"My prescription for success is based
on something my father always used to tell me; you should
never try to be better than someone else, but you should
never cease trying to be the best you can be."
---John
Wooden, famous basketball coach at UCLA
October 11, 2005
"You can't have a better tomorrow if
you are thinking about yesterday all the time."
---Charles F.
Kettering
October 12, 2005
"I was taught moral principles from
childhood and tried to win God's approval by good works, but
I was motivated by guilt. I finally came to realize that if
anyone is trying to impress God, it is not of Him. Then in
1995 as a result of the Braves chapel services I came to
understand my need to have a personal relationship with
Christ."
---Atlanta Braves pitcher John Smoltz
October 13, 2005
"The diamond cannot be polished
without friction, nor the man perfected without trials."
---Chinese Proverb
October 14, 2005
"The Cross is the ladder to heaven."
---Thomas Drake
October 15, 2005
"The man that worships the dollar
instead of thinking of the purposes for which it ought to be
used, the man who simply idolizes money, the miser that
hoards his money in the cellar, or hides it in his stocking,
or refuses to invest it where it will do the world good,
that man who hugs the dollar until the eagle squeals, has in
him the root of all evil."
---Russell H. Conwell, in Acres of
Diamonds
October 16, 2005
"I believe God made me for a purpose,
but he also made me fast, and when I run, I feel God's
pleasure."
---Olympic runner Eric Liddell in the film
Chariots of Fire
October 17, 2005
" I don't know God's plan for your
life...But for all you know, He is training you and shaping
you this very moment to step in and serve as a pastor or an
officer or as a board member or as a student body leader, to
fill the shoes of someone who has done a bang-up job. Sure,
you're different from that person. But if God is calling you
into that unenviable place of His appointment, He can use
you in a remarkable way."
---Charles R. Swindoll
October 18, 2005
"It is not failing that's the sin!
It's accepting failure as final--that's the sin! No matter
how often a man fails--HE'S NOT A FAILURE UNTIL HE TAKES IF
AS FINAL!"
---Richard Halverson, former chaplain of the
United States Senate
October 19, 2005
"We make a living by what we get, but
we make a life by what we give."
---Paul C. Johnson
October 20, 2005
"Well done is better that well said."
---Benjamin Franklin
October 21, 2005
"Your attitude determines your
altitude."
---Zig Ziglar
October 22, 2005
" I would rather fail in the cause
that some day will triumph than triumph in a cause that will
some day will fail."
---Woodrow Wilson
October 23, 2005
"You've have heard people say, 'I
can't make it to the meeting tonight, but I'll be with you
in spirit.' Do you know what that means? Nothing. It's
worthless! As long as you're on earth, your spirit can only
be where your body is. If your body isn't there, neither are
you!"
--- Rick Warren “The Purpose Driven Life”
October 24, 2005
“It is not fitting, when one is in
God’s service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.”
---Saint Francis of Assisi
October 25, 2005
“Treat a man as he is and he will
remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he
will become as he can and should be.”
---German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832
October 26, 2005
“Failure is the opportunity to begin
again more intelligently.”
---John Maxwell
October 27, 2005
“Some people, no matter how old they
get, never lose their beauty—they merely move it from their
faces into their hearts.”
---Author, Barbara Johnson
October 28, 2005
“No one can cheat you out of ultimate
success but yourself.”
---Ralph Waldo Emerson
October 29, 2005
“The trouble with the rat race is
that even if you win, you’re still a rat.”
---Lily Tomlin
October 30, 2005
“The great task of the church is not
only to get sinners into heaven, but also to get the saints
out of bed.”
---A.L. Todd
October 31, 2005
“The mask we most often wear, the one
called, “Self,” distorts any vision of God into a picture of
idolatry.”
---David B. Whitlock
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