Makes you think, doesn't it?

I found a really interesting book lying in the staffroom today and was paging through it between duties, some of these quotes should be carved in stone!

Essentials

Give me work to do
Give me health
Give me joy in simple things.
Give me an eye for beauty,
A tongue for truth,
A heart that loves,
A mind that reasons,
A sympathy that understands…

Give me neither malice nor envy,
But a true kindness
And a noble common sense.
At the close of each day,
Give me a book, and a friend with whom I can be silent.
Author unknown

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.
Helen Keller

Young people searching for their ‘real self’ must learn that the real self is not something one finds as much as it is something one makes; and it is one’s daily actions that shape the inner personality far more permanently than any amount of introspection or intellection.
Sidney J. Harris

Life’s fulfilment

One bird sitting quietly on a leafless tree-branch
Sang the world into a premature spring,
Because he gave all of his strength to his art, and fretted not
Of the yield he would bring.
Lulu Curme Bretnall


Perseverance is a great element of success..
If you only knock long enough and loud enough, at the gate,
you are sure to wake up somebody.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


A good life is like a good play – it has to have a satisfying and exciting third act.
Ethel Barrymore

If you have any favourites please share them here and we can all be inspired.

Have a great day.