The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growingweary.
Thomas Edison(1847-1931, American Inventor, Entrepreneur, Founder of GE)
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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.T.S. Elliot(1888-1965, American-born British Poet)=============================================
You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be.Stephen Vizinczey(1933-, Hungarian Novelist)
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Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use of them.Napoleon Bonaparte(1769-1821, French General, Emperor)=============================================
Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch,nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.Oliver Wendell Holmes(1841-1935, American Judge)
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All successful employers are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by performing more thanis expected of them.David J. Schwartz(American Trainer, Author)
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We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.Earl Nightingale(1921-1989, American Radio Announcer, Author, Motivator, Speaker)===================================
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind canread.Mark Twain(1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer)=============================================
Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow.Doug Firebaugh
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Leadership is doing what is right when no one is watching.George Van Valkenburg
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In matter of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste,swim with the current.Thomas Jefferson(1743-1826, Third President of the USA)=============================================
When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we trulylive life.Greg Anderson(American author)=============================================
Vision without action is a daydream, Action without vision is anightmare.

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Words may show a man's wit, but actions his meaning.
Benjamin Franklin(1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat)
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Sometimes we are to guard our heart... protect it from invasion and keep things safe and secure. Sometimes we should give our heart...letcertain qualities out and release them to others.Charles Swindoll(American Pastor, Author)============================================
To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.
Samuel Johnson(1709-1784, British Author)
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The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest workers.
Helen Keller(1880-1968, American Blind/Deaf Author, Lecturer, Amorist)
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There is no tally sheet in the exchange of small kindnesses; but there is shared memory and, from each person, the assurances of goodthings to come.
Lady Borton
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Fear is the single strongest motivating force in our lives. The more frightened you become, the better your chances of achievingsuccesses.
Lois Korey
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Discontent is the first step in progress. No one knows what is in him till he tries, and many would never try if they were not forced to.Basil Maturin
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It is difficult to give away kindness. It keeps coming back to you.
Cort Flint
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The only thing that keeps a man going is energy. And what is energy by liking life? Louis Auchinocloss
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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them. Leo Tolstoy(1828-1910, Russian Novelist, Philosopher)============================================
Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small one ssurround us every day. Sally Koch
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The past cannot be regained, although we can learn from it; the future is not yet ours even though we must plan for it. Time is now. Wehave only today.Charles Hummell============================================
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. Mother Teresa(1910-1997, Albanian-born Roman Catholic Missionary)============================================

To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing, is perfection of character.Marcus Aurelius(121-80 AD,Roman Emperor, Philosopher)============================================
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
Benjamin Franklin(1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat)
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To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.T.S. Eliot
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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions-the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heart-feltcompliment, and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction. Charles Kendall Adams
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Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is for you.Ralph Waldo Emerson(1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist)
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Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either. Golda Meir(1898-1978, Prime Minister of Israel, 1969-74)============================================
Our best success comes after our greatest disappointments.Henry Ward Beecher(1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer)============================================
Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost. James Thurber
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.Herm Albright
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A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparationfor success.Joyce Brothers(American Psychologist, Television and Radio Personality
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You only lose energy when life becomes dull in your mind. Your mind gets bored and therefore tired of doing nothing. Get interested in something! Be absolutely enthralled in something! Get out of yourself! Be somebody! Do something. The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have. Norman Vincent Peale(1898-1993, American Christian Reformed Pastor, Speaker, Author)============================================
A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.Christopher Reeve
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I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain. Rita Mae Brown
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Always demanding the best of oneself, living with honor, devoting one's talents and gifts to the benefits of others - these are the measures of success that endure when material things have passed away. Gerald R. Ford(1913-, Thirty-eighth President of the USA)==========================================================
Adversity not only draws people together but brings forth that beautiful inward friendship, just as the cold winter forms ice-figures onthe window panes which the warmth of the sun effaces. Soren Kierkegaard(1813-1855, Danish Philosopher, Writer)==========================================================
Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves -- to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterdayby our today. Stewart B. Johnson
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Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years. Bob Brown
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God gives every bird a worm, but he does not throw it into the nest.Swedish Proverb
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Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes truehappiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. Helen Keller(1880-1968, American blind/deaf author, lecturer, amorist)============================================
Friendship renders prosperity more brilliant, while it lightens adversity by sharing it and making its burden common.Marcus Tullius Cicero( c. 106-43 BC, Roman orator, politician)============================================
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 nightit 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

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When we accept tough jobs as a challenge and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen.
Arland Gilbert
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The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right. Edward Simmons
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No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and abovethe required that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.Charles Kendall Adams

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When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take thereason of the thing into your mind, and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. Phyllis Bottome(1884-1963, American Writer)============================================
A stumble may prevent a fall. English Proverb

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You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. Henry Ford(1863-1947, American Industrialist, Founder of Ford Motor Company)============================================
Unless you're willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't happen.Phillip Adams
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The fulfillment of the Lord's mercy does not depend uponbelievers' works, but... he fulfills the promise of salvationfor those who respond to his call with upright life, becausein those who are directed to the good by his Spirit herecognizes the only genuine insignia of his children. ... John Calvin (1509-1564)
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I believe in Christianity as I believe that the Sun hasrisen: not only because I see it, but because by it I seeeverything else. ... C. S. Lewis (1898-1963), "Is Theology Poetry?"
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I can tell you for an eternal truth that troubled souls are always safe. It is the untroubled that are in danger. Trouble in itself is always a claim on love, and God is love. He must deny Himself if He does not come to help the helpless. It is the prisoners, and the blind, and the leper, and the possessed, and the hungry, and the tempest-tossed, who are His special care. Therefore if you are lost and sick and bound, you are just in the place where He can meet you. Blessed are the mourners. They shall be comforted. ... Andrew Jukes (1815-1901)_______________________________________________________________
Why do we talk and gossip so continually, seeing that we so rarely resume our silence without some hurt done to our conscience? ... Devout conversation on spiritual things helpeth not a little to spiritual progress, most of all where those of kindred mind and spirit find their ground of fellowship in God. ... Thomas à Kempis (1380-1471), Of the Imitation of Christ [1418]_______________________________________________________________
We have been adopted as sons by the Lord with this one condition: that our life express Christ, the bond of our adoption. Accordingly, unless we give and devote ourselves to righteousness, we not only revolt from our Creator with wicked perfidy, but we also abjure our Savior Himself. ... John Calvin (1509-1564)_______________________________________________________________
Augustine shows clearly the religious character of sin. Sin for him is not a moral failure; it is not even disobedience. Disobedience is a consequence but not the cause. The cause is: turning away from God, and from God as the highest good, as the love with which God loves Himself, through us. For this reason, since sin has this character -- if you say "sins", it is easily dissolved into moral sins; but sin is first of all basically the power of turning away from God. For this very reason, no moral remedy is possible. Only one remedy is possible: return to God. But this of course is possible only in the power of God, and this power is lost. This is the state of man under the conditions of existence. ... Paul Tillich (1886-1965), A History of Christian Thought [1968]_______________________________________________________________
If you believe what you like in the gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself. ... St. Augustine (354-430)_______________________________________________________________
Religion today is not transforming people; rather it is being transformed by the people. It is not raising the moral level of society; it is descending to society's own level, and congratulating itself that it has scored a victory because society is smilingly accepting its surrender. ... A. W. Tozer (1897-1963)_______________________________________________________________
He looks today, as He has ever looked, not for crowds drifting aimlessly in His track, but for individual men and women whose undying allegiance will spring from their having recognized that He wants those who are prepared to follow the path of self-renunciation which He trod before them. ... H. A. Evan Hopkin
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Whence comes this idea that if what we are doing is fun, it can't be God's will? The God who made giraffes, a baby's fingernails, a puppy's tail, a crooknecked squash, the bobwhite's call, and a young girl's giggle, has a sense of humor. Make no mistake about that. ... Catherine Marshall (1914-1983)_______________________________________________________________
We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own. ... John Owen (1616-1683)_______________________________________________________________
If our faith is not relevant to our daily life in the world and in the parish, then it is no use; and if we cannot be Christians in our work, in the neighborhood, in our political decisions, then we had better stop being Christians. A piety reserved for Sundays is no message for this age. ... Douglas Rhymes (1914- )_______________________________________________________________
Above all, desire to please Christ; dread his disapproval above everything else. ... Rowland Croucher, Sunrise Sunset [1997]_______________________________________________________________
But since cause and effect is under the personal control of God, He can introduce into the situation other causes than the ones which we ourselves can control. When in faith we come to God for cleansing from the mess we have made of things, and when we ask for power to reverse causes we have set in motion, God sends in other causes by His Holy Spirit. It may be by direct intervention, or by a combination of circumstances which He controls. We can, therefore, be delivered from the wrath to come, because God will add other causes than those that we have initiated. ... Kenneth L. Pike (1912-2001), With Heart and Mind [1962]_______________________________________________________________
Not pleading with the Father, but expressing the Father's good pleasure is the key-note of true intercession. Forgiveness is God's idea, God's desire; and it is He who appoints both the Judge and the Counsel for the Defense. It was He who inaugurated the priestly work, that men might receive His cleansing and turn to the Lamb of God slain from the foundation of the world. God has provided for himself a Lamb. It is He who sends His Son to be our Elder Brother, and to incorporate us as adopted sons into the circle of His Fatherly love. So then it is the voice of His beloved Son which is most clearly heard by the Father in heaven. In that voice of intercession, all the voices of intercession are contained and heard. The Son is talking to the Father about us, and what He says is not Please but Yes. ... David Head, Shout for Joy [1962]_______________________________________________________________
He had no qualms; "for", said he, "when I fail in my duty, I readily acknowledge it, saying, 'I am used to do so; I shall never do otherwise if I am left to myself'. If I fail not, then I give God thanks, acknowledging that the strength comes from Him." ... Brother Lawrence (c.1605-1691), The Practice of the Presence of God
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What I am concerned with here is not to write a new life of Jesus, but to set down my witness to the continued shocks which his words and deeds gave me as I approached the Gospels uninsulated by the familiar cover of beautiful language. The figure who emerged is quite unlike the Jesus of conventional piety, and even more unlike that imagined hero whom members of various causes claim as their champion. What we are so often confronted with today is a "processed" Jesus. Every element that we feel is not consonant with our "image" of him is removed, and the result is more insipid and unsatisfying than the worst of processed food. ... J. B. Phillips (1906-1982), Ring of Truth [1967]_______________________________________________________________
You must not lose confidence in God because you lost confidence in your pastor. If our confidence in God had to depend upon our confidence in any human person, we would be on shifting sand. ... Francis Schaeffer (1912-1984)_______________________________________________________________
If I am afraid to speak the truth lest I lose affection, or lest the one concerned should say, "You do not understand", or because I fear to lose my reputation for kindness; if I put my own good name before the other's highest good, then I know nothing of Calvary love. If I am content to heal a hurt slightly, saying peace, peace, where there is no peace; if I forget the poignant words, "Let love be without dissimulation" and blunt the edge of truth, speaking not right things but smooth things, then I know nothing of Calvary love. ... Amy Carmichael (1867-1951), If [1938]_______________________________________________________________
There are, I should say, four elements in a redemptive community. It is personal, with things happening between people as well as to and in them individually; it is compassionate, always eager to help, observant but non judgmental toward others, breathing out hope and concern; it is creative, with imagination about each one in the group and its work as a whole, watching for authentic new vision coming from any of them; and it is expectant, always seeking to offer to God open and believing hearts and minds through which He can work out His will, either in the sometimes startling miracles He gives or in steady purpose through long stretches where there is no special "opening". It may fairly be said that unless one enmeshes himself in this "redemptive fellowship" of the church, he lessens his chances of steady growth and effectiveness, in his Christian life and experience. ... Samuel M. Shoemaker (1893-1963), The Experiment of Faith [1957]_______________________________________________________________
The world would use us just as it did the martyrs, if we loved God as they did. ... Bp. Thomas Wilson (1698-1755)_______________________________________________________________
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. ... Jim Elliot (1927-1956), missionary, martyr, The Journals of Jim Elliot [1978]_______________________________________________________________
The evil of riches, then, for institutions, for nations, for individuals, is that those who possess or seek to possess almost invariably overvalue possessions and so cease to live creatively. They stop loving God with all the heart and all the soul and all the strength and all the mind. They stop loving their neighbors, too. When you find a person of means who is not either a self-centered bore or a low person, you may know that God has worked a miracle. ... Bernard Iddings Bell (1886-1958), God is Not Dead [1945]_______________________________________________________________
Words are merely carriers of the secret, supernatural communications, the light and call of God. That is why spiritual books bear such different meanings for different types and qualities of soul, why each time we read them they give us something fresh, as we can bear it. ... Evelyn Underhill (1875-1941), Light of Christ [1944]_______________________________________________________________
Many ordinary treasures may be denied the man who has God, or if he is allowed to have them, the enjoyment of them will be so tempered that they will never be necessary to his happiness. Or if he must see them go, one after one, he will scarcely feel a sense of loss. ... A. W. Tozer (1897-1963), The Pursuit of God [1948]_______________________________________________________________
None but the Lord himself can afford us any help from the awful workings of unbelief, doubtings, carnal fears, murmurings. Thank God one day we will be done forever with "unbelief." ... Arthur W. Pink (1886-1952)_______________________________________________________________
The progress of mankind has always depended upon those who, seemingly isolated and powerless in their own day, have seen their vision and remained true to it. In the darkening corridors of time, they preserved integral their vision of the daylight at the end. This is a matter not of calculation but of faith. Our work may be small and its results invisible to us. But we may rest assured it will come to fruition in God’s good time. ... John Ferguson (1921- ), The Enthronement of Love [1950]_______________________________________________________________
God has called us to shine, just as much as Daniel was sent into Babylon to shine. Let no one say that he cannot shine because he has not so much influence as some others may have. What God wants you to do is to use the influence you have. Daniel probably did not have much influence down in Babylon at first, but God soon gave him more because he was faithful and used what he had. ... Dwight L. Moody (1837-1899)_______________________________________________________________
I don’t ask God to bless what I do. I pray He will help me to do what He blesses. ... Bob Pierce, founder and president, World Vision

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Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they find their rest in thee. ... St. Augustine (354-430), Confessions [397]_______________________________________________________________
If some Christians that have been complaining of their ministers had said and acted less before men and had applied themselves with all their might to cry to God for their ministers -— had, as it were, risen and stormed heaven with their humble, fervent, and incessant prayers for them -— they would have been much more in the way of success. ... Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)_______________________________________________________________
A man may be haunted with doubts, and only grow thereby in faith. Doubts are the messengers of the Living One to the honest. They are the first knock at our door of things that are not yet, but have to be, understood... Doubt must precede every deeper assurance; for uncertainties are what we first see when we look into a region hitherto unknown, unexplored, unannexed. George Macdonald (1824-1905), “The Voice of Job,” Unspoken Sermons, Second Series [1885]_______________________________________________________________
Remember, a small light will do a great deal when it is in a very dark place. Put one little tallow candle in the middle of a large hall, and it will give a good deal of light. ... D. L. Moody (1837-1899)
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Here is the truly Christian life, here is faith really working by love: when a man applies himself with joy and love to the works of that freest servitude, in which he serves others voluntarily and for naught; himself abundantly satisfied in the fullness and richness of his own faith. ... Martin Luther (1483-1546)_______________________________________________________________
We never become truly spiritual by sitting down and wishing to become so. You must undertake something so great that you cannot accomplish it unaided. ... Phillips Brooks (1835-1893)
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We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts. ... A. W. Tozer (1897-1963), The Pursuit of God [1948]_______________________________________________________________