Posts from 12/10-14/14

The hand that follows intellect can achieve.
- Michelangelo

 Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.
- Pablo Picasso

 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

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

 Nothing is stronger than habit.
- Ovid

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

 Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst."
- John 6:35

 Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger

 Quiet people have the loudest minds.
- Stephen Hawking

 Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
- Emily P. Bissell

 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

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

 Every time you stay out late; every time you sleep in; every time you miss a workout; every time you don’t give 100% – You make it that much easier for me to beat you.
- Unknown

 Forget all the reasons why it won't work and believe the one reason why it will.
- Author Unknown

 Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him; fret not yourself over the one who prospers in his way, over the man who carries out evil devices!
- Psalm 37:7

 There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
- Peter A. Cohen

 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

 Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
- Lyndon Johnson

 It is the Lord your God you must follow, and him you must revere. Keep his commands and obey him; serve him and hold fast to him.
- Deuteronomy 13:4

 When people undermine your dreams, predict your doom or criticize you, remember they're telling you their story, not yours."
- LIFE by Cynthia Occelli

 There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
- General Colin L. Powell

 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

 I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me, just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep.
- John 10:14-15

 If you are hurt, whether in mind or body, don’t nurse your bruises. Get up and light-heartedly, courageously, good temperedly get ready for the next encounter. This is the only way to take life – this is also ‘playing’ the game!
- Emily Post

 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

Posts from 12/1-3/14

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

 If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
- Booker T. Washington

 The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.
- Bill Copeland

 Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
- Thomas Carlyle

 “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

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

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

 He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
- Thomas Carlyle

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

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

 The unhappiest people in this world, are those who care the most about what other people think.
- C. JoyBell C.

 Work like there is someone working 24 hours a day to take it away from you.
- Mark Cuban

 He only is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be shaken. On God rests my salvation and my glory; my mighty rock, my refuge is God.
- Psalm 62:6-7

 Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.
- Farrah Gray

 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

 With self-discipline most anything is possible.
- Theodore Roosevelt

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

 It's so easy to add. It's hard to edit. The hardest decisions are the things not to work on
- Tim Cook

 Sometimes our greatest insight comes from our failure, not from our accomplishments.
- Author Unknown

 Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- Aristotle

Posts from 8/3-6/14

And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.
- Mark 12:30

 But the wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure; then peace-loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere. Peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness.
- James 3:17-18

 If customers are treated right, they'll come back.
- J Marriott Junior

 Morale is when your hands and feet keep on working when your head says it can't be done.
- Benjamin Morrell

 You don't need a reason to help people.
- Author Unknown

 For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
- Galatians 5:13-14

 What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.
- Bruce Barton

 Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
- C.S. Lewis 

 Human beings have the remarkable ability to turn nothing into something. They can turn weeds into gardens and pennies into fortunes.
- Jim Rohn



Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves.
- Romans 12:10

 If you are not willing, that’s okay. Don’t judge yourself. Just be aware that you are choosing to stay where you are.
- John Robson

 The individual who wants to reach the top in business must appreciate the might of the force of habit and must understand that practices are what create habits. He must be quick to break those habits that can break him and hasten to adopt those practices that will become the habits that help him achieve the success he desires.
- J. Paul Getty

 If you're brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.
- Author Unknown

 Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to build him up.
- Romans 15:2

 One half of life is luck; the other half is discipline -- and that's the important half, for without discipline you wouldn't know what to do with luck.
- Carl Zuckmeyer

 But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”
- 1 Samuel 16:7

 The only way to find the limits of the possible is by going beyond them to the impossible.
- Arthur C Clarke

 The more you take responsibility for your past and present, the more you are able to create the future you seek.
- Celestine Chua

 We are what we repeatedly do.Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
- Aristotle

 My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry,
- James 1:19

 It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
- Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

Posts from 7/9-11/14

Why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God; for it is written, “As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.” So then each of us will give an account of himself to God.
- Romans 14:10-12

 Luck is largely a matter of paying attention.
- Susan M. Dodd

 Never give up. Never ever give up. Why? Because just when you are about to give up is when things are about to turn around in a grand way. Hold on. Great things are waiting for you around the corner.
- Sonia Ricotti

 Learn to trust the journey, even when you do not understand it.
- Mila Bron

 What one approves, another scorns,
And thus his nature each discloses:
You find the rosebush full of thorns,
I find the thornbush full of roses.
- Arthur Guiterman

 He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
- Napoleon

 When you truly believe in what you are doing, it shows. And it pays. Winners in life are those who are excited about where they're going.
- Author Unknown

 How to succeed? Try hard enough.
- Malcolm Forbes

 For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your ancestors, but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect.
- 1 Peter 1:18-19

 The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
- Scott Hamilton

 Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you’re going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus.
- Oprah Winfrey

 A great fortune depends on luck, a small one on diligence.
- Chinese Proverb

 Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air. But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.
- 1 Corinthians 9:25-27

 Fill your mind with truth, your heart with love, your life with service.
- Author Unknown

 You can out distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you.
- Rwandan Proverb

 We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
- Aristotle

 To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. He is the one we proclaim, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone fully mature in Christ.
- Colossians 1:27-28

 In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
- Thomas Carlyle

 A great man is he who has not lost the heart of a child.
- Mencius

 Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
- Henry Ward Beecher

 One’s pride will bring him low, but he who is lowly in spirit will obtain honor.
- Proverbs 29:23

 Making mistakes is something everyone does. Learning from them is not.
- Author Unknown

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 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 9/16/13

Just know, when you truly want success, you’ll never give up on it. No matter how bad the situation may get.
- Unknown

 O Lord, you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether.
- Psalm 139:1-4

 Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.
- Baltasar Gracian

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

 The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
- Mahatma Gandhi

 Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.”
- John 6:29

 It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- Aristotle

Posts from 9/6-9/13

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
- Psalm 23:1

 For you, O Lord, have made me glad by your work; at the works of your hands I sing for joy.
- Psalm 92:4

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

When my enemies turn back, they stumble and perish before your presence. For you have maintained my just cause; you have sat on the throne, giving righteous judgment.
- Psalm 9:3, 4

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

 Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
- Jean Paul Sartre

 Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
- Aristotle

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

 Life is to be enjoyed, not endured.
- Gordon B. Hinckley

Posts from 8/20/13

You are my refuge and my shield; I have put my hope in your word.
- Psalm 119:114

 The more pride we have, the more other people’s pride irritates us.
- C.S. Lewis

 The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.
- Proverbs 10:11

 I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.
- Edward Everett Hale

 Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
- Aristotle

 The tragedy in life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal.The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
- Benjamin Mays

 Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.
- James 1:22

 To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are.
- Muhammad Ali