Posts from 4/29-5/3/15

The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli

 Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
- Albert Einstein

 When hard pressed, I cried to the Lord; he brought me into a spacious place. The Lord is with me; I will not be afraid. What can mere mortals do to me?
- Psalm 118:5-6

 You don't become enormously successful without encountering some really interesting problems.
- Mark Victor Hansen

 Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.
- Bo Jackson

 Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain

 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

 Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
- Maya Angelou

 Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.
- John D Rockefeller

 Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises
- Demosthenes

 Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen. And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister.
- 1 John 4:20-21

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
- Mother Teresa

 Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
- Booker T. Washington

 I can is 100 times more important than IQ.
- Author Unknown

 Arise, O Lord; O God, lift up your hand; forget not the afflicted.
- Psalm 10:12

 So many fail because they don't get started; they don't go.
- W Clement Stone

 I think in terms of the day’s resolution, not the years.
- Henry Moore

 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

 So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
- Galatians 5:16

 What is once well done is done forever.
- Henry David Thoreau

 The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.
- Vince Lombardi

 Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.
- 1 Peter 4:8

When a goal matters enough to a person, that person will find a way to accomplish what at first seemed impossible.
- Nido Qubein

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

9/17-20/14

You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.
- Marion Wright Edelman

 The question is not how to survive, but how to thrive with passion, compassion, humor, and style.
- Maya Angelou

 I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.
- Psalm 121:1-2

 It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
- Erma Bombeck

 Failing to plan is planning to fail.
- Effie Jones

 Beauty is how you feel inside and it reflects in your eyes ~ it is not something physical.
- Sophia Loren

 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile.
- Romans 1:16

 Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for a might-have-been.
- Arthur Ransome

 If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
- Joseph Addison

 The only place you'll find success before work is in the dictionary.
- May B Smith

 Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm.
- Ephesians 6:13

 It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
- Italian Proverb

 All the happiness you ever find lies in you.
- Anonymous

 The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
- Moliere

 The greatest step toward accomplishment is self-confidence.
- Jim Rohn

 I will praise you with an upright heart as I learn your righteous laws.
- Psalm 119:7

 It isn't what you say or wish or hope or intend that demonstrates what you really believe. It is only what you do.
- Brian Tracy

 Happiness is like a butterfly. The more you chase it, the more it eludes you. But if you turn your attention to other things, it comes and sits softly on your shoulder.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

 He who laughs, lasts.
- Mary Poole

 You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
- Anonymous

 The starting point of all achievement is desire… Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
- Napoleon Hill

 I have chosen the way of faithfulness; I have set my heart on your laws.
- Psalm 119:30

 Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much."
- Blaise Pascal

 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

Posts from 1/5-8/14

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
- Romans 1:16

 One of the secrets of life is to make stepping-stones out of stumbling blocks.
- Jack Penn

 Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good.
- Maya Angelou

 Give without remembering and always receive without forgetting.
- Author Unknown

 For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.
- Romans 1:20

 The most practical, beautiful, workable philosophy in the world won't work...if you won't.
- Zig Ziglar

 Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it's only by this meeting that a new world is born.
- Anais Nin

 Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
- Josh Billings

 Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful.
- Colossians 3:15

 Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

 Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau

 God gives every bird it's worm, but he doesn't throw it into the nest.
- Proverb

 Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
- John 3:3

 He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
- Miguel De Cervantes

 The purpose of life, after all, is to love it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

 When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves.
- Anthony J. D'Angelo

 So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him, rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.
- Colossians 2:6-7

 Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie

 Success is not permanent. The same is also true of failure.
- Dell Crossword

 If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
- Marie Osmond

 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
- James 4:7

 Give yourself an even greater challenge than the one you are trying to master and you will develop the powers necessary to overcome the original difficulty.
- William J. Bennett – (The Book of Virtues)

 If you want to know your past life, look into your present condition; if you want to know your future life, look at your present actions.
- Padmasambhava

 A goal without a plan is just a wish.
- Author Unknown

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

 It's easy to get to the top after you get through the crowd at the bottom.
- Zig Ziglar

Posts from 10/21-23/13

Many marriages would be better if the husband and wife clearly understood that they're on the same side.
- Zig Ziglar

 A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
- Henry Ford

 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

 If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
- Erica Jong

 No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.
- J P Getty

 Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.
- John 3:20-21

 All great achievements require time.
- Maya Angelou

 And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ,
- Philippians 1:9-10

 You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
- C.S. Lewis

When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears and delivers them out of all their troubles.
- Psalm 34:17

 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

 It is not joy that makes us grateful. It is gratitude that makes us joyful.
- David Rast

 Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me. Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
- Matthew 5:11-12

 There are three things that you should spend you time doing: Marketing, marketing, marketing.
- Emma Harrison

We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
- Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower

 If you wait, all that happens is you get older.
- Larry McMurtry

Rules! Hell, there are no rules here...we're trying to accomplish something.
- Thomas Edison

 For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.
- Romans 8:6

 What helps people, helps business.
- Leo Burnett

What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
- Crowfoot

Money never prevented anyone from being happy or unhappy.
- Eddie Barclay

Fear of man will prove to be a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord is kept safe.
- Proverbs 29:25

 Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy

Posts from 8/7-8/13

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
- Stephen R. Covey

 Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
- Benjamin Franklin

 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?
- Romans 8:31, 32

 I don’t regret the things I’ve done, I regret the things I didn’t do when I had the chance.
- Author Unknown

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

 Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each additional unit of effort.
- Charles Givens

 Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
- Philippians 2:9-11

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

 If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love.
- John 15:10

Good things come to those who wait… greater things come to those who get off their butt and do anything to make it happen.
- Author Unknown

Let everything that has breath praise the Lord ! Praise the Lord !
- Psalm 150:6

 You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
- Maya Angelou

 Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you.
- James 1:21

 Don't be afraid to stand for what you believe in, even if that means standing alone.
- Author Unknown

 Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
- Peter F. Drucker

 Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
- Denis Waitley

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 6/27-30/13

One chance is all you need.
- Jesse Owens

 A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
- John Burroughs

 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
- Romans 6:23

 Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.
- John D. Rockefeller

Before the mountains were born or you brought forth the whole world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God. A thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night.
- Psalm 90:2,4

Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't.
- Jerry Rice

 The world would have you agree with its dismal dream of limitation. But the light would have you soar like the eagle of your sacred visions.
- Alan Cohen

 You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.
- Napoleon Hill

 The Sovereign Lord is my strength; he makes my feet like the feet of a deer, he enables me to tread on the heights. For the director of music. On my stringed instruments.
- Habakkuk 3:19

 We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
- Maya Angelou

 Nevertheless, I am continually with you; you hold my right hand. You guide me with your counsel, and afterward you will receive me to glory. 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.
- Psalms 73:23-26

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley

 Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.
- Markus Zusak

 
Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.
- Matthew 7:13-14

 You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.
- Ken Kesey

 If moment by moment you can keep your mind clear then nothing will confuse you.
- Sheng Yen

 If I have a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the explanation is - I was made for another world
- C.S. Lewis

 You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave - win or lose.
- Gordie Howe

 Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?
- Matthew 6:26

 Reflect upon your present blessings.
- Charles Dickens

Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.
- Colossians 3:13

 It is necessary for us to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself.
- Hyman G. Rickove

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

 He says, “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.”
- Psalm 46:10

 You must have long-range goals to keep from being frustrated by short-term failures.
- Bob Bales

 You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself.
- Harry Firestone

 Do not be afraid of sudden terror or of the ruin of the wicked, when it comes, for the Lord will be your confidence and will keep your foot from being caught.
- Proverbs 3:25, 26

 Don't let someone dim your light, simply because it's shining in their eyes.
- Unknown

 All of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
- Dale Carnegie

 We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
- Woodrow Wilson

 The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge.
- Psalm 19:1-2

 You have the power to change.
- Les Brown

 To all you who believe in reincarnation, the phrase, “you only live once” is meaningless. So I say to you, go about your life as if you are going to live forever.
- The Daily Guru

Posts from 6/?-17/13

Sorry for the slacking on posts these, I will try to do better at this.  So here is the past few days.

He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God
- Micah 6:8

 Happy Fathers Day!!
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
- Ephesians 6:4

But from everlasting to everlasting the Lord’s love is with those who fear him, and his righteousness with their children’s children— with those who keep his covenant and remember to obey his precepts.
- Psalm 103:17-18

 If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astonish ourselves.
- Thomas Edison

 You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime.
- Neil Gaiman

 I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.
- Maya Angelou

 Whoever is wise, let him understand these things; whoever is discerning, let him know them; for the ways of the Lord are right, and the upright walk in them, but transgressors stumble in them.
- Hosea 14:9

 Most of us are in touch with our intuition whether we know it or not, but we're usually in the habit of doubting or contradicting it so automatically that we don't even know it has spoken.
- Shakti Gawain

 Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn.
- Romans 12:16

 Everything is practice.
- Pele

 People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
- Norman Vincent Peal

 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

 For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.
- Romans 1:20

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It’s as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.
- Nolan Bushnell

 Whatever you're thinking about is literally like planning a future event. When you're worrying, you are planning. When you're appreciating, you are planning. What are you planning?
- Abraham