah juga. Misalnya adanya ujian nasional.  Memang tujuan  UN salah satunya untuk pemetaan, tapi kenyataan di lapangan ujian nasional  membawa konsekuensi yang sangat komplek. Di situ ada prestise, ada  bisnis  dll. Contohnya aku sebagai guru bahasa Inggris di desa, saya ditekankan meNGEDRILL siswa  kls XII ( kl 3 SMA) selama  lebih dari 6 bulan, guna menghadapi UN. Dengan harapan UN  siswa bagus. UN bagus akan mempengaruhi ranking sekolah. Rangking sekolah berpengaruh ke minat siswa baru  , dan lain-lain alasan.

Pokokny percalah!. Kalau pelaksanaan kurikulum 2013 akan dirusak oleh pemerintah sendiri. Selama pemerintah tidak memiliki  GRAND DESIGN dalam pendidikan yang komplek ini. Tidak percaya! Kita tunggu saja.

Belum lagi, kisah nyata ada rebutan jam mengajar  guru mapel. Karena untuk syarat mendapat tunjangan sertifikasi harus 24 jam mengajar. Padahal nanti ada pengurangan, bahkan penghapusan mata pelajaran tertentu. Pokoknya masalah-demi masalah akan muncul  selama  regulasinya  belum jelas. Kalau menurutku kurikulum 2013 sebaiknya ditunda dulu pelaksanaanya,  segala sesuatu harus dipersiapkan dengan matang.

MOTIVATONAL WORDS

• A day will never be anymore than what you make of it. Josh S. Hinds
• A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. Elbert Hubbard
• A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination. Nelson Mandela
• A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Confucius
• A person who aims at nothing is sure to hit it. Anonymous
• A thief believes everybody steals. E.W. Howe
• Accept everything about yourself – I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end – no apologies, no regrets. Clark Moustakas
• Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what’s a heaven for? Robert Browning
• All life is an experiment. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose. Brian Tracy
• All that we are is the result of what we have thought. Buddha
• All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth. Napoleon Hill
• Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing. Abraham Lincoln
• An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind. Buddha
• Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours. Dale Carnegie
• As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. Andrew Carnegie
• Assumptions allow the best in life to pass you by. John Sales
• At least three times every day take a moment and ask yourself what is really important. Have the wisdom and the courage to build your life around your answer. Lee Jampolsky
• Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. Henry David Thoreau
• Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. Napoleon Hill
• Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself. James Allen
• Confidence is a habit that can be developed by acting as if you already had the confidence you desire to have. Brian Tracy
• Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative. Oscar Wilde
• Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do. Pope John XXIII
• Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon
• Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can dothat. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive — the risk to be alive and express what we really are. Don Miguel Ruiz
• Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire, which transcends everything. Napoleon Hill
• Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs. Malcolm Forbes
• Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. Buddha
• Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. John Wooden
• Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought. Basho
• Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know. George Macdonald
• Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. Theodore Roosevelt
• Don’t be afraid to take a big step. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps. David Lloyd George
• Don’t wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it. Anon
• Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil. James Allen
• Dreams are the touchstones of our character. Henry David Thoreau
• Every exit is an entry somewhere. Tom Stoppard
• Every human has four endowments-self-awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change. Stephen Covey
• Every problem has a gift for you in its hands. Richard Bach
• Everything has been figured out, except how to live. Jean-Paul SartreEverything that is happening at this moment is a result of the choices you’ve made in the past. Deepak Chopra
• Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. Henry Ford
• Fall seven times, stand up eight. Japanese Proverb
• Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor souls who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. Theodore Roosevelt
• Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed. Michael Pritchard
• Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more; And all good things are yours. Swedish Proverb
• Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now? James Allen
• Fortune favours the brave. Publius Terence
• Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when decide how to respond. Jeffery Borenstein
• Friends are treasures. Horace Bruns
• Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined. Henry David Thoreau
• Great spirits have always encountered violen to pposition from mediocre minds. Albert Einstein
• He is able who thinks he is able. Buddh
• aHe who angers you conquers you. Elizabeth Kenny
• He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still. Lao-Tzu
• He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead. Unknown
• He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened. Anonymous
• Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you’re alive, it isn’t. Richard Bach
• High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. Jack Kinder
• Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken bid that cannot fly. Langston Hughes
• I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk. Anthony Robbins
• I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts. Horace Mann
• I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Chinese Proverb
• I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. Henry David Thoreau
• I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong. Leo Rosten
• If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man. Chinese Proverb
• If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that … I believe in what I do, and I’ll say it. John Lennon
• If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor. Henry Kissinger
• If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. Bruce Lee
• If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. Dale Carnegie
• If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you’ll be unhappy for the rest of your life. Abraham H. Maslow
• If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain. Maya Angelou
• If you don’t risk anything, then you risk even more. Erica Jong
• If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. Maya Angelou
• If you love something, let it go. If it comes back it’s yours. If it doesn’t, it never really was in the first place. Unknown
• If you want rainbows, you have to put up with the rain. Dolly Parton
• Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. Albert Einstein
• Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools. Napoleon Bonaparte
• In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on. Robert Frost
• Issue a blanket pardon. Forgive everyone who has ever hurt you in any way. Forgiveness is a perfectly selfish act. It sets you free from the past. Brian Tracy
• It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways. Buddha
• It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. Andre Gide
• It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it. Jeseph Joubert
• It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end. Ursula K. LeGuin
• It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. Theodore Roosevelt
• It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. Seneca
• It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. Rene Descartes
• It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens. Baha’u'llah
• It is not length of life, but depth of life. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. Antoine De Saint-Exupery
• It takes a great man to be a good listener. Calvin Coolidge
• It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, “Always do what you are afraid to do. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something. Ornette Coleman
• It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not. Unknown
• It’s always too early to quit. Norman Vincent Pearle
• It’s not the situation … It’s your reaction to the situation Robert Conklin
• I’ve come to believe that all my past failure and frustrations were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy. Anthony Robbins
• Just when you think that a person is just a backdrop for the rest of the universe, watch them and see that they laugh, they cry, they tell jokes … they’re just friends waiting to be made. Jeffery Borenstein
• 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
• Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. Earl of Chesterfield
• Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. Goethe
• Knowledge is power. Francis Bacon
• Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning. Albert Einstein
• Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it’s at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savoured. Earl Nightingale
• Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you. Jim Rohn
• Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen. Peter Marshall
• Liberty means responsibility. That is why most mendread it. George Bernard Shaw
• Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life. Morarji Desai
• Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf. American Indian Proverb
• Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. Gandhi
• Live free or die. New HampshireLive out of your imagination, not your history. Stephen Covey
• Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it’s when you’ve had everything to do and you’ve done it. Margaret Thatcher
• Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory. Betty Smith
• Looking back, I have this to regret, that too oftenwhen I loved, I did not say so. David Grayson
• Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. Andre Gide
• Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr
• May you live every day of your life. Jonathan Swift
• Men are born to succeed, not to fail. Henry David Thoreau
• Minds are like parachutes; they work best when open. Lord Thomas Dewar
• Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself. Harvey Fierstein
• Never look down on anybody unless you helping him up. Jesse Jackson
• No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again. Buddha
• No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt
• No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined. Harry Emerson Fosdick
• Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength. Ralph W. Sockman
• Nurture your mind with great thoughts. Benjamin Disraeli
• One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time. John Wanamaker
• One should not stand at the foot of a sick person’s bed, because that place is reserved for the guardian angel. Jewish Folk Saying
• One thing you can’t recycle is wasted time. Anonymous
• One’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regain sits original dimensions. Oliver Wendel Holmes
• Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. T. S. Elliot
• Our greatest glory is not in never failing but in rising up every time we fail. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Our strength grows out of our weakness. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be. Abraham Lincoln
• People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success. Norman Vincent Peale
• People only see what they are prepared to see. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes. Abigail Van Buren
• Problems are only opportunities in work clothes. Henry Kaiser
• Real riches are the riches possessed inside. B. C. Forbes
• Remember, happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think. Dale Carnegie
• Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world — making the most of one’s best. Harry Emerson Fosdick
• Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars. Les Brown
• Simplicity is the key to brilliance. Bruce Lee
• Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. Carl Sagan
• Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon. E. M. Forster
• Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit. Conrad Hilton
• Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself. Chinese Proverb
• Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are. Charles Augustin Sainte-Beauve
• The basis of optimism is sheer terror. Oscar Wilde
• The best motivation is self-motivation. The guy says, “I wish someone would come by and turn me on.”What if they don’t show up? You’ve got to have a better plan for your life. Jim Rohn
• The better part of happiness is to wish to be what you are. Desiderius Erasmus
• The brighter you are, the more you have to learn. Don Herold
• The expert at anything was once a beginner. Hayes
• The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. Mark Twain
• The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. Eleanor Roosevelt
• The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. Michelangelo
• The harder you work, the luckier you get. McAlexander
• The highest reward for man’s toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.John Ruskin
• The important thing is not to stop questioning. Albert Einstein
• The journey is the reward. Tao Saying
• The less you open your heart to others, the more yourheart suffers. Deepak Chopra
• The Lord is my light, and my salvation; whom shall I fear? Psalm 27
• The man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away. Charles Schwa
• bThe measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune. Plutarch
• The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. Plutarch
• The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. Albert Einstein
• The most wasted day of all is that during which we have not laughed. Sebastian R. N. Chamfort
• The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be. Socrates
• The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything. Theodore Roosevelt
• The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. John Powell
• The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Edmund Burke
• The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible. Abied C. Clarke
• The only way to have a friend is to be one. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The purpose of life is a life of purpose. Robert ByrneThe question is not whether we will die, but how we will live. Joan Borysenko
• The secret of getting ahead is getting started. Mark Twain
• The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, nor to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly. Buddha
• The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it. Henry Ford
• The wise man does at once what the fool does finally. Baltasar Gracian
• The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences. Carl Frederick
• The world has the habit of making room for the man whose words and actions show that he knows where he is going. Napoleon Hill
• There are no accidents… there is only some purpose that we haven’t yet understood. Deepak Chopra
• There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from. Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
• There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. Unknown
• There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is. Albert Einstein
• There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other. Douglas Everett
• There are those who dream and wish and there are those who dream and work. Jeune.E. McIntyre.
• There are two rules for success: 1) Never tell everything you know… Roger H. Lincoln
• There is just one life for each of us: our own. Euripides
• There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life. Federico Fellini
• There is no such thing in anyone’s life as an unimportant day. Alexander Woollcott
• There’s a basic human weakness inherent in all people which tempts them to want what they can’t have and not want what is readily available to them. Robert J. Ringer
• Thinking: The talking of the soul with itself. Plato
• Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana
• Those who stand for nothing fall for anything. Alexander Hamilton
• Tis nobler to lose honor to save the lives of men than tis to gain honor by taking them. David Borenstein
• To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. Anatole France
• To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit. Stephen Hawking
• To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities. Bruce Lee
• To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance. Buddha
• Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. Mark Twain
• Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best. Henry Van Dyke
• Victory belongs to the most persevering. Napoleon BonaparteWe are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle
• We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, wen make the world. Buddha
• We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing, but even that is a decision. Gary Collins
• We must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature. Ida R. Wylie
• We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right. Nelson Mendela
• We need more people who specialize in the impossible. Unknown
• We never know the worth of water ’til the well is dry. English Proverb
• What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens. Thaddeus Golas
• What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. Oliver Wendell Holmes
• What the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of man can achieve. Napoleon Hill
• What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are. Anthony Robbins
• What you are is what you have been, and what you will be is what you do now. Buddha
• What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• When an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it… Rosalind Russell
• When I find myself fading, I close my eyes and realize my friends are my energy. Unknown
• When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us. Helen Keller
• When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you. Lao-Tzu
• When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re right! Henry Ford
• Wisdom begins in wonder. SocratesWithout a struggle, there can be no progress. Frederick Douglass
• Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken. Frank Herbert
• Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Og Mandino
• Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble. Arabic Parable
• You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices. Deepak Chopra
• You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however. Richard Bach
• You can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose. Abraham Lincoln
• You don’t get harmony when everybody sings the same note. Doug Floyd
• You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing that you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt
• You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself. Harry Firestone
• You live through the darkness from what you learned in the light. Hope MacDonaldYou must be the change you wish to see in the world. Mahatma Gandhi
• You must do the things you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt
• You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don’t. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly. Rumi
• You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. Henry Drummond
• You will never possess what you are unwilling to pursue. Mike Murdock
• You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. BuddhaYour life is in your hands, to make of it what you choose. John Kehoe