Posts from 6/3-8/15

The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.
- Lee Iacocca

 There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs.
- Unknown

 We ought always to thank God for you, brothers and sisters, and rightly so, because your faith is growing more and more, and the love all of you have for one another is increasing.
- 2 Thessalonians 1:3

 Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
- Spanish Proverb

 Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out.
- Robert Collier

 The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
- Henry Ward Beecher

 The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps.
- Proverbs 16:9

 Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
- C.S. Lewis

 If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results.
- Jack Dixon

 I hear: I forget. I see: I remember. I do: I understand.
- Chinese Proverb

 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
- 1 Corinthians 13:4-5

 No man is ever whipped until he quits - in his own mind.
- Napoleon Hill

 The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage
- Peter Senge

 The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
- Vincent T Lombardi

 Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
- 1 Peter 1:13

 The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself.
- Wallace Wattles

 Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
- Norman Vincent Peale

 Success is not final. Failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.
- Winston Churchill

 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
- 1 Corinthians 13: 6-7

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
- Dale Carnegie

Discipline is just choosing between what you want now and what you want most.
- Author Unknown

For the protection of wisdom is like the protection of money, and the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.
- Ecclesiastes 7:12

Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve.
- Wilfred A Peterson

Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses...on your powers, instead of your problems.
- Paul J. Meyer

Believe that you will succeed and you will.
- Dale Carnegie

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
- John 3:16

 ·

Success is not measured by what you accomplish but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
- Orison Swett Marden

The only way around is through.
- Robert Frost

Change happens in an instant. It happens the moment you DECIDE to change.
- Allyson Lewis

you can know ten things by learning one.
- Japanese proverb

‘Ah, Lord God! It is you who have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm! Nothing is too hard for you.
- Jeremiah 32:17

To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.
- John H Patterson

For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
- 2 Timothy 1:7

Posts from 4/11-14/14

But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you.
- Luke 6:27, 28

 The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
- Henry Ward Beecher

 Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.
- Margaret Young

 Let those who love the Lord hate evil, for he guards the lives of his faithful ones and delivers them from the hand of the wicked.
- Psalm 97:10

 Million dollar ideas are a dime a dozen. The determination to see the idea through is what's priceless.
- Robert Dieffenbach

 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace.
- Ephesians 1:7

 For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died; and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised.
- 2 Corinthians 5:14, 15

 Money is hard to earn and easy to lose. Guard yours with care.
- Brian Tracy

 It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost His crucifixion.
- C.S. Lewis

 You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.
- Matthew 5:43-45

 The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage
- Peter Senge

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 7/30-31/13

And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”
- Matthew 22:37-40

 Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
- Napoleon Hill

 Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin condemns any people.
- Proverbs 14:34

 Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
- William A. Ward

 There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.
- Roger Staubach

 Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people he chose for his inheritance.
- Psalm 33:12

 If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.
- Abigail Van Buren

 Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointment.
- Henry Ward Beecher

 A good person produces good things from the treasury of a good heart, and an evil person produces evil things from the treasury of an evil heart. What you say flows from what is in your heart.
- Luke 6:45

The best revenge is massive success.
- Frank Sinatra

 In that day you will say: “Give praise to the Lord, proclaim his name; make known among the nations what he has done, and proclaim that his name is exalted.
- Isaiah 12:4

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

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Posts from 6/18/13

I will greatly rejoice in the Lord; my soul shall exult in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation; he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself like a priest with a beautiful headdress, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
- Isaiah 61:10

 You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime.
- Neil Gaiman

 No one can tell whether they are richer or poor by turning to their ledger. It is the heart that makes a person rich. One is rich according to what one is, not according to what one has.
- Henry Ward Beecher

 The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of tomorrow.
- William Boetcker

 In God, whose word I praise— in God I trust and am not afraid. What can mere mortals do to me?
- Psalm 56:4

 The grass is greener where you water it.
- Neil Barringham