“A man is not defeated by his opponents but by himself.”
Jan Christian Smuts (1870-1950), South African statesman and prime minister
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“Never allow the thought – ‘I am no use where I am’; because you certainly can be of no use where you are not!”
Oswald Chambers
“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
“We are evaluated and classified by four things: By what we do, by how we look, by what we say, and by how we say it.”
Dale Carnegie (1888-1955), writer and lecturer
You are your own greatest asset or liability: the choice is yours.
Understand that every completed work, no matter how large or small, is a self-portrait of the person who undertook it. Make sure, then, that you autograph your work with excellence.
“No man need live a minute longer as he is because the Creator endowed him with the ability to change himself.”
J. C. Penney (1875-1971: American retailer and philanthropist)
“Within you right now is the power to do things that you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as soon as you can change your beliefs.”
Dr Maxwell Maltz (1899-1975), physician, psychologist, writer
Don’t mistake confidence with arrogance: one works the other doesn’t!
EGO stands for Edging God Out.
The person with a big ego is usually ‘me-deep’ in conversation.
It’s a fact that when offered to try out a new pen, 97% of all people will write down their own names. People want to feel important.
“Let us so endeavour to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.”
Mark Twain (1835-1910), American novelist and humourist
Understanding your uniqueness, and your own gifts and talents frees you from the need to measure yourself by the runner in the next lane.
“A great man is always willing to be little.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help enough other people get what they want.”
–Zig Ziglar
Provide continuous all-out-knock-your-socks-off service to your customers and build a ‘protection screen’ that no competitor can even hope to penetrate.
Sign seen in a tailors shop window, under the heading REPAIR SERVICE: “As you rip, so shall we sew.”
Success is a journey, and it’s all up hill all the way.
R. Ian Seymour
“The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (American poet, 1807-1882)
Don’t let success go to your head nor failure to your heart.
“Genius [success] is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.”
Thomas Edison (1847-1931), inventor
Success is a state of mind
“I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.”
Thomas Edison
“Success is relative: Once you have it, all the relatives come!”
Anon.
The road to success is always under construction.
“If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from his angle as well as your own.”
Henry Ford
“The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do without a thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved not because it is sought after.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), American poet
The main difference between a success and a failure is this: a success is a failure that kept on trying!
“The most important single ingredient to the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.” – Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), 26th President of the United States
Success simply cannot be attained by oneself. Think how difficult it is to find a rich hermit.
If you stick around turkeys you’ll never fly like an eagle.
“To succeed you have to believe in something with such a passion that it becomes a reality.”
Anita Roddick, founder of Body Shop
“Success covers over a multitude of blunders.”
Henry Wheeler
“Success is the result of good judgment; good judgment the result of experience and experience is usually the result of bad judgment.” – Anon
“The secret of success is to do the common duty uncommonly well.”
John D. Rockefeller, Jn., (1874-1960), billionaire businessman and philanthropist
Success is achieved through failure.
“I can’t really tell you the key to my success. I never got a degree, and I’ve only ever worked half days my entire life. I guess my advice would be to do the same: work half days every day. And it doesn’t matter which half you work; the first twelve hours or the second twelve hours!”
Kemin Wilson (founder of Holiday Inns)
“I owe whatever success I have achieved, by and large, to my ability to surround myself with people who are smarter than I am.”
Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919), US steel manufacturer and philanthropist
“The way to succeed is to double your failure rate.”
Thomas J. Watson, founder of IBM
“Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire!”
Reggie Leach, professional hockey player
“Often when people ask how I became successful, I reply, ‘I just went to work every day, did the best I could to advance the cause, and trusted God.’”
Rich DeVos, co-founder of Amway Corporation
“Genius is childhood recaptured.”
Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867)
Believe and achieve but doubt and you’re out!
“Whether you think you can or you can’t – either way you’re right.”
Henry Ford (1863-1947)
“Optimists are people who, when they wear out their shoes, just figure they are back on their feet again!” – Zig Ziglar
Think big start small.
“The most powerful nation in the world is a person’s imagination.”
Zig Ziglar
“Imagination is the true magic carpet.”
Dr Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1994), clergyman and writer
“What lies behind us and what lies before us, pales in significance when compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whatever you constantly think about comes about.
“A man is what he thinks about all day long.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When it comes down to how you think, remember GIGO – Garbage Input Garbage Output
Concentrate on the things you want, not on the things you don’t want!
“Nurture great thoughts for you will never go higher than your thoughts.”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), British prime minister
Don’t let your mouth overload your back.
“To choose time is to save time!”
Francis Bacon
“Don’t watch the clock, copy it and keep going!”
Samuel Levenson
Like all things time must be managed.
Aristotle (384-322 B.C.), ancient Greek Philosopher
“It’s not what television does to you, but what it prevents you from doing that is the most destructive thing about it.”
Zig Ziglar
“Today is a very important day because, no matter how you spend it, you’ve traded a day of your life for it.”
Zig Ziglar
The word ‘No’ is easy enough to pronounce but it can often the hardest thing in the world to say! Sometimes you’ve just ‘gotta’ be strong!
“The greatest single cause of executive inefficiency is overwork!”
Peter F. Drucker
To avoid one of the biggest wastes of time ever, never start your day until you have finished it on paper.
The only one who got everything done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe.
Committees are groups of people who keep minutes and waste hours.
“Time flies: It’s up to you to be the navigator.”
Robert Orben
Think about it: in just two days, tomorrow will be yesterday.
The trouble with the future is that it just isn’t what it used to be.
“It isn’t the large chunks of time that make the winning difference. The large demands on time fall about the same for most of us. The scraps of wasted time are where the winning edge is. For example, I have noticed that generally the most successful individuals leave a meeting first!”
Fred Smith, US businessman, speaker and author
I love this snippet found in an old copy of an American edition of Reader’s Digest. The article said: ‘While our friends from India travelled around California on business, they left their 11 year-old-daughter with us. Curious about my going to church one Sunday morning, she decided to come along. When we returned home, my husband asked her what she thought of the service. ”I don’t understand why the West Coast isn’t included in the blessing too,” she replied. When we inquired what she meant she added, “You know, in the name of the Father, the Son, and the whole East Coast!”
The doctrine of the Trinity is inextricably linked with the divinity of Christ, as taught in the New Testament and as proclaimed in The Nicene Creed (produced in A.D.325 and revised at Constantinople A.D.381), and which begins:
“I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible. And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of the Father before all worlds; God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God; begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father, by whom all things were made…
Why does the importance of the doctrine of the Trinity even matter? Well, because just about everything that matters in Christianity hangs on the truth of God’s three-in-oneness. Take the supreme issue of our sin which separates us from God and renders us subject to his wrath. Theologian, Bruce Milne, wrote: “In the final analysis sin concerns two parties, the offending sinner (us) and the offended God. Hence, if Jesus [is only a man and] is not God, well then my sin really has nothing to do with him.
Once when Jesus forgave a man’s sins he was accused of blasphemy, for only God can forgive sins (Mark 2v5-7). In one sense his critics were perfectly correct; their error lay in not seeing who Jesus was. – Only if Jesus is God come to us in person can he deal with our sins; and conversely, if he deals with our sins, then He must be God.”
Bruce Milne, 1982, Know The Truth, IVP Leicester, p.62-63
“Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.” – Vince Lombardi
“They can make a machine that can beat you at chess, but does it know it’s won?”
Ken Campbell, columnist
A Quitter Never Wins and A Winner Never Quits.
“To finish first you must first finish.”
Rick Mears, racing car driver and 4 times winner on the Indy 500
Why?
Why Not?
Why Not You?
Why Not Now?
“Winning is easy: all you have to do is to outlast your opponent.”
Doug Firebaugh
“Top cats often begin life as underdogs.”
Bernard Meltzer, author
“We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist.”
Queen Victoria (1819-1901)
“I am totally dependent on God for help in everything I do. Otherwise I honestly believe I would start to fall apart in months.”
Wallace Johnson (founder of Holiday Inn)
“One of the reasons an owl is considered wise is because it keeps its mouth shut most of the time!”
Lloyd Allard.
“Knowledge and timber should not be much used until they are seasoned.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Narrow-minded people are similar to narrow-necked bottles. The less they have in them, they more noise they make pouring it out.”
Alexander Pope
What is least heeded when it is most needed? – Advice
We learn more from seven days of trouble and strife than from seven years of ease and contentment.
In full and glad surrender,
I give myself to Thee.
Thine utterly, and only,
and evermore to be.
F. R. Havergal
Richard Blackaby says: I have known many a Christian who was deeply concerned because a husband or wife is an unbeliever. As the result, the believer would continually speak to his or her partner about the need for God. However, this persistence at times actually frustrated the non-believer and drove the spouse further from God. When the Christians come to me and tearfully share that they have done all they know to do but their mate seems more reluctant than ever, I suggest they may be attempting to do what only the Holy Spirit can do. “Instead of trying to convict your spouse of sin,” I say, “pray for your spouse daily and then watch to see when the Holy Spirit prepares him or her for a spiritual conversation.”
Richard Blackaby, Experiencing God, 2008, Nashville Tennessee: B&H Publishing, p.126
For some people, you may be the only Bible they ever read, so make sure what you are conveying is the love and light of Jesus.
“Little strokes fell great oaks.”
Benjamin Franklin.
“Work is essential to joy.”
Fred Smith, US businessman, speaker and author
Work makes worth
“God gives every bird its food but he doesn’t throw it in the nest for them.”
Anon.
If the job’s worth doing it’s worth doing well. And if it’s not worth doing, then why bother starting it in the first place!
R. Ian Seymour
On the whole, it makes much more sense to arrive at work early than it does to stay late. When you frequently arrive early to work it shows that you are keen, conscientious, reliable and eager to get started. On the other hand, frequently working late might give rise to the impression that it takes you longer to accomplish your tasks each day.
Zig Ziglar
“Blessed is he who has found his work, let him ask no other blessedness.”
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), Scottish essayist and historian
“One of the biggest mistakes a person can make in life is to think they are working for someone else!”
Anon
The greatest idea in the world won’t work unless you do.
Hard work is usually nothing more than the accumulation of lots of easy work that should have been done and hasn’t.