Posts from 1/11-14/15

For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?
- Mark 8:36

 For, “All people are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of the Lord endures forever.” And this is the word that was preached to you.
- 1 Peter 1:24-25

 Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.
- Joseph Sugarman

 How you do one thing, is how you do everything. Be aware.
- Author Unknown

 Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
- Louis Pasteur

 Try for a goal that's reasonable, then gradually raise it.
- Emil Zatopek

 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

 Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don't save it for a special occasion. Today is special.
- Regina Brett

 Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.
- William Makepeace Thackeray

 The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.
- Mark Caine

 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.
- Romans 12:1

 Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.
- Marilyn Monroe

 Every achiever I have ever met says, "My life turned around when I began to believe in me."
- Robert Schuller

 If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
- Norman Vincent Peale

 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

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

 Blessed is everyone who fears the Lord, who walks in his ways!
- Psalm 128:1

Posts from 7/29-31/14

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.
- Max Eastman

 It's not the work that's hard, it's the discipline.
- Anonymous

 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

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

 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

 Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow.
- Doug Firebaugh

He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust."
- Psalm 91:1-2

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

 Go after your dream, no matter how unattainable others think it is.
- Linda Mastandrea

 The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am.
- Denis Waitley

 The more you obey your conscience, the more your conscience will demand of you.
- C.S. Lewis

 As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the body is formed in a mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things.
- Ecclesiastes 11:5

 All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother."
- Abraham Lincoln 

 The meaning of life is to give life a meaning.
- Author Unknown

 Your greatest resource is your time.
- Brian Tracy

 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin!
- Psalm 51:1-2

 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
- Deuteronomy 6:5

 When you forgive, you in no way change the past – but you sure do change the future.
- Bernard Meltzer

 I believe that everything happens for a reason... and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe

 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

 Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.
- Buddha