Posts from 9/21-24/15

Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
- Robert H. Schuller

 First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi

 Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.
- Proverbs 31:30

 Success is a process, a quality of mind and way of being, an outgoing affirmation of life.
- Alex Noble

 The key to successful leadership is influence, not authority.
- Kenneth Blanchard

 Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all.
- Sam Ewing

 Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.
- Ephesians 4:29

 Choose your thoughts how you choose your clothes. Make sure they are the best fit for the time, place and location.
- Author Unknown

 Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.
- T.S. Eliot

 Good things happen when you pay attention.
- John F Smith

 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
- Psalm 139:13-14

 I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It’s probably the most important thing in a person.
- Audrey Hepburn

 Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
- Mother Teresa

 A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
- Charles Schwab

 The Lord your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you; in his love he will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with singing.
- Zephaniah 3:17

 We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The Lord is my strength and my shield; in him my heart trusts, and I am helped; my heart exults, and with my song I give thanks to him.
- Psalm 28:7

Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of your name; deliver us, and atone for our sins, for your name’s sake!
- Psalm 79:9

Posts from 6/22-30/15

Treasures gained by wickedness do not profit, but righteousness delivers from death.
- Proverbs 10:2

 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
- Galatians 5:22-23

 Recipe for success: Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.
- William A. Ward

 Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
- Denis Waitley

 Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.
- 1 Peter 2:2-3

 Attitude is a reflection of character and character is a reflection of habit.
- Tom Ziglar

 Some people succeed because they are destined to, but most people succeed because they are determined to.
- Henry Van Dyke

 Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill

 Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!
- Psalm 105:4

 You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
- Mahatma Gandhi

 By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible.
- Hebrews 11:3

 For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul?
- Matthew 16:26

 And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.
- John 17:3

 Ask not how far must I walk, instead say I will walk as far is as needed.
- Author Unknown

 Success is not so much what we have, as it is what we are.
- Jim Rohn

 But blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him. They will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit.
- Jeremiah 17:7-8

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

 Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough.
- Zig Ziglar

 You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, acknowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins.
- Jim Stovall

 Better is a poor person who walks in his integrity than one who is crooked in speech and is a fool.
- Proverbs 19:1

 You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
- Warren Buffett

 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.
- Matthew 22:37-39

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

Posts from 10/29-31/14

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
- William Penn

 For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
- Sir Walter Scott

 Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.
- Epicurious

 Be the change that you wish to see in the world.
- Mahatma Gandhi

 If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
- William James

 There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
- C. S. Lewis

 Teach me to do your will, for you are my God! Let your good Spirit lead me on level ground!
- Psalm 143:10

 The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
- Sir Walter Scott

 Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions.
- Eric Butterworth

 Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.
- Albert Einstein

 If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
- William James

 Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
- Jawaharlal Nehru

 A year from now you may wish you had started today.
- Karen Lamb

 Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
- Sean O'Casey

 Take my instruction instead of silver, and knowledge rather than choice gold, for wisdom is better than jewels, and all that you may desire cannot compare with her.
- Proverbs 8:10-11

 Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action.
- Orison Swett Marden

 For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
- Hebrews 4:12

Posts from 8/7-10/14

The only way to know how customers see your business is to look at it through their eyes
- Daniel R Scroggin

 Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
- Erich Fromm

 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
- John 3:17

 You'll never leave where you are until you decide where you'd rather be.
- Author Unknown

 Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steadily gains in strength. At first it may be but as the spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.
- Tyron Edwards

 The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
- Winston Churchill

 Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!
- Psalm 105:4

 My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don’t get right.
- T.H. Huxley

 There are those who SEE an opportunity. And then there are those who SEIZE an opportunity.
- Joanie Warren

 The time is always right to do what is right.
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

 However, I consider my life worth nothing to me; my only aim is to finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me—the task of testifying to the good news of God’s grace.
- Acts 20:24

 We need men who can dream of things that never were.
- John F Kennedy

 Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I shall have the belief that I can do it. I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it, even if I may not have it at the beginning.
- Mahatma Gandhi

 Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take out the speck that is in your eye,’ when you yourself do not see the log that is in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the speck that is in your brother’s eye.
- Luke 6:41-42

 Develop the winning edge; small differences in your performance can lead to large differences in your results.
- Brian Tracy

 Thus says the Lord who made the earth, the Lord who formed it to establish it—the Lord is his name: Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.
- Jeremiah 33:2-3

 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

Posts from 5/20-21/14

Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
- Psalm 139:23-24

 You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
- Mahatma Gandhi

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

 Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill

 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.
- Psalm 139:14

 Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.
- James R. Cook

 The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.
- Zephaniah 3:17

 Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.
- Michael Jordan

 I am still determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may be; for I have learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.
- Martha Washington

 You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills.
- Jim Rohn

 The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind.
- Dr. Wayne Dyer

 He has saved us and called us to a holy life—not because of anything we have done but because of his own purpose and grace. This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time.
- 2 Timothy 1:9

Posts from 4/22-24/14

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

 Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
- Hosea Ballou

 Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our point of view.
- Obi-Wan Kenobi

 Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
- Thomas Jefferson

 For this is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another.
- 1 John 3:11

 Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
- Sir Walter Scott

 Where there is love there is life.
- Mahatma Gandhi

 How far you go in your life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
- George Washington Carver

 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
- Romans 8:35, 37

 Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.
- Norman Vincent Peale

 Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
- Aristotle

 The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
- Robert Frost

 Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. If anyone serves me, he must follow me; and where I am, there will my servant be also. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.
- John 12:25, 26

 Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.
- William Feather

 O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.
- Psalm 63:1

 The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.
- Author Unknown

 Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
- Romans 8:38-39

 The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash.
- Author Unknown

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 7/18-19/13

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
- George Eliot

 Whom have I in heaven but you? And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you. My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
- Psalm 73:25, 26

 A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business.
- Henry Ford

 Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.
- Washington Irving

 Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
- Albert Einstein

All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.
- Herodotus

 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,
- Ephesians 5:25-26

 We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
- Carlos Castaneda

 Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
- Mahatma Gandhi

 The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul? For what can a man give in return for his soul?
- Mark 8:36, 37

 Before you build a better mousetrap, it helps to know if there are any mice out there.
- Mortimer B Zuckerman

 Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.
- Maxwell Maltz

 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

 Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.
- Psalm 91:1

Posts from 3/19/13

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.
- Isaiah 55:8-9

 Those who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose.
- Grenville Kleiser

 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil.
- Ephesians 6:11

 These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
- Deuteronomy 6:6-7

You become like the 5 people you
spend the most time with.
Choose carefully.

 You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
- Mahatma Gandhi

 Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.
- Basil King

The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kinds.
- Dalai Lama