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 3/10-12/14

My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants.
- J. Brotherton

 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

 You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act.
- Lee Iacocca

 You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.
- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

 To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
- John 8:31-32

 History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heart-breaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
- B.C. Forbes

 If people like you they'll listen to you, but if they trust you they'll do business with you.
- Zig Ziglar

 Success is always temporary. When all is said and done, the only thing you'll have left is your character.
- Vince Gill

 Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!
- Psalm 139:23, 24

 If you think of vision and mission as an organization's head and heart, the values it holds are its soul.
- Buzotta

 The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means, time, influence and educational advantages; the question is what he will do with the things he has. The moment a young man ceases to dream or to bemoan his lack of opportunities and resolutely looks his conditions in the face, and resolves to change them, he lays the corner-stone of a solid and honorable success.
- Hamilton Wright Mabie

 A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
- Thomas Carlyle

 Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer.
- Marcia Wieder

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

 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.
- John 10:10

 Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this: When I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. I explore it in all its bearings. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort which I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.
- Alexander Hamilton

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

 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

 Do everything without grumbling or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, “children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation.” Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky as you hold firmly to the word of life. And then I will be able to boast on the day of Christ that I did not run or labor in vain.
- Philippians 2:14-16

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

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

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