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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
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...
Compassion Quotes
Loving the quote images?Follow us on Instagram and Twitter for more like them throughout the month! “Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things." -Thomas Merton “Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to...
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...
Thoroughness Quotes
Loving the quote images?Follow us on Instagram and Twitter for more like them throughout the month! “See your road through.”-J. R. R. Tolkien “Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.”-Jim Rohn “Every job is a portrait of the person who does...
Creativity Quotes
Loving the quote images?Follow us on Instagram and Twitter for more like them throughout the month! “Imagination rules the world.”-Napoleon “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.”-Pablo Picasso “Nobody is bored when he...
Availability Quotes
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...
No Matter How You Say It: Patience
In Other Languages Spanish - paciencia French - patience German - Geduld Italian - pazienza Swedish - tålamod Basque - pazientzia Portugese - paciência Word Origin The word patient comes from from Latin patins, present participle of pat, which means “to...
No Matter How You Say It: Compassion
Word Origin From Latin com "with, together"+ pati "to suffer". Can you see how Compassion is suffering with someone? Part of compassion is empathy, but the true value of Compassion comes when this feeling spurs you to action. (etymology from...
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 www.dictionary.com Sign...
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: Attentiveness
Word Origin Attentiveness is derived from the Latin, attentus which means to be heedful or observant. It is a word form of attend and in this sense, it is an active verb. Can you see where attentiveness is more than just not being distracted but actively seeking 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 Scrabble
For this exercise, you will need either children’s blocks with letters on them, magnetic letters, or index cards with handwritten letters. Each participant should have 1 - 3 letters. Encourage them to mingle to create words. You can choose to score the game by the...
Human Tic-Tac-Toe
A teambuilding activity for any group.
Time Capsule
A teambuilding activity for any group.