Posts from 9/9-14/15

We don't laugh because we’re happy, we’re happy because we laugh.
- William James

 Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, live truly and forgive quickly.
- Paulo Coelho

 It is written: “‘As surely as I live,’ says the Lord, ‘every knee will bow before me; every tongue will acknowledge God.’”
- Romans 14:11

 Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.
- Miguel de Cervantes

 Our power is in our ability to decide.
- Buckminster Fuller

 In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.
- Friedrich Schlegel

 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

 Whatever you are thinking…THINK BIGGER!
- Tony Hsieh

 My future starts when I wake up every morning… Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
- Miles Davis

 To double your net worth, double your self-worth. Because you will never exceed the height of your self-image.
- Robin Sharma

 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

 You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
- Zig Ziglar

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

 By defining our goal more clearly, by making it seem more manageable and less remote, we can help all people to see it, to draw hope from it and to move irresistibly towards it.
- John F. Kennedy

 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
- Hebrews 13:8

 The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
- James Allen

 And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
- Hebrews 11:6

 Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him.
- James 1:12

 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

 It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
- Elbert Hubbard

 Live life to express not to impress.
- Author Unknown

 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

 You only have control over three things in your life—the thoughts you think, the images you visualize, and the actions you take (your behavior).
- Jack Canfield

 Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
- Samuel Johnson

 It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
- Seneca

 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.
- James 1:17

 Don't compare your beginning to someone else's middle.
- Jon Acuff

Posts from 11/5-11/14

Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. Resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same kinds of suffering are being experienced by your brotherhood throughout the world.
- 1 Peter 5:8-9

 Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.
- Joel A Barker

 And all your future lies beneath your hat.
- John Oldham

 The early bird catches the worm.
- William Camden

 Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
- W Clement Stone

 Don't try to change people. Just love them. Love is what changes us.
- Author Unknown

 Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.
- John Wayne

 Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
- William James

 Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you.
- Isaiah 46:4

 Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
- Harold Geneen

 Your choice of people to associate with, both personally and
business-wise, is one of the most important choices you make. If you
associate with turkeys, you will never fly with the eagles.
- Brian Tracy

 Treasure your relationships, not your possessions.
- Anthony J. D'Angelo

 And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.
- 1 John 4:21

 Any man can win when things go his way, it's the man who overcomes adversity that is the true champion.
- Jock Ewing

 When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me.
- Erma Bombeck

 He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.
- Cesare Pavese

 Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!
- Philippians 4:4

 Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart.
- Ancient Indian Proverb

 When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
- Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

 One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing, is doing more.
- Washington Irvin

 I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.
- Psalm 121:1-2

 Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

 Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind.
- 1 Peter 3:8

 So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind.
- Philippians 2:1-2

 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
- John 15:13

 The wishbone will never replace the backbone.
- Will Henry

 All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney

 Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
- Lou Holtz

 Believe you can and you’re halfway there.
- Theodore Roosevelt

 You will never be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life.
- James G. Bilkey

 If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
- John 14:15

 Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

 When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.
- Thomas Jefferson

 To do something, however small, to make others happier and better, is the highest ambition, the most elevating hope, which can inspire a human being.
- Sir John Lubbock

 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.
- 1 John 4:16

 Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
- John F. Kennedy

Posts from 11/1-4/14

With God we shall do valiantly; it is he who will tread down our foes.
- Psalm 60:12

For “All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls, but the word of the Lord remains forever.” And this word is the good news that was preached to you.
- 1 Peter 1:24-25

 On God rests my salvation and my glory; my mighty rock, my refuge is God.
- Psalm 62:7

 When you arise in the moring, think of what a precious privelege it is to be alive-- to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love
- Marcus Aurelius

 When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
- Helen Keller

 The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
- Richard Bach

 Teach the older men to be temperate, worthy of respect, self-controlled, and sound in faith, in love and in endurance.
- Titus 2:2

 You never know what you can do till you try.
- William Cobbett

 You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder!
- James 2:19

 Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.
- Horace

 Someday is not a day of the week.
- Denise Brennan-Nelson

 Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
- William James

 When written in Chinese, the word “crisis” is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy

 Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.
- Washington Irving

Posts from 10/29-31/14

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
- William Penn

 For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
- Sir Walter Scott

 Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.
- Epicurious

 Be the change that you wish to see in the world.
- Mahatma Gandhi

 If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
- William James

 There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
- C. S. Lewis

 Teach me to do your will, for you are my God! Let your good Spirit lead me on level ground!
- Psalm 143:10

 The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
- Sir Walter Scott

 Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions.
- Eric Butterworth

 Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.
- Albert Einstein

 If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
- William James

 Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
- Jawaharlal Nehru

 A year from now you may wish you had started today.
- Karen Lamb

 Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
- Sean O'Casey

 Take my instruction instead of silver, and knowledge rather than choice gold, for wisdom is better than jewels, and all that you may desire cannot compare with her.
- Proverbs 8:10-11

 Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action.
- Orison Swett Marden

 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

Posts from 7/27-28/14

Remember, the thoughts that you think and the statements you make regarding yourself determine your mental attitude. If you have a worthwhile objective, find the one reason why you can achieve it rather than hundreds of reasons why you can’t.
- Napoleon Hill

 The tragedy in life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
- Benjamin Mays

 If we don't discipline ourselves, the world will do it for us.
- William Feather

 Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.
- Proverbs 31:30

 Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.
- Ayn Rand

 When you attain the control of the internal direction of your attention, you will no longer stand in shallow water but will launch out into the deep of life.
- Neville Goddard

 Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
- William James

 The Lord is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth. He fulfills the desire of those who fear him; he also hears their cry and saves them.
- Psalm 145:18-19

 Every study of high achieving men and women proves that greatness in life is only possible when you become outstanding at your chosen field.
- Brian Tracy

Posts from 6/9-10/14

Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:11

 The person who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
- Chinese proverb

 A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once your mind is quiet.
- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

 Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.
- Barbara de Angelis

 The golden rule for every business man is this: "Put yourself in your customer's place".
- Orison Swett Marden

 Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says, I’ll try again tomorrow.
- Mary Anne Radmacher-Hershey

 The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
- William James

 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

 To understand is to forgive, even one self.
- Alexander Chase
 
Make a game of finding something positive in every situation. Ninety-five percent of your emotions are determined by how you interpret events to yourself.
- Brian Tracy

 The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas of enthusiasm.
- Thomas J Watson

 Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.
- Jim Rohn

 You must have long range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short range failures.
- Charles Noble

Posts from 7/17/13

I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one.
- John 17:15

 Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
- Alexander Hamilton

 A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
- William James

 If you can dream it, you can do it. Your limits are all within yourself.
- Brian Tracy

Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.
- Ephesians 6:4

 What have you done for YOURSELF this year to create a better life?
- Jack Canfield

Posts from 5/16-19/13

If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.
- Malcolm Forbes

 You can't start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one.

 But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you.
- Luke 6:27, 28

 Formal education will make you a living. Self-education will make you a fortune.
- Jim Rohn

 In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity.
- Albert Einstein

 Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
- Earl Nightingale

 Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders; make the most of every opportunity. Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.
- Colossians 4:5-6

 I perceived that whatever God does endures forever; nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it. God has done it, so that people fear before him.
- Ecclesiastes 3:14

 If you want to be successful, it's just this simple: Know what you are doing, love what you are doing, and believe in what you are doing.
- Will Rogers

 Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see a bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.
- Dale Carnegie

 I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
- Nelson Mandela

 Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death.
- Romans 8:1-2

 Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
- William James