12/4-6/14

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.
- Thomas Carlyle

 A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
- Henry Ford

 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

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

 Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal — a commitment to excellence — that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
- Mario Andretti

 The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer.
- Nolan Bushnell

 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? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.
- Matthew 7:3-5

 
Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
- Thomas Hardy

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

 Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.
- Sir Claus Moser

 Everything you need comes to you in perfect time, space and sequence.
- Louise Hay

 Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!
- Paul J. Meyer

 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.
- 1 John 2:15-17

 Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.
- Stephen Covey

 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed.
- 2 Peter 3:10

Posts from 12/1-3/14

Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me. Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
- Matthew 5:11-12

 If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
- Booker T. Washington

 The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.
- Bill Copeland

 Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
- Thomas Carlyle

 “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”
- Revelation 1:8

 Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
- Joshua J. Marine

 In business, when things aren't working it's time to mix it up.
- Donald Trump

 He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
- Thomas Carlyle

 Fear of man will prove to be a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord is kept safe.
- Proverbs 29:25

 Believe in yourself, never give up and go about your business with passion drive and enthusiasm.
- Peter Jones

 The unhappiest people in this world, are those who care the most about what other people think.
- C. JoyBell C.

 Work like there is someone working 24 hours a day to take it away from you.
- Mark Cuban

 He only is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be shaken. On God rests my salvation and my glory; my mighty rock, my refuge is God.
- Psalm 62:6-7

 Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.
- Farrah Gray

 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

 With self-discipline most anything is possible.
- Theodore Roosevelt

 All of our products and business will go through three phases. There's vision, patience, and execution.
- Steve Ballmer

 It's so easy to add. It's hard to edit. The hardest decisions are the things not to work on
- Tim Cook

 Sometimes our greatest insight comes from our failure, not from our accomplishments.
- Author Unknown

 Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- Aristotle

Posts from 11/23-30/14

Be someone that makes you happy.
- Author Unknown

 For we know him who said, “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,” and again, “The Lord will judge his people.” It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
- Hebrews 10:30-31

 You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
- Abraham Lincoln

 A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.
- Richard Branson

 Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
- Les Brown

 There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.
- 1 John 4:18

 Nothing is so much fun as business. I do not expect to do anything but work as long as I can stand up.
- William Wrigley Jnr

 Over every mountain is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.
- Theodore Roethke

 The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions.
- John Hancock

 The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.
- 1 Corinthians 2:14

 Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.
- Warren Buffett

 You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and falling over.
- Richard Branson

 It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
- Zig Ziglar

 So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world.
- 1 John 4:16-17

 Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets
- Henry Ford

 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

 Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him; bless his name!
- Psalm 100:4

 And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.
- Colossians 3:15

 And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
- Colossians 3:17

 Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, O Lord, and you are exalted as head above all.
- 1 Chronicles 29:11

Posts from 11/19-22/14

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

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

 There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.
- Christopher Morley

 Magic is easy if you put your heart into it.
- Michael Jackson
 
For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.
- Hebrews 3:4

 In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
- Thomas Jefferson

 Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business.
- Leo Burnett

 When writing the story of your life, don’t let anyone else hold the pen.
- Anonymous

 May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
- 2 Corinthians 13:14

 Great hopes make great men.
- Thomas Fuller

 Spending today complaining about yesterday, won't make tomorrow any better.
- Author Unknown

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

 Therefore welcome one another as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God.
- Romans 15:7

 I've missed over 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot...and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
- Michael Jordan
Professional Basketball Player

 A strong positive self image is the best possible preparation for success in life.
- Dr. Joyce Brothers

 The best things we know and love started as tiny things.
- Joel Gascoigne

 Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope.
- Romans 5:3-4

 One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
- Thomas Fuller

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

 Out of billions of people in the world, you get to decide exactly which people become the major influences in your life.
- Perry Marshal

 Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
- Proverbs 16:18

 If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.
- Martin Luther King Jr.

 Oh come, let us sing to the Lord; let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation! Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving; let us make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise!
- Psalm 95:1-2

Posts from 11/12-18/14

Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see it.
- Confucius

 Who is wise and understanding among you? Let them show it by their good life, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom.
- James 3:13

 Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
- Ben Jonson

 In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.
- Anonymous

 If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
- Milton Berle

 Come now, let us reason together,' says the Lord. 'Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.
- Isaiah 1:18

 Get a good idea and stay with it. Do it, and work at it until it's done right.
- Walt Disney

 The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.
- Robert Burton

 I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
- C.S. Lewis 

 Follow God’s example, therefore, as dearly loved children.
- Ephesians 5:1

 Wake up every morning with the thought that something wonderful is about to happen.
- Author Unknown

 Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
- Harper Lee

 Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions.
- Dalai Lama

 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

 Master books, but do not let them master you. Read to live, not live to read.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton

 God thunders wondrously with his voice; he does great things that we cannot comprehend. For to the snow he says, ‘Fall on the earth,’ likewise to the downpour, his mighty downpour.
- Job 37:5-6

 For this is the will of God, that by doing good you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish people. Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God.
- 1 Peter 2:15-16

 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

 The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary, so that the necessary may speak.
- artist Hans Hofmann

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

 He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
- Tyron Edwards

 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; all those who practice it have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!
- Psalm 111:10

 You can't test courage cautiously.
- Annie Dillard

 For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit.
- 1 Peter 3:18

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