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

Posts from 9/16/13

Just know, when you truly want success, you’ll never give up on it. No matter how bad the situation may get.
- Unknown

 O Lord, you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether.
- Psalm 139:1-4

 Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.
- Baltasar Gracian

 He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.
- Bessie Stanley

 The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
- Mahatma Gandhi

 Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.”
- John 6:29

 It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- Aristotle

Posts from 8/29-9/2/13

I'm not telling you it's going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to be worth it.
- Art Williams

 Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.
- Jim Rohn

Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven.
- Luke 6:37

 Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.
- Winston Churchill

 For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
- Jim Rohn

 When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum.
- Unknown

 Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.
- 1 Corinthians 6:19-20

 There’s no substitute for consistency.
- Author Unknown

 Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
- Alexander Hamilton

 Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
- Jim Rohn

 For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
- Ephesians 2:10

 Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man.
- Proverbs 3:3, 4

 Don’t be discouraged. It’s often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.
- Author Unknown

The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
- Maimonides

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
- Jim Rohn

If we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.
- Romans 14:8

 Sometimes the wrong choices bring us to the right places.
- Author Unknown

 And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
- Romans 8:28

For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding; he stores up sound wisdom for the upright; he is a shield to those who walk in integrity, guarding the paths of justice and watching over the way of his saints.
- Proverbs 2:6-8

 Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst."
- John 6:35

 The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become–because He made us.
- C.S. Lewis

 The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation. You are not discovering yourself, but creating yourself anew. Seek, therefore not to find out who you are, seek to determine who you want to be.
- Conversations With God

Anything is possible. You can be told that you have a 90% chance or a 50% chance or a 1% chance, but you have to believe, and you have to fight.
- Lance Armstrong

 Therefore, since we have these promises, dear friends, let us purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness out of reverence for God.
- 2 Corinthians 7:1

 It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau

Posts from 1/8/2013

Then they said to him, “What must we do, to be doing the works of God?” Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”
- John 6:28-29

 Creativity is to think more efficiently.
- Pierre Reverdy

 You don't become enormously successful without encountering some really interesting problems.
- Mark Victor Hansen
 
For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people. It teaches us to say “No” to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age,
- Titus 2:11-12

 Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
- Bill Cosby

 Success is every minute you live. It's the process of living. It's stopping for the moments of beauty, of pleasure, the moments of peace. Success is not a destination that you ever reach. Success is the quality of the journey.
- Jennifer James

 Therefore, with minds that are alert and fully sober, set your hope on the grace to be brought to you when Jesus Christ is revealed at his coming.
- 1 Peter 1:13

Anytime you blame others and complain about your situation, you are choosing to be a victim. By playing the victim role you are putting yourself in an ineffective and weak position. It is virtually impossible to allow incredible miracles to enter your life when you choose to remain in this negative mental state.
- Sonia Ricotti

 Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
- Francis Bacon