Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.—Kofi Annan
Quote of the week: Week of March 12, 2018
Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.—Kofi Annan
We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly— spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.—Susan L. Taylor
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.—Maya Angelou
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.—Amelia Earhart
No matter what happens or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.—Maya Angelou
Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.—Yehuda Berg
We need to feel we belong. We need to feel valued. We need to feel we’re good at something. We need to feel we have a secure future.—Johann Hari
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.—Martin Luther King, Jr.
You get a new year, you get a new start, you get a new opportunity.—Billy Butler
No man is a failure who has friends.―Mark Twain
(You may also recognize this quote from the end of the holiday film It’s A Wonderful Life.)