I am not offering, I am asking.

Every morning the crew at our school offers words of wisdom. They are asking for help from students and staff and I come to you. Any wise words/quotes/sayings that I can offer to these middle schoolers?

If you know the author...throw that in too.

Thanks in advance!
Cat

It's unfair to expect others to make you happy.

You may not have a choice in a situation, but you have a choice in how you react to it.

Don't worry about the things you can't change.

Buy low, sell high.

Slouching is unattractive.

Stuff happens. (I worked in a middle school for a couple of years and it happened daily!)

Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Eleanor Roosevelt

If you cannot find the truth right where you are,
where else do you expect to find it? - Dogen

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.
--Sir Isaac Newton

Everyone thinks of changing the world,
but no one thinks of changing himself- Leo Tolstoy

Drink tea and nourish life; with the first sip, joy; with the
second sip, satisfaction; with the third sip, peace; with the fourth, a
Danish. - Sayings of the Jewish Buddhist

Books are doors to the universe. Open the door, and go!

Flush.

Vote early. Vote often.

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue. -Antisthenes

Never give a sword to a man who can't dance. -Confucius

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? -Jean-Jacques Rousseau

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less. -Diogenes

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. -David Hume

When you stumble, make it part of the dance.

Don't tug on Superman's cape.

Don't spit into the wind.

Don't pull the mask off the ol' Lone Ranger.

Don't mess around with Jim.

Or Slim.

Middle School will end!

Treat the earth well it was not given to you by your parents it was loaned to you by your children - Kenyan Proverb

Be excellent to each other. And party on.
-- Bill and Ted (Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey)

Everything in moderation, including moderation.
-- Unknown

Faith and logic are the shoes on your feet. You can go a lot further on both than you can on just one.
-- Brother Alwyn (Babylon 5 "Deconstruction of Falling Stars", written by J. Michael Straczynski) - note that the definition of faith is not mentioned

12 - I like that one. It's something I've always maintained - dancing is as much about covering your mistakes confidently as it is about doing the right steps.

The reward for hard work is hard work.

#17 I believe I am the originator of "everything in moderation, including moderation". I started using it in the early 80s. Since then, I have used it as a tag line on various internet /Web sites.

I like:
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. (Lao Tse, I think)

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. (don't know, but I suspect someone like Ann Landers)

Money isn't wealth. (me)

A person without friends is poverty-stricken. (me)

Books are the keys to the multiverse. (me, paraphrasing someone else)

Also:

To have a friend, be a friend. (?)

Be kind to yourself. (?)

Perfection is for the gods. Forgive yourself for being imperfect. (me)

do not judge, lest you be judged

Jesus

Better to be quiet and thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

#23 too late...
:-)

"It's better to be late than to wear a herring on one's head."

It's better to wear a herring on one's head than a foot in one's mouth.

It's better to have one's foot in one's mouth than to have someone else's.

It's better to have someone's else's birthday than no birthday at all.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars - (O. Wilde)

This too shall pass - (multiple accreditations)

Please wash your hands before leaving the facility - (various)

Oh! Some of these are awesome! And some are badly needed..like the hand washing one. :/

Thanks to all!

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Dance as if no one were watching.

You can pick your friends, you can pick your nose, just don't pick your friends nose. (me)

Either shut up or be quiet. (me in Junior High)

For colors of thy heart, a story is told. A smile upon the face, the lie is broke. Thy heart beats once, yours is twice. Hear a Goddess singing, it's a warning in thy ones ear. There is black is white, good and evil. I am never, but I am both. One shall heal, one must break. Heart and mind, i choose a side. You ask which way I sway, good or evil. I am the balance, and I do as I may.

~~~My Black Soul~~~

By: KrissZane/Pineapple/BrittannyaJohnson

Bestow my heart, my heart of gold.Tell me what i seek, and reveal to thee. Hear my lover's voice in the night, see the blanket of stars that holds me tight. Feel the eyes of desire and passion looking upon me, the color of the deepest brown of the oldest oak. with a face of an angel, i loose my breath. To call my name, i shall die.

~~~A Lover's Dream~~~

By: KrissZane/BrittannyaJonhson

I like this John Wooden quote:

"Things turn out best for those who make the best of the way things turn out."

"And don't forget the sunblock."

(falsely attributed to Kurt Vonnegut)

I wish someone had told me not to forget the sunblock.

"A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given a chance" - the fortune cookie fortune I have pinned to my office corkboard.

How about the one from the recent London bus campaign:

"There's probably no god - now stop worrying and enjoy your life."

"It's our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously." Peter Ustinov

That's on iGoogle today, I like it!

Just say no!

"They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." Edgar Allan Poe

Leave it like you found it. If you can't do that, then leave it better.

"With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come."
— William Shakespeare

There is a whole pile, large pile, of quotations on GoodReads. Check it out. I go looking for fun quotes for my Facebook status almost every day and I usually find something good.

Enjoy those Middle School kids while you can.

The first casualty when war comes is truth.....Hiram Johnson

If we don't end war, war will end us......H.G. Wells

The boss is always right, especially when she's not.

Everything you do makes a difference.

Wherever I go, there I am.

Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected....Red Buttons

Hi, MDLady! Thanks for giving me an excuse to go look through my quotes file. Here are a few choice quotes that I think might go over well in the school setting. Enjoy!

Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement. –Barry LePatner

Always do right. This will gratify some and astonish the rest. –Mark Twain

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” –Edison

“If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends, you’re safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue.” –Alice Duer Miller

“So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable Creature, since it enables one to find or make a Reason for every thing one has a mind to do."”-Ben Franklin

If you don't understand something, criticism is not the next logical step. – ?

As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy rent-free space in your mind. -Isabelle Holland

“You’ll never get hurt as bad as you will doing something you know you shouldn’t have been doing in the first place.” –Selina Rosen

“The most important thing is to never stop questioning.” -Einstein

Whatever you do, don't push the red button.

You'll find it (whatever it is you are looking for) in the last place you look.

Don't put beans in your nose.

#53 LOL!

If life's journey be endless where is its goal? The answer is, it is everywhere.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand

I've actually been watching a series called Being Erica and Dr Tom has at least 5 quotes per episode see here http://www.tv.com/being-erica/dr.-tom/ep...

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It is better to regret something you have done, than to regret something you haven't done (The Butthole Surfers)

Life is hard and then you die.

It is often easier to say "sorry" than it is to ask permission.

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.
Just keep going. No feeling is final.

---Rilke

Communism would work if everyone were a Communist.

Capitalism, unfortunately, doesnʻt work when everyone is a capitalist - in fact least of all then.
-- me

#57 You know, I think most kids already have that one figured out. :)

To Buchleser:

Your Isabelle Holland and Albert Einstein quotes
are two of the best Iʻve seen. I, for the first time, am thinking of reading a Holland book.

Glad you enjoyed them, Roland.

#57 - Maggie, I've seen that comment a couple of times with respect to the Google Book Settlement (yeah, I'm researching the topic for a paper).

I love the Desiderata poem by Max Erhmann. I just reread it online and after a few days where I seem to have upset everyone around me, it has reminded me how I would like to face the world. And that I should be gentle with myself too.

"If you want a clean floor, sweep barefoot." Robert Pierce Forbes

"You've got two choices in life. You can laugh or you can cry. And it's always more fun to laugh."--my grandma

#64 I love Desiderata too. Here's a link for anyone who needs reminding - http://www.healtalk.com/dl/desiderata.pd...

You are stronger than you think you are.

"If we donʻt end war, war will end us"
--H.G. Wells, quoted by Imager

Back before he was president, Dwight Eisenhower said something to this effect, in a speech at Boston University, I donʻt remember his exact wording, but it was less apocalyptic than Wellsʻs.

It was something to the effect: You guys (the intellectuals and academics) will have to put us (the militarists) out of business.

Not as famous as his farewell speech in 01/53 on the "Military/Industrial Complex" which is said to have sociologist C. Wright Mills as its main source.

If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague

nice one, AlannaSmithee, I do believe all early adolescents should get that stenciled on their ceilings, in their bedrooms, so it is the last thing they see every night. Or maybe we should all have that on our ceilings....

Be kind to your knees. You'll miss them when they're gone.

Oh, I do, I do.

A BAD peace is better than a GOOD war.
-Jewish proverb

The Yiddish original of this (not sure Iʻm spelling it right) is:

A shlekter shalom is besser vi a guter krieg

#72 I wish someone had told told me that while I was still young enough to do something about it!!

Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans......John Lennon

Gosh, there sure is a lot of wisdom to be had 'round here.

"Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot." -Groucho Marx

On my Quote of the Day widget today - "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." - Chinese proverb

I thought this was a perfect quote to display in a library.

"In the future, everyone will be world-famous for fifteen minutes." --Andy Warhol*

* Not guaranteed to be his exact words, but thatʻs the way I remember first reading it. In contemporary quotations, "in the future" is usually left out. Sometimes also changed out is "world-famous", which seems now to get reduced to just "famous".

I think he was not intending a mere platitude about the ephemeralness of fame, and was not accepting the definitions of his own time of what "celebrity" means. And he wasnʻt sardonically discussing the situation of his own time. what he DID mean is a tough question, but I thought that "In the future..." and "world-" should be restored.

#79 Sounds like the ultimate nightmare to me.

77 - My version: Any man who says he can see through women isn't looking at one.

Any man who says he sees through women must have bought those xray glasses from the back of the 1970's magazines...

A piece of "wisdom" about computers, of the early 1960s, which was soon discredited (or perhaps was already untrue at the time):

"A computer may ANSWER any number of questions; it can never in a million years ASK one."

You didnʻt have to be a computer expert or programmer to see what was wrong with the above. It would be enough to be an old-fashioned grammarian -- aware that
the indicative mood takes in both the affirmative and the interrogative. So the maxim would be like asserting that the computer couldnʻt change from one form or another within the same mood.

I realize that it has to be programmed to ask a question, but thatʻs a different topic, not the one implied by the "Wisdom".