Posts from 9/1-4/14

Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.
- Tyron Edwards

 As for God, his way is perfect: The Lord’s word is flawless; he shields all who take refuge in him.
- Psalm 18:30

 Haste in every business brings failure.
- Herodotus

 There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
- Sophia Loren

 There is no limitation other than what we think.
- Kenneth G. Mills

 Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”
- John 6:29

 Knowledge helps you make a living; wisdom helps you make a life.
- Chinese Proverb

 He that can have patience can have what he will.
- Benjamin Franklin

 One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller

 I will bow down toward your holy temple and will praise your name for your unfailing love and your faithfulness, for you have so exalted your solemn decree that it surpasses your fame.
- Psalm 138:2

 What you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.
- Norton Juster

 Man can only vanquish fear by walking up to the thing he is afraid of.
- Florence Scovel Shinn

 Paint a masterpiece daily. Always autograph your work with excellence.
- Greg Hickman

 Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the heart.
- Proverbs 21:2

 No matter how painful our early experiences were, our Essence cannot be harmed. Our Essence is waiting for the opportunity to reveal itself. In a very true sense, we are waiting for the opportunity to become ourselves. Our spirit is yearning to break free, to express itself.
- John Robson

 Something which we think is impossible now will not be impossible in another decade.
- Constance Baker Motley

 Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard.
- Tim Notke

 Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.
- Ephesians 3:20-21

 Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
- Isaiah 41:10

 No man is your enemy, no man is your friend, every man is your teacher.
- Anonymous

 The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
- George Bernard Shaw

 Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.
- Jack Lemmon

 People create their own success by learning what they need to learn and then by practicing it until they become proficient at it.
- Brian Tracy

 Start by doing what is necessary; then do what is possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
- St. Francis of Assisi

 People who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well.
- Joe Gibbs

 Being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.
- Philippians 1:6

 Remember, happiness doesn’t depend on who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
- Dale Carnegie

 Think big and don't listen to people who tell you it can't be done. life's too short to think small.
- Tim Ferriss

 The world leaders in innovation and creativity will also be world leaders in everything else.
- Harold R McAlindon

 But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”
- Matthew 4:4

 I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou

Posts from 8/3-6/14

And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.
- Mark 12:30

 But the wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure; then peace-loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere. Peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness.
- James 3:17-18

 If customers are treated right, they'll come back.
- J Marriott Junior

 Morale is when your hands and feet keep on working when your head says it can't be done.
- Benjamin Morrell

 You don't need a reason to help people.
- Author Unknown

 For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
- Galatians 5:13-14

 What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.
- Bruce Barton

 Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
- C.S. Lewis 

 Human beings have the remarkable ability to turn nothing into something. They can turn weeds into gardens and pennies into fortunes.
- Jim Rohn



Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves.
- Romans 12:10

 If you are not willing, that’s okay. Don’t judge yourself. Just be aware that you are choosing to stay where you are.
- John Robson

 The individual who wants to reach the top in business must appreciate the might of the force of habit and must understand that practices are what create habits. He must be quick to break those habits that can break him and hasten to adopt those practices that will become the habits that help him achieve the success he desires.
- J. Paul Getty

 If you're brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.
- Author Unknown

 Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to build him up.
- Romans 15:2

 One half of life is luck; the other half is discipline -- and that's the important half, for without discipline you wouldn't know what to do with luck.
- Carl Zuckmeyer

 But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”
- 1 Samuel 16:7

 The only way to find the limits of the possible is by going beyond them to the impossible.
- Arthur C Clarke

 The more you take responsibility for your past and present, the more you are able to create the future you seek.
- Celestine Chua

 We are what we repeatedly do.Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
- Aristotle

 My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry,
- James 1:19

 It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
- Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky