Posts from 10/17-20/15

And Jesus said to him, “‘If you can’! All things are possible for one who believes.”
- Mark 9:23

 Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good. Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.
- Romans 12:9-10

 You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.
- Nancy D. Solomon

 To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
- Samuel Johnson

 If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!
- Luke 11:13

 A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspired the power and energy to get it done.
- Ralph Lauren

 To do two things at once is to do neither.
- Publilius Syrus

 The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.
Richard Bach

 Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.
- Luke 15:7

 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 Peale

 When anger rises, think of the consequences.
- Confucius

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

 But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ.
- Philippians 3:20

 You can’t fail if you don’t quit. You can’t succeed if you don’t start.
- Michael Hyatt

 Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.
- Nido Qubein

 When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
- Confucius

 The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of tomorrow.
- William Boetcker

 I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.
- Romans 12:1

 Just think of any negativity that comes at you as a raindrop falling into the ocean of your bliss.
- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Posts from 5/8-10/15

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

 God helps him who strives hard.
- Euripides

 Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.
- Matthew 7:7-8

 Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.
- Walter Elliot

 Never be afraid to tread the path alone. Know which is your path and follow it wherever it may lead you; do not feel you have to follow in someone else's footsteps.
- Eileen Caddy

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

 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

 No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities. Always see them, for they are always there.
- Norman Vincent Peale

 Be exalted, O God, above the heavens! Let your glory be over all the earth!
- Psalm 108:5

 Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her: “Many women have done excellently, but you surpass them all.”
- Proverbs 31:28-29

Posts from 4/8-13/15

As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God.
- Psalm 42:1

 No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.
- Hosea Ballou

 The curves of your lips rewrite history.
- Oscar Wilde

 Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
- Psalm 90:12

 Unless you are willing to drench yourself in your work beyond the capacity of the average man, you are just not cut out for positions at the top.
- J.C. Penny

 It's always too early to quit.
- Norman Vincent Peale

 You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
- Beverly Sills

 Seek good, and not evil, that you may live; and so the Lord, the God of hosts, will be with you, as you have said.
- Amos 5:14

 Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.
- Henry Van Dyke

 The Mighty One, God the Lord, speaks and summons the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting.
- Psalm 50:1

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

 These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ.
- Colossians 2:17

 For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God’s law; indeed, it cannot. Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
- Romans 8:6-8

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 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 4/15-21/14

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

 There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
- Logan Pearsall

 The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
- John Burroughs

 Successful people save in prosperous times so they have a financial cushion in times of recession.
- Brian Tracy

 We ought always to thank God for you, brothers and sisters, and rightly so, because your faith is growing more and more, and the love all of you have for one another is increasing.
- 2 Thessalonians 1:3

 The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
- Vincent T Lombardi

 Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
- Norman Vincent Peale

 You'll be surprised to know how far you can go from the point where you thought it was the end.
- Author Unknown

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
- 1 Corinthians 13:4-5

 

 Happiness is a direction, not a place.
- Sydney J. Harris

 

 Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve.
- Wilfred A Peterson

 

 There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
- Lady Blessington

 

 I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
- Galatians 2:20

 

 If you cannot save money, then the seeds of greatness are not in you.
- Brian Tracy

 

 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?”
- John 11:25, 26

 

 I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs, but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
- George Patton

 

 Success is not measured by what you accomplish but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
- Orison Swett Marden

 

 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
- John 3:16

 

 Don't say, 'If I could, I would.' Say, 'If I can, I will.'
- Jim Rohn

 

 The price of success must be paid in full...in advance.
- Brian Tracy

 

 Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.
- Arnold Glascow

 

 For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
- 1 Corinthians 1:18

 

 Cheerfulness is what greases the axles of the world. Don't go through life creaking.
- H.W. Byles

 

 If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
- Lucy Larcom

 

 Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.
- Jim Rohn

 

 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 15:37-39

 

 Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
- Booker T Washington

 

 But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.
- 1 Corinthians 15:20-22

 

 And behold, there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came and rolled back the stone and sat on it. His appearance was like lightning, and his clothing white as snow. And for fear of him the guards trembled and became like dead men. But the angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified. He is not here, for he has risen, as he said. Come, see the place where he lay.
- Matthew 28:2-6

 

So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.
- 2 Timothy 2:22

Posts from 11/16-19/13

So we can confidently say, “The Lord is my helper; I will not fear; what can man do to me?”
- Hebrews 13:6

 And calling the crowd to him with his disciples, he said to them, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me."
- Mark 8:34

 For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s.
- Romans 14:8

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

 We were born to succeed, not to fail.
- Henry David Thoreau

 Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
- Norman Vincent Peale

 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

 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

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

 Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
- Matthew 11:28-30

 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

 Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’
- Brian Tracy

 It's not about having the skill to do something. It's about having the will, desire and commitment to be your best.
- Robert Hernandez

 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

 The only way around is through.
- Robert Frost

Posts from 7/30-31/13

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. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”
- Matthew 22:37-40

 Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
- Napoleon Hill

 Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin condemns any people.
- Proverbs 14:34

 Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
- William A. Ward

 There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.
- Roger Staubach

 Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people he chose for his inheritance.
- Psalm 33:12

 If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.
- Abigail Van Buren

 Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointment.
- Henry Ward Beecher

 A good person produces good things from the treasury of a good heart, and an evil person produces evil things from the treasury of an evil heart. What you say flows from what is in your heart.
- Luke 6:45

The best revenge is massive success.
- Frank Sinatra

 In that day you will say: “Give praise to the Lord, proclaim his name; make known among the nations what he has done, and proclaim that his name is exalted.
- Isaiah 12:4

 Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.
- Farrah Gray

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.
- Norman Vincent Peale

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

Posts from 4/17/13

Someday I hope to enjoy enough of what the world calls success so that someone will ask me, What's the secret of it? I shall say simply this: I get up when I fall down.
- Paul Harve

 Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
- Norman Vincent Peale

 But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.
- 1 Corinthians 15:20-22

 We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
- Joseph Campbell

 Never confuse movement with action.
- Ernest Hemingway

 “He himself bore our sins” in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; “by his wounds you have been healed.”
- 1 Peter 2:24

 Success of life depends upon keeping one's mind open to opportunity and seizing it when it comes.
- Alice MacDougall

Posts from 3/26/13

It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
- Anthony Robbins

 Falling down is how we grow. Staying down is how we die.
- Brian Vaszily

 Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him; fret not yourself over the one who prospers in his way, over the man who carries out evil devices!
- Psalms 37:7

 If you envy successful people, you create a negative force field of attraction that repels you from ever doing the things that you need to do to be successful. If you admire successful people, you create a positive force field of attraction that draws you toward becoming more and more like the kinds of people that you want to be like.
- Brian Tracy

 Believe that problems do have answers, that they can be overcome, and that we can solve them.
- Norman Vincent Peale

 What you get by reaching your destination isn't nearly as important as what you become by reaching your goals - what you will become is the winner you were born to be!
- Zig Ziglar

 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.
- Romans 8:28