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Showing posts with label Les Brown. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Posts from 9/25-28/15

Do not throw in the towel; use it for wiping the sweat off your face.
- Unknown

 The more we criticize and judge, the less time we have to love and take care of.
- Author Unknown

 Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out!
- Romans 11:33

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

 Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.
- Ayn Rand

 Never spend your money before you have it.
- Thomas Jefferson

 One thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple.
- Psalm 27:4

 We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.
- C. S. Lewis

 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!
- Psalm 139:23-24

 Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. Let all that you do be done in love.
- 1 Corinthians 16:13-14

 One sound idea is all that you need to achieve success.
- Napoleon Hill

 The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several times a day with words, pictures and emotions as if we've already achieved them.
- Denis Waitley

 God is not unjust; he will not forget your work and the love you have shown him as you have helped his people and continue to help them.
- Hebrews 6:10

 Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.
- Les Brown

 The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
- Dale Carnegie

 If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
- E. Joseph Cossman

 The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Sunday, January 11, 2015

Posts from 1/1-10/15

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
- 2 Corinthians 5:17


 Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.
- John 14:1-3


 I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.
- John 16:33


 Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
- Leo Tolstoy


 The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
- Denis Waitley


 Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
- George Bernard Shaw


 A person finds joy in giving an apt reply— and how good is a timely word!
- Proverbs 15:23


 Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford


 Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it.
- Les Brown


 The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and let it come in.
- Morrie Schwartz


 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.
- Proverbs 9:10


 Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
- Danny Thomas


 Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
- Saul Bellow


 Inside of you is a smart, powerful, dynamic, capable, self-confident, alive, alert, fabulous woman. Let her come out and play. The world is waiting for you.
- Louise Hay


 Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.
- Joshua 1:9


 One man with courage is a majority.
- Andrew Jackson


 Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”
- Hebrews 13:5


 But you, O Lord, are a shield about me, my glory, and the lifter of my head.
- Psalm 3:3


 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.
- 2 Timothy 3:16-17


 When you stop chasing the wrong things you give the right things a chance to catch you.
- Author Unknown


 Consistent achievement happens only if you love what you are doing
- Bart Conner


 As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world… as in being able to remake ourselves.
- Mahatma Gandhi


 I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
- John 15:5


 There isn't anything noble about being superior to another person. True nobility is in being superior to the person you once were.
- Ziad K. Abdelnour


For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.
- Hebrews 3:
4

Monday, December 1, 2014

Posts from 11/23-30/14

Be someone that makes you happy.
- Author Unknown


 For we know him who said, “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,” and again, “The Lord will judge his people.” It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
- Hebrews 10:30-31


 You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
- Abraham Lincoln


 A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.
- Richard Branson


 Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
- Les Brown


 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


 Nothing is so much fun as business. I do not expect to do anything but work as long as I can stand up.
- William Wrigley Jnr


 Over every mountain is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.
- Theodore Roethke


 The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions.
- John Hancock


 The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.
- 1 Corinthians 2:14


 Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.
- Warren Buffett


 You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and falling over.
- Richard Branson


 It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
- Zig Ziglar


 So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world.
- 1 John 4:16-17


 Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets
- Henry Ford


 For the Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord bestows favor and honor. No good thing does he withhold from those who walk uprightly.
- Psalm 84:11


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


 And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.
- Colossians 3:15


 And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
- Colossians 3:17


 Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, O Lord, and you are exalted as head above all.
- 1 Chronicles 29:11

Thursday, October 17, 2013

Posts from 10/14-16/13

Those who look to him are radiant, and their faces shall never be ashamed.
- Psalm 34:5


 In business, when things aren't working it's time to mix it up.
- Donald Trump




If you are right with Him you will inevitably be right with all your fellow-creatures.
- C.S.
Lewis

The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them.
- Psalm 34:7


 You cannot change what you refuse to confront.
- Unknown


 So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded. You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised.
- Hebrews 10:35-36


 Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.
- Frank Clark


 My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have an advocate with the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One.
- 1 John 2:1


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


 Believe in yourself, never give up and go about your business with passion drive and enthusiasm.
- Peter Jones


Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.
- Les Brown


 The young lions suffer want and hunger; but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.
- Psalm 34:10


 Unless a man undertakes more than he can possibly do, he will never do all that he can.
- Henry Drummond


All of our products and business will go through three phases. There's vision, patience, and execution.
- Steve Ballmer


Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
- Joshua J. Marine


 For we know him who said, “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,” and again, “The Lord will judge his people.” It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
- Hebrews 10:20-31


 Aim for the highest.
- Andrew Carnegie

Monday, September 16, 2013

Posts from 9/13-15/13

Success is the maximum utilisation of the ability that you have.
- Zig Ziglar


 Eighty percent of success is showing up.
- Woody Allen


 For when dreams increase and words grow many, there is vanity; but God is the one you must fear.
- Ecclesiastes 5:7


 For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others.
- Romans 12:4-5


All you can do is all you can do. But all you can do is enough.
- Art Williams


 You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in you.
- Isaiah 26:3


Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.
- Les Brown


 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
- Philippians 1:21

Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Posts from 7/27-29/13

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
- Les Brown


 What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
- Saint Augustine


 Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
- Buddha


 For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
- Romans 10:13


 Goals are dreams we convert to plans and take action to fulfill.
- Zig Ziglar


 Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
- Joshua J. Marine


 For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you.
- Romans 12:3


 It was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.
- C.S. Lewis


 And the Pharisees and their scribes grumbled at his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?” And Jesus answered them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.”
- Luke 5:30-32


 I cry to you, O Lord; I say, “You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.”
- Psalm 142:5


 Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
- Steve Job


 The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it? “I the Lord search the heart and examine the mind, to reward each person according to their conduct, according to what their deeds deserve.”
- Jeremiah 17:9-10


 I never waste time looking back.
- Eleanor Roosevelt


The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
- Walt Disney

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Posts from 5/2-5/13

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.
- Oprah Winfrey


 Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap.
- Galatians 6:7


 The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little.
- Zig Ziglar


 Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
- Danny Thomas


 Never, never, never, never give up.
- Winston Churchill


 For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your ancestors, but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect.
- 1 Peter 1:18-19


 Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.
- Les Brown


 Success can't be forced.
- Loretta Young


 We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
- Tobias Wolff


 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
- 1 Corinthians 13:7


 We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.
- C.S. Lewis


 No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo


 To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. He is the one we proclaim, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone fully mature in Christ.
- Colossians 1:27-28


 The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.
- Robert G. Ingersoll


May the forth be with you.

 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