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Favorite Business Quotes:
A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully and leave contentedly. --Benjamin Franklin
A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning. --Pat Riley
If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception. It is a prevailing attitude. --Colin Powell
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. --Will Rogers
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. --Francis Bacon
A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning. --Pat Riley
If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception. It is a prevailing attitude. --Colin Powell
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. --Will Rogers
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. --Francis Bacon
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Filmed in 1941, starring Humphey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman. Still one of my favorites. : )
Franklin's Formula for Successful Living
We stand at the crossroads,
Each minute,
Each hour,
Each day,
Making choices.
We choose
The thoughts
We allow ourselves to think,
The passions
We allow ourselves to feel,
And the actions
We allow ourselves to perform.
Each choice
Is made in the context
Of whatever value system
We’ve selected
To govern our lives.
In selecting that value system,
We are,
In a very real way,
Making the most important choice
We will ever make.
Those who believe there is one God
Who made all things
And who governs the world by his providence
Will make many choices different
From those who do not.
Those who hold in reverence
That being who gave the life
And worship Him through
Adoration,
Prayer,
And thanksgiving
Will make many choices different
From those who do not.
Those who believe
in the future state
in which
all that is wrong here
will be made right
will make many choices different
from those who do not.
Those who subscribe
to the morals of Jesus
Will make many choices different
From those who do not.
Since the foundation of all happiness
Is thinking rightly,
And since correct action
Is dependent on correct opinion,
We cannot be too careful
In choosing the value system
We allow to govern
Our thoughts and actions.
And to know that God governs
In the affairs of men,
That he hears and answers prayers,
And that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him,
Is indeed,
A powerful regulator
Of human conduct.
The Serenity Prayer
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change;
Courage to change the things I can;
And the wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time;
enjoying one moment at a time;
accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;
Taking, as He did, this sinful world
as it is, not as I would have it;
Trusting that He will make all things right--
If I surrender to His will;
That I may be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy with Him
forever in the next.
Amen.
~Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971)~
enjoying one moment at a time;
accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;
Taking, as He did, this sinful world
as it is, not as I would have it;
Trusting that He will make all things right--
If I surrender to His will;
That I may be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy with Him
forever in the next.
Amen.
~Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971)~
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A word to the wise...
One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind. --Malayan Proverb
Choose being kind over being right, and you'll be right every time. --Richard Carlson
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. --Aesop
Go, then, and learn what this means, 'I want mercy, and not sacrifice.' --Matthew 9:13
"What shall I do to you, O Ephraim? What shall I do to you, O Judah, when the loving-kindness of you people is like the morning clouds and like dew that early goes away? That is why I shall hew [them] by the prophets; I shall have to kill them by the sayings of my mouth. And the judgments upon you will be as the light that goes forth. For in loving-kindness I have taken delight, and not in sacrifice; and in the knowledge of God rather than in whole burnt offerings. --Hosea 6:4-6
Choose being kind over being right, and you'll be right every time. --Richard Carlson
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. --Aesop
Go, then, and learn what this means, 'I want mercy, and not sacrifice.' --Matthew 9:13
"What shall I do to you, O Ephraim? What shall I do to you, O Judah, when the loving-kindness of you people is like the morning clouds and like dew that early goes away? That is why I shall hew [them] by the prophets; I shall have to kill them by the sayings of my mouth. And the judgments upon you will be as the light that goes forth. For in loving-kindness I have taken delight, and not in sacrifice; and in the knowledge of God rather than in whole burnt offerings. --Hosea 6:4-6
bringing sight to the blind:
...[T]wo blind men followed him, crying out and saying: "Have mercy on us , Son of David". After he had gone into the house, the blind men came to him, and Jesus asked them: "Do you have faith that I can do this"? They answered him: "Yes, Lord". Then he touched their eyes, saying: "According to your faith let it happen to you". And their eyes received sight. Moveover, Jesus sternly charged them, saying: "See that nobody gets to know it". But they, after getting outside, made it public about him in all that region. --Matthew 9:27-31
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Love Commands Friends: John 15:10--17
10) If you observe my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have observed the commandments of the Father and remain in his love.
11) “These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you and your joy may be made full. 12) This is my commandment, that you love one another just as I have loved you. 13) No one has love greater than this, that someone should surrender his life in behalf of his friends. 14) you are my friends if you do what I am commanding you. 15) I no longer call you [servants], because a [servant] does not know what his master does. But I have called you friends, because all the things I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. 16) you did not choose me, but I chose you, and I appointed you to go on and keep bearing fruit and that your fruit should remain; in order that no matter what you ask the Father in my name He [may] give it to you.
17) “These things I command you, that you love one another.
11) “These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you and your joy may be made full. 12) This is my commandment, that you love one another just as I have loved you. 13) No one has love greater than this, that someone should surrender his life in behalf of his friends. 14) you are my friends if you do what I am commanding you. 15) I no longer call you [servants], because a [servant] does not know what his master does. But I have called you friends, because all the things I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. 16) you did not choose me, but I chose you, and I appointed you to go on and keep bearing fruit and that your fruit should remain; in order that no matter what you ask the Father in my name He [may] give it to you.
17) “These things I command you, that you love one another.
G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936) on Courage:
"Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die. 'He that will lose his life, the same shall save it,' is not a piece of mysticism for saints and heroes. It is a piece of everyday advice for sailors or mountaineers. It might be printed in an Alpine guide or a drill book. The paradox is the whole principle of courage, even of quite earthly or quite brutal courage. A man cut off by the sea may save his life if he will risk it on the precipice. He can only get away from death by continually stepping within an inch of it. A soldier surrounded by enemies, if he is to cut his way out, needs to combine a strong desire for living with a strange carelessness about dying. He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it; he must desire life like water and yet drink death like wine. No philosopher, I fancy, has ever expressed this romantic riddle with adequate lucidity and I certainly have not done so, but Christianity has done more. It has marked the limits of it in the awful graves of the suicide and the hero, showing the distance between him who dies for the sake of living, and him who dies for the sake of dying, and it has held up ever since, above the European lances, the banner of the mystery of chivalry, the Christian courage, which is a disdain of death."
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