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Resilience Quotes
Loving the quote images?Follow us on Instagram and Twitter for more like them throughout the month! “Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all you were...
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...
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."...
Diligence Quotes
Responsibility Quotes
Loving the quote images?Follow us on Instagram and Twitter for more like them throughout the month! "Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else." -Les Brown "The happiest people in the world are...
Positivity Quotes
Loving the quote images?Follow us on Instagram and Twitter for more like them throughout the month! “All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.”-Buddha “I hope the millions of people I've touched have...
Sincerity Quotes
Loving the quote images?Follow us on Instagram and Twitter for more like them throughout the month! “What's a man's first duty? The answer's brief: To be himself.” -Henrik Ibsen “When pure sincerity forms within, it is outwardly realized in other people's...
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...
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...
Forgiveness Quotes
No Matter How You Say It: Resilience
No Matter How You Say It: Generosity
No Matter How You Say It: Gratefulness
No Matter How You Say It: Diligence
No Matter How You Say It: Responsibility
In Other Languages Spanish - responsibilidad French - responsabilité German - Verantwortung Italian - responsabilità Swedish - ansvar Basque - erantzukizuna Portugese - responsabilidade For other character qualities related to Responsibility,visit the Related...
No Matter How You Say It: Positivity
Word Origin positive (adj.) early 14c., originally a legal term meaning "formally laid down, decreed or legislated by authority" (opposed to natural), from Old French positif (13c.) and directly from Latin positivus "settled by agreement, positive" (opposed...
No Matter How You Say It: Sincerity
Word Origin The word sincerity comes from the Latin word sincerus meaning "sound, pure, whole," perhaps originally "of one growth" i.e. "not hybrid, unmixed". Can you see where being sincere is being an unmixed whole - being same on the outside as you are on the...
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: 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: 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...
Group Thumb Wars
Line up your group in 2 lines facing each other. The players facing each other are partners. Have the partners spread out from the other partners so they don’t easily hear another partner group sharing. If you have an odd number of players, then one person has a “bye”...
Platforms and Promises
Set the stage for an election with your group. You can choose or create a position that all the participants will run for such as “President”, Principal” or “Activities Director”. You may also allow each person to run for whatever office they choose encouraging...
A Song In Your Heart
Ask the group to name some songs that were written about places. After they have named several, explain that people write songs about places that mean something to them. It may be where they met someone special or did something totally new. Have each participant think...
Cartoon “Character”
Discuss famous cartoon characters from Looney Tunes to Disney. Once you have named several characters, allow time for each person to decide which cartoon character they would like to be and what their most visible and positive character trait would be as that cartoon...
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,...