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MAJORITY
"A man with God is always in the majority."
- John Knox

MANAGEMENT
“Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.”
- John D. Rockefeller

MANHOOD
Phyllis George was interviewing Roger Staubach and asked him how he felt about having the All-American Boy image – did it bother him? Staubach replied, "I enjoy sex just as much as Joe Namath, I’ve just chosen to do it with one woman."

"According to statistics, if a man is the first in his family to accept Christ, 93 percent of his family members will follow his example."
- Baptist Press

MARRIAGE
"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person."
- Mignon McLaughlin

“You do not marry an isolated individual. You marry all of the people who are significant to that individual. You marry all of the childhood memories; you marry the values and beliefs instilled in the person by the family, including values about marriage and parenting.”
- Tommy Nelson

"Marriage is when you agree to spend the rest of your life sleeping in a room that's too warm, beside someone who's sleeping in a room that's too cold."
- Unknown

"A good marriage is the union of two forgivers."
- Ruth Bell Graham.

"My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me."
- Winston Churchill

"There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate."
- Margaret Mead

“Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.”
- Joseph Barth

“To have peace and love in marriage is a gift which is next to the knowledge of the Gospel.”
- Martin Luther

“Nothing is more sweet than harmony in marriage, and nothing more distressing than dissension.”
- Martin Luther

MATERIAL POSSESSIONS
“I place no value on anything I have or may possess, except in relation to the kingdom of God. If anything will advance the interests of the kingdom, it shall be given away or kept, only as by giving or keeping it I shall most promote the glory of Him to whom I owe all my hopes in time or eternity.”
- David Livingstone

MATURITY
"The popular notion is that maturity comes with age. Not true. You get old with age. Maturity comes with the acceptance of responsibility in every area of your life."
- Ed Cole

MEDITATION
“I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses [of the Bible] all day than rinse my hand in several chapters.”
- Charles Spurgeon

MINISTRY
“The essence of the minister lies in what God has created him to be rather than in what the church authorized him to do.”
- John Stacey

"The ministry is a weight from which even an angel might shrink"
- Augustine

MIRACLES
"Anyone who doesn’t believe in miracles isn’t a realist!"
- David Ben Gurion

MISSIONS
”The Spirit of Christ is the spirit of missions, and the nearer we get to Him the more intensely missionary we must become.”
- Henry Martyn

MISTAKES
“The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.”
- Edward John Phelps

MONEY
"A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart."
- Jonathon Swift

"Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like."
- Will Rogers

“We have become ninety-nine percent money mad. The method of living at home modestly and within our income, laying a little by systematically for the proverbial rainy day which is due to come, can almost be listed among the lost arts.”
- George Washington Carver

MORALE
“Morale is the greatest single factor in successful wars.”
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

MOTIVATION
“History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.”
- Peter Drucker

"People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing that's why we recommend it daily."
- Zig Ziglar

"It’s not up to anyone else to make me give my best."
- Hakeem Olajuwon

“Coaches who can outline plays on a blackboard are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their players and motivate.”
- Vince Lombardi

MUSIC
“The devil should not be allowed to keep all the best tunes for himself.”
- Martin Luther

“Secular music, do you say, belongs to the devil? Does it? Well, if it did I would plunder him for it, for he has no right to a single note of the whole seven.… Every note, and every strain, and every harmony is divine and belongs to us.… So consecrate your voice and your instruments.… Offer them to God, and use them to make all the hearts about you merry before the Lord.”
- William Booth

NEW BEGINNINGS
"I am amazed by how many individuals mess up every new day with yesterday. They insist on bringing into today the failures of yesterday and in doing so pollute a potentially wonderful day."
- Gary Chapman

NORMALITY
“The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well.”
- Joe Ancis

NOVELTY
“By nature, men love newfangledness.”
- Geoffrey Chaucer

OBSERVATION
"As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do."
- Andrew Carnegie

OBSTACLES
“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.”
- Hannah More

OFFENSE
"It’s a fact that it is much more comfortable to be in the position of the person who has been offended than to be the unfortunate cause of it."
- Barbara Walters

OPINIONS
“The researches of many commentators have already thrown much darkness on this subject, and it is probable that, if they continue, we shall soon know nothing at all about it.”
- Mark Twain

OPPORTUNITY
“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”
- Francis Bacon

“We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.”
- Walt Kelley

"When one door closes another door opens, but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the ones which open for us."
- Alexander Graham Bell

"The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are."
- John Burrows

"Gentlemen, we are surrounded by insurmountable opportunities."
- Pogo

"No great man ever complains of want of opportunity."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When one door closes another door opens, but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the ones which open for us."
- Alexander Graham Bell

"To young men who are looking for an opportunity and who complain there is no opening for them, permit me to say this: ‘Go where the poor and the under-privileged are. They will be glad to hear you. When you have learned to bless them, others will be calling for your services. Don't wait for opportunity to come walking up to you. Go to meet it.’"
- Gordon Lindsay

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overall and looks like work."
- Thomas Edison

OPPOSITION
“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
- Albert Einstein

OPTIMISM
"The world of achievement has always belonged to the optimist."
- J. Harold Wilkins

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."
- Helen Keller

“I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.”
- Winston Churchill

ORIGINALITY
“Originality is the act of forgetting where you read it.”
- Unknown

OUTLOOK
"Outlook determines outcome."
- Warren Wiersbe

OUTREACH
“So long as there is a human being who does not know Jesus Christ, I am his debtor to serve him until he does.”
- Oswald Chambers

PACE
“In the name of Jesus Christ, who was never in a hurry, we pray, O God, that You will slow us down, for we know that we live too fast. With all of eternity before us, make us take time to live — time to get acquainted with You, time to enjoy Your blessings, and time to know each other.”
- Peter Marshall

“Death is nature’s way of telling us to slow down.”
- Unknown

PARENTING
"Before I was married I had three theories about raising children. Now I have three children and no theories."
- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

PARTNERSHIP
“Without God, man cannot, and without man, God will not.”
- Augustine

"The spirit of interdependence will not cost us more than it's worth. On the steep slope ahead, holding hands is necessary. And it just might be that we can learn to enjoy it."
- Paul Harvey

"I have long been profoundly convinced that in the very nature of things, employers and employees are partners, not enemies; that their interests are common not opposed; that in the long run the success of each is dependent upon the success of the other."
- John D. Rockefeller

"Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be."
- Charles Brower

"It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone."
- Andrew Carnegie

“I will venture to go down, but remember that you must hold the ropes.”
- William Carey

PASSION

"I know when apostolic passion has died in my heart. It happens when I don't spend my quiet time dreaming of the time when Jesus will be worshiped in languages that aren't yet heard in heaven. I know it's missing from my life when I sing about heaven, but live as if earth is my home. Apostolic passion is dead in my heart when I dream more about sports, toys, places to go and people to see, than I do about the nations worshiping Jesus."
- Floyd Mclung

"You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles and break through the brick walls that are always going to be placed in front of you. If you don't have that kind of feeling for what it is you're doing, you'll stop at the first giant hurdle."
- George Lucas

“Come near to the holy men and women of the past and you will soon feel the heat of their desire after God. They mourned for Him, they prayed and wrestled and sought for Him day and night, in season and out, and when they found Him, the finding was all the sweeter for the long seeking.”
- A.W. Tozer

PASSIVITY
“Only dead fish drift with the stream.”
- Malcolm Muggeridge

PAST
"Your past is always going to be the way it was. Stop trying to change it."
- Unknown

"You do not move ahead by constantly looking in a rear view mirror. The past is a rudder to guide you, not an anchor to drag you. We must learn from the past but not live in the past."
- Dr. Warren W. Wiersbe

PASTORAL QUALIFICATIONS
"Qualifications of a pastor: the mind of a scholar, the heart of a child, and the hide of a rhinoceros."
- Stuart Briscoe

PASTORING
"I like the saying that being a pastor is the worst of all jobs and the best of all callings."
- Jackson Carroll

PATIENCE
"Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, but not in the one ahead."
- Bill McGlashen

The great New England preacher Phillips Brooks was noted for his poise and quiet manner. At times, however, even he suffered moments of frustration and irritability. One day a friend saw him feverishly pacing the floor like a caged lion. "What's the trouble, Mr. Brooks?" he asked. "The trouble is that I'm in a hurry, but God isn't!"

"Wisely and slowly; they stumble that run fast."
- William Shakespeare

“Sometimes the ship that is longest on its voyage brings home the richest freight. If the promise tarries, wait for it. A promise long waited for is very precious in its fulfilment.”
- T. Coley

“The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg—not smashing it.”
- Arnold Glasow

PEACE
“Peace is the fruit of believing prayer?”
- M.R. Vincent

"If God be our God, He will give us peace in trouble. When there is a storm without, He will make peace within. The world can create trouble in peace, but God can create peace in trouble."
-Thomas Watson

“There is no peace in the border lands. The halfway Christian is a torment to himself and of no benefit to others.”
- Earnest Worker

"When I am anxious it is because I am living in the future. When I am depressed it is because I am living in the past."
- Unknown

PEOPLE
"There are two kinds of people in the world—those who walk into a room and say, ‘There you are’—and those who say, ‘Here I am!’"
- Abigail Van Buren

“The crowd makes the ballgame.”
- Ty Cobb

PEOPLE SKILLS
“Never speak of yourself to others; make them talk about themselves instead: therein lies the whole art of pleasing.  Everyone knows it and everyone forgets it.”
- Edmond and Jules de Goncourt

“A gossip is one who talks to you about others; a bore is one who talks to you about himself; and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself.”
- Lisa Kirk

“Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.”
- Benjamin Disraeli

“People will sit up and take notice of you if you will sit up and take notice of what makes them sit up and take notice.”
- Frank Romer

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"You can foul up on almost anything, and you'll get another chance. But if you screw up, even a little bit, on people management, you're gone. That's it, top performer or not."
- IBM Executive

"Use a sweet tongue, courtesy, and gentleness, and thou mayst manage to guide an elephant with a hair."
- Napoleon Bonaparte

"I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than for any other ability under the sun."
- John D. Rockefeller

"You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years of trying to get other people interested in you."
- Dale Carnegie

“You can’t make the other fellow feel important in your presence if you secretly feel that he is a nobody.”
- Les Giblin

“Few things will pay you bigger dividends than the time and trouble you take to understand people. Almost nothing will add more to your stature as an executive and a person. Nothing will give you greater satisfaction or bring you more happiness.”
- George Kienzle and Edward Dare

“It’s more important to get along with people than to get ahead of them.”
- John Maxwell

PERFECTIONISM
“Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make yourself a happier and more productive person.”
- Dr. David M. Burns

PERSEVERANCE

“We conquer by continuing.”
- George Matheson

“Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity.”
- Louis Pasteur

“Don’t let go of the vine.”
- Johnny Weissmuller (Actor who played Tarzan, giving advice to acting students)

POWER
“The descent to hell is easy, and those who begin by worshipping power soon worship evil.”
- C.S. Lewis

“The most common trait I have found in all successful people is that they have conquered the temptation to give up.”
- Peter Lowe

“If the biographer gives me credit for being a plodder, he will describe me justly. Anything beyond this will be too much. I can plod. I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I owe everything.”
- William Carey

“The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.”
- Henry Ward Beecher

“It is a hard rule of life, and I believe a healthy one, that no great plan is ever carried out without meeting and overcoming endless obstacles that come up to try the skill of man’s hand, the quality of his courage, and the endurance of his faith.”
- Donald Douglas

"If you're going through hell, keep going."
- Winston Churchill

“Never give in, 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.”
- Winston Churchill

"How long should you try? Until."
- Jim Rohn

PERSISTANCE
“Consider the postage stamp: Its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.”
- Josh Billings

“It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.”
- Albert Einstein

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
"I think that much of the advice given to young men about saving money is wrong. I never saved a cent until I was forty years old. I invested in myself - in study, in mastering my tools, in preparation. Many a man who is putting a few dollars a week into the bank would do much better to put it into himself."
- Henry Ford

PERSPECTIVE
“I can’t say I was ever lost, but I was bewildered once for three days.”
- Daniel Boone

"We don’t see things as they are, we see things as we are."
- Anais Nin

"Two men looked out from prison bars. One saw mud, one saw stars."
- Unknown

PESSIMISM
"A pessimist is one who feels bad when he feels good for fear he’ll feel worse when he feels better."
- Anonymous

POPULAR OPINION
"Whereas our grandparents lived as if they had swallowed gyroscopes, we think and act as if we have swallowed Gallup polls."
- Os Guiness

POSITIVE
“Positive anything is better than negative nothing.”
- Elbert Hubbard

POTENTIAL
“The jump is so frightening between where I am and where I could be… Because of all that I may become, I will close my eyes and leap.”
- Mary Ann Radmacher

“When you discover you’ve been leading only half a life, the other half is going to haunt you until you develop it.”
- Phillips Brooks

“The real tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort, who never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.”
- Arnold Bennett

"Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are capable of greater things than we realize."
- Norman Vincent Peale

"Learn something new. Try something different. Convince yourself that you have no limits."
- Brian Tracy

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
- William Morrow

“Whatever else may be said of man, this one thing is clear: He is not what he is capable of being.”
- G.K. Chesterton

POTENTIAL (UNREALIZED)
“Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.”
- Henry David Thoreau

POWER
“The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.”
- Thomas B. Macauley

“Power may be justly compared to a great river; while kept within its bounds it is both beautiful and useful, but when it overflows its banks, it brings destruction and desolation to all in its way."
- Andrew Hamilton

"Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best."
- Edward Abbey

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power."
- Abraham Lincoln

“Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.”
- Margaret Thatcher

PRACTICALITY
"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."
- Henry David Thoreau

PRAYER
“Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.”
- Corrie Ten Boom

“The petitions of Moses discomfited the enemy more than the fighting of Joshua. Yet both were needed.  No, in the soul's conflict, force and fervor, decision and devotion, valour and vehemence, must join their forces, and all will be well.”
- Charles H. Spurgeon

“We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power. We have a great deal of activity, but we accomplish little; many services, but few conversions; much machinery, but few results.”
- R.A. Torrey

Prayer is not a means by which I seek to control God; it is a means of putting myself in a position where God can control me.”
- Charles L. Allen

“Prayer is speaking truth to Truth.”
- Phillip James Bailey

“Prayer is beyond any question the highest activity of the human soul.  Man is at his greatest and highest when upon his knees he comes face to face with God.”
- Martyn Lloyd-Jones

"Prayer is an investment. The time you dedicate to prayer isn't lost; it will return dividends far greater than what a few moments spent on a task ever could. If we fail to cultivate this discipline, prayer winds up being our last resort rather than our first response."
- Charles Swindoll

“Prayer will become effective when we stop using it as a substitute for obedience.”
- A.W. Tozer

"The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work and prayerless religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but he trembles when we pray."
- Samuel Chadwick

"The man who mobilizes the Christian church to pray will make the greatest contribution to world evangelization in history."
- Andrew Murray

"I would rather teach one man to pray than ten men to preach."
- Charles Spurgeon

“What the church needs today is not machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy Spirit can use - men mighty in prayer. The Holy Spirit does not flow through methods, but through men of prayer.” And we might add, through women of prayer.”
- E.M. Bounds

“Out of a very intimate acquaintance with D.L. Moody, I wish to testify that he was a far greater pray-er than he was preacher.”
- R.A. Torrey

“It is obvious that Paul did not regard prayer as supplemental, but as fundamental—not something to be added to his work but the very matrix out of which his work was born. He was a man of action because he was a man of prayer. It was probably his prayer even more than his preaching that produced the kind of leaders we meet in his letters.”
- Oswald Sanders, from Dynamic Spiritual Leadership

“A sinning man will stop praying. A praying man will stop sinning.”
- Leonard Ravenhill

“Prayer as a relationship is probably your best indicator about the health of your love relationship with God. If your prayer life has been slack, your love relationship has grown cold.”
- John Piper

“Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?”
- Corrie Ten Boom

"The less I pray, the harder it gets; the more I pray, the better it goes.”
- Martin Luther

“Real prayer comes not from gritting our teeth, but from falling in love.”
- Richard Foster

“Do not attempt to assess the quality of your prayer. God alone can judge its value.”
- Macarious of Optino

"Prayer is not conquering God’s reluctance, but taking hold of God’s willingness."
- Phillips Brooks

"I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go."
- Abraham Lincoln

"Heaven is full of answers to prayer for which no one ever bothered to ask."
- Billy Graham

"Unless I had the spirit of prayer, I could do nothing."
- Charles G. Finney

"Prayer is not a fruitless exercise that God asked us to perform to determine whether or not we're faithful. Prayer is the vehicle that releases God to move in the earth!"
- Joseph Cameneti Sr.

"Prayer is simple, as simple as a child making known its wants to it parents."
- Oswald Chambers

"God does nothing but in answer to prayer."
- John Wesley

"Prayer is striking the winning blow. . . . Service is gathering up the results."
- S.D. Gordon

"God shapes the world by prayer. The prayers of God’s saints are the capital stock of heaven by which God carries on His great work upon earth."
- E.M. Bounds

"Beloved, it is not our long prayers but our believing God that gets the answer."
- John G. Lake

"I used to ask God to help me. Then I asked if I might help Him. I ended up by asking Him to do his work through me."
- James Hudson Taylor

"Out of a very intimate acquaintance with D.L. Moody, I wish to testify that he was a far greater pray-er than he was a preacher."
- R.A. Torrey

"God does nothing but by prayer, and everything with it."
- John Wesley

“To pray is to cast off your burdens, it is to tear away your rags, it is to shake off your diseases, it is to be filled with spiritual vigor, it is to reach the highest point of Christian health.”
- C.H. Spurgeon

"I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me. His face, that hitherto may have been strange and intolerable to me, is transformed into the countenance of a brother for whom Christ died, the face of a forgiven sinner."
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“You could remove the powerful preaching from our church and it would still continue. You could remove the administration of pastoral care through the cell group system and the church would still continue. But if you remove the prayer life of our church it would collapse.”
- David Yonggi Cho

“The character of our praying will determine the character of our preaching. Light praying makes light preaching.”
- E.M. Bounds

PREACHING

“If a preacher is not first preaching to himself, better that he falls on the steps of the pulpit and breaks his neck than preaches that sermon.”
- John Calvin

“It’s been said that too many speakers are like Christopher Columbus. When he started out he didn’t know where he was going. When he got there he didn’t know where he was at. When he got back he did not know where he had been.”
- Dr. Larry Moyer

“The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and to have the two as close together as possible.”
- George Burns

“His throne is the pulpit. He stands in Christ’s stead. His message is the Word of God. Around him are immortal souls. The Savior, unseen, is beside him. The Holy Spirit broods over the congregation. Angels gaze upon the scene, and heaven and hell await the issue. What associations and what vast responsibility!”
- Matthew Simpson

“Some preachers think only of their sermon; others think only of themselves: the man who wins the soul is the man who aims at it.”
- Dean Hook

"Preach the gospel at all times. If necessary, use words.”
- St. Francis of Assisi

"All work and no plagiarism makes for dull sermons!"
- Henry Ward Beecher

"Preach as if you had seen heaven and its celestial inhabitants, and had hovered over the bottomless pit, and beheld the tortures, and heard the groans of the damned."
- Frances Asbury

"I preach as though Christ was crucified yesterday; rose again from the dead today; and is coming back tomorrow."
- Martin Luther

"I preach as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men."
- Richard Baxter

John Wesley said, "Catch on fire with enthusiasm, and people will come for miles to watch you burn." Wesley also said, "If I had three hundred men who feared nothing but God, hated nothing but sin, and were determined to know nothing among men but Jesus Christ and him crucified, I would set the world on fire."

"Some people accuse us of too much emotionalism. I say we have too little. That is why we are losing church people to other interests. We need not only to capture their minds; we’ve got to touch their hearts. We’ve got to make people feel their faith."
- Billy Graham

"A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one side - the 'unsearchable riches of Christ' - are actually transported into personal lives upon the other."
- Harry Emerson Fosdick

“Your temper is uneven; you lack love for your neighbors. You grow angry too easily; your tongue is too sharp—thus the people will not hear you.”
- John Wesley (written to a preacher)

“It is not necessary for a preacher to express all his thoughts in one sermon. A preacher should have three principles: first, to make a good beginning, and not spend time with many words before coming to the point; secondly, to say that which belongs to the subject in chief, and avoid strange and foreign thoughts; thirdly, to stop at the proper time.”
- Martin Luther

“A sermon wept over is more acceptable with God than one gloried over.”
- Charles Spurgeon

PREDICTIONS
"The telephone has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication." (A corporate memo from telegraph operator Western Union, 1876)

"Everything that can be invented, has been invented." (U.S. Patent Office Commissioner Charles Duell, 1899)

"The horse is here to stay, but the automobile is only a novelty – a fad." (The president of the Michigan Savings Bank advising Henry Ford’s lawyer Horace Rackham not to invest in the Ford Motor Company. 1903)

"The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?" (Response from associates of RCA founder David Sarnoff, circa 1920’s, when he proposed investing in the young radio industry)

"[Television] won’t be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night." (Twentieth Century-Fox studio boss Darryl F. Zanuck, 1946)

"There will never be a bigger plane built." (A Boeing engineer after the first flight of the 247, a twin-engine plane that carried ten people)

"With over 50 foreign cars already on sale here, the Japanese auto industry isn’t likely to carve out a big slice of the U.S. market." (Business Week, August 2, 1968)

"The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a ‘C’ the idea must be feasible." (Yale University management professor’s comment on a paper written by Fred Smith proposing an overnight delivery service, circa early 1970’s. Smith went on to start Federal Express)

"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." (Ken Olsen, President of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977)

"That kid can’t play baseball." (Milwaukee Braves minor league manager Tommy Holmes, 1952, appraising Henry Aaron, who went on to break Babe Ruth’s all-time record for home runs)

"He’ll never be any good." (Baltimore Colts owner Robert Irsay, 1983, evaluating future Pro Bowl and Super Bowl champion quarterback John Elway)

"You will never amount to very much." (A Munich teacher to a ten-year-old Albert Einstein, 1889)

"Can’t act. Can sing. Balding. Can dance a little." (MGM executive, 1929, about Fred Astaire’s screen test)

"You ain’t going nowhere, son. You ought to go back to driving a truck." (Grand Ole Opry manager Jim Denny, 1954, firing Elvis Presley after one performance)

"We don’t like their sound. Groups of guitars are on their way out." (Decca Recording Company, 1962, upon turning down the Beatles)

"Get rid of the pointed ears guy." (NBC television executive to Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, 1966, recommending the new show eliminate the Vulcan character Mr. Spock)

PREPARATION
“Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.”
- Johnny Wooden

“The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.”
- Benjamin Disraeli

“Chance favors the prepared mind.”
- Louis Pasteur

"Work as if you were to live a 100 years; pray as if you were to die tomorrow."
- Benjamin Franklin

PRESENT
"It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.”
- Winston Churchill

PRESSURE
“No pressure, no diamonds.”
- Mary Case

PRIDE
“God sends no one away empty except those who are full of themselves.”
- Dwight L. Moody

"Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us."
- Abraham Lincoln

"We grow small trying to be great."
- E. Stanley Jones

PRINCIPLE
“Where principle was clearly at stake Paul was inflexible and would not yield for a moment, even if the person involved was the prestigious apostle Peter. Because the vastly important issue of Christian liberty was at issue, Paul told the Galatians, ‘We did not give in to them for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel might remain with you’ (Galatians 2:5). But when only a preference and not a principle was involved, he was prepared to make large concessions.”
- Oswald Sanders, from Dynamic Spiritual Leadership

"Principle - particularly moral principle - can never be a weathervane, spinning around this way and that with the shifting winds of expediency. Moral principle is a compass forever fixed and forever true."
- Edward R Lyman

"Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages. Just because the rains descend, and the winds blow, we cannot afford to build on shifting sands."
- Henry Ward Beecher

"In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock."
- Thomas Jefferson

PRIORITIES
“If you don’t live by priorities, you’ll live by pressures. Either you determine what’s important in life or other people will determine it for you.”
- Rick Warren

PROBLEMS
"Beware the danger signals that flag problems: silence, secretiveness, or sudden outburst."
- Sylvia Porter

“The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.”
- Albert Einstein

PRODUCTIVITY
"Don’t tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done."
- James Ling

PROGRESS
“Change is not always progress. . . . A fever of newness has been everywhere confused with the spirit of progress.”
- Henry Ford

“The price of progress is trouble.”
- Charles F. Kettering

“Progress consists largely of learning to apply laws and truths that have always existed.”
- John Allan May

The Australian coat of arms pictures two creatures - the emu, a flightless bird, and the kangaroo. The animals were chosen because they share a characteristic that appealed to the Australian citizens. Both the emu and the kangaroo can only move forward, not back. The emu's three-toed foot causes it to fall if it tries to go backwards, and the kangaroo is prevented from moving in reverse by its large tail. Those who truly choose to follow Jesus become like the emu and the kangaroo, moving only forward, never back.

"Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out."
- James B. Conant

"I walk slowly, but I never walk backwards."
- Abraham Lincoln

“Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.”
- Richard L. Evans

“I am prepared to go anywhere, so long as it is forward.”
- David Livingstone

“I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.”
- Abraham Lincoln

“Progress might have been all right once, but it’s been going on entirely too long.”
- Ogden Nash

“If what you did yesterday still looks big to you, you haven’t done much today.”
- Elbert Hubbard

PROSPERITY
“Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.”
- Rabindranath Tagore

PURITY
“Purity of soul cannot be lost without consent.”
- St. Augustine

PURPOSE
“The times are very bad.  Very well, you are there to make them better.”
- Thomas Carlyle

“The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow-creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate, but almost disqualified for life.”
- Albert Einstein

"Even if they try to kill you, you develop the inner conviction that there are some things so precious, some things so eternally true that they are worth dying for. And if a person has not found something to die for, that person isn't fit to live!"
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The way to tell if your job is done: if you’re alive, you’ve got a job."
- Richard Bach

"Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them."
- Washington Irving

"There are two great days in a person's life -- the day we are born and the day we discover why."
- William Barclay

"The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives."
- Albert Schweitzer

"Great minds have purposes, others have wishes."
- Washington Irving

"It’s not about you. The purpose of your life is far greater than you own personal fulfillment, your peace of mind, or even your happiness. It’s far greater than your family, your career, or even your wildest dreams and ambitions. If you want to know why you were placed on this planet, you must begin with God. You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will not make sense."
- Rick Warren

“A life without cause is a life without effect.”
- Unknown

“Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.”
- Henry David Thoreau

PURSUIT
"With the catching ends the pleasure of the chase."
- Abraham Lincoln

QUESTIONS
“I keep six honest serving-men
(They taught me all I knew);
Their names are What and Why and When
And How and Where And Who.”
- Rudyard Kipling

“No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.”
- Charles P. Steinmetz

QUOTES
"The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He who will not use the thoughts of other men’s brains, proves that he has no brains of his own."
- Charles Spurgeon

“Asking questions is the ABC of diagnosis.  Only the inquiring mind solves problems.”
- Edward Hodnett

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