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Patience Quotes
Loving the quote images?Follow us on Instagram and Twitter for more like them throughout the month! “There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third most important secret is patience.” -Chuck Tanner...
Initiative Quotes
Loving the quote images?Follow us on Instagram and Twitter for more like them throughout the month! "He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner." -Benjamin Franklin "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." -Confucius "Half the things...
Generosity Quotes
Loving the quote images?Follow us on Instagram and Twitter for more like them throughout the month! “Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting.” -Elizabeth Bibesco “You have not lived today until you have...
Forgiveness Quotes
Courage Quotes
Loving the quote images?Follow us on Instagram and Twitter for more like them throughout the month! "Let's have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it." -Abraham Lincoln "The greatest test of...
Gratefulness Quotes
Loving the quote images?Follow us on Instagram and Twitter for more like them throughout the month! "Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts."...
Endurance Quotes
Loving the quote images?Follow us on Instagram and Twitter for more like them throughout the month! “Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.” -Friedrich Schiller “No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That's the only way to keep the...
Trustworthiness Quotes
Loving the quote images?Follow us on Instagram and Twitter for more like them throughout the month! “Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body – by judicious, daily...
Acceptance Quotes
Loving the quote images?Follow us on Instagram and Twitter for more like them throughout the month! “There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it behooves all of us not to talk about the rest of us.” -Robert Louis...
Orderliness Quotes
Loving the quote images?Follow us on Instagram and Twitter for more like them throughout the month! “Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order...
No Matter How You Say It: Patience
Word Origin The word patient comes from Latin patins, present participle of pat, which means “to endure”. Can you see how patience is related to endurance? Found on www.thefreedictionary.com Sign Language Check out the following links for the American Sign Language...
No Matter How You Say It: Initiative
Word Origin The word initiative is derived from the Latin word initiare which means “to begin, to originate”. Can you see how initiative is getting something started?Sign Language Check out the following links from www.handspeak.com for the American Sign Language...
No Matter How You Say It: Generosity
No Matter How You Say It: Forgiveness
Word Origin Forgive comes from the Old English forgiefan. It was a compound word combining the prefix meaning “up” or “away” with the word meaning “to give”. Can you see how forgive is giving up a claim against someone? Sign Language Check out the following links from...
No Matter How You Say It: Courage
Word Origin The origin of Courage is from Old French corage meaning "heart, innermost feelings; temper". Can you see how courage springs from the heart? From Etymology Online Dictionary Sign Language Check out the following links from www.handspeak.com for the...
No Matter How You Say It: Gratefulness
No Matter How You Say It: Endurance
Word Origin The primary Latin root of endure is durare, which means “to harden; to hold out; to make last”. To create the word Endurance, the Latin durare was coupled with the Latin preposition for “in”. Can you see how Endurance is hardening from within? Sign...
No Matter How You Say It: Trustworthiness
Word Origin Trustworthy is being worthy of trust. The origin of the word trust is from Middle English < Old Norse traust trust (cognate with German Trost comfort); Can you see how you can be comfortable with something you trust? From Dictionary Sign Language Trust...
No Matter How You Say It: Acceptance
Word Origin From Latin acceptare "take or receive willingly," Word Origin from Etymonline Can you see how Acceptance is receiving others as they are? Sign Language Check out the following links from Handspeak or the American Sign Language interpretation of the words:...
No Matter How You Say It: Orderliness
Word Origin The Latin root is ordinem, "arrangement or row," which originally meant "a row of threads in a loom." Word Origin from Vocabulary.com Can you see how Orderliness is being neat and tidy? Sign Language Check out the following links from Handspeak for the...
Good Graffiti
Each person starts with a sheet of drawing paper and crayons, colored pencils, or markers. The object of the activity is for each person to draw graffiti. Explain that graffiti is drawn on public buildings, trains, bathroom stalls, etc. by individuals who want to...
What A Deal!
This activity requires a deck of playing cards, even a deck that is missing cards works for this game. Deal out several cards to each person. Go around the room and one by one each person needs to play a card by laying it down in front of them and telling something...
Double Circle
Arrange the participants so that they are standing in two circles facing each other. If you have an odd number of participants, one will not have a partner in the opposite circle. This person gets to read the question for the round. When the circles move, that person...
Shamrock Shuffle
Arrange the participants in chairs in a circle with one less chair than people. Larger groups may need multiple circles. Have the person without a chair stand in the middle. They are to call out a sentence that describes him or herself. Examples: People wearing a red...
A ‘Puzzle’ Puzzle
Divide the class into groups. You can use seating arrangements such as a row or table to define the groups or create groups on your own. Instruct each group to…
Cheering Each Other
Divide the group into smaller groups of 4 -6. Each group is to create a cheer that encourages success much like cheerleaders encourage athletes. If it is an academic setting, they can cheer about a subject. If it is a business setting, it may be about a product,...
Magazine Cover
Divide the whole group into smaller groups of 4 – 6 people. Provide each group with a large sheet of paper and drawing materials. Each group is to design a magazine cover touting an accomplishment for which the larger group as a whole could be famous. It doesn’t have...
Build a Handshake
Divide the class into groups. You can use seating arrangements such as a row or table to define the groups or create groups on your own. Instruct each group to…
Human Tic-Tac-Toe
A teambuilding activity for any group.
Time Capsule
A teambuilding activity for any group.