Posts from 10/8-9/13

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

When something bad happens you have three choices. You can let it define you, let it destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you.
- Unknown

Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me.
- John 14:1

 A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.
- Desiderius Erasmus

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

 How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong, because someday in your life, you will have been all of these.
- George Washington Carver

 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.
- Philippians 2:3-4

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.
- Buddha

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

 A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
- Proverbs 17:22

 If it is important enough to you, you will find a way. If it is not, you will find an excuse.
- Author Unknown

 To strengthen the muscles of your heart, the best exercise is lifting someone else’s spirit whenever you can.
- Dodinsky, Author

 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

 Why are you going to choose failure when success is an option?
- Jillian Michaels

 Be glad, people of Zion, rejoice in the Lord your God, for he has given you the autumn rains because he is faithful. He sends you abundant showers, both autumn and spring rains, as before.
- Joel 2:23

 We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win.
- Edward Gibbon

Posts from 8/14-17/13

You have a clean slate every day you wake up. You have a chance every single morning to make that change and be the person you want to be. You just have to decide to do it. Decide today’s the day. Say it: this is going to be my day.
- Brendon Burchard

 Love what you have. Need what you want. Accept what you receive. Give what you can. Always remember, what goes around, comes around…
- Author Unknown

 For the Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord bestows favor and honor. No good thing does he withhold from those who walk uprightly.
- Psalm 84:11

 The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it; so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.
- Elbert Hubbard

 I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.
- Henry Ford

 Good will come to those who are generous and lend freely, who conduct their affairs with justice.
- Psalm 112:5

 Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.
- Nido Qubein

 Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
- Andrew Jackson

 I will hasten and not delay to obey your commands.
- Psalm 119:60

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

 Why, even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not; you are of more value than many sparrows.
- Luke 12:7

 This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
- John 15:12, 13

 Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.
- Ray Kroc

 The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
- Thomas Carlyle

 Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.
- Hebrews 11:1

A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
- Proverbs 17:17

 Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you’ll be able to see farther.
- J.P. Morgan

 Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
- William Makepeace Thackeray 

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us,
- Hebrews 12:1

 Discipline is just choosing between what you want now and what you want most.
- Author Unknown