"You're going to be interacting with checkout clerks, car rental agents, and dry cleaner staff anyway, so why not make each of those few interaction minutes delightful? It costs nothing to smile, make eye contact, and offer a sincere compliment. The payoff is that you'll feel better for those minutes, as will the person you're briefly connected with. It's all a matter of your choice." -- George Walther


No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated and disciplined. - Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878-1969, American minister)

He who boasts of his accomplishments will heap ridicule. Filipino Proverb

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated and disciplined. - Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878-1969, American minister)

Give God what's right -- not what's left.

We don't change God's message -- His message changes us.

The church is prayer-conditioned.

When God ordains, He sustains.

WARNING: Exposure to the Son may prevent burning.

Plan ahead -- It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.

Most people want to serve God, but only in an advisory position.

Suffering from truth decay? Brush up on your Bible.

Exercise daily -- walk with the Lord.

Never give the devil a ride -- he will always want to drive.

Nothing else ruins the truth like stretching it.



Man's way leads to a hopeless end -- God's way leads to an endless hope .

Compassion is difficult to give away because it keeps coming back.

He who angers you controls ! you.

Worry is the darkroom in which negatives can develop.

Give Satan an inch & he'll be a ruler.

Be ye fishers of men -- you catch them & He'll clean them.

God doesn't call the qualified, He qualifies the called.

A lot of kneeling will keep you in good standing.

He who kneels before God can stand before anyone.

In the sentence of life, the devil may be a comma--but never let him be the period.

Don't put a question mark where God puts a period.

Are you wrinkled with burden? Come to the church for a face-lift.

When praying, don't give God instructions - just report for duty.

Don't wait for six strong men to take you to church.

A bully is always a coward BUT a kind and true friend is always bold as a lion.

"If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothingyou cannot achieve." - Lao tzu

"Christ must be the light that shines through you, and the people looking at you must see only Jesus. You have a challenge from Jesus to meet: He has shed the light, and you will take His light and lighten every heart you meet." ~ Mother Teresa

It's never too late to be who you might have been. ~ George Eliot

"You're not ready to live until you are ready to die." ~ Chuck Swindoll

Deliver more than you are getting paid to do. The victory of success will be half won when you learn the secret of putting out more than is expected in all that you do. Make yourself so valuable in your work that eventually you will become indispensable. Og Mandino (1923-1996, American motivational author, speaker)

"Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it."

"One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation."

Confidence is not always being right but not fearing to be wrong. It is not always measured by positive results but by continued desire to try all possible efforts to succeed.

Give your very best in every thing you do so that if you fail you will have no regrets.

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. Auguste Rodin (1840-1917, French sculptor)

"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."

"To solve any problem, there are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, whom could I ask?" Jim Rohn

"What would you do, how would you change your life, if you learned today that you only had six months to live?" Brian Tracy

"An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea."

"The guy says, 'When you work where I work, by the time you get home, it's late. You've got to have a bite to eat, watch a little TV, relax and get to bed. You can't sit up half the night planning, planning, planning.' And he's the same guy who is behind on his car payment!" Jim Rohn

"He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law."

"Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve." - Mary Kay Ash

"You can have anything you want in this world; if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price." - Mary Kaye

"If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got."

“A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a whole life’s experience.”~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom; mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.”~ Lao Tzu
"As a man thinks in his heart, so is he." -- Proverbs 23:7, Bible

"Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones." -- Phillips Brooks

"Character is a quality that embodies many important traits, such as integrity, courage, perseverance, confidence and wisdom. Unlike your fingerprints that you are born with and can´t change, character is something that you create within yourself and must take responsibility for changing" -- Jim Rohn

"I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." -- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves, as he loves us better too. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This conflict with difficulty makes us acquainted with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial." -- Edmund Burke

"My preferred person today is one who is always aware of the needs of others, or their pain and fear and unhappiness, and their search for self-respect. I once liked clever people. Now I like good People." -- Soloman Freehof

"The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it." -- John Ruskin

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved." -- Helen Keller

"Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving." -- Dale Carnegie

"I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death." -- Thomas Paine

"Be absolutely clear about who you are and what you stand for. Refuse to compromise." -- Brian Tracy

"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character." -- Albert Einstein
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." -- Abraham Lincoln


"I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!" -- Theodore Roosevelt

"If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it." -- Marcus Aurelius

"The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back." -- Abigail Van Buren

"Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny." -- Frank Outlaw

"When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps."

"When it comes to change, there are three seasons of timing: People change when they hurt enough that they have to, when they learn enough that they want to, and when they receive enough that they are able to." (John Maxwell)

Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability. -- Roy L. Smith

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. -- Stephen King

The only competition you will ever have is the competition between your disciplined and undisciplined mind. -- James A. Ray

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors. -- Jim Rohn

"We cannot solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them." - Albert Einstein

"The man says, 'If I had a fortune, I'd take good care of it. But I only have a paycheck and I don't know where it all goes.' Wouldn't you love to have him running your company?" Jim Rohn

Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. - Ashe

"One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes." B. Disraeli

"Don't wait. The time will never be just right."


If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a-coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence. John B. Gough (1817-1886, British-born American temperance orator)

As a rule, you will find that those who complain about the way the ball bounces are usually the ones who dropped it. - ZINGERS

Please don’t pray for rain if you are going to complain about the mud. - ZINGERS
The loudest boos always come from those in the free seats. - ZINGERS


Those who beef too much often land in the stew. - ZINGERS

Watch your attitude toward the thing that troubles you. Your attitude may hurt more than the thing. - ZINGERS

"Success demands singleness of purpose." - Simple-ology

We retain 10% of what we read. We retain 20% of what we hear. We retain 30% of what we see. We retain 50% of what we hear and see. We retain 70% of what we say. We retain 90% of what we do.

The "20/80 Rule" tells us we will typically accomplish 80% of our results through 20% of our effort. The other 20% of additional results comes from about 80% of additional effort.

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same." R. Reagan

"An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching." - from Simple-ology

"Who are the learned? They who practice what they know." - from Simple-ology
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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly."

Today a thousand doors of enterprise are open to you, inviting you to useful work. Today is the day in which to attempt and achieve something worth- while." Grenville Kleiser

"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit."- Conrad Hilton

"Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus." -Oprah Winfrey

"Success is getting and achieving what you want. " -- Bernard Meltzer

"You are successful the moment you start moving toward a worthwhile goal." -- Chuck Carlson

"It is those who concentrate on but one thing at a time who advance in this world."

"Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it."

"No crime is so great as daring to excel."

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." - W. Churchill

"Preparation, I have often said, is rightly two-thirds of any venture." Amelia Earhart

"No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves." - Amelia Earhart

"Victory belongs to the most persevering."

"Doubt can only be removed by action."

"Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses."

"When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world." Samuel Langhome Clemens (Mark Twain)

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one." Samuel Langhome Clemens (Mark Twain)

"We must use *time* wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right."

"Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome."

"We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort."

"Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation."

"Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work." - Jack Nicklaus

"Focus on remedies, not faults." - Jack Nicklaus

"Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time." - B. Shaw

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them - B. Shaw

"Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one."

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the one who'll decide where you'll go" Theodor Seuss Geisel


Whenever someone must always rationalize and examine whether the things of God are beneficial to them, you know that they are not hungry enough for God - Os Hillman


"Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieveany goal that is worthwhile." - Vince Lombardi

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will." - Vince Lombardi

"Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect."
Stewardship reveals what we believe about God and ourselves - Os Hillman


Let us realize that the privilege to work is a gift, that power to work is a blessing, that love of work is success. David O. McKay

If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man. Chinese Proverb

I will tell you that there have been no failures in my life. I don't want to sound like some metaphysical queen, but there have been no failures. There have been some tremendous lessons. Oprah Winfrey(1954-, American TV Personality, Actress, Author)


When a dream takes hold of you, what can you do? You can run with it, let it run your life, or let it go and think for the rest of your life about what might have been. — Patch Adams, M.D.


"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude."