Posts from 8/3-4/15

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.
- Ancient Proverb

 Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
- Will Rogers

 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
- 2 Corinthians 5:21

 The golden rule for every business man is this: "Put yourself in your customer's place".
- Orison Swett Marden

 My success is due more to my ability to work continuously on one thing without stopping than to any other single quality.
- Thomas Edison

 I can accept failure but I can't accept not trying.
- Michael Jordan

 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

 The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas of enthusiasm.
- Thomas J Watson

 Use what talents you possess. The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang the best.
- Henry Van Dyke

 The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.
- Blaine Lee

 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace.
- Ephesians 1:7

 Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished.
- Og Mandino

 Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius

 Success doesn’t come to the sleeper.
- German Proverb

 By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
- 1 John 3:16

Sometimes the best thing you can do is not think, not wonder, not imagine, not obsess. Just breathe and have faith that everything will work out for the best.
- Author Unknown

Posts from 4/22-16/15

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.
- Orison Swett Marden

 Action is the foundational key to all success.
- Anthony Robbins

 Follow God’s example, therefore, as dearly loved children and walk in the way of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
- Ephesians 5:1-2

 Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
- Michael Jordan

 Life is not the way it’s suppose to be, It’s the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.
- Virginia Satir

 Challenge yourself with something you know you could never do, and what you'll find is that you can overcome anything.
- Author Unknown

 But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
- Amos 5:24

 Believe in yourself, and the rest will fall into place. Have faith in your own abilities, work hard, and there is nothing you cannot accomplish.
- Brad Henry

 The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.
- Vidal Sassoon

 One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.
- John Stuart Mill

 Seek good, not evil, that you may live. Then the Lord God Almighty will be with you, just as you say he is. Hate evil, love good; maintain justice in the courts. Perhaps the Lord God Almighty will have mercy on the remnant of Joseph.
- Amos 5:14-15

 The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- C.G. Jung

 Never underestimate the power of passion.
- Eve Sawyer

 Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
- Voltaire

 To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.
- Proverbs 21:3

 Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso

 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear though the earth gives way, though the mountains be moved into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains tremble at its swelling.
- Psalm 46:1-3

 For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
- Romans 13:9

 If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.
- James 2:8

Posts from 11/19-22/14

Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.
- Ephesians 4:29

 Books, like friends, should be few, and well chosen.
- Samuel Paterson

 There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.
- Christopher Morley

 Magic is easy if you put your heart into it.
- Michael Jackson
 
For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.
- Hebrews 3:4

 In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
- Thomas Jefferson

 Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business.
- Leo Burnett

 When writing the story of your life, don’t let anyone else hold the pen.
- Anonymous

 May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
- 2 Corinthians 13:14

 Great hopes make great men.
- Thomas Fuller

 Spending today complaining about yesterday, won't make tomorrow any better.
- Author Unknown

 If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
- B C Forbes

 Therefore welcome one another as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God.
- Romans 15:7

 I've missed over 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot...and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
- Michael Jordan
Professional Basketball Player

 A strong positive self image is the best possible preparation for success in life.
- Dr. Joyce Brothers

 The best things we know and love started as tiny things.
- Joel Gascoigne

 Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope.
- Romans 5:3-4

 One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
- Thomas Fuller

 You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.
- Harold Geneen

 Out of billions of people in the world, you get to decide exactly which people become the major influences in your life.
- Perry Marshal

 Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
- Proverbs 16:18

 If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.
- Martin Luther King Jr.

 Oh come, let us sing to the Lord; let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation! Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving; let us make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise!
- Psalm 95:1-2

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 2/18/14

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
- 1 Corinthians 13:4-7

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
- Dale Carnegie

 Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
- Michael Jordan

 You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.
- Jerry West

 Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth thrown in; aim at Earth and you will get neither.
- C.S. Lewis

 Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great.
- Orison Swett Marden

Posts from 11/12-13/13

Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.
- Proverbs 27:1

 Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
- John Dewey

 Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
- Brian Tracy

 Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.
- Publilius Syrus

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

 Don’t be like me. Be better than me. That’s the goal.
- Michael Jordan

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

 Don't go through life, grow through life.
- Eric Butterworth

 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

 Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it's not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
- William Jennings Bryan

 Nothing is always absolutely so.
- Theodore Sturgeon

 Money will buy you a bed, but not a good night's sleep, a house but not a home, a companion but not a friend.
- Zig Ziglar

 Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.
- Galatians 6:2

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

Posts from 11/4-6/13

You are a hiding place for me; you preserve me from trouble; you surround me with shouts of deliverance.
- Psalm 32:7

 Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success.
- Ross Perot

 Love is energy of life.
- Robert Browning

 A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
- Ayn Rand

 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
- Romans 12:2

 The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
- Arthur C. Clarke

 High achievement always takes place in a framework of high expectation.
- Jack Kinder

 For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ, being ready to punish every disobedience, when your obedience is complete.
- 2 Corinthians 10:3-6

May these words of my mouth and this meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer.
- Psalm 19:14

 You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you’re going to live. Now.
- Joan Baez

 The Lord confides in those who fear him; he makes his covenant known to them. My eyes are ever on the Lord, for only he will release my feet from the snare.
- Psalm 25:14-15

 Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work.
- Vincent T Lombardi

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


 Love coming out of you makes you happy. The whole world can love you, but that love will not make you happy. What will make you happy is to share all the love you have inside you. That is the love that will make a difference.
- Don Miguel Ruiz

 We will either find a way, or make one.
- Hannibal

 You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder!
- James 2:19

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

You must believe that God is separate from the world and that some of the things we see in it are contrary to His will.
- C.S. Lewis

 We cannot change life! We can only change the way we live life.
Any moment is the best moment, and any place is the best place.
- Tishan

How great you are, Sovereign Lord! There is no one like you, and there is no God but you, as we have heard with our own ears.
- 2 Samuel 7:22

 Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Posts from 3/28-29/13

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
- Albert Einstein
 
Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.
- Bill Gates

 Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people whom he has chosen as his heritage!
- Psalms 33:12

 I can accept failure but I can't accept not trying.
- Michael Jordan

 Vision is the art of seeing things invisible to others.
- Jonathan Swift

 Being happy doesn't mean everything is perfect. It means you have decided to look beyond the imperfections.
- Gerard Way

 Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.
- Colossians 3:12

 You can have anything you want if you are willing to give up the belief that you can't have it.
- Robert Anthony

 You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honour.
- James Allen

 Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you’re alive, it isn’t.
- Richard Bach

 And when the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour. And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, "Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?" which means, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" And some of the bystanders hearing it said, "Behold, he is calling Elijah." And someone ran and filled a sponge with sour wine, put it on a reed and gave it to him to drink, saying, "Wait, let us see whether Elijah will come to take him down." And Jesus uttered a loud cry and breathed his last. And the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. And when the centurion, who stood facing him, saw that in this way he breathed his last, he said, "Truly this man was the Son of God!"
- Mark 15:33-39

 Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.
- Esther Lederer - (Better known as Ann Landers)

 You will never win if you never begin.
- Robert Schuller

 May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
- Romans 15:13

 Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing. It's when you've had everything to do and you've done it.
- Margaret Thatcher

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

Posts from 1/17/2013

Worship the Lord with gladness; come before him with joyful songs.
- Psalm 100:2

 Few people take objectives really seriously. They put average effort into too many things, rather than superior thought and effort into a few important things. People who achieve the most are selective as well as determined.
- Richard Koch

 If you love what you are doing, and always put the customer first, success will be yours.
- Ray Kroc

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

 To move the world we must first move ourselves.
- Socrates

 I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
- Michael Jordan

 Positive thinking won't let you do anything but it will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
- Zig Ziglar

Posts from 1/5-6/2013

But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.
- Isaiah 40:31

 The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.
- Orison Swett Marden

 Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing there is a solution paves the way to a solution.
- Dr. David Schwartz

 Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
- Michael Jordan

This is what the LORD says— he who made a way through the sea, a path through the mighty waters, “Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.
- Isaiah 43:16, 18-19

 All successful men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
- Brian Tracy

To be able to shape your future, you have to be willing and able to change your paradigm.
- Joel Barker

 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