Posts from 3/9-10/15

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
- Audrey Hepburn

 The pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow. For every challenge encountered there is opportunity for growth.
- Author Unknown

 When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.
- John 8:12

 It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.
- Claude M. Bristol

 Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.
- Jack Canfield

The biggest temptation is to settle for too little.
- Thomas Merton

 Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the Lord!
- Psalm 27:14

 Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
- Theodore Roosevelt

 With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.
- Thomas Foxwell Buxton

 Self confidence is the most attractive quality a person can have. How can anyone see how awesome you are if you can't see it yourself?
- Author Unknown

 I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me— just as the Father knows me and I know the Father—and I lay down my life for the sheep.
- John 10:14-15

 What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.
- Oprah Winfrey

 If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.
- Nora Roberts

 Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
- Thomas Guthrie

 For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him.
- Colossians 1:16

 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

Posts from 7/9-11/14

Why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God; for it is written, “As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.” So then each of us will give an account of himself to God.
- Romans 14:10-12

 Luck is largely a matter of paying attention.
- Susan M. Dodd

 Never give up. Never ever give up. Why? Because just when you are about to give up is when things are about to turn around in a grand way. Hold on. Great things are waiting for you around the corner.
- Sonia Ricotti

 Learn to trust the journey, even when you do not understand it.
- Mila Bron

 What one approves, another scorns,
And thus his nature each discloses:
You find the rosebush full of thorns,
I find the thornbush full of roses.
- Arthur Guiterman

 He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
- Napoleon

 When you truly believe in what you are doing, it shows. And it pays. Winners in life are those who are excited about where they're going.
- Author Unknown

 How to succeed? Try hard enough.
- Malcolm Forbes

 For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your ancestors, but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect.
- 1 Peter 1:18-19

 The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
- Scott Hamilton

 Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you’re going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus.
- Oprah Winfrey

 A great fortune depends on luck, a small one on diligence.
- Chinese Proverb

 Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air. But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.
- 1 Corinthians 9:25-27

 Fill your mind with truth, your heart with love, your life with service.
- Author Unknown

 You can out distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you.
- Rwandan Proverb

 We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
- Aristotle

 To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. He is the one we proclaim, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone fully mature in Christ.
- Colossians 1:27-28

 In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
- Thomas Carlyle

 A great man is he who has not lost the heart of a child.
- Mencius

 Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
- Henry Ward Beecher

 One’s pride will bring him low, but he who is lowly in spirit will obtain honor.
- Proverbs 29:23

 Making mistakes is something everyone does. Learning from them is not.
- Author Unknown

Posts from 1/30-2/1/14

Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
- Galatians 6:7, 8

 Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
- Theodore Roosevelt

 If the shoe fits, you're not allowing for growth.
- Robert N. Coons

 The great successful men of the world have used their imagination. They think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building – steadily building.
- Robert Collier

 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die."
- John 11:25

 I was made to work. If you are equally industrious, you will be equally successful.
- Johann Sebastian Bach

 What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.
- Oprah Winfrey

Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.
- William Arthur Ward

 Success is generally due to holding on, and failure to letting go.
- Maltbie Davenport Babcock

 For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
- 2 Corinthians 5:21

 Success is generally due to holding on, and failure to letting go.
- Maltbie Davenport Babcock

 Work is much more fun than fun.
- Noel Coward

If we did all the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.
- Thomas Edison
 
 I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.
- John 15:5, 8

 My mind is a garden. My thoughts are the seeds. My harvest will be either flower or weeds.
- Mel Weldon

 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

Posts from 10/31-11/3/13

The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.
- Thomas Edison

 As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
- John F. Kennedy

 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; all those who practice it have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!
- Psalm 111:10

 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 Smith

 The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust

 Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
- Vincent Van Gogh

 Truly my soul finds rest in God; my salvation comes from him.
- Psalm 62:1

 Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.
- Oprah Winfrey

 Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you.
- Mary Kay Ash

 It’s always been my philosophy: Turn the page. If something falls through, turn the page. It’s over with, get used to it, get on with it. Very simple. It’s always worked for me.
- Merv Griffin

 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might.
- Ephesians 6:10

 You've got to be before you can do, and do before you can have.
- Zig Ziglar

 If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.
- Anthony Robbins
 
If you're only willing to do what is easy, life will be hard. If you're willing to do what is hard, life will be easy.
- Bishop Eddie L. Long

 For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
- Jeremiah 29:11

 Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Posts from 9/29-30/13

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.
- Thomas J Watson

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
- Anais Nin

 Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
- Oprah Winfrey

 Whoever says he is in the light and hates his brother is still in darkness. Whoever loves his brother abides in the light, and in him there is no cause for stumbling.
- 1 John 2:9, 10

 Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

 If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to... there is nothing you cannot achieve.
- Lao Tzu

You, God, are my God, earnestly I seek you; I thirst for you, my whole being longs for you, in a dry and parched land where there is no water.
- Psalm 63:1

 

 It is not the level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the world. Both attitudes are within our power so that a man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy, and no one can stop him.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

 

 I, even I, am the Lord, and apart from me there is no savior. I have revealed and saved and proclaimed— I, and not some foreign god among you. You are my witnesses,” declares the Lord, “that I am God.
- Isaiah 43:11-12

 

 Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil.
- Ephesians 5:15, 16

 

 Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.
- Willie Nelson

 

 The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
- Napoleon Hill

 

 Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow - after you have done your best to achieve success today.
- Maxwell Maltz

 

 Listen to advice and accept discipline, and at the end you will be counted among the wise. Many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.
- Proverbs 19:20-21

 

 Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. Look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true. Think only of the best, work only for the best, and expect only the best. Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others. Live in the faith that the whole world is on your side so long as you are true to the best that is in you!
- Christian D. Larson

Posts from 6/19-23/13

God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard
- C.S. Lewis

 The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves.
- Bob Proctor

 For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
- Jeremiah 29:11

 Failure is the tuition you pay for success.
- Walter Brunell

 Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin

 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.
- 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17

 Nothing recedes like success.
- Walter Winchell

 The smallest change in perspective can transform a life. What tiny attitude adjustment might turn your world around?
- Oprah

 What you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
- Goethe

 Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
- Samuel Beckett

 As far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us.
- Psalms 103:12

 When you talk, you repeat what you already know; when you listen, you often learn something.
- Jared Sparks

 The purpose of relationships is not happiness, but transformation.
- Andrew Schneider

 So Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.
- Hebrews 9:28

 You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
- Henry David Thoreau

 Household gods give worthless advice, fortune-tellers predict only lies, and interpreters of dreams pronounce falsehoods that give no comfort. So my people are wandering like lost sheep; they are attacked because they have no shepherd.
- Zechariah 10:2

 You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
- Henry David Thoreau

 Life is a promise, fulfill it...
- Mother Teresa

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

 gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
- Proverbs 15:1

 When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile.
- Author Unknown

 Give ear, and hear my voice; give attention, and hear my speech.
- Isaiah 28:23

Posts from 5/20/13

Love is everywhere, it has no distance. All you have to do is stop the resistance.
- Matt Zotti

 You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden.
- Matthew 5:14

 Turn your wounds into wisdom.
- Oprah Winfrey

 There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him & bad when it turns from Him.
- C. S. Lewis

 It is impossible to see the darkness, so long as you are focused on the light.
- The Daily Guru

 If your brother or sister sins, go and point out their fault, just between the two of you. If they listen to you, you have won them over.
- Matthew 18:15

 Make sure you visualize what you really want, not what someone else wants for you.
- Jerry Gillies

Posts from 5/2-5/13

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.
- Oprah Winfrey

 Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap.
- Galatians 6:7

 The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little.
- Zig Ziglar

 Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
- Danny Thomas

 Never, never, never, never give up.
- Winston Churchill

 For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your ancestors, but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect.
- 1 Peter 1:18-19

 Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.
- Les Brown

 Success can't be forced.
- Loretta Young

 We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
- Tobias Wolff

 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
- 1 Corinthians 13:7

 We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.
- C.S. Lewis

 No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo

 To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. He is the one we proclaim, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone fully mature in Christ.
- Colossians 1:27-28

 The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.
- Robert G. Ingersoll

May the forth be with you.

 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

Posts from 3/21-24/13

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.
- 2 Corinthians 1:3-4

 Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown.
- Ross Perot

 The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
- Psalms 27:1

 Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown.
- Ross Perot

 More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren’t so busy denying them.
- Harold J. Smith

 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

 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

 People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
- George E. Allen

 Success is just outside of your comfort zone.
- Unknown

 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.
- Psalms 28:7

We all start with all there is. It's how we use it that makes things possible.
- Henry Ford

 Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.
- Oprah Winfrey

 But in your hearts revere Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect,
- 1 Peter 3:15

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

 You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden

 You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.
- Lewis B. Smedes

 Know therefore that the Lord your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commandments.
- Deuteronomy 7:9

 Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him, and he will act. He will bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your justice as the noonday.
- Psalms 37:5, 6

 Rise above the storm and you will find the sunshine.
- Mario Fernandez

 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; righteous and having salvation is he, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
- Zechariah 9:9

Posts from 1/30-2/1/2013

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.
- 1 Corinthians 15:58

 Real success comes in small portions day by day. You need to take pleasure in life's daily little treasures. It is the most important thing in measuring success.
- Denis Waitley

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
- Seneca

 Sitting down, Jesus called the Twelve and said, “Anyone who wants to be first must be the very last, and the servant of all.”
- Mark 9:35

 The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
- Robert H. Schuller

 Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
- Tacitus

 It is a mistake to think that moving fast is the same as actually going somewhere.
- Steve Goodier

 One must have strategies to execute dreams.
- Azim Premji

 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
- 1 Corinthians 13:13

 It always seems impossible until it's done.
- Nelson Mandela

 Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.
- Ephesians 4:2

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

 If you aren't making any mistakes, it's a sure sign you're playing it too safe.
- John Maxwell

 There is no paycheck that can equal the feeling of contentment that comes from being the person you are meant to be.
- Oprah Winfrey

 I call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised, and I am saved from my enemies.
- 2 Samuel 22:4