SOME QUOTES AND PROVERBS ABOUT SOME IMPORTANT ELEMENTS OF LIFE

1. ABOUT PARENTHOOD – Welcome to parenthood. It might seem overwhelming at first, but sleep comes eventually.

Early parenthood.

General sayings:

“Parenthood is the most beautiful love that stays ever within your heart.’’

“Normal goes out of the window the moment you have kids.’’

“You don’t need the gym, you need a toddler. They never stop moving.”

“Giving it your best is good enough. No parent is ever perfect.’’

“ Enjoy each moment as a parent- the good, the bad and the ugly. Before you can blink, they will be all grown up. ‘’

“Your child is not looking for the perfect parents. They just want you. Give them you time and love. You will be absolutely perfect in their eyes.’’

“Parenting looks easy until you realise that you are responsible for a life. Then it gets really complicated.’’ 

“Train up a child a child  in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it.”  Proverb 22:6

“Unhappy parents will not raise happy children,’’

  “ Every moment is a moment to build a bright future together with your child.’’

              “ Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you.’’– H. Jackson Brown . Jr

“ Kids spell love T- I – M –E.” John Crudele

“Each day of our lives, we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.’’- Charles R, Swindoll

“We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.’’- Franklin D, Roosevelt

Parenting adult children.

“Happiness is when you realise that your children have turned out to be good people.

“For children to capture their dreams, they have to be allowed to soar free.’’

“Having children isn’t the hard part; letting them go is.’’

“To let go gracefully is an art form many parents must perfect.’’

“It takes 18 years to raise an adult. It takes nearly that many to learn to let go of them.’’

“To learn to fly in the adult world, they must learn to fall.’’

“There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots  and the other is wings.”- Hodding Carter  Jr

2. ABOUT SERVICE TO OTHERS   

“The two most important days of your life are the day you were born and the day you find out why.’’– Albert Einstein               

“Everyone can be great because anyone can serve.’’ – Martin Luther King Jr.

“I t is every man’s obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.’’ – Albert Einstein

All of you must put on the apron of humility to serve one another………1 Peter 5:5

 “I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy, I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy.’’– Khalil Gibran

“If you go out and make some things happen, you will fill the world with hope.’’– Barack Obama

“There can be no greater gift than that of giving one’s time and energy to helping others without expecting anything in return.’’- Nelson Mandela

3. ABOUT GIVING

To whom much is given , much will be required. Luke 12:48

“ No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.’’- Aesop

“ He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own. ‘’- Confucius

“The most precious thing I have to give is my time.’’– Silva Hartmann

“It ‘s not how much you give , but how much love we put in the giving.’’– Mother Teresa

“Make a difference in life. Touch people’s lives truly. Use your gifts, talents to benefit society.’’

“ The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.’’ Pablo Picasso

“ Always give without remembering and always receive without forgetting.’’- Brian Tracy

4. ABOUT LEARNING – learning is a lifetime job.

“ Anyone who stops learning is old , whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.’’– Henry Ford

“ I am still learning.’’– Michelangelo ( at 87)

A man who asks is a fool for five minutes. A man who never asks is a fool for life.’’- Chinese Proverb

“ The greatest teacher , failure is.’’ – Yoda

“In the end we retain from our studies , only that which we practically apply.’’- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe.

“The greatest aim of education is not knowledge but action.’’ –  Hubert Spencer

“Change is the end result of all true learning.’’–  Leo Buscaglia 

“ Wisdom is not a product of schooling but a lifelong attempt to acquire it.’’- Albert Einstein

“I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.’’- Confucius

“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is the noblest; Second , by imitation, which is the easiest and third by experience, which is the bitterest.’’  – Confucius

“ Acquire new knowledge while thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.” – Confucius

 “There is no end to education. It is not that you need a book, pass an examination and finish with education.The whole of life from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning. ‘’– Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Live as if you were  to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.’’ – Mahatma Ghandhi

“All the world is my school and all humanity is my teacher.’’- George Whitman

God teaches us letter by letter, line by line, lesson by lesson.  Isaiah 28:10

5.THE DIGITAL AGE – Digital transfer is essential to all of us to survive in this era.

“I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.’’ – Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

“There are no boundaries or borders in the Digital Age.”- Karim Rashid

“ We live in a digital world , but we’re fairly analog creatures.”-  Omar Ahmed

“Creativity is about connecting things.”- Steve Jobs

“Let’s go invent tomorrow rather than worry about what happened yesterday.” Steve jobs

“Automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.’’ – Bill Gates

“It’s no longer the big beating the small, but the fast beating the slow.’’- Eric Pearson

“There’s a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.”- Ira Sachs

“The illiterate of the twenty-first century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn” – Alvin Toffler ( 1928-2016)

In today’s era of volatility, there is no other way but to re- invent the only sustainable advantage you can have over others-  agility, that’s it. Because nothing else is sustainable, everything else you create , somebody else will replicate.’’ – Jeff Bezos. Amazon founder

“The thing that we are trying to do at Facebook is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.’’ – Mark Zuckeberg . Facebook founder

“People will always want more immersive ways to express themselves. So if you go back ten years ago on the internet, most of what people shared and consumed was text. Now a lot of it is photos. I think  going forward, a lot is going to be videos, getting richer and richer. “ – Mark Zuckerberg

About Artificial Intelligence – AI

AI is learning and reasoning by machines without the intervention of humans. It is developing incredibly fast. It has great possibilities and possible dangers if abused.  It demands for regulation if it is to be used responsibly as a powerful technology tool in any field. Only time will tell the future reality about AI.

“ By far the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude  too early that they understand it. “- Eliezer Yudkowsky

“ I ‘m not a robot; I have a personality and I have emotions. I have a humorous side to me and an angry side to me.’’ – Jeff Gordon

“In an increasingly artificial world, people will crave for something real. And they will pay more for it.” – Michal Hyatt

6. ABOUT OLD AGE 

“Ageing is just another word for living.’’– Cinday Joseph

“Growing old is mandatory but growing up is optional.’’- Walt Disney  

“When we were small children, we all played dress –up and everybody had a good time, So why stop ?’’ – Iris Aptel

“Count your age by friends, not years, count your life by smiles, not tears.’’- John Lennon

“ Wrinkles will only go where the  smiles have been.’’ – Jimmy Buffet

“Suddenly and shockingly, I have found myself to be that ancient person whom the youth forget that she has ever been young. Just as I used to think fifty years ago.’’ – Jane Nannono 

The glory of young men is their strength: And the beauty old men is their grey head. Proverb 20:29

SOME AFRICAN PROVERBS

A child is what you put into him.

 When the roots are deep, there is no reason to fear the wind

A youth that does not cultivate friendship with the elderly is like a tree without roots. 

A child can be taller than his father but can never be older the father.

Even your own child can beat the drum while you do the dancing.

When the ants unite their mouths, they can carry an elephant

The teeth can only bite when they work together

It is not necessary to blow out other people’s lanterns to let yours shine.

The gift basket to the bride –to -be is never returned empty to the owner.

The hands that make mistakes belong to those who work.

The first to start does not necessarily arrive first.

Even if you dance in water, your enemies will still accuse you of causing dust.

You do not ask for a chair when you visit a place where the chief himself sits on the floor.

A bad boy is a pain in the neck but a bad old man is a pain in the heart.

The old woman looks after the child to grow its teeth and the young one in turn looks after the old woman when she loses her teeth.

When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground with him.

Hands wash each other– helping your neighbour is helping yourself in the long run.

QUESTION:

Do you have your own collection of inspirational quotes and Proverbs on your desk? Have they served the purpose you compiled them for?