Posts from 10/8-9/13

Books, like friends, should be few, and well chosen.
- Samuel Paterson

When something bad happens you have three choices. You can let it define you, let it destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you.
- Unknown

Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me.
- John 14:1

 A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.
- Desiderius Erasmus

 If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
- B C Forbes

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

 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.
- Philippians 2:3-4

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.
- Buddha

 You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.
- Harold Geneen

 A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
- Proverbs 17:22

 If it is important enough to you, you will find a way. If it is not, you will find an excuse.
- Author Unknown

 To strengthen the muscles of your heart, the best exercise is lifting someone else’s spirit whenever you can.
- Dodinsky, Author

 Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.
- Ephesians 4:29

 Why are you going to choose failure when success is an option?
- Jillian Michaels

 Be glad, people of Zion, rejoice in the Lord your God, for he has given you the autumn rains because he is faithful. He sends you abundant showers, both autumn and spring rains, as before.
- Joel 2:23

 We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win.
- Edward Gibbon

Posts from 5/21-22/13

Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I'll give you a stock clerk.
- J.C. Penney

 Real knowledge is to know the extent of ones ignorance.
- Confucius

 Farmers who wait for perfect weather never plant. If they watch every cloud, they never harvest.
- Ecclesiastes 11:4

 At some point, the illusion breaks down and the opening for the start of the spiritual quest commences. The quest turns from without to within and the search for answers begins.
- David R. Hawkins

 If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
- Herman Hesse

 Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.
- Ephesians 4:32

 If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work.
- C.S. Lewis

 The more I see, the less I know for sure.
- John Lennon

 The world when seen through a little child's eyes, greatly resembles paradise.
- Unknown

 The first step is you have to say that you can.
- Will Smith

 And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.
- 1 Peter 5:10

 Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.
- Proverbs 31:30

 We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
- Anais Nin

 Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is for you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
- Psalm 139:13-14

Posts from 5/9-12/13

I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. Its because of them I’m doing it myself.
- Albert Einstein

 I know that my redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand on the earth.
- Job 19:25

 Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name give glory, for the sake of your steadfast love and your faithfulness!
- Psalms 115:1

 Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.
- T.S. Eliot

 Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.
- Alphonse Karr

 The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

 Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ.
- Ephesians 4:15

 A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
- Charles Schwab

 You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
- Mae West

 Wake Up ... Live the Life You Love!

 Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!
- Psalms 139:23, 24

 The virtue of courage is a prerequisite for the practice of all other virtues, otherwise one is virtuous only when virtue has no cost.
- C.S. Lewis

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

 Nothing is impossible; the word itself says "I’m possible".
~ Audrey Hepburn

 This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.
- 1 John 5:14-15

 Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord, and turn away from evil.
- Proverbs 3:7

 Happy Mothers Day to all the mommy's out there!!

Let your father and mother be glad; let her who bore you rejoice.
- Proverbs 23:25

Posts from 1/30-2/1/2013

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.
- 1 Corinthians 15:58

 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

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
- Seneca

 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

 The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
- Robert H. Schuller

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

 It is a mistake to think that moving fast is the same as actually going somewhere.
- Steve Goodier

 One must have strategies to execute dreams.
- Azim Premji

 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
- 1 Corinthians 13:13

 It always seems impossible until it's done.
- Nelson Mandela

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

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

 If you aren't making any mistakes, it's a sure sign you're playing it too safe.
- John Maxwell

 There is no paycheck that can equal the feeling of contentment that comes from being the person you are meant to be.
- Oprah Winfrey

 I call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised, and I am saved from my enemies.
- 2 Samuel 22:4

Posts from 11/12, 13/2013

Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and give no opportunity to the devil.
- Ephesians 4:26, 27

 To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
- Bertrand Russell

 When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people.
- Chinese Proverb

 The Lord is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.
- Lamentations 3:25