Posts from 9/29-30/13

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.
- Thomas J Watson

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
- Anais Nin

 Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
- Oprah Winfrey

 Whoever says he is in the light and hates his brother is still in darkness. Whoever loves his brother abides in the light, and in him there is no cause for stumbling.
- 1 John 2:9, 10

 Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

 If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to... there is nothing you cannot achieve.
- Lao Tzu

You, God, are my God, earnestly I seek you; I thirst for you, my whole being longs for you, in a dry and parched land where there is no water.
- Psalm 63:1

 

 It is not the level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the world. Both attitudes are within our power so that a man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy, and no one can stop him.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

 

 I, even I, am the Lord, and apart from me there is no savior. I have revealed and saved and proclaimed— I, and not some foreign god among you. You are my witnesses,” declares the Lord, “that I am God.
- Isaiah 43:11-12

 

 Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil.
- Ephesians 5:15, 16

 

 Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.
- Willie Nelson

 

 The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
- Napoleon Hill

 

 Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow - after you have done your best to achieve success today.
- Maxwell Maltz

 

 Listen to advice and accept discipline, and at the end you will be counted among the wise. Many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.
- Proverbs 19:20-21

 

 Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. Look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true. Think only of the best, work only for the best, and expect only the best. Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others. Live in the faith that the whole world is on your side so long as you are true to the best that is in you!
- Christian D. Larson

Posts from 10/24-28/13

So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
- 1 Corinthians 13:13

 In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
- Harold Geneen

 Sometimes a player’s greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team.
- Scottie Pippen

 It's time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the challenge and does something about it.
- Vince Lombardi

 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
- 1 Peter 1:3

 The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
- Henry Ward Beecher

 The hand that follows intellect can achieve.
- Michelangelo

 I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark burn out in a brilliant blaze than it be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
 - Jack London

 The Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; he knows those who take refuge in him.
- Nahum 1:7

 For today and its blessings, I owe the world an attitude of gratitude.
- Clarence E. Hodges

The person who gets farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
- Dale Carnegie

 You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar

Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.
- Proverbs 27:1

 Each of us has a fire in our hearts for something. It's our goal in life to find it and keep it lit.
- Mary Lou Retton

 The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.
- Psalm 34:18

 Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all. He keeps all his bones; not one of them is broken.
- Psalm 34:19, 20

 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
- 2 Corinthians 1:3, 4

 Seek the Lord while he may be found; call on him while he is near.
- Isaiah 55:6

 Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord, the Lord himself, is the Rock eternal.
-Isaiah 26:4

For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.
- Aristotle

It's best to start the discipline of generosity when the amounts are small. It's easy to give ten cents out of a dollar; it's a little harder to give a hundred thousand out of a million.
- Jim Rohn

Posts from 10/21-23/13

Many marriages would be better if the husband and wife clearly understood that they're on the same side.
- Zig Ziglar

 A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
- Henry Ford

 Then they said to him, “What must we do, to be doing the works of God?” Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”
- John 6:28, 29

 If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
- Erica Jong

 No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.
- J P Getty

 Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.
- John 3:20-21

 All great achievements require time.
- Maya Angelou

 And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ,
- Philippians 1:9-10

 You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
- C.S. Lewis

When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears and delivers them out of all their troubles.
- Psalm 34:17

 Nobody ever wrote down a plan to be broke, fat, lazy, or stupid. Those things are what happen when you don’t have a plan.
- Larry Winget

 It is not joy that makes us grateful. It is gratitude that makes us joyful.
- David Rast

 Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me. Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
- Matthew 5:11-12

 There are three things that you should spend you time doing: Marketing, marketing, marketing.
- Emma Harrison

We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
- Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower

 If you wait, all that happens is you get older.
- Larry McMurtry

Rules! Hell, there are no rules here...we're trying to accomplish something.
- Thomas Edison

 For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.
- Romans 8:6

 What helps people, helps business.
- Leo Burnett

What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
- Crowfoot

Money never prevented anyone from being happy or unhappy.
- Eddie Barclay

Fear of man will prove to be a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord is kept safe.
- Proverbs 29:25

 Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy

Posts from 10/17-20/13

What man is there who desires life and loves many days, that he may see good? Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit.
- Psalm 34:12, 13

 Anything I've done that was ultimately worthwhile initially scared me to death.
- Betty Bender

 Decide what you want. Decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities. Then go to work.
- H.L. Hunt

 Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.
- Thomas J Watson

Turn away from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.
- Psalm 34:14

 Aim for the highest.
- Andrew Carnegie

 Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.
- Jack Canfield

But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
- Matthew 6:33
 What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
- 1 Corinthians 6:19, 20

 Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
- Thomas Hardy

Posts from 10/14-16/13

Those who look to him are radiant, and their faces shall never be ashamed.
- Psalm 34:5

 In business, when things aren't working it's time to mix it up.
- Donald Trump



If you are right with Him you will inevitably be right with all your fellow-creatures.
- C.S. Lewis

The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them.
- Psalm 34:7

 You cannot change what you refuse to confront.
- Unknown

 So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded. You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised.
- Hebrews 10:35-36

 Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.
- Frank Clark

 My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have an advocate with the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One.
- 1 John 2:1

 Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
- Dale Carnegie

 Believe in yourself, never give up and go about your business with passion drive and enthusiasm.
- Peter Jones

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.
- Les Brown

 The young lions suffer want and hunger; but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.
- Psalm 34:10

 Unless a man undertakes more than he can possibly do, he will never do all that he can.
- Henry Drummond

All of our products and business will go through three phases. There's vision, patience, and execution.
- Steve Ballmer

Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
- Joshua J. Marine

 For we know him who said, “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,” and again, “The Lord will judge his people.” It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
- Hebrews 10:20-31

 Aim for the highest.
- Andrew Carnegie

Posts from 10/10-13/13

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.
- Richard Branson

 The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.
- B.B. King

 Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness.
- Romans 6:13

 It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
- Diogenes

 May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
- 2 Corinthians 13:14

 Life is a choice.
- Author Unknown

Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise to God.
- Romans 15:7

 Nothing is so much fun as business. I do not expect to do anything but work as long as I can stand up.
- William Wrigley Jnr

 I was not born to be free- I was born to adore and obey.
- C.S. Lewis

 A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
- Philippians 4:13

 The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions.
- John Hancock

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
- Robert Schuller

 Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets
- Henry Ford

 Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope.
- Romans 5:3-4

 How long should you try? Until.
- Jim Rohn

 I will bless the Lord at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth.
- Psalm 34:1

 Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everything, you will be happiest.
- Sri Chinmoy

Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good. Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.
- Romans 12:9, 10

 Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.
- Zig Ziglar

Posts from 10/8-9/13

Books, like friends, should be few, and well chosen.
- Samuel Paterson

When something bad happens you have three choices. You can let it define you, let it destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you.
- Unknown

Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me.
- John 14:1

 A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.
- Desiderius Erasmus

 If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
- B C Forbes

 How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong, because someday in your life, you will have been all of these.
- George Washington Carver

 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.
- Philippians 2:3-4

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.
- Buddha

 You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.
- Harold Geneen

 A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
- Proverbs 17:22

 If it is important enough to you, you will find a way. If it is not, you will find an excuse.
- Author Unknown

 To strengthen the muscles of your heart, the best exercise is lifting someone else’s spirit whenever you can.
- Dodinsky, Author

 Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.
- Ephesians 4:29

 Why are you going to choose failure when success is an option?
- Jillian Michaels

 Be glad, people of Zion, rejoice in the Lord your God, for he has given you the autumn rains because he is faithful. He sends you abundant showers, both autumn and spring rains, as before.
- Joel 2:23

 We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win.
- Edward Gibbon

Posts from 10/3-7/13

We can’t be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don’t have something better.
- C. JoyBell C

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything.
- John Wooden

 You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
- Matthew 5:43, 44

 You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton

 Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!
- Philippians 4:4

 Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
- Ben Jonson

 Finally, all of you, be like-minded, be sympathetic, love one another, be compassionate and humble.
- 1 Peter 3:8

Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.
- Ray Bradbury

 I began learning long ago that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
- Booker T. Washington

 Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
- Confucius

 “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal.
- Matthew 6:19, 20

 To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
- Abraham Lincoln

The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.
- Robert Burton

 People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don’t know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
- George Allen, American Football Coach

 Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind.
- Philippians 2:1-2

 Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of knowing you did your best to become the best that you are capable of being.
- John Wooden

 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.”
- Romans 1:16, 17

 Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
- Harper Lee

 Every exit is an entry somewhere else.
- Tom Stoppard

 Master books, but do not let them master you. Read to live, not live to read.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton

 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
- Psalm 23:6

 Faith is daring to put your dream to the test. It is better to try to do something and fail than to try to do nothing and succeed.
- Robert H. Schuller

 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.
- 1 John 4:16

 Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business.
- Leo Burnett

 Who is wise and understanding among you? Let them show it by their good life, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom.
- James 3:13

Wish not so much to live long as to live well.
- Benjamin Franklin

Posts from 10/2/13

A life without cause is a life without effect.
- Barbarella

 Peace does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble, or hard work. Peace means to be in the midst of all those things and still be calm in your heart.
- Unknown

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
- Jeremiah 29:11

 Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be part of.
- Geri Weitzman

 The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
- Theodore Roosevelt

To do something, however small, to make others happier and better, is the highest ambition, the most elevating hope, which can inspire a human being.
- Sir John Lubbock

 I lift up my eyes to the mountains— where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.
- Psalm 121:1-2

 The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable.
- C.S. Lewis

Posts from 10/1/13

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
- Romans 12:1, 2

 What counts can’t always be counted; what can be counted doesn’t always count.
- Albert Einstein

 A life without cause is a life without effect.
- Barbarella

 Teach the older men to be temperate, worthy of respect, self-controlled, and sound in faith, in love and in endurance.
- Titus 2:2

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
- Confucius

Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you.
- Isaiah 46:4

 Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
- Lou Holtz

Posts from 9/30/13

Thus says the Lord : “Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns away from the Lord."
- Jeremiah 17:5

 Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
- Brian Tracy

 He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.
- Cesare Pavese

 I don't blame or complain about things like the economy, the government, taxes, employees, gas prices, or any of the external things that I don't have control over. The only thing I have control over is my response to these things.
- Jack Canfield

 Teach me to do your will, for you are my God; may your good Spirit lead me on level ground.
- Psalm 143:10