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Sunday, August 24, 2014

Posts from 7/22-23/14

Keep your heart open to dreams. For as long as there's a dream, there is hope; and as long as there is hope, there is joy in living.
- Anonymous


 If there's a better way to do it, then find it.
- Author Unknown


 If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!
- Luke 11:13


 The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God
- #Dostoyevsky


 Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.


 Live in such a way that if anyone should speak badly of you, no one would believe it.
- Author Unknown


 For who is God, but the Lord? And who is a rock, except our God?— the God who equipped me with strength and made my way blameless. He made my feet like the feet of a deer and set me secure on the heights.
- Psalm 18:31-33


 One half of life is luck; the other half is discipline – and that’s the important half, for without discipline you wouldn’t know what to do with luck.
- Carl Zuckmeyer


 You'll never achieve your dreams if they don't become goals.
- Anonymous


 I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. Its because of them I'm doing it myself.
- Albert Einstein


 But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ.
- Philippians 3:20


 Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it.
- William Feather


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


 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


 And he (Job) said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.”
- Job 1:21


 To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart.
- Pearl S. Buck

Thursday, August 21, 2014

Posts from 8/18-21/14

Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst."
- John 6:35


 No dream comes true until you wake up and go to work.
- Anonymous


 Know yourself and you will win all battles.
- Sun Tzu


 Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature nor do the children of man as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
- Helen Keller


 The Sovereign Lord is my strength; he makes my feet like the feet of a deer, he enables me to tread on the heights. For the director of music. On my stringed instruments.
- Habakkuk 3:19


 The secret of success is hidden in your daily routine.
- Jody Victor


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


 Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.
- Tyron Edwards


 Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.
- Matthew 7:13-14


 You'll never make it to the next level by holding on to the first.
- Rod St.Hilaire


 To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
- Marilyn Vos Savant


 Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
- Albert Einstein


For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?
- Mark 8:36


 The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
- Cecil B. DeMille


 Make education a continuing, never-ending process.
- Nido Qubein


 Follow your heart and your dreams will come true.
- Anonymous


 Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.
- Colossians 3:13


 The big secret in life is that there is no secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you are willing to work. It is called massive action. Action is the gas in the tank. Without you, the car will not run.
- Marcy Blochowiak


 The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
- Elizabeth Taylor


 There is only one success -- to spend your life in your own way.
- Christopher Morley


 Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!
- Psalm 46:10


 Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man’s training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.
- Thomas H. Huxley

Monday, August 18, 2014

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

Monday, August 11, 2014

Posts from 8/7-10/14

The only way to know how customers see your business is to look at it through their eyes
- Daniel R Scroggin


 Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
- Erich Fromm


 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
- John 3:17


 You'll never leave where you are until you decide where you'd rather be.
- Author Unknown


 Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steadily gains in strength. At first it may be but as the spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.
- Tyron Edwards


 The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
- Winston Churchill


 Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!
- Psalm 105:4


 My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don’t get right.
- T.H. Huxley


 There are those who SEE an opportunity. And then there are those who SEIZE an opportunity.
- Joanie Warren


 The time is always right to do what is right.
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.


 However, I consider my life worth nothing to me; my only aim is to finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me—the task of testifying to the good news of God’s grace.
- Acts 20:24


 We need men who can dream of things that never were.
- John F Kennedy


 Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I shall have the belief that I can do it. I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it, even if I may not have it at the beginning.
- Mahatma Gandhi


 Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take out the speck that is in your eye,’ when you yourself do not see the log that is in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the speck that is in your brother’s eye.
- Luke 6:41-42


 Develop the winning edge; small differences in your performance can lead to large differences in your results.
- Brian Tracy


 Thus says the Lord who made the earth, the Lord who formed it to establish it—the Lord is his name: Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.
- Jeremiah 33:2-3


 Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
- Matthew 6:19-21

Thursday, August 7, 2014

Posts from 8/3-6/14

And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.
- Mark 12:30


 But the wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure; then peace-loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere. Peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness.
- James 3:17-18


 If customers are treated right, they'll come back.
- J Marriott Junior


 Morale is when your hands and feet keep on working when your head says it can't be done.
- Benjamin Morrell


 You don't need a reason to help people.
- Author Unknown


 For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
- Galatians 5:13-14


 What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.
- Bruce Barton


 Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
- C.S. Lewis 


 Human beings have the remarkable ability to turn nothing into something. They can turn weeds into gardens and pennies into fortunes.
- Jim Rohn




Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves.
- Romans 12:10


 If you are not willing, that’s okay. Don’t judge yourself. Just be aware that you are choosing to stay where you are.
- John Robson


 The individual who wants to reach the top in business must appreciate the might of the force of habit and must understand that practices are what create habits. He must be quick to break those habits that can break him and hasten to adopt those practices that will become the habits that help him achieve the success he desires.
- J. Paul Getty


 If you're brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.
- Author Unknown


 Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to build him up.
- Romans 15:2


 One half of life is luck; the other half is discipline -- and that's the important half, for without discipline you wouldn't know what to do with luck.
- Carl Zuckmeyer


 But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”
- 1 Samuel 16:7


 The only way to find the limits of the possible is by going beyond them to the impossible.
- Arthur C Clarke


 The more you take responsibility for your past and present, the more you are able to create the future you seek.
- Celestine Chua


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


 My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry,
- James 1:19


 It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
- Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

Sunday, August 3, 2014

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

Friday, August 1, 2014

Posts from 7/29-31/14

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.
- Max Eastman


 It's not the work that's hard, it's the discipline.
- Anonymous


 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well
- Psalm 139:13-14


 The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
- Dale Carnegie


 The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several times a day with words, pictures and emotions as if we've already achieved them.
- Denis Waitley


 Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow.
- Doug Firebaugh


He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust."
- Psalm 91:1-2


 The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus


 Go after your dream, no matter how unattainable others think it is.
- Linda Mastandrea


 The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am.
- Denis Waitley


 The more you obey your conscience, the more your conscience will demand of you.
- C.S. Lewis


 As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the body is formed in a mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things.
- Ecclesiastes 11:5


 All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother."
- Abraham Lincoln 


 The meaning of life is to give life a meaning.
- Author Unknown


 Your greatest resource is your time.
- Brian Tracy


 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin!
- Psalm 51:1-2


 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
- Deuteronomy 6:5


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


 I believe that everything happens for a reason... and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe


 The Lord your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you; in his love he will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with singing.”
- Zephaniah 3:17


 Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.
- Buddha