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 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