Motivation for Your Week of July 6, 2009

WOW 4U Motivation for Your Week of July 6, 2009

Inspirational Words of Wisdom

 

 

QUOTE of the WEEK:

"It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke.

For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke,

let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away,

then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say."

James Whitcomb Riley

 

 

STORY for YOUR WEEK:

The Fence

by Author Unknown

 

There once was a little boy who had a bad temper. His father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, he must hammer a nail into the back of the fence.

 

The first day the boy had driven 37 nails into the fence. Over the next few weeks, as he learned to control his anger, the number of nails hammered daily gradually dwindled down. He discovered it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails into the fence.

 

Finally the day came when the boy didn't lose his temper at all. He told his father about it and the father suggested that the boy now pull out one nail for each day that he was able to hold his temper.

 

The days passed and the young boy was finally able to tell his father that all the nails were gone. The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence.

 

He said, "You have done well, my son, but look at the holes in the fence. The fence will never be the same. When you say things in anger, they leave a scar just like this one. You can put a knife in a man and draw it out. It won't matter how many times you say I'm sorry, the wound is still there. A verbal wound is as bad as a physical one."

 

As William Arthur Ward once said,  "'It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses."

 

 

 

YOUR MONTHLY MOTIVATIONAL QUOTE CALENDAR

JULY 2009 Printable Monthly Calendar with Inspirational Quotes

http://www.wow4u.com/motivationalcalendar/index.html

(note: if last months calendar comes up, please refresh your screen)

 

 

QUOTES for YOUR WEEK:

"If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow."

Chinese Proverb

 

"It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the poser to choose either."

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

 

"Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts."

Robert Fulghum

 

"You don't have to accept the invitation to get angry. Instead, practice forgiveness, empathy and encouragement."

Dan Fallon

 

"Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances."

Thomas Jefferson

 

more quotes:

http://www.wow4u.com/anger/index.html

 

 

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Have a great week,

Catherine Pulsifer

Inspirational Words of Wisdom

http://www.wow4u.com

wowmotivation@gmail.com

 

© 2009 Catherine Pulsifer, Inspirational Words of Wisdom

 

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