Inspiring Friday: May 16, 2014

"It's better to look ahead and prepare than to look
back and regret." -- Jacki Joyner-Kersee

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to
failure is trying to please everybody." -- Unknown

"The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome
his first business, and success only a subsequent
consideration." -- Confucius

"Throughout the centuries, there were men who took
first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but
their own vision." -- Ayn Rand

"When at a loss for the right word, try silence." --
Unknown

"Chance favors the prepared mind." -- Louis Pasteur

Inspiring Friday: April 5, 2014

"We cannot do everything at once, but we can do
something at once." -- Calvin Coolidge

"Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws
will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose
manners are universally corrupt." -- John Adams

"In the confrontation between the stream and the rock,
the stream always wins, not through strength but by
perseverance." -- H. Jackson Brown

"Never give in---never, never, never, never, in nothing
great or small, large or petty, never give in except to
convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to
force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might
of the enemy." -- Winston Churchill

"Time is more value than money. You can get more money,
but you cannot get more time." -- Jim Rohn

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It
comes from indomitable will." -- Mahatma Gandhi

Inspiring Friday: March 7, 2014

"Life without Yahweh is like an unsharpened pencil--it has
no point!" -- Unknown

"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships
are built for." -- William Shedd

"Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own
self-fulfilling prophecy." -- Brian Tracy

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It
is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost,
but the urge to serve others at whatever cost." --
Arthur Ashe

"The biggest tragedy in America is not the great waste
of natural resources--though this is tragic; the
biggest tragedy is the waste of human resources because
the average person goes to his grave with his music
still in him." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes

The trouble with not having a goal is that you can
spend your life running up and down the field and never
scoring." -- Bill Copeland

Inspiring Friday: February 7, 2014

"An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid
to fail." -- Edwin Land

"Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity;
nothing more easily managed than one in adversity." --
Plutarch

"It is the mark of an educated mind to entertain a
thought without accepting it." -- Aristotle

"Actions speak louder than words, but not as often." --
Unknown

"The less you talk, the more people will listen." --
Unknown

"Only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon
will find his right road." -- Dag Hammarskjold

Inspiring Friday:January 17, 2013

"A business that makes nothing but money is a poor
business." -- Henry Ford

"The path of least resistance is the path of the
loser." -- H.G.Wells

"Most of the things worth doing in the world had been
declared impossible before they were done." -- Louis
Brandeis, U.S. Supreme Court justice

"Better to be prepared and not called, than to be
called and not prepared." -- James Wallace

"When someone shares something of value with you, and
you benefit from it, you have a moral obligation to
share it with others!" -- Chinese Proverb

"Without God there is no virtue because there is no
prompting of the conscience ... without God there is a
coarsening of the society; without God democracy will
not and cannot long endure. If we ever forget that we
are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone
under." -- Ronald Reagan

Inspiring Friday a tad late: December 20, 2013

"The enemy surrounds us. Don't let one escape." --
Vance Havner

"There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness." --
Countess of Blessington

"One person with a belief is equal to a force of
ninety-nine who have only interests." -- John Stuart
Mill

"Believe that life is worth living, and your belief
will help create the fact." -- William James

"A diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor the
man perfected without trials." -- Chinese Proverb

"By starving emotions we become humorless, rigid and
stereotyped; by repressing them we become literal,
reformatory and holier-than-thou; encouraged, they
perfume life; discouraged, they poison it." -- Joseph
Collins

inspiring Friday: December 6, 2013

"People do not lack strength, they lack will." --
Victor Hugo

"You become what you think about [or keep thinking
about]." -- Earl Nightingale

"Every day do something that will inch you closer to a
better tomorrow." -- Doug Firebaugh

"He that will not reflect is a ruined man." -- Asian
Proverb

"Ignorance is the single greatest tool of oppression."
-- Unknown Author

"Cast all your cares upon God, for He cares for you."
-- The Bible (1 Peter 5:7)

Inspiring Friday: November 15, 2013

"We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us
now commit it to life." -- Edwin Markham

"Beware the barrenness of a busy life." -- Socrates

"A man grows most tired when he is standing still." --
Unknown

"The making of friends who are real friends is the best
token we have of a man's success in life." -- Edward
Hale

"Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind
word is never wasted." -- Unknown

"Without God there is no virtue because there is no
prompting of the conscience; without God there is a
coarsening of the society; without God democracy will
not and cannot long endure. If we ever forget that we
are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone
under." -- Ronald Reagan

Inspiring Friday: November 8, 2013

"I don't want to get to the end of my life and find
that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have
lived the width of it as well." -- Diane Ackerman

"One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will
be a friend better than any possession." -- Sophocles

"Every farmer knows that you can't sow and reap on the
same day. There is a timetable for your harvest that
requires both working and waiting. Patience is a small
price to pay for what you will receive." -- Neil
Eskelin

"Trying times are not the times to stop trying." -- Ray
Owen

"Everything that is done in the world is done by the
hopeful." -- Martin Luther

"There are no hopeless situations--only people who are
hopeless about them." -- Dinah Shore

Inspiring Friday: October 4, 2013

"This country will not be a good place for any of us to
live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to
live in." -- Theodore Roosevelt

"How wonderful it is that no one need wait a single
moment before starting to change the world." -- Anne
Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone
else." -- Booker T. Washington

"Everyone can be great because anyone can serve. You
don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't
have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve.
You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated
by love." -- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do
everything, but still I can do something; and because I
cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something
that I can do." -- Edmund Everett Hale

Inspiring Friday: September 19, 2013

"Most of the important things in the world have been
accompanied by people who have kept on trying when
there seemed to be no hope at all." -- Dale Carnegie

"Temptation usually comes in through a door that has
deliberately been left open." -- Unknown

"The last thing one knows is what to put first." --
Blaise Pascal

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and
expecting different results." -- Albert Einstein

"Today is the first day of the rest of your life." --
Charles Dederich

"I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it
has been." -- Wayne Gretzky

"Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite
of it." -- Mark Twain

Inspiring Friday: August 30, 2013

"One man with courage makes up a majority." – Andrew Jackson

"Great minds have purpose, others have wishes." – Washington Irving

"Men see what is and ask why. I see what could be and ask why not." – Pablo Picasso

"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." – Winston Churchill

"You can't turn back the clock, but you can certainly wind it up again." – Unknown

Friendship is a gift. A friend is someone who fills our lives with beauty, joy and grace, and makes the world in which we live a better and happier place" – Unknown

Inspiring Friday: August 16, 2013

"It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself." – Thomas Paine

"A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies." – William Wrigley Jr.
 

"I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying." – Michael Jordan

"We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount ... The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants." – General Omar Bradley

"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give." – Winston Churchill
 

"I always view problems as opportunities in work clothes." – Henry Kaiser, businessman

Inspiring Friday: August 2, 2013

"The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought
not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe
to be just." - Abraham Lincoln

"Heroes are ordinary men and women who dare to see and
meet the call of a possibility greater than themselves.
People who, despite their doubts and fears, commit
themselves to action. People who go beyond their limits
in what they think is possible." - Joan Holmes

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that
good men do nothing." - Edmund Burke

"We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take
charge and rule our lives from within." - Earl
Nightingale

"What you get by achieving your goals is not as
important as what you become by achieving your goals."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people
live in a hostile world. Same world." - Dr. Wayne Dyer

Inspiring Friday: July 20, 2013

"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear." – Nelson Mandela

"Choice, not chance, determines human destiny." – Robert W. Ellis

"The man who chases two rabbits catches neither." – Confucius

"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint. " – Albert Schweitzer

"Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product." – Eleanor Roosevelt

"You're never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." – C.S. Lewis

Inspiring Friday: July 12, 2013

"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain
what he cannot lose." -- Jim Elliot

"Expect great things from God; attempt great things for
God." -- William Carey

"My father used to play with my brother and me in the
yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up
the grass.' 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply.
'We're raising boys.'" -- Harmon Killebrew

"If we are correct and right in our Christian life at
every point, but refuse to stand for the truth at a
particular point where the battle rages---then we are
traitors to Christ." -- Martin Luther

"A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a
prepared mind." -- Albert Szent-Gyorgi

"None are so empty as those who are full of
themselves." -- Benjamin Whichcote

"Each one of us can work for a small change in the
world around us." -- Lamar S. Smith, Politician

Inspiring Friday: June 28, 2013

"It is choice, not chance, that determines our
destiny." -- Brian Tracy

"We're all self made. Only the rich will admit it." --
Unknown

"If you don't change directions, you'll end up where
you are headed." -- Dorothy Satten

"The trouble with most people is that they stop trying
in trying times." -- Dennis Waitley

"He who throws mud loses ground." -- Unknown

"We don't always act consistently with what we profess,
but we always act consistently with what we deep down
believe." -- Unknown

Inspiring Friday: June 21, 2013

I saw the angel in the marble, and I chiseled until I set it free." – Michelangelo

"Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the presence of God, no matter what the conflict." – Unknown

"Emotional illness is avoiding reality at any cost. Mental health is accepting reality at any cost." – M. Scott Peck

God "desires truth in the innermost being: and in the hidden part you will make me to know wisdom." – The Bible, Psalm 51:6

"Every unshed tear is a prism through which all of life's hurts are distorted." – Cecil Osborne

"Where love reigns, there is no will for power." – Carl Jung

Inspiring Friday: June 14, 2013

"We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to
start a thing. Action always generates inspiration.
Inspiration seldom generates action." -- Frank Tibolt

"The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away
small stones." -- William Faulkner

"Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly
are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you
that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the
big ones tend to take care of themselves." -- Dale
Carnegie, Author

"Do what is right, not what you think the high
headquarters wants or what you think will make you look
good." -- General Norman Schwarzkopf

"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I
cannot change, the courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know one from the other" -- Reinhold
Niebuhr

"No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world,
is as formidable as the will and moral courage of free
men and women." -- Ronald Reagan

Inspiring Friday: May 31, 2013

"Life is 10% what you make it and 90% how you take it."
-- Unknown

"Love God, love people, do something about it." --
Motto of The Rock, Conway's Community Church,


"We must take change by the hand or rest assuredly,
change will take us by the throat." -- Winston
Churchill

"Each man [is] the architect of his own fortune." --
Appius Caecus

"We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive.
He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of
the power to love." -- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Don't bother just to be better than your
contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself." -- William Faulkner