Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski "If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose" ...........

The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win."

Roger Bannister, runner

Ahmed Ismail
Year 8
Wales house

Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we are curious...and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Walt Disney

Ahmed Ismail
Year 8
Wales house

Do all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you can. In all the places you can. At all the times you can. To all the people you can. As long as you can.

John Wesley

Ahmed Ismail
Year 8
Wales house

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can."

Mary Frances Berry

Ahmed Ismail
Year 8
Wales house

Try not to become a man of success, but rather a man of value."
Albert Einstein, scientist

Ahmed Ismail
Year8
Wales house

Another fresh New Year is here…
Another year to live!
To banish worry, doubt, and fear,
To love and laugh and give!

This bright New Year is given me
To live each day with zest…
To daily grow and try to be
My highest and my best!

I have the opportunity
Once more to right some wrongs,
To pray for peace, to plant a tree,
And sing more joyful songs!

William Arthur Ward
Ahmed Ismail
Year 8
Wales house

"An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive business advantage."

Jack Welch, General Electric CEO

Ahmed Ismail
Year 8
Wales house

"No man ever achieved worthwhile success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure."

Napoleon Hill

Ahmed Ismail
Year 8
Wales house

It is not the critic that counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement. And at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

President Theodore Roosevelt (Paris 1910)

Ahmed Ismail
Year 8
Wales house

"Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger…for the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grief's we endure help us in our marching onward."

Henry Ford

Ahmed Ismail
Year 8
Wales house

"To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny."

Alan Cohen

Ahmed Ismail
Year 8
Wales house

If you are too attached to your own thinking and how everything is done now, then nothing will change for the better."

John C. Maxwell, author

Ahmed Ismail
Year 8
Wales house

"Some people die at twenty-five and aren’t buried until they are seventy-five.”

-- Benjamin Franklin

Ahmed Ismail
Year 8
Wales house

I have another one for charles: "For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us."

mohamed badawy

7c england house

A ship is safe in harbor--
but that's not what ships are for.

John A. Shedd