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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...
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...
Availability Quotes
Alertness Quotes
Love the quote images you see below? Follow us on Instagram for more like them throughout the month! "Be always vigilant; there are many snares for the good.” ~Accius “Be alert. The most important things in life are seldom the most obvious.” ~Jonathan Lockwood...
Tolerance 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...
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...
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...
Cautiousness Quotes
Loving the quote images?Follow us on Instagram and Twitter for more like them throughout the month! "Carelessness about our security is dangerous; carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous." -Adlai E. Stevenson "Caution is not cowardly. Carelessness is...
Attentiveness Quotes
Loving the quote images?Follow us on Instagram and Twitter for more like them throughout the month! “When Mark Twain went out to the pasture to teach a mule the difference between "gee" and "haw" (that is, left and right), he began by giving the mule a friendly...
No Matter How You Say It: Patience
In Other Languages Spanish - paciencia French - patience German - Geduld Italian - pazienza Swedish - tålamod Basque - pazientzia Portugese - paciência For other character qualities related to Patience,visit the Related Qualities page.Word Origin The word...
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...
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.
Another Name Game
A teambuilding activity for any group.