Posts from 4/25-29/14

“O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?” The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
- 1 Corinthians 15:55-57

 There is no such thing in anyone’s life as an unimportant day.
- Alexander Woollcott

 The most effective way to do it is to do it.
- Amelia Earhart

 A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
- Romans 8:38-39

 The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.
- Thomas J Peters

 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand. I and the Father are one.
- John 10:28-30

 Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.
- Hebrews 12:14

 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.
- 1 John 4:11, 12

 Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you greater than any obstacle.
- Christian D. Larson

 The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
- Steve Jobs

 Every worthwhile accomplishment has a price tag attached to it. The question is always whether you are willing to pay the price to attain it - in hard work, sacrifice, patience, faith, and endurance.
- John C. Maxwell

 Whoever would foster love covers over an offense, but whoever repeats the matter separates close friends.
- Proverbs 17:9

 The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed
- Henry Ford

 Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.
- 1 John 3:18

 When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
- Wayne Dyer

 Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.
- Author Unknown

 The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.
- Debbie Fields

 The commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,” and whatever other command there may be, are summed up in this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
- Romans 13:9-10

 Everything that occurs in your life is part of God's plan to wake you up.
- Leonard Jacobson

Posts from 4/22-24/14

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
- John 15:13

 Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
- Hosea Ballou

 Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our point of view.
- Obi-Wan Kenobi

 Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
- Thomas Jefferson

 For this is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another.
- 1 John 3:11

 Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
- Sir Walter Scott

 Where there is love there is life.
- Mahatma Gandhi

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

 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
- Romans 8:35, 37

 Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.
- Norman Vincent Peale

 Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
- Aristotle

 The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
- Robert Frost

 Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. If anyone serves me, he must follow me; and where I am, there will my servant be also. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.
- John 12:25, 26

 Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.
- William Feather

 O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.
- Psalm 63:1

 The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.
- Author Unknown

 Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
- Romans 8:38-39

 The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash.
- Author Unknown

Posts from 4/15-21/14

Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”
- Hebrews 13:5

 There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
- Logan Pearsall

 The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
- John Burroughs

 Successful people save in prosperous times so they have a financial cushion in times of recession.
- Brian Tracy

 We ought always to thank God for you, brothers and sisters, and rightly so, because your faith is growing more and more, and the love all of you have for one another is increasing.
- 2 Thessalonians 1:3

 The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
- Vincent T Lombardi

 Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
- Norman Vincent Peale

 You'll be surprised to know how far you can go from the point where you thought it was the end.
- Author Unknown

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
- 1 Corinthians 13:4-5

 

 Happiness is a direction, not a place.
- Sydney J. Harris

 

 Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve.
- Wilfred A Peterson

 

 There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
- Lady Blessington

 

 I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
- Galatians 2:20

 

 If you cannot save money, then the seeds of greatness are not in you.
- Brian Tracy

 

 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?”
- John 11:25, 26

 

 I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs, but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
- George Patton

 

 Success is not measured by what you accomplish but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
- Orison Swett Marden

 

 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
- John 3:16

 

 Don't say, 'If I could, I would.' Say, 'If I can, I will.'
- Jim Rohn

 

 The price of success must be paid in full...in advance.
- Brian Tracy

 

 Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.
- Arnold Glascow

 

 For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
- 1 Corinthians 1:18

 

 Cheerfulness is what greases the axles of the world. Don't go through life creaking.
- H.W. Byles

 

 If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
- Lucy Larcom

 

 Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.
- Jim Rohn

 

 And Jesus uttered a loud cry and breathed his last. And the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. And when the centurion, who stood facing him, saw that in this way he breathed his last, he said, “Truly this man was the Son of God!”
- Mark 15:37-39

 

 Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
- Booker T Washington

 

 But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.
- 1 Corinthians 15:20-22

 

 And behold, there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came and rolled back the stone and sat on it. His appearance was like lightning, and his clothing white as snow. And for fear of him the guards trembled and became like dead men. But the angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified. He is not here, for he has risen, as he said. Come, see the place where he lay.
- Matthew 28:2-6

 

So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.
- 2 Timothy 2:22

Posts from 4/11-14/14

But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you.
- Luke 6:27, 28

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

 Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.
- Margaret Young

 Let those who love the Lord hate evil, for he guards the lives of his faithful ones and delivers them from the hand of the wicked.
- Psalm 97:10

 Million dollar ideas are a dime a dozen. The determination to see the idea through is what's priceless.
- Robert Dieffenbach

 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace.
- Ephesians 1:7

 For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died; and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised.
- 2 Corinthians 5:14, 15

 Money is hard to earn and easy to lose. Guard yours with care.
- Brian Tracy

 It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost His crucifixion.
- C.S. Lewis

 You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.
- Matthew 5:43-45

 The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage
- Peter Senge

Posts from 4/9-10/14

Step through new doors. The majority of the time there’s something fantastic on the other side.
- Author Unknown

 I’m beginning to think that maybe it’s not just how much you love someone. Maybe what matters is who you are when you’re with them.
- Macon Leary

 Your wealth can only grow to the extent that you do.
- T. Harv Eker

 The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.
- Lee Iacocca

 The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.
- James Openheim

 Everything that you will ever need to accomplish, any goal that you will ever set is sitting and waiting patiently inside of you.
- Author Unknown

 But you, O Lord, are a shield about me, my glory, and the lifter of my head.
- Psalm 3:3

 Make a decision to be successful right now. Most people never decide to be wealthy and that is why they retire poor.
- Brian Tracy

4/3-8/14

On God rests my salvation and my glory; my mighty rock, my refuge is God.
- Psalm 62:7

 Don't look for your dreams to come true; look to become true to your dreams.
- Michael Beckwith

 Everyone has naturally the power of excelling in some one thing.
- Proverb

 The way we choose to see the world creates the world we see.
- Barry Neil Kaufman

 However, as it is written: “What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived”— the things God has prepared for those who love him—
- 1 Corinthians 2:9

 You don't become enormously successful without encountering and overcoming a number of extremely challenging problems.
- Mark Victor Hansen

 Real success comes in small portions day by day. You need to take pleasure in life's daily little treasures. It is the most important thing in measuring success.
- Denis Waitley

 We must look for the opportunity in every difficulty instead of being paralyzed at the thought of the difficulty in every opportunity.
- Walter E. Cole

 But I will sing of your strength, in the morning I will sing of your love; for you are my fortress, my refuge in times of trouble.
- Psalm 59:16

 Take responsibility for yourself.., because no one's going to take responsibility for you.
- Tyra Banks

 The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.
- Thomas Edison

 Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
- Tacitus

 And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
- Romans 8:28

 The brick walls aren't there to keep us out, the brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something.
- Randy Pausch

 The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous man runs into it and is safe.
- Proverbs 18:10

 For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
- Galatians 6:8

 If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.
- Thomas Edison

 Don't get your knickers in a knot. Nothing is solved and it just makes you walk funny.
- Kathryn Carpenter

 I find that when we really love and accept and approve of ourselves exactly as we are, then everything in life works.
- Louise Hay

 Improvement begins with I.
- Arnold H. Glasgow

 For the word of the Lord is right and true; he is faithful in all he does. The Lord loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of his unfailing love.
- Psalm 33:4-5

 Many a one has succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat, he would never have known any great victory.
- Orison Swett Marden

 Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.
- Malcolm Cowley

 Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you.
- Frank Tyger

 But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
- Isaiah 53:5, 6

 Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
- Rumi

Posts from 3/30-4/2/14

Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man.
- Proverbs 3:3, 4

 You can't let other people tell you who you are. You have to decide that for yourself.
- Author Unknown

 Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak. Sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go.
- The Daily Guru

 Sitting down, Jesus called the Twelve and said, “Anyone who wants to be first must be the very last, and the servant of all.
- Mark 9:35

 To reach a port, we must sail—Sail, not tie at anchor—Sail, not drift.
- Franklin Roosevelt

 Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.
- Revelation 3:20

 I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
- Larry Bird

 The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
- Ben Stein

 Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.
- Ephesians 4:2

 Questions provide the key to unlocking our unlimited potential.
- Anthony Robbins

 For “All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls, but the word of the Lord remains forever.” And this word is the good news that was preached to you.
- 1 Peter 1:24, 25

 The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

 Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln

 I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
- John D. Rockefeller

 You, Lord, are forgiving and good, abounding in love to all who call to you.
- Psalm 86:5

 Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
- Ralph Vaull Starr