Posts from 1/22-28/15

There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.
- 1 John 4:18

 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.
- 1 Peter 2:9

 The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them.
- Harold Geneen

 You are not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor should you feel the world must live up to yours.
- F Perl

 Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
- Igor Stravinsky

 For it has been granted to you that for the sake of Christ you should not only believe in him but also suffer for his sake.
- Philippians 1:29

 In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
- Anthony J. D'Angelo

 Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you preserve my life; you stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies, and your right hand delivers me.
- Psalm 138:7

 Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved.
- Psalm 55:22

 Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts!
- Psalm 139:23

 Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.
- Nicholas Spark

 Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.
- Ella Fitzgerald

 Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
- Marcus Washling

 He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant—not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
- 2 Corinthians 3:6

 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
- Kurt Vonnegut

 Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
- Hebrews 11:1

 Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent persperation.
- Thomas Edison

 We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere.
- #CSLewis

 He made known to us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure, which he purposed in Christ, to be put into effect when the times reach their fulfillment—to bring unity to all things in heaven and on earth under Christ.
- Ephesians 1:9-10

 
Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself.
- Robert Collier

 Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
- Jim Rohn

 Dream the impossible dream.
- Joe Darion

 Desire creates the power.
- Raymond Holliwell

Posts from 12/7-9/14

Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
- 1 John 4:8

 Seek the Lord while he may be found; call on him while he is near.
- Isaiah 55:6

 I'm here to build something for the long-term. Anything else is a distraction.
- Mark Zuckerberg

 For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
- John Burroughs

 What helps people, helps business.
- Leo Burnett

 Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.
- Matthew 5:9

 A man can’t be always defending the truth; there must be a time to feed on it.
- C. S. Lewis

 Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that’s where you will find success.
- Thomas J. Watson

 In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
- Harold Geneen

 Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord, the Lord himself, is the Rock eternal.
- Isaiah 26:4

 There was a stillness of silence within me, and I heard the bliss whereby I knew myself as I am.
- Allogenes

 The great successful men of the world have used their imagination. They think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building – steadily building.
- Robert Collier

 Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
- Jawaharial Nehru

 Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
- Matthew 6:19-21

 If you do what you do well enough, long enough, consistently enough and fast enough, you will win the race.
- Peter Padilla

Posts from 11/19-22/14

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

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

 There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.
- Christopher Morley

 Magic is easy if you put your heart into it.
- Michael Jackson
 
For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.
- Hebrews 3:4

 In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
- Thomas Jefferson

 Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business.
- Leo Burnett

 When writing the story of your life, don’t let anyone else hold the pen.
- Anonymous

 May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
- 2 Corinthians 13:14

 Great hopes make great men.
- Thomas Fuller

 Spending today complaining about yesterday, won't make tomorrow any better.
- Author Unknown

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

 Therefore welcome one another as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God.
- Romans 15:7

 I've missed over 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot...and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
- Michael Jordan
Professional Basketball Player

 A strong positive self image is the best possible preparation for success in life.
- Dr. Joyce Brothers

 The best things we know and love started as tiny things.
- Joel Gascoigne

 Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope.
- Romans 5:3-4

 One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
- Thomas Fuller

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

 Out of billions of people in the world, you get to decide exactly which people become the major influences in your life.
- Perry Marshal

 Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
- Proverbs 16:18

 If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.
- Martin Luther King Jr.

 Oh come, let us sing to the Lord; let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation! Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving; let us make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise!
- Psalm 95:1-2

Posts from 11/5-11/14

Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. Resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same kinds of suffering are being experienced by your brotherhood throughout the world.
- 1 Peter 5:8-9

 Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.
- Joel A Barker

 And all your future lies beneath your hat.
- John Oldham

 The early bird catches the worm.
- William Camden

 Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
- W Clement Stone

 Don't try to change people. Just love them. Love is what changes us.
- Author Unknown

 Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.
- John Wayne

 Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
- William James

 Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you.
- Isaiah 46:4

 Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
- Harold Geneen

 Your choice of people to associate with, both personally and
business-wise, is one of the most important choices you make. If you
associate with turkeys, you will never fly with the eagles.
- Brian Tracy

 Treasure your relationships, not your possessions.
- Anthony J. D'Angelo

 And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.
- 1 John 4:21

 Any man can win when things go his way, it's the man who overcomes adversity that is the true champion.
- Jock Ewing

 When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me.
- Erma Bombeck

 He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.
- Cesare Pavese

 Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!
- Philippians 4:4

 Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart.
- Ancient Indian Proverb

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

 One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing, is doing more.
- Washington Irvin

 I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.
- Psalm 121:1-2

 Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

 Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind.
- 1 Peter 3:8

 So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind.
- Philippians 2:1-2

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

 The wishbone will never replace the backbone.
- Will Henry

 All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney

 Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
- Lou Holtz

 Believe you can and you’re halfway there.
- Theodore Roosevelt

 You will never be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life.
- James G. Bilkey

 If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
- John 14:15

 Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

 When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.
- Thomas Jefferson

 To do something, however small, to make others happier and better, is the highest ambition, the most elevating hope, which can inspire a human being.
- Sir John Lubbock

 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.
- 1 John 4:16

 Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
- John F. Kennedy

Posts from 11/25-12/2/13

Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil.
- Ephesians 6:10, 11

 If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy.
- A.P. Gouthey

 Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice.
- Philippians 4:4

 I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people,
- Ephesians 1:18

 The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more you will have to express gratitude for.
- Zig Ziglar

 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.
- 1 Peter 2:9

 The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them.
- Harold Geneen

 Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.
- Philippians 4:8

 Action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.
- Ayn Rand

 Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
- G.B. Stern

 You simply will not be the same person two months from now after consciously giving thanks each day for the abundance that exists in your life. And you will have set in motion an ancient spiritual law: the more you have and are grateful for, the more will be given you.
- Sarah Ban Breathnack

 Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.
- Johann W. von Goethe

 Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God.
- Romans 13:1

 Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
- Igor Stravinsky

 Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him; bless his name!
- Psalm 100:4

 Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.
- Eileen Caddy

 When the cares of my heart are many, your consolations cheer my soul.
- Psalm 94:19

 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
- John 3:16-18

 Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.
- Wayne Dyer

 He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant—not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
- 2 Corinthians 3:6


Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.
- Ella Fitzgerald

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 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 9/26-29/13

What have you done for YOURSELF this year to create a better life?
- Jack Canfield

 Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
- Harold Geneen

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
- Psalm 23:4

 Nobody ever wrote down a plan to be broke, fat, lazy, or stupid. Those things are what happen when you don’t have a plan.
- Larry Winget

 Gratitude takes three forms: a feeling in the heart, an expression in words, and a giving in return.
- John Wanamaker

 To do nothing evil is good; to wish nothing evil is better.
- Claudius

 He is the one we proclaim, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone fully mature in Christ.
- Colossians 1:28

 Any man can win when things go his way, it's the man who overcomes adversity that is the true champion.
- Jock Ewing

 A tranquil heart gives life to the flesh, but envy makes the bones rot.
- Proverbs 14:30

 I am the bread of life. Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die.
- John 6:48-50