Posts from 10/27-28/14

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

 If you wouldn’t write it and sign it, don’t say it.
- Earl Wilson

 Nothing binds you except your thoughts; nothing limits you except your fear; and nothing controls you except your beliefs.
- Marianne Williamson

 In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.
- William McKinley

 The earth is filled with your love, Lord; teach me your decrees.
- Psalm 119:64

 Eighty percent of success is showing up.
- Woody Allen

 We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind’s greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.
- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

 The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
- William Makepeace Thackeray

 This is what the Lord says— your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the Lord your God, who teaches you what is best for you, who directs you in the way you should go."
- Isaiah 48:17

 He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.
- Bessie Stanley

 Light tomorrow with today.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

 It isn’t life that weights us down – it’s the way we carry it.
- Elizabeth Potier

 In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I shall not be afraid. What can flesh do to me?
- Psalm 56:4

 The question isn't can you? It's will you?
- Author Unknown

Posts from 10/21-26/14

When I thought, “My foot slips,” your steadfast love, O Lord, held me up. When the cares of my heart are many, your consolations cheer my soul.
- Psalm 94:18-19

 Never let yesterday's disappointments overshadow tomorrow's dreams.
- Author Unknown

 A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.
- Elbert Hubbard

 Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
- Herman Cain

 By day the Lord directs his love, at night his song is with me— a prayer to the God of my life.
- Psalm 42:8

 One of the greatest things in life is that no one has the authority to tell you what you want to be. You’re the one who’ll decide what you want to be.
- Jaime Escalante

 If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.
- Buddhist Proverb

 Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.
- Baltasar Gracian

 Finally, brothers, rejoice. Aim for restoration, comfort one another, agree with one another, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.
- 2 Corinthians 13:11

 Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
- Henry David Thoreau

 Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln

 The only question to ask yourself is, how much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve this success?
- Larry Flynt

 I love the Lord, for he heard my voice; he heard my cry for mercy. Because he turned his ear to me, I will call on him as long as I live.
- Psalm 116:1-2

 The best dreams happen when you're awake.
- Author Unknown

 When anger rises, think of the consequences.
- Confucious

 I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
- Abraham Lincoln

 Great peace have those who love your law, and nothing can make them stumble.
- Psalm 119:165

 Success is ninety-nine percent failure.
- Soichiro Honda

 Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments.
- Anonymous

 Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning.
- C.S. Lewis 

 Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”
- John 6:29

 Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.
- William Penn

 Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage.
- Charles Luckman

 I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions."
- Stephen Covey

 There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
- Galatians 3:28

 Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
- William Feather

 An unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates

 If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.
- Latin Proverb

 Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.
- Proverbs 22:6

 Success is the maximum utilisation of the ability that you have.
- Zig Ziglar

 To make an apt answer is a joy to a man, and a word in season, how good it is.
- Proverbs 15:23

 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.
- Proverbs 9:10

Posts from 10/17-20/14

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
- Jim Rohn

 The future is open; we decide what’s in it.
- Wolfgang Sonnenburg

 Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.
- 1 John 5:12

 Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
- Abraham Lincoln

 The only difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way you use them.
- American Proverb

 Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.
- Jim Rohn

 The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
- Psalm 27:1

 Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow.
- Author Unknown

 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
- 1 John 4:7-8

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

 The vexation of a fool is known at once, but the prudent ignores an insult.
- Proverbs 12:16

 To follow without halt, one aim; there is the secret of success.
- Anna Pavlova

 The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.
- Karen S. Magee

 For our own success to be real, it must contribute to the success of others.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

 I keep my eyes always on the Lord. With him at my right hand, I will not be shaken.
- Psalm 16:8

Posts from 10/13-14/14

Many of life's failures are people who didn't realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas A. Edison
 
God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble.
- Psalm 46:1

 The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
- Jim Rohn

 Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.
- Jim Rohn

 A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one’s life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself.
- Louis L’Amour

 Ah, Lord God! It is you who have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm! Nothing is too hard for you.
- Jeremiah 32:17

 If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission.
- Author Unknown

 For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
- Jim Rohn

 What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity? Our attitude toward it. Every opportunity has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an opportunity.
- J. Sidlow Baxter

10/7-12/14

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

 When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean.
- Lin-Chi

 Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
- Dale Carnegie

 This is what the Lord says, he who made the earth, the Lord who formed it and established it—the Lord is his name: ‘Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.’
- Jeremiah 33:2-3

 Resentment always hurts you more than it does the person you resent.
- Rick Warren

 You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie

 Everybody is like a magnet. You attract to yourself reflections of that which you are. If you’re friendly, then everybody else seems to be friendly too.
- Dr. David Hawkins

 The unfolding of your words gives light; it gives understanding to the simple.
- Psalm 119:130

 Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
- Benjamin Franklin

 Workaholics are addicted to activity; superachievers are committed to results.
- Charles Garfield

 If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.
- John Irving

 Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord God is an everlasting rock.
- Isaiah 26:4

 Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you or makes you happy.
- Author Unknown

 The precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.
- Psalm 19:8

 We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
- Jim Rohn

 For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king; it is he who will save us.
- Isaiah 33:22

 I am grateful for all of my problems. After each one was overcome, I became stronger and more able to meet those that were still to come. I grew in all my difficulties.
- James Cash Penney

 Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

 Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 For the Lord takes delight in his people; he crowns the humble with victory.
- Psalm 149:4

 If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
- Jim Rohn

 Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky

 Every failure is a step to success.
- William Whewell

 An athlete is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules.
- 2 Timothy 2:5

 Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not.
- Virgil Garnett Thomson

To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?
- Jim Rohn
 
 Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there’s love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.
- Ella Fitzgerald

 Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God. Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.
- Luke 12:6-7

 Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
- Leon J. Suenens

 The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
- Marcus Aurelius

 The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing.
- Jim Rohn

 As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God.
- Psalm 42:1

 I'd rather live with a good question than a bad answer.
- Aryeh Frimer

 You shall walk after the Lord your God and fear him and keep his commandments and obey his voice, and you shall serve him and hold fast to him.
- Deuteronomy 13:4

Posts from 9/25-30/14

The Lord is my strength and my shield; in him my heart trusts, and I am helped; my heart exults, and with my song I give thanks to him.
- Psalm 28:7

 What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 You have to find happiness in yourself before you can find it with someone.
- Anonymous

 When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
- Mary Kay Ash

 Good will come to those who are generous and lend freely, who conduct their affairs with justice.
- Psalm 112:5

 Look closely at the present you are constructing. It should look like the future you are dreaming.
- Alice Walker

 The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
- Roald Dahl

 There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make happiness.
- Sir John Buchan

 I will hasten and not delay to obey your commands.
- Psalm 119:60

 It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
- Franklin D Roosevelt

 Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year’s time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worthwhile actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings.
- Andre Maurois

 One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.
- Bryant H. McGill

 Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise.
- Proverbs 20:1

 Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.
- Dale Carnegie

 Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.
- Ephesians 4:29

 “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty."
- Revelation 1:8

 Better is a little with the fear of the Lord than great treasure and trouble with it.
- Proverbs 15:16

 Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
- William Makepeace Thackeray

 Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
- Ambrose Redmoon

 One who makes no mistakes makes nothing.
- Anonymous

 Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.
- Hebrews 11:1

 Children see magic because they look for it.
- Christopher Moore

 For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice.
- James 3:16

 Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
- Lord Chesterfield

 If you make the unconditional commitment to reach your most important goals, if the strength of your decision is sufficient, you will find the way and the power to achieve your goals.
- Robert Conklin

 I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
- Philippians 3:14

 The feeling of being 'offended' is a warning indicator that is showing you where to look within yourself for unresolved issues.
- Bryant H. McGill