4/27-28/15

Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
- Matthew 6:19-21

 The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
- Dale Carnegie

 Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.
- Georg W Hegel

 Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses.
- George Washington Carver

 He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?
- Micah 6:8

 Don't be afraid of your fears. They're not there to scare you. They're there to let you know that something is worth it.
- C. JoyBell C.

 Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing there is a solution paves the way to a solution.
- Dr. David Schwartz

 There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.
- Anthony Robbins

 But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.”
- 1 Peter 1:15-16

 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

 All successful men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
- Brian Tracy

 Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

 Do all things without grumbling or disputing, that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world, holding fast to the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.
- Philippians 2:14-16

 Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
- Benjamin Franklin

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 9/1-4/14

Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.
- Tyron Edwards

 As for God, his way is perfect: The Lord’s word is flawless; he shields all who take refuge in him.
- Psalm 18:30

 Haste in every business brings failure.
- Herodotus

 There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
- Sophia Loren

 There is no limitation other than what we think.
- Kenneth G. Mills

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

 Knowledge helps you make a living; wisdom helps you make a life.
- Chinese Proverb

 He that can have patience can have what he will.
- Benjamin Franklin

 One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller

 I will bow down toward your holy temple and will praise your name for your unfailing love and your faithfulness, for you have so exalted your solemn decree that it surpasses your fame.
- Psalm 138:2

 What you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.
- Norton Juster

 Man can only vanquish fear by walking up to the thing he is afraid of.
- Florence Scovel Shinn

 Paint a masterpiece daily. Always autograph your work with excellence.
- Greg Hickman

 Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the heart.
- Proverbs 21:2

 No matter how painful our early experiences were, our Essence cannot be harmed. Our Essence is waiting for the opportunity to reveal itself. In a very true sense, we are waiting for the opportunity to become ourselves. Our spirit is yearning to break free, to express itself.
- John Robson

 Something which we think is impossible now will not be impossible in another decade.
- Constance Baker Motley

 Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard.
- Tim Notke

 Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.
- Ephesians 3:20-21

 Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
- Isaiah 41:10

 No man is your enemy, no man is your friend, every man is your teacher.
- Anonymous

 The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
- George Bernard Shaw

 Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.
- Jack Lemmon

 People create their own success by learning what they need to learn and then by practicing it until they become proficient at it.
- Brian Tracy

 Start by doing what is necessary; then do what is possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
- St. Francis of Assisi

 People who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well.
- Joe Gibbs

 Being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.
- Philippians 1:6

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

 Think big and don't listen to people who tell you it can't be done. life's too short to think small.
- Tim Ferriss

 The world leaders in innovation and creativity will also be world leaders in everything else.
- Harold R McAlindon

 But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”
- Matthew 4:4

 I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou

Posts from 2/11-12/14

If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.
- African Proverb

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
- Mark Twain

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
- Benjamin Franklin

 I love you, O Lord, my strength. The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
- Psalm 18:1, 2

 Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
- Dr. Joyce Brothers

 No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.
- Hosea Ballou

 Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
- Matthew 11:28

 A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.
- William Arthur Ward

 A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.
- Paul Dudley White

 Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain.
- Author Unknown

 Whoever pursues righteousness and kindness will find life, righteousness, and honor.
- Proverbs 21:21

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

 Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.
- Henry Van Dyke

 Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.
- John 14:1-3

 There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.
- Ben Williams

Posts from 8/7-8/13

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
- Stephen R. Covey

 Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
- Benjamin Franklin

 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?
- Romans 8:31, 32

 I don’t regret the things I’ve done, I regret the things I didn’t do when I had the chance.
- Author Unknown

 Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”
- Matthew 4:4

 Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each additional unit of effort.
- Charles Givens

 Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
- Philippians 2:9-11

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

 If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love.
- John 15:10

Good things come to those who wait… greater things come to those who get off their butt and do anything to make it happen.
- Author Unknown

Let everything that has breath praise the Lord ! Praise the Lord !
- Psalm 150:6

 You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
- Maya Angelou

 Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you.
- James 1:21

 Don't be afraid to stand for what you believe in, even if that means standing alone.
- Author Unknown

 Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
- Peter F. Drucker

 Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
- Denis Waitley

Posts from 7/23/13

The true measure of a man is not the number of servants he has, but the number of men he serves.
- Arnold Glasgow

 Three Simple Rules In Life
1. If you do not GO after what you want, you’ll never have it.
2. If you do not ASK, the answer will always be NO.
3. If you do not step forward,
you will always be in the same place. 

 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror.
- James 1:22, 23

 Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, “What’s in it for me?”
- Brian Tracy

Who can hide in secret places so that I cannot see them?” declares the Lord. “Do not I fill heaven and earth?” declares the Lord.
- Jeremiah 23:24

 Perseverance is a great element of success.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

He that can have patience can have what he will.
- Benjamin Franklin

Posts from 1/21/2013

For the Lord is good; his steadfast love endures forever, and his faithfulness to all generations.
- Psalm 100:5

 Many hands and hearts and minds generally contribute to anyone's notable achievements.
- Walt Disney

 Do everything without grumbling or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, “children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation.” Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky as you hold firmly to the word of life. And then I will be able to boast on the day of Christ that I did not run or labor in vain.
- Philippians 2:14-16

It is difficult to see the picture when you are inside of the frame.
- Author Unknown

 Honesty is the best policy.
- Benjamin Franklin

 Winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.
- Sylvester Stallone

 Power is the ability to do good things for others.
- Brooke Astor

 If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
- Anonymous

 Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, Make Me Feel Important. Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.
- Mary Kay Ash