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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...
Focus 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...
Authenticity 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...
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...
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: Resilience
No Matter How You Say It: Focus
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: Authenticity
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: 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...
The Gauntlet
If the group is large, you may want to divide it into several gauntlets. If the group is young, you may want to divide the boys and girls. This will take considerable room. Create a gauntlet of participants by forming two lines, facing one another. Space the people in...
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...