Posts from 4/29-5/3/15

The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli

 Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
- Albert Einstein

 When hard pressed, I cried to the Lord; he brought me into a spacious place. The Lord is with me; I will not be afraid. What can mere mortals do to me?
- Psalm 118:5-6

 You don't become enormously successful without encountering some really interesting problems.
- Mark Victor Hansen

 Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.
- Bo Jackson

 Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain

 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

 Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
- Maya Angelou

 Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.
- John D Rockefeller

 Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises
- Demosthenes

 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

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
- Mother Teresa

 Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
- Booker T. Washington

 I can is 100 times more important than IQ.
- Author Unknown

 Arise, O Lord; O God, lift up your hand; forget not the afflicted.
- Psalm 10:12

 So many fail because they don't get started; they don't go.
- W Clement Stone

 I think in terms of the day’s resolution, not the years.
- Henry Moore

 Success is every minute you live. It's the process of living. It's stopping for the moments of beauty, of pleasure, the moments of peace. Success is not a destination that you ever reach. Success is the quality of the journey.
- Jennifer James

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

 What is once well done is done forever.
- Henry David Thoreau

 The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.
- Vince Lombardi

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

When a goal matters enough to a person, that person will find a way to accomplish what at first seemed impossible.
- Nido Qubein

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
- Francis Bacon

Posts from 8/14-17/14

I have set the Lord always before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken.
- Psalm 16:8

 Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
- Vince Lombardi

 Keep your thinking right and your business will be right.
- Zig Ziglar

 I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.
- Martha Washington

 Before the mountains were born or you brought forth the whole world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God. A thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night.
- Psalm 90:2, 4

 Don't tell me how good you are, show me!
- Author Unknown

 We are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
- Ephesians 2:10

 Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.
- Revelation 3:20

 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

Posts From 8/1-2/14

Only undertake what you can do in an excellent fashion. There are no prizes for average performance.
- Brian Tracy

 Each difficult moment has the potential to open my eyes and open my heart.
- Myla Kabat-Zinn

 Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out!
- Romans 11:33

 Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
- Vince Lombardi

 You've got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it. It's called perseverance.
- Lee Iacocca

 Attitude is everything.
- Phillip Crosby

 Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.
- Deuteronomy 31:6

 Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.
- Zig Ziglar

 Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else.
- Wayne Dyer

 In school you get the lesson and then take the test... In life you take the test and then get the lesson.
- Unknown Source

 I'd rather be a failure in something that I love than a success in something that I hate.
- George Burns

 Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of.
- Anonymous

 God is not unjust; he will not forget your work and the love you have shown him as you have helped his people and continue to help them.
- Hebrews 6:10

 The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it.
- Dr. Lou Holtz

Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
- Thomas Dewar

 We generally change ourselves for one of two reasons inspiration or desperation.
- Jim Rohn

 Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.
- Joshua 1:9

 The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted.
- Plutarch

Posts from 10/24-28/13

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

 In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
- Harold Geneen

 Sometimes a player’s greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team.
- Scottie Pippen

 It's time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the challenge and does something about it.
- Vince Lombardi

 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
- 1 Peter 1:3

 The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
- Henry Ward Beecher

 The hand that follows intellect can achieve.
- Michelangelo

 I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark burn out in a brilliant blaze than it be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
 - Jack London

 The Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; he knows those who take refuge in him.
- Nahum 1:7

 For today and its blessings, I owe the world an attitude of gratitude.
- Clarence E. Hodges

The person who gets farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
- Dale Carnegie

 You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar

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

 Each of us has a fire in our hearts for something. It's our goal in life to find it and keep it lit.
- Mary Lou Retton

 The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.
- Psalm 34:18

 Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all. He keeps all his bones; not one of them is broken.
- Psalm 34:19, 20

 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
- 2 Corinthians 1:3, 4

 Seek the Lord while he may be found; call on him while he is near.
- Isaiah 55:6

 Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord, the Lord himself, is the Rock eternal.
-Isaiah 26:4

For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.
- Aristotle

It's best to start the discipline of generosity when the amounts are small. It's easy to give ten cents out of a dollar; it's a little harder to give a hundred thousand out of a million.
- Jim Rohn